Download or read book The Fine Print of Self Publishing written by Mark Levine and published by Publish Green. This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fine Print of Self-Publishing (Fourth Edition) offers a comprehensive guide to the self-publishing world, and is a must-read for any author considering self-publishing his or her book.

Download or read book Financial Fine Print written by Michelle Leder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five million individual investors jumped into the stock market for the first time during the late 1990s without asking questions about the stocks they were buying. When the bubble burst and the large number of accounting scandals began to grow, most investors didn’t know where to turn or whom to trust. Now it has become more important than ever for investors to take matters into their own hands. Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company’s True Value lets individual investors in on the secrets that seasoned professional investors use when they evaluate a potential investment. Buried deep in a company’s quarterly (10-Q) and annual (10-K) reports are the real clues to a company’s financial health: the footnotes. At many large companies, these footnotes can run for more than 30 pages and for some corporations have doubled in the past five years, making them simply too important for investors to ignore. Financial Fine Print spells out exactly what investors need to look for within the footnotes of a company’s reports in order to make better, more informed decisions. By using numerous examples of actual footnotes that have appeared in SEC documents, the book teaches investors in easy-to-understand language ways to spot – and avoid – future Enrons and Worldcoms (and Tycos and Adelphias and HealthSouths). For any investor who has spent the past three years watching their investments shrink and has begun to think about getting back into the market, this book provides the critical tools that investors need to know to avoid getting burned once again.

Download or read book Boilerplate written by Margaret Jane Radin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the increasing use of boilerplate is eroding our rights Boilerplate—the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "I agree" online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets—pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept boilerplate provisions without realizing that should a dispute arise about a purchased good or service, the nonnegotiable boilerplate terms can deprive us of our right to jury trial and relieve providers of responsibility for harm. Boilerplate is the first comprehensive treatment of the problems posed by the increasing use of these terms, demonstrating how their use has degraded traditional notions of consent, agreement, and contract, and sacrificed core rights whose loss threatens the democratic order. Margaret Jane Radin examines attempts to justify the use of boilerplate provisions by claiming either that recipients freely consent to them or that economic efficiency demands them, and she finds these justifications wanting. She argues, moreover, that our courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies have fallen short in their evaluation and oversight of the use of boilerplate clauses. To improve legal evaluation of boilerplate, Radin offers a new analytical framework, one that takes into account the nature of the rights affected, the quality of the recipient's consent, and the extent of the use of these terms. Radin goes on to offer possibilities for new methods of boilerplate evaluation and control, among them the bold suggestion that tort law rather than contract law provides a preferable analysis for some boilerplate schemes. She concludes by discussing positive steps that NGOs, legislators, regulators, courts, and scholars could take to bring about better practices.

Download or read book Scientific Evaluation of Textbooks written by Florence D. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fine Art Printing for Photographers written by Uwe Steinmueller and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's digital cameras provide image data files allowing large-format output at high resolution. At the same time, printing technology has moved forward at an equally fast pace bringing us new inkjet systems capable of printing in high precision at a very fine resolution, providing an amazing tonality range and longtime stability of inks. Moreover, these systems are now affordable to the serious photographer. In the hands of knowledgeable and experienced photographers, these new inkjet printers can help create prints comparable to the highest quality darkroom prints on photographic paper. This book provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing: The understanding of color management, profiling, paper and inks. It demonstrates how to set up the printing workflow as it guides the reader step-by-step through this process from an image file to an outstanding fine art print.

Download or read book Evaluation of the Administration s 1978 Small Business Tax Proposals and Other Alternatives written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Practical Evaluation Guide written by Judy Diamond and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Evaluation Guide provides the necessary tools to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and exhibits in informal educational settings_museums, science centers, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and parks.

