The Bloodstained Throne

The Bloodstained Throne

The new Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery – When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the company of other shipwrecked passengers, and while attempting to evade the unwelcome attention of the more dangerous members of the group, they become unwillingly drawn into a plot to overthrow the king and return England to Saxon rule . . .

The Bloodstained Throne

Convergence in Shareholder Law

Convergence in Shareholder Law

On the one hand, it can be argued that the increasing economic and political interdependence of countries has led to the convergence of national legal systems. On the other hand, advocates of the counterhypothesis maintain that this development is both unrealistic and unnecessary. Mathias Siems examines the company law of the UK, the USA, Germany, France, Japan and China to see how this issue affects shareholder law. The author subsequently analyses economic and political factors which may or may not lead to convergence, and assesses the extent of this development. Convergence of Shareholder Law, which was originally published in 2007, not only provides a thorough comparative legal analysis but also shows how company law interconnects with political forces and economic development and helps in evaluating whether harmonisation and shareholder protection should be enhanced.

Convergence in Shareholder Law

Advanced Planning in Supply Chains

Advanced Planning in Supply Chains

Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are a key enabler of the supply chain management. However, APS are highly complex and difficult to comprehend. This book provides students with valuable insights into the capabilities of state-of-the-art APS and bridges the gap between theory (model building and solution algorithms), software implementation, and adaptation to a specific business case. Our business case named Frutado provides a unifying framework for illustrating the different planning tasks that arise in a company from demand planning to the distribution of goods that are addressed by APS. In addition, the book guides through interactive learning units which have been created and recorded for each module of SAPs APS. Learning units can be downloaded free of charge ready to be displayed in a web browser. Together, the textbook and the learning units provide the required skills to better understand the concepts, models, and algorithms underlying todays APS.

Advanced Planning in Supply Chains

Mercy Kill

Mercy Kill

Former Black Ops army sniper Mercy Gunderson isnt adjusting well to the laid-back rhythm of civilian life on her familys ranch in South Dakota. To fill her time, Mercy accepts a temporary bartending gig at a local watering hole. Yet her attempts to settle in back home are tested when Titan Oil, a Canadian company proposing to run an underground pipeline through Eagle River County, sends Jason Hawley, Mercys former army buddy, to the area to convince ranchers to get behind the project.

Mercy Kill

The Texas Renegade Returns

The Texas Renegade Returns

Having recovered from amnesia, Alex del Toro has a new mission expose his kidnapper and regain his fianc e’s love. Cara Windsor’s instincts tell her to stay away from a man who lied to her and tried to steal her family’s company. Except she has a secret she’s pregnant with Alex’s child!

The Texas Renegade Returns

Marketing Planning by Design

Marketing Planning by Design

Marketing is under immense pressure to perform: required to submit reports to management, judged by the sales department based on whether it helps sales, scrutinized by financial controlling regarding how efficiently it uses budgets, and last but not least, under constant review by customers, markets and the public. Marketing faces more dilemmas and conflicts of interest than any other part of a company.

Marketing Planning by Design

Learning Points

Learning Points

With Learning Points: 100 Activities and Actions for Customer Service Excellence, you can be sure your employees know exactly what they need to do in any situation to provide the quality of service your company expects, and your customers deserve.

Learning Points

Financial Accounting, Second Edition

Financial Accounting, Second Edition

Duchac, Reeve, Warren provides an effective new approach to help accounting majors and business students learn and understand financial accounting. The text introduces an integrated financial statements framework that clearly illustrates the inter-relationships between the cash flow statement, income statement and the balance sheet. This integrated framework focuses on providing students with a sound understanding of how the financial statements work together to provide a picture of a company’s financial performance, while at the same time teaching students the impact of transactions on the financial statements. This methodology offers a blend of concepts and procedures, which helps students get to the ‘ah-ha’ moment in accounting education sooner by focusing on how the financial statements come together BEFORE introducing debits and credits.

Financial Accounting, Second Edition

Transitioning to IFRS in SAP ERP Financials

Transitioning to IFRS in SAP ERP Financials

This book is the roadmap your conversion project team needs to prepare your SAP ERP Financials systems for conversion to IFRS. It includes detailed coverage of the transition process, an overview of the US GAAP/IFRS deltas and how they are mapped in ERP Financials, and real-world advice from an IFRS conversion project at a large petrochemical company. With this concise guide, youll give your finance professionals, executives, technical staff, project managers, and consultants a real jumpstart to IFRS projects in upgrade or non-upgrade scenarios.

