Authors:Loren Nancarrow, Janet Hogan Taylor,
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: control, home, garden, pest, natural, snails, leave, trails, dead
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0898158524
ISBN-13: 9780898158526

No, this isn’t a slimy murder mystery! Here’s a guide to natural pest control in your home and garden (and even on your pets). It offers simple techniques to help you avoid the use of toxic pesticides and chemicals around the house, and is a welcome alternative to the old "Kills Them Dead" mentality of poison sprays and powders common in the past (which is where they should be--the past). Here’s the guide you’ve been waiting for!This comprehensive guide to controlling pests in the home and garden is packed with simple and effective tips on how to avoid chemical pesticid

Authors:Thomas A. Ryerson, Karen E. Nancarrow,
Publisher: The Isis Press
Keywords: city, fun
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-11-11
List price: $24.97
ISBN-10: 0969742940
ISBN-13: 9780969742944

It’s the year 2061 and the world is a better place. The citizens of the present Unified People’s Commonwealth enjoy a stress free life. Belinda Parry, a 25 year old factory worker, never tries to take her utopian society for granted. Life is good, if not a little boring. Then, out of the blue, a Governmental Body, The Municipal Authority, decides that Belinda needs to relax and get away from it all. Enter the New Outlook Centre, known better by the slang term of Fun City. Forty-four acres of soul searching recreation. Just what Belinda needs, right? Fun City is the ’Alice in

Authors:Madonna, Loren Long,  Loren Long,
Publisher: Callaway
Keywords: apples, peabody
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2003-11-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0670058831
ISBN-13: 9780670058839

With Mr. Peabody’s Apples, her gorgeous sophomore venture into the realm of children’s literature, Madonna sustains her transformation from material girl to mom. Inspired by a 300-year-old Ukrainian story and illustrated by the talented Loren Long, Madonna’s tale is about the dangers of gossip. As a frequent target of the rumor mill, who better to teach the young ones about the "power of words" and their potential to cause "harm to others" than the newly reformed diva? Set in a tiny American town, Madonna’s story features the big-hearted and much beloved Mr. Peabody, an

Author: Loren Fox
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: rise, enron
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-12-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0471478881
ISBN-13: 9780471478881

Praise for Enrom The Rise and Fall "A sober and clear-eyed book . . . Fox places the unspooling of Enron in its market-history context, and his book has gravitas." –Barron’s "Offers the most detailed explanation of Enron as a business." –The New York Times "A solid, intelligent, and fair account of the hubris that made Enron famous and important, then crazy and crooked." –Martin Mayer, author of The Fed and The Bankers "[Fox’s] candid, in-depth examination of Enron’s remarkable evolution, corporate culture, and ultimate downfall is in itself

Author: Loren Fox
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: rise, enron
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2002-09-20
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0471237604
ISBN-13: 9780471237600

"I’d say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn’t be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he’s running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what purported to be the seventh largest corporation in America."-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Senate Commerce Science & Transportation’s Subcommittee, Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02The speed of Enron’s rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhaps the single most important story of corporate failure in the twenty-first century. In Enron investigative j

Author: Loren Abdulezer
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: excel, covers, practices, business
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2003-11-14
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 076454120X
ISBN-13: 9780764541209

Spreadsheets have become the de facto standard for communicating business information and the preferred tool for analyzing business data. In this current climate, the accuracy and clarity of spreadsheets are paramount. However, busy managers have little time to sift through heaps of reference books to extrapolate techniques for making polished spreadsheets. Even with finished spreadsheets in hand, managers and business professionals still need a book which holds up a mirror to their real world situations and reflects hidden flaws; and then takes the next step and guides the reader in specific

Author: Loren Humphrey
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: missouri, readers, series, heritage, medicine, quarantine, quinine, years
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0826212697
ISBN-13: 9780826212696

Presenting an overview of medicine in Missouri from the early days of the epidemics to present-day technological advances, this work approaches the history of medicine as an integral part of the state’s development. The text is organized chronologically in 50-year segments.