Author: Brett Ballantini
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Keywords: guillen, ozzie, wisdom, wit
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2006-03-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1572438673
ISBN-13: 9781572438675

Whether as a longtime player for the White Sox or as the team’s World Series–winning manager, Ozzie Guillen has been the "go to" guy in the clubhouse for reporters seeking just the right quote to enliven their stories. Candid, controversial, and usually laced with humor, Guillen’s frank assessments of both friends and foes, as well as his steadfast willingness to explain his decision-making process regarding game strategy, makes him one of the game’s most popular figures. Now, with a World Series title and Manager of the Year accolades under his belt, more and more people are listening to

Authors:Christopher M. A. Brett, Ana Maria Oliveira Brett,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: science, publications, oxford, applications, principles, methods, electrochemistry
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1993-07-22
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0198553889
ISBN-13: 9780198553885

This much-needed, comprehensive text offers an introduction to electrochemistry. The book begins at an elementary level and progresses through to the most recent advances in this interdisciplinary subject. The first part introduces the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, and mass transport associated with electrode reactions. The second part considers experimental methods that are available to study electrode and electrochemical processes, such as steady-state with forced convection, linear sweep, step/pulse voltametric techniques and impedance, modern surface analysis, and m

Author: Brett Jiu
Publisher: Outskirts Pre
Keywords: career, quantitative, job, finance, launching, lucrative, getting, guide, wall, street, quant, practical, starting
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1432706810
ISBN-13: 9781432706814

All Practical, No BS!Working in quantitative finance can be highly rewarding, in both intellectual and monetary terms (but especially the latter!). Quants-finance practitioners who develop and apply sophisticated mathematical and statistical models for asset pricing, trading and risk management-routinely make six figures, with the top ones raking in millions each year.Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant is the first and only career guide specifically written for readers who want to get into quantitative finance and launch a lucrative career. It covers everything you wanted to know abou

Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: surprise, hedgie
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-09-11
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0399234772
ISBN-13: 9780399234774

The hedgehog gets a surprise!Henny doesn’t know what to do. Every morning the irksome gnomelike Tomten steals her egg and takes it home to cook in his kettle and gobble up for breakfast. But when she sees Goosey-Goosey sailing by with a gaggle of goslings, Henny is suddenly galvanized to do something. Will she never have chicks of her own? She consults her wise friend Hedgie the Hedgehog, who comes up with a clever plan guaranteed to give the Tomten a sharp lesson in appropriate behavior. Jan Brett’s trademark illustrations--detailed watercolors bordered by intricate needlepoint p

Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Childre
Keywords: animals, wild, annie
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1985-02-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0395378001
ISBN-13: 9780395378007

When Annie’s cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals. The borders of the pages foretell the emergence of spring and the birth of kittens.

Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: friends, gingerbread
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-09-11
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0399251618
ISBN-13: 9780399251610

That popular little character is back looking for friends, in an adventure he’ll never forget. Confident and cocky, the Gingerbread Baby happens upon a bakery, where he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares and doesn’t say a word, like all the other sweet treats he tries to meet. Discouraged, the Gingerbread Baby runs home, chased by a long line of hungry creatures, where Mattie has a fantastic surprise for him—gingerbread friends that fill a giant fold-out page. Irresistible images inside the confectionery and outside in the snowy S

Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: anniversary, mitten
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-10-05
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0399252967
ISBN-13: 9780399252969

Millions of readers have fallen in love with Jan Brett’s The Mitten, and over 2.5 million copies have been sold since publication in 1989. This striking oversized anniversary edition with a silver foil jacket and a fresh image of the woodland animals will attract fans old and new, and adult collectors of Jan Brett’s books. Set in a snowy forest, the fun begins when, one by one, animals crawl into Nicki’s lost white mitten to get warm until the bear sneezes, sending the animals flying up and out of the mitten. On each turn of the page, Jan hints at what animal is coming next in her signat