Plain Jane Guinness & I once...: Book 3 A Freak of Nature - Continued!? More Regina(l) Ru(l)es and Ru(s)es & a YCTV Introduction by Dr Mya Xavier PhD (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

... It all started with him taking his shirt off in front of me & asked... ? This was the first time I was naked to his eyes. He took it all in. Then, casually, he walked away as I picked up my blouse; with my back still to him I put my arms through the sleeves; I started to slowly button up. Then, now totally melted, fully buttoned up and tucked in, I felt confident as I turned around... He had gone!.. "Yes, it is not only those who are without who dream of getting it. Just cos you're either rich &/or famous, or, from this, well-connected, you can dream of achievements, which apparently are out of your compass, even out of your comfort zone, but you can still give it a try! She did. But new technology within her dream bubble eventually caught up & burst it! Or, was it just those beneath her, who just didn't cut the mustard for those above her, either rich &/or famous, or, from this, well-connected, whom she wanted to financially attract? Or had the edge just gone from her resolve?" And so another Youth Community Project bit the dust, but John was still on the up and up Whitehall way as Cuddles became welcoming gropes, all out of sight of those prying/recording Security Camera Eyes!... ? There was one stumbling block for me: he would always recollect anything that was important to him! So, perhaps one should expect him not to recollect so many names etc, as they were not important to him! But, he seemed to recollect so much of me/my etc, so were they/I becoming important to him? This led to the other stumbling block for me: the seemingly continual blurring of the doctor/patient dynamic, so was that becoming important to him? This could only lead to a veritable disappointing conclusion, whose avoidance should be important to him! But, with his experience relayed of bad decision making, misreading situations etc, should I not make steering clear of the blurring important to him? Or, should I let itself play itself out and let him have his way, if that were important ...

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The Simpletons Guide to Frugal Living: Over 250 Real Tips That Will Save You Money Right Now by Kathy Stanton (5 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Book 1: Frugal Minimalism And Loving It: 50 Proven Steps To Live A Minimalist Lifestyle, Clear Your Clutter And Live With Less Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... • An Introduction to the Minimalist Lifestyle • How to Get Rid of the Clutter in Your Home • How to Have a Minimalist Wardrobe • Minimalist Eating • How to Declutter Your Life and Finances • Gifts, Gifts, Gifts • Minimalist Living In Everyday Life • Much, much more! Book 2: Living Frugal And Prospering: Discover 50 Simple Ways To Spend Less And Save More By Thinking Outside The Box And Live Debt Free For Life! In This Book You Will Learn... • Ways to Save Money From Right Inside Your Home • How to Save Money on Your Vehicle and Transportation Costs • How Changing Your Habits Can Help You Save Right Away! • Creative Ways To Save Money By Thinking Outside The Box • How To Save At Your Favorite Store! • The Secret To Cutting Your Costs and Getting Ahead • How To Find New Ways To Save • Much, much more! Book 3: Cutting Back And Loving It: 50 Creative Ways To Simplify Your Space, Declutter Your Life And Achieve The Life You Desire Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn Inside This Book... • The Difference Between Clutter vs. Necessity • Tips to Decluttering and Simplifying Your Living Space • Tips for Decluttering and Simplifying Your Personal Space • Creative Ways to Simplify Your Decor • The Trick to Organizing Your Storage Areas • Step by Step Tips on How to Simplify Your Closet Space! • Why Downsizing is so Important to Having a Positive Mindset • Much, much more! Book 4: Downsizing Your Life And Loving It: 50 Creative Ways To Declutter Your Space, Live With Less And Simplify Your Life Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... • What is Too Much in Life? • How to Evaluate Need versus Want • How to Reduce Your Belongings • How to Cut Back on Your Chore List • The Trick ...

