Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:28pm CET
How to Write a Business Plan
Publisher: NOLO
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1413305628
ISBN-13: 9781413305623
Everything you need to create a business forecast that potential investors can embrace! Thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one? This popular book will show you how to write the business plan and loan package necessary to finance your business and make it work. With How to Write a Business Plan, you’ll learn how to: evaluate the profitability of your business idea estimate operating expenses prepare cash flow create profit and loss forecasts determine assets, liabilities and net worth find potential sources of financ...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:26pm CET
The Real Estate Entrepreneur
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0071484345
ISBN-13: 9780071484343
Make the transition from real estate agent to broker-owner and watch your income skyrocket! Endorsed as a Product Partner by the Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers, The Real Estate Entrepreneur covers everything you need to know to launch your own successful real estate company. Drawing upon his two decades of real estate experience, Cliff Perotti covers everything from creating a vision for your company and building your brand to recruiting and training sales associates, and developing a strategic plan for the future. Perotti gives you informed, step-by-step discussions of: The...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:23pm CET
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed
Publisher: Sams
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 2005-12-23
List price: $64.99
ISBN-10: 0672328054
ISBN-13: 9780672328053
If you are new to the world of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed can provide you with real-world support experience as you get started or explore your upgraded server. Written and reviewed by Small Business Server MVPs, this book provides valuable coverage of Mac platform integration, as well as the integration of ISA 2004, SharePoint, FrontPage, Exchange, and SQL Server. You will develop a number of new skills, including: Planning SBS installations. Troubleshooting SBS installation problems. Adding additional servers to the SBS networ...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:20pm CET
The Idea Generator: Tools for Business Growth
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1741149584
ISBN-13: 9781741149586
The effective and practical tools outlined in this powerful handbook help businesspeople solve problems, create new opportunities, and improve individual and team performance. Exploring the typical ways businesses and their leaders get stuck—being trapped by precedent, incremental growth, familiar ideas and solutions, and career blockage—this reference gives fresh, resourceful techniques for overcoming such scenarios. Anyone involved in business, whether in innovation, sales, marketing, advertising, business development, or new-product development, will benefit from the simple tool...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:17pm CET
Learning Automata and Stochastic Optimization (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1997-01-15
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 3540761543
ISBN-13: 9783540761549
In the last decade there has been a steadily growing need for and interest in computational methods for solving stochastic optimization problems with or wihout constraints. Optimization techniques have been gaining greater acceptance in many industrial applications, and learning systems have made a significant impact on engineering problems in many areas, including modelling, control, optimization, pattern recognition, signal processing and diagnosis. Learning automata have an advantage over other methods in being applicable across a wide range of functions. Featuring new and efficient learnin...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:15pm CET
Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer’s Guide
Publisher: SAS Publishing
Number of Pages: 664
Published: 2007-03-29
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1599941651
ISBN-13: 9781599941653
If you like learning by example, then this straightforward book makes it easy to learn SAS programming. In an instructive and conversational tone, author Ron Cody clearly explains each programming technique and then illustrates it with one or more real-life examples, followed by a detailed description of how the program works. The text is divided into four major sections: Getting Started; DATA Step Processing; Presenting and Summarizing Your Data; and Advanced Topics. Subjects addressed include: Reading data from external sources Learning details of DATA step programming Subsetting and co...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:14pm CET
Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking
Publisher: Syngress
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1597491667
ISBN-13: 9781597491662
This book will teach the reader how to make the most of their WRT54G series hardware. These handy little inexpensive devices can be configured for a near endless amount of networking tasks. The reader will learn about the WRT54G’s hardware components, the different third-party firmware available and the differences between them, choosing the firmware that is right for you, and how to install different third-party firmware distributions. Never before has this hardware been documented in this amount of detail, which includes a wide-array of photographs and complete listing of all WRT54G ...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 7:13pm CET
Learning XSLT
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-11-14
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0596003277
