The Original 1949 Edition. Benjamin Grahams classic best seller on value investing has taught & inspired hundreds of thousands ...

Most mergers & acquisitions fail to deliver their expected outcomes yet they remain essential for growing world-class companies. It follows that those handling M& As must draw on all the tools at their disposal to improve their chances of success. Applying the techniques of business intelligence can help managers to beat the odds. Intelligent M&A looks at the full process of a merger or acquisition from start to finish & identifies areas where business intelligence can improve the odds of a favourable outcome. Using techniques developed by governmental intelligence services & a wide range of case studies "ations & anecdotes the expert authors show how to build success into every phase of the deal. ...

Memory is not just the thing which allows us to remember names faces dates or where we put our car keys. It can also enable us to have ideas insight & creativity. This is our intelligent memory the connection between memory & the kind of thought processing that you consider smart. & the great news is that it isnt fixed at birth it grows stronger as we age & there are many mental tools we can use to enhance our own intelligent memory. This book provides those tools & through a series of simple & fun exercises youll soon be amazed at how good your memory can be. ...

Policing is at a crossroads. At a time of unprecedented cuts & increasing levels of demand the British police service (like many others) faces enormous challenges. Under the most radical reforms the service has ever experienced its leadership is looking for new approaches that can maintain levels of service delivery & secure efficiency accountability & public confidence. Recent history shows that applying private sector business models to the public sector often generates hidden costs & unintended consequences that damage productivity & morale. In spite of this evidence reform programmes & prevailing management practices still seek to enforce approaches that have demonstrably failed. In Intelligent Policing Simon Guilfoyle proposes a simple & elegant solution that refocuses organisational activity on the service user. Drawing on his own experience as a police officer he uses a range of evidence to explore the possibilities that systems thinking offers. He clearly outlines how a systems-based approach can bring greater efficiency enhanced service delivery enhanced morale & reduced cost. He shows that the practices & models proposed in the book can be implemented immediately & insists that senior police leaders & policy makers have an ideal opportunity to make lasting improvements today that will resonate throughout policing & leave a positive legacy for the future.. Intelligent Policing is a rich resource for those
- in the UK & around the world
- who care about delivering an effective policing service in the 21st Century. It will also interest systems theorists for its practical approach to policing & inform academic debate in the fields of management & human behaviour.

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Edgler Vess is a sociopath intent on murder. He lives for one purpose only: to satisfy all appetites as they arise seeking ever more outrageous experience. To live with intensity. When he attacks her friend Laura Chyna Shepherd is saved by the instincts developed during a dark & turbulent childhood. Not knowing Laura is already dead Chyna follows hoping to save her friend as Vess carries her body to his motor home
- a dungeon & morgue on wheels. The killer unaware of her presence drives away. But Chyna is now trapped in his dangerous orbit. Her sole aim is to get out alive but when she learns the identity of the killers next intended victim she knows she must act to save that precious life
- & take risks beyond any that she ever imagined she could endure.

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Ever wondered if your intentions prayers or wishes have a real calculable effect on the world? Here from Lynne Mc Taggart groundbreaking author of The Field comes riveting accounts of scientific investigations & real case histories with evidence that we are all connected & our intentions can be harnessed as a collective force for good. For the last 40 years renegade scientists experimenting with the limits of quantum physics have made seemingly impossible discoveries. 1966: a lie-detector expert accidentally discovers that plants can read thoughts. 1982: meditating Buddhist monks in the Himalayas turn their bodies into a human furnace. 1994: a psychologists experiments reveal a stream of light flowing from healers during healing. These events form part of an extraordinary scientific story & revolutionary discovery
- that thought is a thing that affects other things. In The Intention Experiment Lynne Mc Taggart author of the international bestseller The Field joins forces with a team of international renowned scientists to test the effects of focused group intention on scientifically quantifiable targets
- animal plant & human. The Intention Experiment is a truly revolutionary book that invites you the reader to take part in the greatest intention experiment in history. The results of Mc Taggarts global laboratory started with the focused intention that made a geranium leaf glow to evidence to show that group intention is powerful enough to affect targets more than 5000 miles away & may even affect global warming. These remarkable results prove human thought & intention has the power to focus our lives heal our illnesses clean up our communities & improve the planet. This book also shows you how to harness that power to make changes in your own life.

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' Nick Pratt's book looks in detail at the real meaning of teaching mathematics interactively in primary schools. Each section is set clearly within a context is linked by 'key ideas' -- the important bits to think about -- & is summarised to give a succinct close to the chapter's content & thinking. It is a book that the reader will definitely find useful & thought provoking. It certainly made me consider how small changes & a wider variety of approaches in the classroom can make big changes in children's learning & understanding of mathematical concepts'
- Mike Eatwell Primary Maths Advisor Bristol LEA Using a whole-class interactive approach to teaching mathematics is a key feature of the National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) & this book looks at not only what works but also why things work. Teachers will be able to understand why & how the various teaching strategies they are using in their classrooms have a positive effect on children's learning. The book covers: how to engage in meaningful reflective practice that will improve your lessons " how to use whiteboards " making mathematical meaning through talk " getting the whole class interacting " thinking talking & acting mathematically " teaching number
- starting points " teaching shape & space
- starting points " developing your interactive teaching " a glossary of terms It is aimed at both practising & trainee teachers & offers clear subject guidance as well as an explanation of a key part of the NNS. It supports both individuals & mathematics subject leaders delivering INSET to their colleagues."


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From the Arab Spring to British summer riots from the War on Terror to The X Factor from social networking sites to online electioneering the significance of new media technologies seems clear. This study offers an analysis of the impact of such interactive media on contemporary politics & society. It explores how new media technologies give their users a sense of empowerment & questions whether these technologies really directly empower their users at all. For example when viewers cast their votes in reality television shows is that really a form of democratic participation? Does Facebook actually enhance the quality of its users friendships & increase their social capital? Does the video game player develop the liberating agency the game appears to promise? Do online forms of politics essentially increase levels of democratic involvement? Will Wikipedia truly teach us anything? Can Web 2.0 ever set us free? Drawing upon interviews with figures from politics & the media this book examines the possibilities which underlie these technologies & questions some of the key assumptions which we have made about them. ...

Patrick Robinsons newest novel deals with the ultimate dread of the United States military
- in the opening chapter a liberal-leaning
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Fighting on the frontline of the war against crime Cam Addicott was one of the very few hard-boiled & highly-experienced surveillance operatives to get called up to the secretive & elite Alpha Projects unit
- a group of dedicated undercover Customs officers who hunted the UK's most dangerous criminals by extraordinary means
- starting with the interception & decoding of their phone calls. Cam soon knew the lives of the people he hunted better than they knew each other. He knew who was cheating with who's wife
- as well as where when & what they liked to do what drugs the dealers' kids were into who was planning to rob beat-up and/or murder who what for & how they were going to do it. The team shadowed gangsters as they mixed with celebrities as they brokered huge drug deals in nightclubs & airports as they discussed how to spend their ill-gotten gains until finally it was time for Alpha to strike. In this riveting & brutal true story a cast of unforgettable Mission Impossible" characters go far beyond the call of duty to take down their most elusive target as the lives of the hunted & hunter weave together in an explosive narrative."


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