From curtainsiders, to removal vans, to horse boxes, peep inside all kinds of trucks to find out how they work. Young children will enjoy helping the trucks to unload, carry out roadworks and even set up a circus! This interactive introduction aims to develop kids' practical understanding of these exciting vehicles - and help spot them while out and about.
This book continues the work of the best-selling How to Measure Anything. Douglas Hubbard along with his co-author Richard Seiersen now exam the measurement of cybersecurity. There is a gold mine or quantitative learning, and unlearning, within a study of cybersecurity. This book will critique some of cybersecurity’s premier, seemingly quantitative, risk management approaches. It will be demonstrated that many of these “risk management” methods create more risk than they resolve. Questionable security risk management methods are duplicated across industries, embedded in products and largely accepted as gospel. The authors show some techniques that can be used to dramatically improve the norm. They will also show that some methods are beyond recovery and “worse than doing nothing”.
Markets sometimes fail. But so do regulatory efforts to correct market failures. Sometimes regulations reach too far, condemning good activities as well as bad, and sometimes they don't reach far enough, allowing bad behavior to persist. In this highly instructive book, Thomas A. Lambert explains the pitfalls of both extremes while offering readers a manual of effective regulation, showing how the best regulation maximizes social welfare and minimizes social costs. Working like a physician, Lambert demonstrates how regulators should diagnose the underlying disease and identify its symptoms, potential remedies for it, and their side effects before selecting the regulation that offers the greatest net benefit. This book should be read by policymakers, students, and anyone else interested in understanding how the best regulations are crafted and why they work.
Markets sometimes fail. But so do regulatory efforts to correct market failures. Sometimes regulations reach too far, condemning good activities as well as bad, and sometimes they don't reach far enough, allowing bad behavior to persist. In this highly instructive book, Thomas A. Lambert explains the pitfalls of both extremes while offering readers a manual of effective regulation, showing how the best regulation maximizes social welfare and minimizes social costs. Working like a physician, Lambert demonstrates how regulators should diagnose the underlying disease and identify its symptoms, potential remedies for it, and their side effects before selecting the regulation that offers the greatest net benefit. This book should be read by policymakers, students, and anyone else interested in understanding how the best regulations are crafted and why they work.
This YA ode to romantic comedies, set in Los Angeles, follows two girls on opposite sides of the social scale―as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love.Sana Khan is a
《我不要當一隻青蛙》作者帶來有關年紀、算術的趣味繪本。大家聚在一起慶祝烏龜先生的生日，但是生日蛋糕上要插幾支蠟燭呢？動物們腦力激盪，用盡加減乘除各種方法，能得出烏龜先生今年幾歲嗎？From the author of I Don’t Want to Be a Frog comes a hilarious new picture book that asks readers to solve one very important mysteryIt’s Mr. Tortoise’s birthday, and he can’t wait to eat cake with his friends. But there’s a hitch! Mr. Tortoise can’t remember how old he is, so his friends don’t know how many candles to put on the cake. And they won’t stop (or slice) until they figure out the mystery.Could Mr. Tortoise be as many years old as there are sections on his shell? He’s twice as big as the smaller tortoise . . . so is he twice as old? After the partygoers work through a variety of possibilities, they find their way to the answer with a simple bit of addition.With text from I Don’t Want to Be a Frog author Dev Petty and hilarious graphic novel–style illustrations from Ruth Chan, How Old Is Mr. Tortoise? will have readers guessing the answer from beginning to end.
Everyone knows elephants can't fly: they're too heavy, and they have no wings! But what happens when three elephants work together to design a flying machine? How to Fly Like an Elephant combines an i
How does motivation work? The classic answer is that people are motivated to approach pleasure and avoid pain, that they are motivated by "carrots and sticks." But to understand human motivation, it i
Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, yet many students struggle the first time they take a course in which proofs play a significant role. This bestselling text's third edition helps students transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs. Featuring over 150 new exercises and a new chapter on number theory, this new edition introduces students to the world of advanced mathematics through the mastery of proofs. The book begins with the basic concepts of logic and set theory to familiarize students with the language of mathematics and how it is interpreted. These concepts are used as the basis for an analysis of techniques that can be used to build up complex proofs step by step, using detailed 'scratch work' sections to expose the machinery of proofs about numbers, sets, relations, and functions. Assuming no background beyond standard high school mathematics, this book w
Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, yet many students struggle the first time they take a course in which proofs play a significant role. This bestselling text's third edition helps students transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs. Featuring over 150 new exercises and a new chapter on number theory, this new edition introduces students to the world of advanced mathematics through the mastery of proofs. The book begins with the basic concepts of logic and set theory to familiarize students with the language of mathematics and how it is interpreted. These concepts are used as the basis for an analysis of techniques that can be used to build up complex proofs step by step, using detailed 'scratch work' sections to expose the machinery of proofs about numbers, sets, relations, and functions. Assuming no background beyond standard high school mathematics, this book w
This unconventional book presents the unvarnished first-person accounts of fourteen faculty and administrators about how they grappled, and engaged, with assessment and how – despite misgivings and an
A Southern Belle Primer meets The Rules in this engaging volume that explains the mystique of Southern women and why they always get what they want, and shows women how to get the same kind of romanti
The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Spreads helps you answer your life questions instantly, while showing you how to read your cards and create your own layouts.This ingenious guide contains spreads used hundreds of years ago by occult scholars such as Nostradamus and modern spreads inspired by today's visionaries. Expert tarot author Liz Dean has also created spreads based on the questions most often asked of professional tarot readers and teachers. The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Spreads gives you over 70 new and classic tarot card layouts for love, money, and success that can help you answer your questions accurately when reading for yourself and others.Easily learn the meanings of the cards, the major and minor arcana, as you try out dozens of spreads. Organized by question subject with layouts in stunning full-color, beginners will find they can easily begin doing readings for themselves and others. Advanced tarotists will enjoy the challenge of the more complex layouts, while every one on th
Use your eyes, ears, and imagination to explore your amazing mind and sharpen your wits. Want to paint like a prodigy, experiment like a scientist, or even invent the next new technology? Put your grey matter to the brain-training test and see how you measure up to some of the greatest thinkers in history. Tackle brain-boggling puzzles, games, and optical illusions and discover what makes your brain work: from why you smile to what is going on inside your head and what side of your brain does what.Learn about neurons, how memory works and how to boost your creativity. This book makes a complex subject fun, accessible and exciting, and is perfect for any child, whether they are intent on becoming a genius or just want to have fun with clever activities at home, on a journey or in school.
The Great Workplace shows that, more than offering great pay and quirky perks, a great workplace is one where employees trust the people they work for, take pride in what they do, and enjoy the peopl
An inspiring guide shows employees how even small acts of resourcefulness and initiative can make an enormous difference in the way they are viewed--and rewarded--by their boss. 75,000 first printing.
Ever considered the importance of looking after a loved ones affairs, should they suddenly loose the capacity to make decisions for themselves. This book shows you exactly how to complete the work in
People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. Build well-designed and efficient teams to get the mo
For PhD and other doctorate degree students as they approach their viva, this book helps candidates to understand the viva process and to prepare and present their work in the best possible manner. Wi
Pickands helps you to develop your psychic potential with an extensive series of exercises. You'll work with symbolic patterns, whether they be tarot cards, numbers, dreams, and learn how to "read" ps
