Succession planning for financial advisors : building an enduring business by Grau, David, Sr

Table of Contents: “…-- Equity-A Powerful Business-Building Tool -- Valuing a Financial Services Practice -- Recurring versus Nonrecurring Revenue -- Cash Flow Quality Factors -- Transition Risk Factors -- Marketplace Demand Factors -- Addressing Insurance-Based Practices -- Impact on Value of the Payment Terms -- Profitability and Its Impact on Value -- Practicing Equity Management -- Building Profit-Driven Businesses -- CHAPTER 3 Transforming Your Practice into a Business -- Assessing What You Have Built -- A Building Problem, Not a Planning Problem -- A Parable -- Building Your Ship -- Rethinking Your Compensation System -- Balancing Revenue Strength and Enterprise Strength -- Selecting the Right Entity Structure -- What You Need to Know -- Limited Liability Companies versus S Corporations -- Remodeling Your Cash Flow -- Step One: Collecting the Revenue -- Step Two: Paying Competitive Wages for Work Performed -- Step Two and a Half: Bonuses.…”
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The business guide to sustainability : practical strategies and tools for organizations by Hitchcock, Darcy E.

Table of Contents: “…-- Conclusion -- Change agent/sustainability director: how to keep a sustainability effort on track: -- What you should know about sustainability -- Strategies you can use -- Change agents with no formal authority -- Begin within your span of control -- Sow seeds -- Discussion groups -- Green teams -- Sustainability coordinators with formal authority -- Steering committees -- Task forces and project teams -- Individuals -- Award programmes and certification systems -- Sustainability management systems -- Conclusion -- SCORE the sustainability coordinator -- Part 2: Sustainability By Industry Sector: -- Sustainability in services and general office practices: -- What you should know about sustainability -- Strategies you can use -- Clean up your own operations -- Facilities -- Technology -- Paper products -- Break room -- Take responsibility for your ripples -- Evaluate strategic threats -- Explore emerging opportunities -- Conclusion -- SCORE services and office practices -- Sustainability in manufacturing and product design: -- What you should know about sustainability -- Strategies you can use -- Product design -- Design for environment -- Life cycle assessment -- Life cycle costing -- Product life cycle management and product life cycle tools -- Grey lists, black lists and supply chain management -- Green chemistry -- Converting products to services -- Biomimicry -- Operations -- Energy and greenhouse gases -- Collaborate with the supply chain -- Product certification -- Zero waste -- Extended producer responsibility, product stewardship and product take-back -- Conclusion -- SCORE manufacturing -- Sustainability in government agencies: -- What you should know about sustainability -- Strategies you can use -- Spend tax revenue wisely, maximizing the benefit to society -- Conserving energy -- Take advantage of wasted resources -- Streamline red tape -- Employ green building practices -- Find new funding sources -- See the municipality as a whole system -- Provide infrastructure and security -- Ensure security -- Design efficient, vibrant urban spaces -- Design effective public transportation -- Protect the commons -- Engineer market-based incentives -- Reclaim public goods and charge the full cost -- Create preserves -- Adopt the precautionary principle -- Implement regulations -- Create a level playing field -- Align regulations with your goals -- Privatize the resource within the right boundaries -- Get the numbers right -- Eliminate perverse subsidies -- Protect and help people who need it -- Focus on prevention -- Perform triage -- Combat hunger -- Provide housing -- Guide us toward a better future -- Model and encourage new behavior -- Use purchasing as a way to drive markets -- Develop social capital -- Provide incentives and grants for needed research -- Create audacious goals and policies -- Sponsor award programmes -- Make information visible -- Integrate sustainability into education -- Equalize opportunities -- Use public pension funds as a signal to business -- Conclusion -- SCORE government.…”