Download or read book National Assessment of Educational Progress 1969 1983 written by Theodore B. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During its first 14 years of existence, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was located at the Education Commission of the States (ECS). This annotated bibliography of 575 references lists all major publications by or about NAEP published between 1969 and 1983. References are in a classified arrangement, by specific or special assessment. Documents not dealing with a specific assessment are grouped by: Methodological Publications; Special Analyses; and General and Miscellaneous. Materials by NAEP are separated from materials about NAEP done by external organizations. Subject, Personal Author, and Preparing Institution indexes are provided. The compilation is based on materials (documents and journal articles) archived in the database of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), and therefore most documents cited can be obtained through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). (WTB)

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Download or read book Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation written by Kim Marshall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven, practical approach to teacher supervision, coaching, and evaluation that emphasize fairness, equity, and achievement In the third edition of this longtime bestseller, nationally recognized education leader Kim Marshall offers a framework for supervisors who want to motivate and inspire their colleagues and bring more good teaching to more classrooms more of the time. Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation shows you how to break away from outdated evaluation approaches, describing an innovative approach that enlists teachers and teacher teams in improving the performance of all students. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition brings Marshall's widely used framework up to date, with even more practical guidelines for implementing effective classroom visits, teacher teamwork around data and curriculum unit planning, professional development, and more. You'll also discover high-tech and low-tech tools that can boost a supervisor's impact and efficiency. Discover the bestselling approach to teacher supervision, coaching, and evaluation Implement techniques to learn what's really going on inside classrooms Implement short, frequent, unannounced classroom visits followed by face-to-face conversations about teaching and learning Use rubrics to continuously improve teaching and learning Foster professional development with supervision and evaluation techniques that focus on improvement and motivation Improve time management, and the effective use of student-learning data Since the publication of the first and second editions, Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation has been an invaluable resource for K-12 supervisors, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders, as well as trainers and policymakers. The third edition builds on a decade of additional research and work in schools around the world, bringing the ideas into alignment with the rapidly changing world of education, for a timely and beneficial approach to leading today's teachers.

Download or read book Evaluation Thesaurus written by Michael Scriven and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leaders in evaluation, Evaluation Thesaurus, Fourth Edition, provides readers with a quick analysis of the leading concepts, positions, acronyms, processes, techniques, and checklists in the field of evaluation. Containing nearly 2000 entries, Michael Scriven's thesaurus offers professionals and students a guide for understanding the relation of evaluation to the doctrine of value-free social science, ways to integrate the parts of multi-dimensional evaluations into an overall rating, the realities of evaluation consulting, and techniques for the use of spreadsheets in qualitative evaluation.

Download or read book An Evaluation of Proposals to Extend and Amend the Renegotiation Act of 1951 written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Marble Evaluation written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues. This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders. Michael Quinn Patton demonstrates how the four overarching principles and 12 operating principles of this innovative approach allow evaluators, planners, and implementers to home in on sustainability and equity issues in an intervention. Compelling case examples, bulleted review lists, charts, and 80 original exhibits and graphics connect the global and local, the human and ecological. Rooted in utilization-focused, developmental, and principles-focused evaluation, Blue Marble evaluation is designed to tackle problems outside the reach of traditional evaluation practice.

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Download or read book Psychoeducational Evaluation of Children and Adolescents with Low incidence Handicaps written by Philip J. Lazarus and published by Grune & Stratton, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks written by Norman Fenton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many Bayesian Network (BN) applications are now in everyday use, BNs have not yet achieved mainstream penetration. Focusing on practical real-world problem solving and model building, as opposed to algorithms and theory, Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks explains how to incorporate knowledge with data to develop and use (Bayesian) causal models of risk that provide powerful insights and better decision making. Provides all tools necessary to build and run realistic Bayesian network models Supplies extensive example models based on real risk assessment problems in a wide range of application domains provided; for example, finance, safety, systems reliability, law, and more Introduces all necessary mathematics, probability, and statistics as needed The book first establishes the basics of probability, risk, and building and using BN models, then goes into the detailed applications. The underlying BN algorithms appear in appendices rather than the main text since there is no need to understand them to build and use BN models. Keeping the body of the text free of intimidating mathematics, the book provides pragmatic advice about model building to ensure models are built efficiently. A dedicated website, www.BayesianRisk.com, contains executable versions of all of the models described, exercises and worked solutions for all chapters, PowerPoint slides, numerous other resources, and a free downloadable copy of the AgenaRisk software.