In Think Outside the Bottle: The Product Entrepreneur’s Playbook, self-made multimillionaire Duane Thompson draws product entrepreneurs a blueprint for business success. This fast-paced, engaging how-to guide shows how he built his business up from a pot of salsa he created in his college dorm room to a seven-figure-grossing company with products sold on the East Coast and beyond—and how you can take your product from concept to reality too. The Playbook pushes and prods you to brainstorm ...

Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar, text, and/or concept, speaking to how it has both influenced and enriched their work as scholar-activists. Black feminist and womanist theorizing plays a dynamic role in the development of w...

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native perspective, "living stories," essays, poetry, and hundreds of reviews of "children's books about Indians." It's an indispensable volume for anyone interested in prese...

Harlequin® Heartwarming brings you four new wholesome reads for one great price, available now! Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love.This Harlequin® Heartwarming box set includes:IF NOT FOR A BEE Seasons of Alaskaby Carol RossAidan is only passing through her Alaska wilderness town, and wasn't planning to bond with...

God loves us just the way we are, and He wants us to love each other, too! That's what Mr. Henry wants kids to learn as he retells these stories from the Bible: the Good Samaritan, Jesus and the disciples, and Jesus and the little children. In his own wacky way, Mr. Henry teaches some of the most important principles of helping one another.

The concept of “the city” —as well as “the state” and “the nation state” —is passé, agree contributors to this insightful book. The new scale for considering economic strength and growth opportunities is “the megaregion,” a network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas that are spatially and functionally linked through environmental, economic, and infrastructure interactions.Recently a great deal of attention has been focused on the emergence of the European Union and...

“You’ve heard stories of how Hurricane Katrina victims looted stores and turned to violence in the Louisiana Superdome. But you haven’t heard about the thousands of unsung heroes who rescued neighbors, and even whole families, from the rising flood waters of Hurricane Katrina when the levees broke in the city of New Orleans. In this newly released book, Louder Than Thunder, author Cheryl Hawkins chronicles her 10-day journey of how she and her elderly, paraplegic father a...

Marsha Rene seemed destined for the good life, raised by loving parents in a Long Island suburb where she and her brothers often rode their bikes until their father's whistle summoned them home for dinner. But at eight years old, her father died, leaving Marsha, her mother, and her brothers struggling to move forward.In a few short years, Marsha, still grieving, became a drug addict and, in the drug underworld of '90s New York, experienced sexual abuse over...

Designated by PMI as Recommended Reading for Business Analysts ! This innovative guide shows how the business analyst (BA) role can be executed in collaboration with the project or program manager (PM) role to produce higher quality products, requirements, and success rates, with solutions that deliver business value and products and services that better satisfy stakeholder needs. It evaluates the PM and BA roles current contrasting perceptions and defines the roles they should fulfill.

What happens when kids mix a little faith with a big God? They get giant results, as Mr. Henry reveals in his humorous renditions of three Bible classics - Noah and the Ark, Moses and the Israelites, and Daniel and the Lion's Den. From the Moose that licks Noah's nose and the pot of Golden Calf Soup the Israelites drink, to the crazy dreams of crabby King Nebbie and the hungry faces of lions looking for lunchmeat, children won't forget these tales and the truth that there is no other way b...

Mr. Henry knows that kids can have many different fears. That's why he shares the victories of some of the Bible's bravest characters: David, Esther, and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Forget suits of armor and superhero outfits, Mr. Henry says. Asking God for courage and strength is the slingshot any child can use to defeat life's giants. With perfect aim, Mr. Henry shows what can happen when we stand strong and take our best shot for God.

The role of the business analyst (BA) has seen rapid growth over the past decade, and for good reason. Business analysis is a hybrid function that evolved from the systems analysis role over several decades into one where the individuals performing it have both a good understanding of the business and of the IT and software used to support the business. One set of activities that is the BA’s specialty is the eliciting and management of accurate product requirements. Recent research has sho...