This book will take you on a whirlwind tour of the start-up process and help you to build a solid foundation for your new venture, whether it is a small business, or a venture capital funded enterprise. Irrespective of the size or type of business, the underlying principles are the same

Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical prose, Matthiessen describes the wildlife he encounters and the region it inhabits, along with historical information regarding the greatest pioneers and adventurers who preceded him

Through ecotourism, people can experience nature and wildlife without causing harm. Ecotourism provides a way to earn money from tourism and avoids destruction of precious natural resources and wildlife. This book will help readers understand ecotourism: what it is, what it does, and whether or not it actually works as it was intended

The chapters in this volume exemplify research and teaching activities that fall within the ESP profession in university and workplace settings. They illustrate the nature of ESP as currently understood and practiced in a variety of different contexts and locations, with all of its admirable strengths and a few of its yet-to-be-resolved weaknesses

This book sets up the ideas needed both to view the extent of empowerment in your organization and to lay the groundwork for the changes you will need to make

Ethics in Business teaches manager how to both recognize and correct ethical challenges. You'll learn how to define ethics and how it applies to business ; solve ethical problems on your own and with your boss ; explore how people's values differ and affect behavior ; apply what you've learned with employees and peers

In this book you can read and learn what is a marketing approach to recruiting ; Why taking a marketing approach to recruiting will work for you ; How to spend less money attracting better recruits ; How to spend less time and money finding the right recruit

This unique resource gives you over 175 complete, ready-to-use activities that draw on important content concepts through all of the popular American holidays, customs, and special events, to give ESL students at all levels a solid grasp of English vocabulary, reading, and language skills

Cram101 Textbook Outlines is a learning system. The notes in this book are the highlights of your textbook, you will never have to highlight a book again. Take this book to class, it is your notebook for the lecture. The notes and highlights on the left hand side of the pages follow the outline and order of the textbook. All you have to do is follow along while your instructor presents the lecture. Cram 101 Textbook Outlines provides all of the highlights, notes, and practice tests to accompany most textbooks for all disciplines and levels. And it is also an extensive reference tool providing the student what they want to know at the time they need to know

Entrepreneurship relates actual experiences while combining concepts and cases to present the latest theories. The concepts cover what "would-be entrepreneurs" need to know to start and grow their businesses. Additionally, the cases illustrate how real entrepreneurs have gone out and succeeded. The authors cover all stages of the entrepreneurial process from searching for an opportunity to shaping it into a commercially attractive product or service, launching the new venture, building it into a viable business, and eventually harvesting it. Any student, "would-be entrepreneur" or not, will benefit from the lessons in this text