Managing a Construction Firm on Just 24 Hours a Day
This detailed overview of the construction contracting business delivers an invaluable collection of best practices, forms, templates, and checklists designed to reduce risks and increase profits. Contractors will learn everything they need to know about the make-or-break areas of estimating, pricing, bidding, project management, and financial management. * The author is well-known in the industry, with a weekly newsletter, website, online digest, regular column for Contractor magazine, and 70-plus seminar bookings for 2006 * Extensive examples and illustrations help readers apply the insights offered Biography Matt Stevens is the president of his own construction consulting firm, Stevens Construction Institute, Inc. He has been working with contractors as a management consultant since 1994. He has more than 30 years of experience overall, including as a specialty contractor and general contractor. Stevens has worked with dozens of clients and conducted hundreds of seminars across the country. He worked as a management consultant with FMI Corporation from 1997-2002. He earned an undergraduate degree in construction management and an MBA. Stevens writes a monthly newsletter for his Web site (www.stevensci.com); his blog, the Construction Contractor’s Digest, contains 150 articles (www.contractorsblog.com); and he has a regular column in Contractor magazine. His e-learning Web site…
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Don’t let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson. This book is the perfect guide to * Planning and preparing your site for WordPress * Installing WordPress * Writing, tagging, and publishing a post * Working with the text editor * Styling paragraphs and creating lists * Working with media files * Linking, aligning, and sizing an image * Working with image galleries * Adding video and audio * Naming, scheduling, and managing posts * Making your site stand out * Helping others connect to your site * Becoming search engine friendly * Optimizing your site * Backing up your site * Installing and activating plugins Product Details * Pub. Date: November 2009 * Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated * Format: Paperback, 336pp * Sales Rank: 90, 962 * ISBN-13: 9780470554586 * ISBN: 0470554584 Synopsis 
Going to bed earlier protects teenagers against depression and suicidal thoughts, New York research suggests. Of 15, 500 12 to 18-year-olds studied, those who went to bed after midnight were 24% more likely to have depression than those who went before 2200. And those who slept fewer than five hours a night had a 71% higher risk of depression than those who slept eight hours, the journal Sleep reports. It is estimated 80, 000 UK children and young people have depression. The researchers from Columbia University Medical Center in New York looked at data from 15, 500 teenagers collected in the 1990s. One in 15 of those studied were found to have depression…more at http://jakartaforum.blogspot.com/2010/01/late-night-teens-face-greater.html
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The challenge: create an entire 24-page comic book in 24 consecutive hours. Hundreds of cartoonists have taken this challenge, turning out works that were amazing, amusing, or revelatory. Four-time Harvey Award and Eisner Award winner Scott McCloud, comicdom’s top theoretician and inventor of the 24-hour comic, explains the concept and presents nine of the best. Includes stories by Neil Gaiman, Al Davison, and more. Product Details * Pub. Date: April 2008 * Publisher: About Comics * Format: Paperback, 240pp * Sales Rank: 791, 377 * ISBN-13: 9780971633841 * ISBN: 0971633843 * Edition Description: Not Appropriate For Children Biography Novelist Neil Gaiman has sent a British businessman tumbling into a fantastic underworld and had a devil and angel comically conspiring to thwart the Apocalypse. He found his biggest success, though, in Death, Dreams and Destruction — and the four other similarly named siblings who controlled the reins of the human race’s emotional impulses in his graphic-novel series The Sandman, a wholesale rejuvenation of graphic fiction that had everyone from Tori Amos to Norman Mailer spinning with, yes, Delirium. Neil Gaiman Biography Neil Gaiman thought he wrote comic books. But a newspaper editor, of course, set him straight. Back when he was riding the diabolical headwinds of his popular series of graphic novels, The Sandman, the author attended a party where…
A 24-hour cable channel that is completely uncensored, uninhibited, and without shame. And an erotic novel that follows suit… XTV is the 24-hour cable channel for adults only- and it’s hot fun for the women who work there: Zaza, the young ingénue who’s more than eager to experience on-the-job training-in front of the camera…or behind. Emily is a revealing talk-show host, but the next thing to be exposed is her secret affair with one of the country’s richest men. Vengeful anchorwoman Valerie’s specialty is destroying careers. Now, all secrets are going to be revealed. No matter how dirty. Product Details * Pub. Date: January 2010 * Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) * Format: Paperback, 272pp * Sales Rank: 296, 816 * ISBN-13: 9780451229038 * ISBN: 0451229037 Biography Carole Hart is the pseudonym for an author of two acclaimed novels and professor of English and Creative Writing. Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, on the BBC’s Radio 4, and in various newspapers and journals.
What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy to see how it really worked? Now you can. In Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, Daniel Altman teaches us how the billions of decisions made by individuals can and do change the future. Connected is part travel guide, part owner’s manual—-an absorbing, accessible, and essential road map for every citizen of the global economy in the twenty-first century. Publishers Weekly Altman’s overview of the world’s economic workings is useful and informative, though surprisingly dutiful considering the author’s promise of a “whirlwind tour.” Moving briskly between topics—pegged to an hour-by-hour timeline gimmick—he discusses many concepts: exchange rates, trade deficits, international deals, currency markets, corruption, financial derivatives, technological innovation, the importance of oil. While addressing the outsized role of the U.S., Altman offers valuable glimpses of key foreign economies and leaves us with a solid understanding of how they fit into “the world trading system.” “If you want to cope with connectedness, ” journalist Altman writes, “you have to be as connected as you can—in other words, you have to pay attention to what’s happening in the rest of the world.” Granted, anyone who’s already paying attention will find much of the book’s information somewhat remedial. And Altman’s attitude toward…
