Author: Ann Jona
Publisher: Puffi
Keywords: quilt
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0140553088
ISBN-13: 9780140553086

A small African-American girl is overjoyed with the new patchwork quilt her parents have made. As she sleeps, it comes alive, turning into a fantastical dreamscape she must enter in order to find her beloved stuffed dog. An ALA Notable Children’s Book. Full color.

Author: Ann Jona
Publisher: Greenwillow Book
Keywords: reflections
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1987-09-21
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0688061400
ISBN-13: 9780688061401

"In Jonas’ latest tour de force of trompe l’oeil, each double-spread serves twice: as in Round Trip, the book is reversed for a return journey, in this case from forest to seaside....A rain cloud becomes a flock of ducks, a ferry upends to a restaurant....Fascinating."--Kirkus Reviews.

Author: Mirella Jona Affro
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Keywords: rutgers, films, print, director, truffaut, metro, francois, last
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1985-02-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 081351066X
ISBN-13: 9780813510668

Francois Truffaut, one of the great directors of the French New Wave cinema of the 50s and 60s, has directed at least 20 films. In "The Last Metro", Heinz Bennett is cast as Lucas Steiner, the director of a small theatre who is forced to hide in a cellar for years during the French Occupation. Catherine Deneuve, as his wife, takes over the running of the theatre, which survives through the crew’s ability to transfer its skills from the make-believe world of theatre to the "real" world of Nazi oppression and ruthlessness. This book provides a biographical sketch of Truffaut. It details th

Authors:Sergio M. Focardi, Caroline Jona,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: practice, methods, framework, management, risk
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $180.95
ISBN-10: 188324935X
ISBN-13: 9781883249359

Risk management is one of the most critical areas in investment and finance-especially in today’s volatile trading environment. With Risk Management: Framework, Methods, and Practice you’ll learn about risk management across industries through firsthand, real life war stories rather than mathematical formulas. Concise and readable, it covers both the theoretical underpinnings of risk management, as well as practical techniques for coping with financial market volatility. Focardi and Jonas give you a broad conceptual view of risk management: how far we have progressed, and the probl

Authors:Soren Holm,  Monique F. Jona,
Publisher: IOS Pre
Keywords: research, biomedical, health, biotechnology, regulation, bioethics, world, empirical, engaging
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 1586034006
ISBN-13: 9781586034009

The papers presented in this publication are mainly concerned with one of the central objectives of the EMPIRE project (Empirical Methods in Bioethics): to investigate the ways in which data generated by empirical research can be relevant to bioethical thinking and regulation concerning health care and human use of biotechnology, but also touch on the issue of what kind of empirical research is most relevant in this context. These questions are approached in a number of ways, from the very theoretical to the more practical. Some are skeptical to the use of empirical research and data, whereas

Author: The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts Jona
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: wrong, game, everything, numbers, baseball
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0465005470
ISBN-13: 9780465005475

For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that’s revolutionizing the game. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, until now no one had written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book.

Authors:John Dean, Alan M. Jones, David Holmes, Rob Reed, Jona
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: psk, chemistry, skills, practical
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2001-11-06
List price: $45.20
ISBN-10: 013028002X
ISBN-13: 9780130280022

This text’s unique and comprehensive coverage includes: general advice on practical work; basic laboratory skills, classical and instrumental techniques; analysis and presentation of data; information technology; library resources; and communicating information.