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Spain in crisis (2007-2014). A view from the Eurotower: Volume I. From the financial crisis to the sovereign debt crisis by José Marín Arcas (Círculo Rojo) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

SPAIN IN CRISIS (2007-2014). A view from the Eurotower. Volume I. From the financial crisis to the sovereign debt crisis This book offers in four volumes a detailed narrative of the crisis in Spain (2007-2014), from the perspective of someone who followed it closely at the European Central Bank. Spain is the center of the narrative, but the book also describes the involvement of the main European institutions and events in other countries in crisis. It therefore presents an overview of the similarities and differences of the crisis in these countries and of the complexities of the institutional framework in which political decisions affecting the entire eurozone were adopted. The four volumes are: • Volume I. From the financial crisis to the sovereign debt crisis (2007-April 2010) • Volume II. Spain delays being rescued (May 2010-July 2011) • Volume III. Rescuing Spain (August 2011-July 2012) • Volume IV. Overcoming the crisis (August 2012-2014) The narrative is organized around a sequence of events which represented milestones in the unfolding of the crisis in different countries: the eruption of the US financial crisis in the summer of 2007; the fall into the Great Recession of the international economy in the Autumn of 2008; the euro sovereign debt crisis in May 2010, when the economy was recovering from the recession; the fall of the Spanish economy into a second recession in 2011 and the reform of its Constitution in the summer; the need to rescue the Spanish financial system in the summer of 2012; the redress of the euro area sovereign debt crisis after the launch of the banking union initiative, and the resolve of the European Central Bank (ECB) to act as a lender of last resort of governments in a fiscal crisis; and finally, the economic recovery by the end of 2013 and in the following years. This first volume sets the stage of the structural fault lines and cyclical position of the Spanish economy within the euro area for the succession of ...

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Food and Beverage M&A: An Insider’s Guide to Selling a Food or Beverage Manufacturing, Distribution, or Grocery Business by Jacob Orosz (20 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

The sale of your business will be one of the most stressful events of your life. Don't be blindsided. Food and Beverage M&A - An Insider's Guide to Selling a Food or Beverage Manufacturing, Distribution, or Grocery Businessis the most comprehensive resource available today on selling food or beverage companies. This handbook walks you through the entire process of selling a company in the food and beverage industry. It contains proven advice on reducing risk and maximizing value before you begin the sales process, although you will benefit from my guidance even if your transaction is well underway. They say selling a business is an art. I've turned it into a science. Most M&A books are written for companies operating in any industry. They provide general advice to owners of companies regardless of their sector. This book is different.Food and Beverage M&A is written explicitly for owners of food and beverage businesses in the middle of the supply chain, including manufacturing, processing, packaging, distribution, and retail. I wrote this book for entrepreneurs, but it's also an essential reference source for attorneys, accountants, investors, corporate development professionals, consultants, lenders, and professional advisors. Regardless of your role in the sales process, this must-read roadmap offers expert, practical guidance. Food and Beverage M&A provides everyone involved with proven strategies for making sound decisions each step of the way. Food and Beverage M&A covers every stage of the sales process, from making the decision to sell through to cashing the check. It offers a broad and in-depth look at the M&A landscape. It also includes numerous real-life examples from the food and beverage industry and what can be learned from them - all presented in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style. You'll receive actionable steps to take and techniques to be aware of when considering the capitalization, growth, and sale of your company or for positioning ...

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The Product Owner Guidebook : A Pragmatic Reference Manual for Maturing Product Coaching by Chandan Lal Patary (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Choose to be a remarkable Product Leader? Does every consumer choose your product and solution? Does your track record confirm that wherever the product you build, your consumers talk about your awesome products and solutions? Based on my one decade of research and interaction with dozens of great product teams, I have created this volume. This guidebook is for all the team members, managers, leaders, and coaches who choose to develop an awesome, outstanding product. The new VUCA world and digital transformations are the movers and shakers for all! This guidebook is a game-changer! This guidebook talks about eight forces for building an Awesome Product and solution, The First force is "Leadership Contribution to Product Management", The Second force is "Customer Contribution to Product Management", The Third force is "Technology Contribution to Product Management", The Fourth force is "Organizational Cultural contribution to Product Management", The Fifth force is "High-Performance team contribution to Product Management", The sixth force is "User Experience in Product Management", The seventh force is "Process Contribution to Product Management" and Eight force is "Marketing Management Contribution to Product Management." These Eight forces empower Product team members to obtain business agility. The author has emphasized many challenges, use cases, stories, case studies, checklists, mind maps, and thought-provoking questions for the readers to reflect on and act upon. With all this enablement, this book is more pragmatic for readers. The author has shared many theoretical concepts for the readers to work out and further research to strengthen learning in those areas so that readers can become apt team players in high-performance teams.

