This book is about how to be persuasive in two key skills in business: writing proposals and writing business plans. Step by step, the Author illustrates the techniques of effective business writing, with numerous examples throughout

This book identifies and addresses the key areas of business for nonprofit organizations, from public relations and strategic planning to office management and the effective use of information technology and features a refocused strategic planning chapter that presents an ongoing, organic form of planning and covers critical topics

This book delivers a telling critique of the behavioral explanation of epidemic AIDS and the stereotypes that lie beneath it. It also shows how the methodologies applied in recent epidemiology and health economics are based on a one-risk-fits-all model that ignores the greater vulnerability of poor people and gives rise to narrow, shortsighted, and dead-end policies

This book is about famous architect and a master of light, space, and geometry and his complete Works attests to this statement by showcasing Pei's transcendent, sculptural forms from more than 50 years of work, using his best known and widely admired Louvre project as a focal point

This remarkable novel takes place in the real world but holds a fantastic puzzle at its heart. When You Reach me is an original, and brilliant and profound delight

Fever 1793 tells the story of Mattie Cook, a young girl who comes of age in Philadelphia during a tumultuous period of epidemic. Mattie is a typical young American girl who lives with her mother in a coffeehouse operated by the family. At the conclusion of the novel, Mattie has matured into a capable young woman who looks forward to life with a certainty of purpose

The story is about a young girl named Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River

This book is about a young orphan girl, who grew up with her Grandfather in Barbados. She lived a very free and happy life in that sunny land. When her grandfather died, she is left alone and penniless at the age of sixteen. The only choice she has is to go to America, where her aunt lived

With the creation of more than 200 new infrastructure regulatory entities all over the world in the past 15 year seen that actions of the regulators

This book examines the relationship between equity and growth in Mexico. The central thesis is that Mexico’s poor growth performance of the last twenty five years is intimately linked to inequity. Specific inequalities in power, wealth, and status have created and sustained economic institutions and polices that both tend to perpetuate these inequalities and are sources of inefficiencies and lack of dynamism in the economy.