Transitioning to IFRS in SAP ERP Financials

The Fundamental Constants

The Fundamental Constants

The speed of light, the fine structure constant, and Newton’s constant of gravity – these are just three among the many physical constants that define our picture of the world. Where do they come from? Are they constant in time and across space? In this book, physicist and author Harald Fritzsch invites the reader to explore the mystery of the fundamental constants of physics in the company of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a modern-day physicist. The conversation that the three scientists are imagined to have provides an entertaining introduction to the constants and covers topics ranging from atomic, nuclear, and particle physics to astrophysics and cosmology. Book jacket.

The Fundamental Constants

Mastering Magento Theme Design

Mastering Magento Theme Design

This book explores Magento theme design, from , theme structures to an advanced options panel, and provides you with the advanced knowledge that you need on the frontend of this great CMS.,

The book starts with an overview of best practices for Magento theming and explores the field of theme development, starting from the home page all the way through to , optimization, analyzing advanced Magento applications such as widgets and modules. You will learn how to change the look and feel of the Magento backend to adapt it to your company’s brand identity. The book will also take a look at adding functionalities such as lightbox effects on the product details page and awesome , animations on the products grid.

Mastering Magento Theme Design

Mastering 3D Printing

Mastering 3D Printing

Mastering 3D Printing shows you how to get the most out of your printer, including how to , models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate , printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.,

You’ve printed key chains. You’ve printed simple toys. Now you’re ready to innovate with your 3D printer to start a , or teach and inspire others.,

Joan Horvath has been an educator, engineer, author, and startup 3D printing company team member. She shows you all of the technical details you need to know to go beyond simple model printing to make your 3D printer work for you as a prototyping device, a teaching tool, or a business machine.

Mastering 3D Printing

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

For a company that promised to ‘put a pause on new features,’ Apple sure has been busy-there’s barely a feature left untouched in , OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard.’ There’s more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

Identifying and classifying information inside a company is one of the most important prerequisites for securing the sensitive information of various , units. , , 2012 Dynamic Access Control helps you not only to classify information, but it also gives you the opportunity and the functionality to provide a safe-net policy across your file servers, showing you some helpful ways of auditing and access denied assistance to improve usability.,

Understanding the architecture, the design, and implementing the solution, to troubleshooting will be covered in a practical and easy-to-read manner. This book is packed with project-based examples with plenty of information about the architecture, functionality, and extensions of Dynamic Access Control to help you excel in real-life projects. The book guides you through all the stages of a successful implementation of Dynamic Access Control.

Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished , administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the , and feature envelope of , SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance – but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues – the book helps you deliver the most value for your company’s investment in Microsoft’s flagship database system.

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices

Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services teaches how to take advantage of the powerful extract, transform, and load (ETL) platform included with , , , 2012. You’ll learn to build scalable, robust, performance-driven enterprise ETL solutions that save time and make money for your company. You’ll learn to avoid common ETL development pitfalls and how to extend the power of your ETL solutions to include virtually any possible transformation on data from any conceivable source. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) facilitates an unprecedented ability to load data from anywhere, perform any type of manipulation on it, and store it to any source.

Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013

Accounting systems like Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 hold a wealth of information. , 2013 provides a great tool for linking to, extracting, analysing, and presenting that rich data to help companies make better, faster, and smarter decisions.,

Building Dashboards with , Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013 covers how to get the rich, detailed information contained in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and present it in an attractive, easy-to-understand way using Excel 2013. The book shows in detail how to build great-looking dashboards that enhance a company’s decision-making process.

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Excel 2013

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013

Understanding your company’s data has never been easier than with Microsoft’s new Power BI package for , 2013. Consisting of four powerful tools – Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Maps – Power BI makes self-service , intelligence a reality for a wide range of users, bridging the traditional gap between Excel users, business analysts and IT experts and making it easier for everyone to work together to build the data models that can give you game-changing insights into your business.,

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013 guides you step by step through the process of analyzing and visualizing your data. Daniel R. Clark, an expert in BI training and a regular speaker on these topics, takes you through each tool in turn, using hands-on activities to consolidate what you’ve learned in each chapter.

Beginning Power BI with Excel 2013