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Bresson on Bresson : interviews, 1943-1983 by Bresson, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Public affairs, 1934 : Prelude -- Angels of sin, 1943 : It takes an auteur ; Jean Giraudoux -- Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, 1945 : Scandals and shocks ; Interiority leads the way ; Jean Cocteau ; The Festival du Film Maudit -- Diary of a country priest, 1951 : Between these two worlds ; It's the impossibility that attracts me ; To see and to hear ; As I would write a poem -- A man escaped, 1956 : The wind blows where it wants to ; A new means of expression -- Pickpocket, 1959 : A film made of hands, objects, and glances ; A film's rhythm should be like the beating of a heart ; To capture only what is real ; To get to the mystery ; Poetry and truth are sisters -- The trial of Joan of Arc, 1962 : This familiarity with the palpably supernatural ; I know of nothing more atrocious or more poignant ; It's what the film wanted ; Emotion should be our only guide ; Joan of Arc was beautiful, elegant, approachable, modern ; To make her real, to bring her close ; If you want the current to flow, you have to strip the wires -- Adaptation : Aspects of dramatic creation -- Au hasard Balthazar, 1966 : A donkey in all its purity, its tranquility, its serenity, its sanctity ; The freest film I've made, the one to which I've given the most of myself ; To create life without copying it ; The beaten path -- Mouchette, 1967 : More in the manner of portraitists ; Something else I like in Bernanos: his supernatural is constructed from the real ; Looks that kill -- The sound track : The ear is far more creative than the eye -- A gentle woman, 1969 : The confrontation between death and life ; I am here, the other is elsewhere, and the silence is terrible -- Four nights of a dreamer, 1972 : Art is not a luxury, but a vital need ; Between blue and brown ; I look for surprises -- Lancelot of the Lake, 1974 : To bring the past into the present ; It was Lancelot's very particular inner adventure that I found striking ; Torn between fidelity and felony ; The sound of iron ; The Grail -- Notes on the cinematograph, 1975 : You strip your art naked -- The devil, probably, 1977 : The adversary ; The gaps are where the poetry slips in -- L'argent, 1983 : O money, visible god! …”


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African futures

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Jews in Byzantium : Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. by Bonfil, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Byzantine-Jewish Ethnography: A Consideration of the Sefer Yosippon in Light of Gerson Cohen's "Esau as Symbol in Early Medieval Thought"Historiography among Byzantine Jews: The Case of Sefer Yosippon; Refracting Christian Truths through the Prism of the Biblical Female in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts; Index of Names; Index of Places.…”
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Spirit, Qi, and the multitude : a comparative theology for the democracy of creation by Lee, Hyo-Dong

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The Bounty from the beach : cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary essays

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Clinical Vision Science A Concise Guide to Numbers, Laws, and Formulas by Schmidtmann, Gunnar

Table of Contents: “…Basics -- Trigonometry -- Angular Measures -- Degree to Radians -- Radians to Degree -- The Metric System -- International System of Units -- Important Units -- Physical Optics -- Nature of Light -- Reflection -- Reflection on plane surfaces -- Reflection on curved surfaces -- Important equations -- Refraction -- Refractive Index -- Snell’s Law -- Total Internal Reflection -- Refraction by Prisms -- Refraction on curved surfaces -- Important equations -- Step along method -- The power of a lens system -- Thick Lenses -- Photometry -- Flat angles -- Solid angles -- Inverse Square Law -- Cosine Law -- Optical Instruments -- Camera -- Magnification - The Simple Magnifier -- Entrance and Exit Pupils -- Visual Optics & Ophthalmic Lenses -- Calculating the Sag -- Lens meter equation -- Toric Transposition -- Astigmatism & Cylindrical Lenses -- Toric Lenses -- Oblique Crossed Cylinders -- Accommodation & Vergence -- Accommodation -- Vergence -- Prisms -- Prism Dioptre -- Prism Notation -- Prentice Rule -- The prismatic effect of a sphero-cylindrical lens -- Ophthalmic Lenses -- Types of Lenses -- Lens Materials -- Dispersion and Abbe Number -- Transverse Chromatic Aberration -- Eye Models -- Gullstrand’s Reduced Schematic Eye -- Gullstrand’s Simplified Schematic Eye -- Gullstrand’s Exact Schematic Eye -- Retinal Blur Circle -- Spectacle Magnification -- Visual Perception -- Visual Acuity -- Contrast -- Weber Contrast -- Michelson Contrast -- Root Mean Square (RMS) Contrast -- Sensation & Perception -- Weber’s Law -- Fechner’s Law -- Steven’s Power Law -- Ricco’s Law -- Bloch’s Law -- Piper’s Law -- Ocular Anatomy -- The Anatomy of the Orbit -- The Anatomy of the Eye -- The external Eye & Eye Muscles -- The internal Eye & Retina -- Ocular Diseases & Ocular Pharmacology -- Summary of Common Ocular Diseases -- List of Common Drugs, Dosages, Indications & Contraindications -- Clinical Procedures -- Direct Ophthalmoscopy -- Retinoscopy -- Subjective Refraction -- Fan & Block -- Jackson Cross Cylinder Technique -- Near Vision & Accommodation -- Distance and Near Acuity Chart -- Binocular Vision & Orthoptics -- Definitions: Eso, Exo, Hypo, Hyper -- Phoria vs Tropia -- Extraocular Muscles -- Directions of maximal action for Extrocular Muscles -- Primary and secondary actions -- Adduction -- Abduction -- Incyclo -- Excyclo -- Hering’s Law -- Sherrington’s Law -- Sheard’s Criterion -- Cranial Nerves and Eye Muscles -- Cover-Uncover & Alternate Cover Test -- Hess Chart interpretation -- Difference between Concomitance and Incomitance -- Order of Muscle Sequelae -- Assessment of Motor Fusion -- Prism Corrections -- Crossed and Uncrossed Diplopia -- Bielschowsky Head Tilt Test -- Diagnostic Techniques -- Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy -- Diffuse Illumination -- Sclerotic Scatter -- Direct Illumination -- Indirect Illumination -- Retro Illumination -- Specular Reflection -- Mire Reverse -- Van Herick’s Technique -- Gonioscopy -- Keratometry -- Tonometry -- Perimetry -- Contact Lenses -- Keratometry and Contact lenses -- Contact Lens Materials -- Calculations -- Base Curve -- Diameter -- Back Vertex Power -- Fitting & Assessment of Contact Lenses -- Low Vision -- Assessment of Visual Function -- Assessment of Function Vision -- Magnification -- Field of View.…”
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Debating our destiny 40 years of presidential debates