ISBN-13: 9780596003272
Learning XSLT moves smoothly from the simple to complex, illustrating all aspects of XSLT 1.0 through step-by-step examples that you’ll practice as you work through the book. Thorough in its coverage of the language, the book makes few assumptions about what you may already know. You’ll learn about XSLT’s template-based syntax, how XSLT templates work with each other, and gain an understanding of XSLT variables. Learning XSLT also explains how the XML Path Language (XPath) is used by XSLT and provides a glimpse of what the future holds for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. The ability...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 12:44pm CET
Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible
Publisher: AMACOM
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0814474705
ISBN-13: 9780814474709
One of the world s premier business consultants and personal success experts, Brian Tracy has devoted more than 25 years to studying the most powerful time management practices used by the most successful people in every arena. Now, in Time Power, Brian reveals his comprehensive system designed to help readers increase their productivity and income exponentially -- in just weeks! Filled with hundreds of powerful, proven tools and techniques, this book shows readers how to: * gain two more productive hours each day * make better decisions, faster! * set clear goals and focus on h...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 12:25pm CET
Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB
Publisher: Wrox
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2004-06-21
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0764558315
ISBN-13: 9780764558313
What is this book about? Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB shows Java developers and architects how to build robust J2EE applications without having to use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). This practical, code-intensive guide provides best practices for using simpler and more effective methods and tools, including JavaServer pages, servlets, and lightweight frameworks. What does this book cover? The book begins by examining the limits of EJB technology -- what it does well and not so well. Then the authors guide you through alternatives to EJB that you can use to create higher qu...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 12:25pm CET
Longman Exam Skills
Publisher: Longman
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-07
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 058236339X
ISBN-13: 9780582363397
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Posted: January 8th, 2009, 11:21am CET
The Little Book of Value Investing
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Number of Pages: 0
Published: 2006-10-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1427200831
ISBN-13: 9781427200839
Following on the heels of the national bestselling The Little Book that Beats the Market, which has sold over 275,000 copies since its November 2005 publication, The Little Book of Value Investing offers investors (professional and amateur alike) the necessary tools to follow a value-investment model that consistently beats the market. Written in an easy-to-understand tone by Christopher H. Browne, the managing director of Tweedy, Browne Company, one of the most highly-regarded investment firms in the country, The Little Book of Value Investing is sure to be the next big thing in investing. T...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 11:19am CET
Investment Manager Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Portfolio Selection, Monitoring and Optimization (Wiley Finance)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-07-23
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0471478865
ISBN-13: 9780471478867
Investment Manager Analysis provides readers with a broad framework that covers the investment manager due diligence process from initial screening to analytical techniques, interviewing skills, and legal and contract negotiations. As it guides the reader through the selection process, it clearly demonstrates a variety of mechanisms for monitoring and tracking investment managers and the underlying investment portfolios....
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 11:15am CET
Network Service Investment Guide: Maximizing ROI in Uncertain Times (Networking Council)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-01-03
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0471214752
ISBN-13: 9780471214755
This first-ever valuation guide shows how to select and manage network-based services to ensure maximum return on investment Explains how to manage the costs and tradeoffs between distributed and centralized management structures Shows how to avoid risking too much for too little return due to unpredictable overall market conditions Covers network-based services such as Internet access, application management, hosting, voice and data services, and the new breed of SOAP/XML Web services ...
Posted: January 8th, 2009, 10:56am CET
The Dick Davis Dividend: Straight Talk on Making Money from 40 Years on Wall Street
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 471
Published: 2007-12-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0470099038
ISBN-13: 9780470099032
A pioneer in the financial media, Dick Davis has interacted with the investing public for over forty years. With his new book, he continues this trend. The first part of The Dick Davis Dividend contains an easy-to-read, yet profound discussion of the essentials of investing—focusing on the savvy veteran’s often unconventional, core beliefs. While the second part of this engaging guide makes a compelling case for combining both passive investing via index funds and active investing via stocks and mutual funds....
