\"The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name.\" -- Los Angeles Times \"So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit.\" -- New York Times For nearly forty years, The Only Investment Guide You\'ll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of more than a million readers across America. This completely updated

Describes the language of video. This title shows how to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, and pros think about communication). It explains the rules developed over a century of movie-making - which work just as well when shooting a two-year-old\'s birthday

Somewhere between Mike Mignola, A Fistful of Dollars, and Johnny Cash\'s Ghost Riders in the Sky, this tale is an adventurous take on the existential hitman, set against a dreamy western backdrop populated by witches, spirits, ghouls, and other monsters. Joe Death explores what it means for Death to undo what he does best. More importantly, what is the true cost of salvation? After surviving a brutal

\'There\'s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.\' In Arthur Conan Doyle\'s A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric

For the first time the complete financial history of Berkshire Hathaway is available under one cover in chronological format. Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the reader can examine the development of the modern-day conglomerate year-by-year and decade-by-decade, watching as the struggling textile company morphs into what it has become today. This comprehensive

In the process industries there is an ongoing need for improvement of the opera- tion of the process. One of the disciplines that will help the process engineer to achieve this is process control. There are many industrial automation systems to- day that will offer powerful tools to meet the process control needs of industries with continuous, batch and discrete operations. Advanced control solutions

How far would you go to live forever?Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of downloading the human brain into a supercomputer called ARCHIVE. But Joe\'s wife, Karen, is worried by his preoccupation with ARCHIVE, which seems to be developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, an Israeli secret agent retires to the suburbs. After a lifetime of uncovering other people\'s secrets, he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself. The author\'s other books include My Michael and The Slopes of

This book gathers together some of the most up-to-date thinking in the growing field of innovation in services and more particularly, in financial services. It explores the peculiarities of innovation in financial services firms and surrounding market players, discusses the open nature of the innovation process, and analyses its success factors and its interplay with strategy and performance. This

The maths needed to succeed in A Level Science is harder now than ever before. Suitable for all awarding bodies, this practical handbook addresses all of the maths skills needed for A Level Biology specifications. Worked examples, practice questions, \'remember points\' and \'stretch yourself\' questions give students the key knowledge and then the opportunity to practise and build

This book is an anthology of philosophical essays. Its principle is simple: Every moment of our life is original. What we see, hear, and think does not arise from something, imaginary and elusive, which we call God, Soul, or External World. This setting, in line with philosophical and scientific topicality, engages in a non-reductive narrative of our life. The value of the book is linked to a confirmation

Step into the mind through others\' eyes, and feel what they feel for a moment. Step in the shoes of a lonely person, isolated from everyone and read their thoughts. Imagine if you could see through the eyes of another, but the person was never able to tell you how they feel? Embrace love, happiness and sadness all at once, and come out the end with a fresh perspective on life!

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of \"I know it when I see it.\" In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150 years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner\'s Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors,

In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth \"surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone\" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York City.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way