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World film locations. Buenos Aires

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Buenos Aires: City of the Imagination; Tango and the City; Scenes 1-8; Gaucho Nobility/Nobleza Gaucha (1915); La Vuelta al Bulín (1926); The Three Amateurs/Los Tres berretines (1933); Ragged Football/Pelota de Trapo (1948); Hardly a Criminal/Apenas un Delincuente (1949); Barrio Gris (1954); Abasto Market/Mercado de Abasto (1955); Buenos Aires (1958); From Dark to Light: The Cinema of the Transition to Democracy; Scenes 9-16; The Boss/El Jefe (1958); The People at Table 10/Los de la Mesa 10 (1960).…”
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The Age of ESMA : Governing EU Financial Markets. by Moloney, Niamh

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Criminalized mothers, criminalizing mothering by Hogeveen, Bryan, 1972-, Minaker, Joanne Cheryl, 1974-

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West Germany and the Portuguese dictatorship 1968-1974 : between Cold War and colonialism by Lopes, Rui, 1984-

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Du hast das Zeug zum Zeichnen! Sofort loslegen mit kreativen Motiven und jeder Menge Zeichenideen by Blume, Katja

Table of Contents: “…-- Methode 1 -- Fensterscheibe -- Methode 2 -- Light Pad -- Methode 3 -- Transferpapier -- Methode 4 -- Transparentpapier -- Basics -- Schraffuren -- Die Parallelschraffur -- Die Kreuzschraffur -- Die Punktschraffur -- Die Kreisschraffur -- Tonwerte -- Methode 1 -- Den Abstand der Linien variieren -- Methode 2 -- Den Druck beim Zeichnen ver?…”
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Brand Stretch : Why 1 in 2 Extensions Fail, and How to Beat the Odds. by Taylor, David

Table of Contents: “…; The heart of a healthy brand; Anchoring the core range; Bud and Bud Light: Sun and planets; Risky business; Tango: Taking the eye off the orange ball…”
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Street Commerce : Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks by Sevtsuk, Andres

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The sublime in Kant and Beckett : aesthetic judgement, ethics and literature by Myskja, Bjørn K.

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Microbirth

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Nuclear disarmament : concepts, principles and actions for strengthening the non-proliferation regimes by Morales Pedraza, Jorge

Table of Contents: “…The Democratic People Republic of Korea (DPRK); The Destruction Power of a Nuclear Weapon; Chemical Weapons; Biological Weapons; Conventional Weapons; Small Arms and Light Weapons; Intelligent Weapons61; Cluster Munitions; Antipersonnel Land Mines; Delivery Systems (Missiles).…”
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The victory with no name : the Native American defeat of the first American army by Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-

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