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Macroeconomics, Agriculture, and Food Security: A Guide to Policy Analysis in Developing Countries by Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla (International Food Policy Research Institute) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Why write a book on macroeconomic policies and their links to agriculture and food security in developing countries? The food price spikes of the years just prior to 2010 and the economic, political, and social dislocations they generated refocused the attention of policymakers and development practitioners on the agricultural sector and food security concerns. But even without those traumatic events, the importance of agriculture for developing countries -- and for an adequate functioning of the world economy -- cannot be denied. First, although declining over time, primary agriculture still represents important percentages of developing countries' overall domestic production, exports, and employment. If agroindustrial, transportation, commercial, and other related activities are also counted, then the economic and social importance of agriculture-based sectors increases significantly. Furthermore, large numbers of the world's poor still live in rural areas and work in agriculture. Through the links via production, trade, employment, and prices, agricultural production is also crucial for national food security. Second, it has been shown that agriculture in developing countries has important growth and employment multipliers for the rest of the economy, and agriculture seems to have larger positive effects in reducing poverty than growth in other sectors. Third, agriculture is not only important for individual developing countries, but it has global significance, considering the large presence of developing countries in world agricultural production and the increasing participation in international trade of those products (these three points will be covered in greater detail in Chapter 1).

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Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries by Kristin Davis (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension and advisory services play an important role in such transformation and can assist farmers with advice and information, brokering and facilitating innovations and relationships, and dealing with risks and disasters. In Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries, researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute and other experts provide a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compare extension systems at the national and regional levels, examine the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country cases, and shares lessons and policy insights. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, the authors apply a common and comprehensive framework -- the "best-fit" approach -- to assessments of extension systems, which allows for comparison across cases and geographies. Insights from the research support reforms -- in governance, capacity, management, and advisory methods -- to improve outcomes, enhance financial sustainability, and achieve greater scale. Agricultural Extension should be a valuable resource for policymakers, extension practitioners, and others concerned with agricultural development.

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Bookkeeping for Beginners : 4 Manuscripts in 1 – A Complete Collection from A to Z to Learn Bookkeeping with Confidence by Dillan Gasper (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited! "Bookkeeping for Beginners: 4 Manuscripts in 1 - A Complete Collection from A to Z to Learn Bookkeeping with Confidence" is a comprehensive guide to bookkeeping that covers everything from the basics to advanced concepts. A full overview of the bookkeeping process, from creating a chart of accounts to producing financial reports, is provided by this book, which combines four in-depth guides. You'll learn how to keep detailed financial records, monitor expenses, and handle accounts payable and receivable. This book also covers significant subjects like budgeting, tax compliance, and payroll administration with clear explanations and useful examples. You'll discover how to set up and maintain budgets, anticipate upcoming costs, and use financial information to guide deliberations. A comprehensive guide to financial analysis, including ratio analysis, trend analysis, and forecasting, is also provided in this text. You'll learn how to use these tools to spot trends, project success going forward, and come up with business-related decisions. The fourth manuscript is devoted to QuickBooks, which is the most widely used financial program. Creating a business file, managing transactions, balancing bank accounts, and creating financial reports are all skills you'll learn. Whether you're starting a new business or looking to improve your bookkeeping skills, "Bookkeeping for Beginners: 4 Manuscripts in 1 - A Complete Collection from A to Z to Learn Bookkeeping with Confidence" is the ultimate resource. With the knowledge and tools provided in this book, you'll be well-equipped to manage your finances effectively and achieve long-term success.

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