Author: Jeanette Gorzala
Publisher: Igel Verlag Fachbuch
Keywords: defence, takeover, hostile, art
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $59.90
ISBN-10: 3868152857
ISBN-13: 9783868152852

The market for corporate control had been the playfield of bust-up artists and speculators seeking short-time profits during the 1980s. This had also encouraged many innovations in the art of hostile takeover defence. Until today anti-takeover defence has reached a very sophisticated level and most companies have erected formidable defences to counter aggressive corporate raiders. With her book Jeanette Gorzala provides a global perspective on hostile take-over defence during the latest merger wave. The focus lies on firstly determining the most common anti-takeover defence strategies and then

Author: Jeanette Maw McMurtry
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: business, budgets, marketing, small
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-03-26
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071405976
ISBN-13: 9780071405973

"Big Business Marketing for Small Business Budgets" is based on research the author did while working for American Express, where she developed a program that measures the direct correlation between marketing and consumer purchasing. This toolkit provides small businesses and entrepreneurs the tools to truly understand their customers and develop a marketing plan to effectively and continually appeal to their emotional and physical needs, keeping them for life.

Author: Jeanette Keith
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: cumberland, studies, rural, culture, upper, tennessee, people, new, south, country
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1995-08-14
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0807845264
ISBN-13: 9780807845264

Using the Tennessee antievolution ’Monkey Law,’ authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee’s hill country from 1890 to 1925.Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families’ labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced m

Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Book
Keywords: iraq, story, true, basra, librarian
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0152054456
ISBN-13: 9780152054458

"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was ’Read.’"* --Alia Muhammad BakerAlia Muhammad Baker is the librarian of Basra. For fourteen years, her office has been a meeting place for those who love books--until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears the library will be destroyed. She asks government officials for help, but they refuse. So Alia takes matters into her own hands, working secretly with friends to move the thirty-thousand new and ancient books from the library and hide them in their homes. There, the books are stacked in windows and cupboards and even in an ol

Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Beach Lane Book
Keywords: story, afghanistan, true, school, secret, nasreen
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416994378
ISBN-13: 9781416994374

Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared.In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls. Will a devoted teacher, a new friend, and the worlds she discovers in books be enough to draw Nasreen out of her shell of sadness?Based on a true story from Afghanistan, this inspiring book will touch readers deeply as it affirms both the life-changing power of education and the healing power of love.

Author: Jeanette Foster
Publisher: Frommer
Keywords: maui, portable, frommer
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2007-11-05
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0470165480
ISBN-13: 9780470165485

Frommer’s Portable Guides offer all the detailed information and insider advice of a Frommer’s Complete Guide--but in a concise, pocket-sized format. Perfect for the short-term traveler who insists on value and doesn’t want to wade through or carry a full-size guidebook, this series selects the very best choices in all price categories and takes you straight to the top sights. Get the latest on resorts, restaurants, sports, shopping, and nightlife in a nutshell in these lightweight, inexpensive guides. Meticulously researched by an acclaimed local journalist, Frommer’s

Author: Jeanette Foster
Publisher: Frommer’
Keywords: frommer, complete, hawaii
Number of Pages: 660
Published: 2005-09-09
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0764588923
ISBN-13: 9780764588921

You’ll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer’s. It’s like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they’ve done the legwork for you, and they’re not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer’s Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping,