New from the author of the Judy Moody series -- a winsome duo makes a picture-book debut Ant was getting antsy. . . .
Only a few hours left till Cricket's costume party. 'What can we be for the dress-up party?' she asked her friend Honey Bee.With a little creativity and a lot of elbow grease, Ant and Honey Bee finally make a perfect, two-things-that-go-together pair of costumes for Cricket's big party. But then -- plip, plip, plip, PLIP! -- it starts to rain, and by the time they arrive, the proud pair looks more like a matching set of soggy sad sacks. Maybe, though, if they put their heads together, the quick-thinking friends can turn their mushy mess into a smashing success. What a pair! Introducing Ant and Honey Bee -- fast friends, co-costume-conspirators, and stars of a delightful new story by author Megan McDonald and illustrator G. Brian Karas.

New from the author of the Judy Moody series -- a winsome duo makes a picture-book debut Ant was getting antsy. . . .
Only a few hours left till Cricket's costume party. 'What can we be for the dress-up party?' she asked her friend Honey Bee.With a little creativity and a lot of elbow grease, Ant and Honey Bee finally make a perfect, two-things-that-go-together pair of costumes for Cricket's big party. But then -- plip, plip, plip, PLIP! -- it starts to rain, and by the time they arrive, the proud pair looks more like a matching set of soggy sad sacks. Maybe, though, if they put their heads together, the quick-thinking friends can turn their mushy mess into a smashing success. What a pair! Introducing Ant and Honey Bee -- fast friends, co-costume-conspirators, and stars of a delightful new story by author Megan McDonald and illustrator G. Brian Karas.

New from the author of the Judy Moody series -- a winsome duo makes a picture-book debut Ant was getting antsy. . . .
Only a few hours left till Cricket's costume party. 'What can we be for the dress-up party?' she asked her friend Honey Bee.With a little creativity and a lot of elbow grease, Ant and Honey Bee finally make a perfect, two-things-that-go-together pair of costumes for Cricket's big party. But then -- plip, plip, plip, PLIP! -- it starts to rain, and by the time they arrive, the proud pair looks more like a matching set of soggy sad sacks. Maybe, though, if they put their heads together, the quick-thinking friends can turn their mushy mess into a smashing success. What a pair! Introducing Ant and Honey Bee -- fast friends, co-costume-conspirators, and stars of a delightful new story by author Megan McDonald and illustrator G. Brian Karas.

Written for marketing and finance directors, CEOs, and strategists, as well as MBA students, this practical book explains the principles and practice behind rigorous due diligence in marketing. It connects marketing plans and investment to the valuation of the firm and how it can contribute to increasing stakeholder value. Completely revised and updated throughout, the Second Edition features new case examples as well as a completely new first chapter containing the results of new research into risk and marketing strategies amongst Finance Directors and Chief Marketing Officers.

Australia’s most exciting and innovative artists are showcased in the Macquarie Group’s offices in more than 30 cities around the world, and a stunning selection of these works is featured in this book. From one of Australia's most vibrant and respected art collections, the Macquarie Group, masterpieces from the likes of Sally Gabori, Shaun Gladwell, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda, Janet Laurence, and Ben Quilty are included. As it profiles each piece of contemporary art, this record illustrates the diversity and beauty of the Australian landscape as seen through the eyes of its artists.

The third edition of Theory of Simple Liquids is an updated, advanced, but self-contained introduction to the principles of liquid-state theory. It presents the modern, molecular theory of the structural, thermodynamic interfacial and dynamical properties of the liquid phase of materials constituted of atoms, small molecules or ions. This book leans on concepts and methods form classical Statistical Mechanics in which theoretical predictions are systematically compared with experimental data and results from numerical simulations.

The overall layout of the book is similar to that of the previous two editions however, there are considerable changes in emphasis and several key additions including:

•up-to-date presentation of modern theories of liquid-vapour coexistence and criticality
•areas of considerable present and future interest such as super-cooled liquids and the glass transition
•the area of liquid metals, which has grown into a mature subject area, now presented as part of the chapter ionic liquids

New to this edition

• 30% new or updated material - The authors have agreed to thoroughly overhaul the text of the 3rd edition, amplifying the discussion and adding new material to deal with the progress made in the fields already covered
• New content - the following sections will be added to existing chapters.

• In Chapter 5 (Perturbation Theory): a section on the singular perturbations relevant, for example, to binary systems and systems of 'sticky' hard spheres;
• In Chapter 6 (Inhomogeneous Fluids): (i) following Sect. 6.1, a section on the derivation of the exact expression for the surface tension (in terms of the generalised direct correlation function) and its relation to surface adsorption; and (ii), following Sect. 6.5, a section on density-functional theory of wetting and drying phenomena;
• In Chapter 9 (Theories of Time Correlation Functions): a section on the kinetics of rare events, including crystal nucleation;
• In Chapter 10 (Ionic Liquids): (i) following Sect. 10.6, a section on recent progress in the theory of electrical double-layers: effective surface charges and the correlations between multivalent ions that lead to effective attractions between like-charged surfaces; and (ii) following Sect. 10.7, a section on polarisable force fields in ionic liquids;
• In Chapter 11: following Sect. 11.4, a further section on simple polar liquids dealing with phase diagrams, extended dipoles and network formation, with some reference to water;

• New Chapter on soft matter with sections as follows:

• Sect. 12.1: on hard-sphere colloids;
• Sect. 12.2: on charge-stabilised colloids (updating the present Sect. 10.7, which would now be incorporated here);
• Sect. 12.3: on rod-like and plate-like colloids, Onsager theory and beyond, and applications to lyotropic liquid crystals and clays;
• Sect 12.4: on polymer solutions. Coarse-grained representations , polymer coils as penetrable-core particles, the gaussian-core model, multi-blob representations of semi-dilute solutions, and star polymers;
• Sect. 12.5: on colloid-polymer mixtures. Polymer-induced depletion interactions (Asakura-Oosawa approach and beyond), and perturbation theory of the phase diagram.
• Sect. 12.6: on clustering and gelation of 'patchy' particles (colloids and proteins).

• New subtitle to emphasise new content 'With Application to Soft Matter'

Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, revised and updated 4th Edition is the only book that spells out a totally dispassionate, systematic process for arriving at genuine, needs-based segments that can enable organizations to escape from the dreay, miserable, downward pricing spiral which results from getting market segmentation wrong.

Nothing in business works unless markets are correctly defined, mapped, quantified and segmented. Why else have hundreds of billions of dollars been wasted on excellent initiatives such as TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecards, Six Sigma, Knolwedge Management, Innovation, Relationship Marketing and, latterly, CRM? The answer, of course, is because of a structured approach to market segmentation.

Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, revised and updated 4th Edition provides a structured, no-nonsense approach to getting market segmentation right. It is an essential text for professionals and students based on a wealth of practical experience and packed with examples and easily used checklists.

Everett Singh must rescue his father from one of the billions of parallel universes where he has been banished, take care of himself and his crew in a frozen wasteland, and battle the villainous Charlotte Villiers.

With poems, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, and cricket journalism, this account is a multifaceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the outside world. From the global playing fields to the bumpier village fields and sugar estates, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism, and, in the 1970s and 1980s, changed forever the nature of the game.

When fourteen-year-old Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett's computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father.

Urban Identity is the second in the successful Learning from Place series that draws upon the wealth of experience in the Academy of Urbanism. This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by identikit buildings, multi-national corporations, even arbitrarily imposed urban design rules? How can we preserve and foster the sense of local identity and character that so value without falling into the trap of historical pastiche?

Four leading urban thinkers take this theme as the staring point for chapters on urban identity. The classical architect Robert Adam delivers a broadside to modern architecture that he sees as the multi-national face of globalism. The architect and academic John Worthington ponders the difference between how a place is seen, its identity and how it wants to be seen, its brand. While the architects Anthony Reddy from Ireland and Frank Walker from Scotland explore the notion of local and national identity in architecture and design.

These chapters are interspersed with five chapters by leading practitioners inspired by the shortlisted places for the Academy’s second annual awards. The surveyor Chris Balch revels in the life of three great European cities while Brian Evans, Chris Brett celebrate three towns that are really great small cities. David Rudlin looks at three creative quarters and what they contribute to the economic and social life of their host cities while Frank McDonald takes us on a journey down three great streets and David Taylor and Anthony Alexander applaud three urban places created created and improved in recent years.

Like the first book in this series, Urban Identity brims with fascinating and sometimes controversial insights and opinions on urbanism. Illustrated again by the drawings of David (Harry) Harrison and poems by Ian MacMillan and packed with photographs and plans of the places visited by the Academy as part of their awards scheme.

'This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by identikit buildings, multi-national corporations, even arbitrarily imposed urban design rules? Four leading urban thinkers take this theme as the staring point for chapters on urban identity. The classical architect Robert Adam delivers a broadside to modern architecture that he sees as the multi-national face of globalism. The Architect and academic John Worthington ponders the difference between how a place is seen, its identity and how it wants to be seen, its brand. While the architects Anthony Reddy from Ireland and Frank Walker from Scotland explore the notion of local and national identity in architecture and design. These chapters are interspersed with five chapters by leading practitioners inspired by the shortlisted places for the Academy's second annual awards. The surveyor Chris Balch revels in the life of three great European cities whileBrian Evans, Chris Brett celebrate three towns that are really great small cities. David Rudlin looks at three creative quarters and what they contribute to the economic and social life of their host cities while Frank McDonald takes us on a journey downthree great streets and David Taylor and Anthony Alexander applaud three urban places created created and improved in recent years. Like the first book in this series, Urban Identity brims with fascinating and sometimes controversial insights and opinions on urbanism. Illustrated again by the drawings of David (Harry) Harrison and poems by Ian MacMillan and packed with photographs and plans of the places visited by the Academy as part of their awards scheme'--

This helpful text clearly sets out the very best, state-of-the-art strategies in key account management.  The authors provide the tools and processes for successful KAM, from developing a customer categorization system that really works, to analyzing the needs of key accounts.  Topics include why key account management has become so critical to commercial success; the role of key management in strategic planning; how companies build profitable relationships with their customers; and what it takes to be a successful key account manager.

In un'India devastata dalla guerra civile interetnica si svolge la storia di Vishnu, un ragazzo geneticamente modificato per vivere il doppio del normale e in possesso di memoria eidetica. Vishnu cresce e si sviluppa più lentamente degli altri bambini, anche se il suo cervello è in grado di apprendere con una capacità estranea al resto dell'umanità. E le sue straordinarie doti (come quella di poter valutare in un attimo una situazione in tutte le sue più recondite interconnessioni) lo rendono una specie di 'super-eroe' della diplomazia. Quando scoppia un conflitto Vishnu si rende conto che esiste un'intelligenza artificiale che controlla gran parte del pianeta attraverso nanocomputer grandi come granelli di polvere. La loro mira è rendere obsoleti quelli come lui, in un mondo in cui tutti stanno per diventare intelligenze artificiali proiettate a creare una gigantesca singolarità tecnologica universale.

The only evidence-based  resource combining  gastroenterology and hepatology, this major textbook critically appraises the evidence for diagnosis, screening, and treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases, and provides clear recommendations for management.

A unique feature is the grading of both the evidence (randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, or lower quality trials) and the treatment recommendations. This structure provides the reader with valuable guidance on implementation.

The third edition has been fully revised, providing the latest reviews of the evidence. It is also enhanced with new topics that have significant evidence for treatment, including;

• Esinophilic esophagitis
• Acute dysenteries
• Prevention and treatment of  travellers' diarrhoea
• Frequency of adverse drug effects on bowel function
• Management of hepatitis B 
• Management of Hepatitis C
• Vascular disorder of the liver 
• Non invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis
• Drug induced liver disease

Seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one central common core--the eponymous dervish house, a character in itself--that pins all these players together in a weave of intrigue, conflict, drama and a ticking clock of a thriller.

Introducing Ant and Honey Bee — fast friends, co-costume-conspirators, and stars of a delightful new story by author Megan McDonald and illustrator G. Brian Karas.

Ant was getting antsy. . . . Only a few hours left till Cricket's costume party. 'What can we be for the dress-up party?' she asked her friend Honey Bee.

With a little creativity and a lot of elbow grease, Ant and Honey Bee finally make a perfect, two-things-that-go-together pair of costumes for Cricket's big party. But then — plip, plip, plip, PLIP! — it starts to rain, and by the time they arrive, the proud pair looks more like a matching set of soggy sad sacks. Maybe, though, if they put their heads together, the quick-thinking friends can turn their mushy mess into a smashing success. What a pair!

What a pair! From the creator of the Judy Moody and Stink series comes a charming duo with a most ingenious costume approach for Halloween.

Ant is getting antsy. Only a few hours till trick-or-treat, and she and Honey Bee don't have their costumes figured out. Maybe they should go as a pair! With a burst of creativity and hard work, they make a two-things-that-go-together pair of cardboard costumes just in time. But outside the night turns rainy and windy, and soon the proud duo have dissolved into a set of soggy sad sacks. Can the quick-thinking friends turn their mushy problem into a smashing success? Best-selling author Megan McDonald gives readers a taste of the comical chatter that occurs between old friends wrapped up in a shared project. G. Brian Karas brings the winning pair to life with a deft hand and an expressive, winsome line.

The cultural ubiquity, political prominence and economic significance of contemporary sport present fertile terrain for its critical socio-cultural analysis. From corporate and media dominated mega-events like the Olympic Games, to state programmes for nation-building and health promotion, to the cultural politics of 'race', gender, sexuality, age and disability, sport is so profoundly marked by relations of power that it lends itself to critique and deconstruction.

Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport brings together leading experts on sport to address these issues and to reflect on the continued appeal of sport to people across the globe, as well as on the forms of inequality that sport both produces and highlights. Including a Foreword by Harry Cleaver and Afterword by Michael Bérubé, this book assesses the impact of this work on the fields of ‘mainstream’ Marxism and cultural studies. Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport is centred on three vital questions:

• Is Marxism still relevant for understanding sport in the twenty-first century?

• Has Marxism been preserved or transcended by cultural studies?

• What is the relationship between theory and intervention in the politics of sport?

The result is a unique and diverse examination of modern sports culture. The first book published on the relationship between sport and Marxism for over twenty years, Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport is an invaluable resource for students of sport sociology, Marxism, and cultural studies at all levels.

A happy Hinky-Pink is a fine thing. An unhappy Hinky-Pink pinches!

That is what happens to Anabel, a young seamstress in Old Italy who has only days to finish her dream: sewing a gown for the princess to wear at the Butterfly Ball.

Thanks -- or no thanks -- to the Hinky-Pink Anabel is woozy for want of sleep. Her lace looks like cheesecloth; her hems, like saddle cinches. Night after night, the Hinky-Pink keeps wrestling her bedclothes to the floor -- and pinching. What is its problem? And how is Anabel to help?

A grand old favorite of storytellers is here given sprightly new life.

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, the Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.