"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...

A comprehensive reference for any professional to understand the capabilities and competencies required for effective Pricing and Profitability Management. It describes each of the six competencies (Pricing Strategy, Price Execution, Advanced Analytics and Optimization, Organizational Alignment and Governance, Pricing Technology and Data Management, and Tax and Regulatory Effectiveness) in detail, and addresses how an integrated approach to Pricing...

Enter the world of vibration trading with a new methodology for making more money, more safely What if you could enter the markets and know, in advance, the exact value of trades needed to sustain a losing streak, by knowing their Martingale limits, to finally ensure a win? With Vibratrading you can. Applying the principles of ""Boundedness"" in conjunction with powerful stock/ETF diversification techniques, Vibratrading TM allows you to accomplish...

"Step up stock selection with advanced valuation techniques Beyond Earnings provides finance professionals with the most advanced techniques available for complex valuation and corporate performance analysis. Deep in detail and comprehensive in scope, this book features the first empirical discussion of mean-reversion in corporate profitability and growth, with expert guidance toward practical solutions. By focusing on cash flow and the economics...

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Ben Wesley had been an Ames County agricultural agent for two decades. When his job is eliminated, he is offered a more lucrative position as a research application specialist. When Ben has to start charging fees for his services, he's none too happy about it. Ben also has to aggressively market the university's scientifically developed miracle fruit, Cranberry Red. Claims of improved health from its higher antioxidant content clash with a lack of...

We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics...