13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. One can imagine readers seeking out information on boosting their local community sighing dutifully as they seek out material and then being relieved and delighted when what they find turns out to be as entertaining as it is informative. The information provided is sometimes startling and often positively revelatory. The anecdotes and examples are delivered with wit and a little bit of a dishy factor. But underneath all the fun is a clear breadth of experience, and a no-nonsense, practical approach to community building, which can be easily grasped. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community offers practical, implementable steps that can be taken to bring a moribund community back to life. This book delivers what it promises, and it does so with wit and warmth.

An informatively illustrated guide to business principles by a professor, entrepreneur, consultant, executive, and Harvard Business School graduate.

Success in business--and in business school--calls for a broad knowledge base and the ability to turn it into action. This accessible book provides a thorough grounding in the principles most essential to the study and practice of business, from corporate organization to maintaining customer satisfaction. Lessons include:

- key elements of organizational philosophy, structure, culture, and behavior
- ways to grow a business in new and existing markets
- why fast-growing companies may be chronically short on cash
- how to manage and interpret data when weighing a decision
- how to run a meeting most effectively
- how social and environmental responsibility can be good for business

101 Things I Learned(R) in Business School will appeal to students seeking traction in a demanding curriculum, to self-made entrepreneurs looking to improve their business practices, and to seasoned professionals seeking a refresher on core principles.

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand.

An extraordinary story. --Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller

Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favorite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life.

She's sailed through the Pacific for years, been held up by pirates, worked at Sydney's Kings Cross with drug addicts and prostitutes, campaigned on numerous environmental issues, and worked the yacht Breaksea Girl with her husband, Lance.

Underlining all her wanderings and adventures are some very deep losses and long-held pain. Balancing that out is her beautiful love story with Lance, and her delightful sense of humor.

This will make you weep and make you laugh and make you want to read more books - and make you want to visit Ruth and her two wee bookshops.

Shaw's writing is pragmatic and restrained; her voice is so strong and assured that when grief appears you gasp at its intrusion and your heart stops a second. --Alexa Dretzke, Readings Hawthorn

Amazing! --Jack Tame, Newstalk ZB

A fascinating, funny and moving story. --Nicky Pellegrino, New Zealand Woman's Weekly

Shaw can write about these peaks and troughs [of her life] without a skerrick of maudlin introspection or mawkishness. Battered and emotionally bruised, she marches on. In a word, dauntless, and it's exactly this quality that makes this memoir so readable. --Chris Moore, NZ Listener

Utterly charming and filled with equal measures of heartbreak and humour, Ruth Shaw's memoir will have you booking the first flight to New Zealand to share a cup of tea at her Wee Bookshops. Shaw has been a cook, a nurse, sailor and world traveller, and endured immeasurable loss. But with Lance, the love of her life, Shaw has found her place bookselling in Fiordland. --Booksellers' Choice Australia

'Compelling. Shaw tells her own story free of over-sentimentality or self-pity; she's straightforward, frequently humorous... Her resilience, optimism and willingness to help others is to be admired; her remarkable story is to be read and reflected upon as it adds another vital perspective to a NZ life. --Dionne Christian, Sunday Star Times

2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner
2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner
2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist
2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category
2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist

In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York's Jewish quarter.

What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted and their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stock ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had their doors shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston Tea Party.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience but steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.

Truckload transportation pricing is a complex topic with many variables and considerations. This book is organized so that a novice can learn the basics of truckload transportation then move into the more advanced concepts involved with one-way pricing and bid response analysis. While the book is written primarily for the benefit of truckload carriers, shippers and related parties will also gain valuable insight into truckload transportation by reading the entire book. The topics covered throughout the book provide shippers with a much deeper understanding of the truckload carrier's business model, cost structure, and operating strategy. By having a greater understanding of the needs of their carriers, shippers can become better partners and potentially enjoy improved service and lower transportation costs as a result.

How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.

Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling advertising on the Internet to course assignment at MIT's Sloan School. And yet beyond the small number of economists who specialize in the subject, few people understand how auctions really work. This concise, accessible, and engaging book explains both the theory and the practice of auctions. It describes the main auction formats and pricing rules, develops a simple model to explain bidder behavior, and provides a range of real-world examples.

The authors explain what constitutes an auction and how auctions can be modeled as games of asymmetric information--that is, games in which some players know something that other players do not. They characterize behavior in these strategic situations and maintain a focus on the real world by illustrating their discussions with examples that include not just auctions held by eBay and Sotheby's, but those used by Google, the U.S. Treasury, TaskRabbit, and charities. Readers will begin to understand how economists model auctions and how the rules of the auction shape bidder incentives. They will appreciate the role auctions play in our modern economy and understand why these selling mechanisms are so resilient.

Illuminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headed

As climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate alternatives to the current unsustainable agro-industrial food system.

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over an eleven-month period in both urban and rural North Carolina, the volume addresses questions about the moral visions of food activists, how class and racial hierarchies infuse some food activism movements, and how food activism relates to climate change and imminent ecological collapse. Exploring food activism around both local and sustainable food production and food security for lower-income people, the volume finds surprisingly little overlap, with the two movements seemingly remaining distinct approaches (at least for now) to issues around the food system, climate change, and access to healthy food choices.

As the US moves into an era in which climate change and neoliberal tensions are conjoined in a looming political crisis, Food Activism Today looks at where food activism is headed, the ethics and issues surrounding alternative approaches to food production, and how food production is related to broader issues of climate change.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

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13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. One can imagine readers seeking out information on boosting their local community sighing dutifully as they seek out material and then being relieved and delighted when what they find turns out to be as entertaining as it is informative. The information provided is sometimes startling and often positively revelatory. The anecdotes and examples are delivered with wit and a little bit of a dishy factor. But underneath all the fun is a clear breadth of experience, and a no-nonsense, practical approach to community building, which can be easily grasped. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community offers practical, implementable steps that can be taken to bring a moribund community back to life. This book delivers what it promises, and it does so with wit and warmth.

Farmer's Market takes emergent readers on a trip to the farmer's market while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once.

Farmer's Market includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers and a Let's Review question and image, as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, and an index.

Farmer's Market is part of Jump 's Around Town series.

2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner
2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner
2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist

In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York's Jewish quarter.

What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted and their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stock ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had their doors shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston Tea Party.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience but steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.

Come along with favorite Sesame Street characters in celebrating grocery store workers. From helping guests find what they need to putting things on shelves, grocery store workers are important community helpers.

About the Sesame Street (R) Loves Community Helpers series:

Community helpers are everywhere! Celebrate the people who make our communities safe and healthy with these beginner introductions. Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and others explore this core curriculum with the signature charm and fun of the Muppets from Sesame Street.

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Are you a budding online entrepreneur with big dreams? Are you tired of your generic storefront and longing for a professional makeover? Do you need a patient and experienced guide to help you unravel the complexities of client engagement in the digital realm?

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Introducing Shopify Made Easy - Build Your Shopify Brand, a treasure trove of down-to-earth instructions designed to demystify the process of making your mark in the global economy. With thousands of illustrations, Veronica Jeans leaves no room for guesswork as she presents fundamental principles and one-of-a-kind advice to enhance the look and feel of your business. By following these practical steps, you'll eliminate the confusion and uncertainty of product promotion, propelling yourself toward a profitable tomorrow.

Inside Shopify Made Easy - Build Your Shopify Brand, you'll discover:

• Detailed guidance on adding logos, images, and even videos to captivate your buyers.
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Shopify Made Easy - Build Your Shopify Brand is the definitive resource for mastering your web store, and it is the second installment in Shopify Made Easy series. If you crave straightforward lessons, wish to avoid costly mistakes, and desire to seamlessly merge form and function, Veronica Jeans' blueprint to profit is exactly what you need.

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SUGAR - a carbohydrate or toxic chemical; an excuse for obesity or the cause; much maligned or a natural ingredient? If nothing else, sugar triggers controversy, blame and myths on a global scale...and everyone seems to have an opinion, informed or otherwise. The Internet and the media are alight with articles citing added sugar as the leading cause of every disease and social ill from cancer to juvenile delinquency.How can this be true when per capita sugar consumption has been falling for the past forty years in most developed countries and has only increased slightly in the US? It is wrong to blame sugar for our ills; we need to find the real culprits.In this far-reaching and wide-ranging book Jonathan Kingsman, a 37-year sugar-industry veteran, dispels many myths, both about sugar and about how commodity markets work. He looks carefully at human rights, environment sustainability, speculation, food prices, commodity trading, market manipulation, government intervention and health. He provides some surprising conclusions.Anyone who is interested in how their food is produced and how it arrives on their plate, or into their cereal bowl will enjoy this book.With contributions from, or interviews with: -Isara Vongkusolkit, Chairman of Mitr Phol Sugar Group-Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder and CEO of Olam International Limited -Robert Kuok, Sugar King of Asia and international businessman -Chris Mahoney, Director of the Agricultural at Glencore International PLC -Greg Page, Executive Chairman of Cargill Inc.-Ralph Potter, Mentor to the sugar trade -Luc Tappy, Professor of Physiology at the University of Lausanne-Sven Sielhorst, Co-ordinator of the Sugarcane Programme at Solidaridad

There is no mountain anywhere; every man's ignorance is his mountain. Your status quo is a direct indication of the information you have hitherto accessed. Are you looking to supplement your current income? Perhaps you want to start out a business with a ridiculously low capital at hand. Could it be that you are in a frantic search for financial independence? Well, look no further You hold in your hands a key to unlock one of the most profitable businesses in this century. Welcome to the _world of importation_. People have over time, overlooked and underrated this wellspring of uncapped earning. They have ignorantly looked on while hundreds of multi-million dollar companies have emerged from the exploitation of the importation business model. In this book, Stephen Akintayo, Africa's most sought-after personal finance coach, offers to be your guide and mentor as he unveils to you the benign and unfeigned truths about importation. Whatever your financial goals, Stephen's insights as to how this business works will be timely and timeless for you. Life is an adventure in opportunities; here comes a proven unique, opportunity knocking on your door.

More than 50% of small businesses fail in their first four years. At the same time, the lifespan of large companies is shrinking. Markets are facing unprecedented disruption. But contrary to popular belief, the Digital Revolution is opening up more, not fewer, areas for companies to serve customer needs profitably.

The New Invisible Hand presents a framework for thriving in this new digital world. Inside the book you'll learn how:

* Five technological revolutions (reintermediation, monetization, transparency, channel, and data) are shaping markets, industries, and individual companies
* With the right framework, companies can take advantage of new opportunities and react to competitive threats
* Conventional wisdom about middlemen, price transparency, and monetization models is mistaken
* Innovative companies are seizing the opportunity to better solve their customers' needs

This book is for you if you've ever struggled to understand how your company should react to different competitive threats enabled by changing technology. You'll learn how five technological revolutions are upturning entire industries and determining new winners and losers in the marketplace.

The revolutions of reintermediation, monetization, transparency, channel, and data are the forces that determine who gets what, when, where, how... and at what price. For companies, this represents heretofore unseen levels of peril, but also promise. For customers, this represents an intensified battle to serve their needs best.

While we cannot control these five revolutions, we can choose to see our reality as one of opportunity, rather than crisis. Good companies can survive despite them. Great companies can thrive because of them.

The New Invisible Hand features many companies that are doing just that.

**

The New Invisible Hand is essential reading, full of great content for understanding how to succeed in the economy of today and tomorrow. Kyle T. Westra has done an outstanding job.
- Mitch Golub, founder and former president, Cars.com

Kyle T. Westra's work is a must-read for any executive who wants to grasp the challenges and opportunities of the digital economy.
- Reuben Jeffery III, former CEO of Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc., and former U.S. under secretary of state

The New Invisible Hand persuasively demonstrates how digital disruption is an opportunity for companies to serve customers better.
- Scott Case, founding CTO, Priceline, and co-founder and president, Upside Travel

Kyle T. Westra has written an amazing piece, providing a framework for understanding the technological revolutions disrupting entire industries.
- Tanvi Paharia, senior manager, global strategic pricing, Starbucks

The Only Dropshipping Guide You'll Ever Need To Make Serious Money On Shopify.

Dropshipping has seen a rise in recent years and has steadily grown in popularity. What other business model allows you to sell products without holding inventory or taking risks with large quantities of products up front?

That's what dropshipping is. Coupled with the low cost and convenience of setting up a Shopify store, we can easily see why business amateurs gravitate towards dropshipping.

The problem is amateurs often get excited by all the possibilities and fall prey to scammers and hucksters promising them untold sums of cash, only if they buy this course or pay for this software

In this dropshipping box set created and designed with beginners in mind, Brett Standard bundles together two of his best-selling books on Dropshipping and Shopify. You're going to be taken by the hand and shown step-by-step how to create and grow your own dropshipping empire.

This bundle contains the following two guides:

1. Dropshipping: A Beginner's Guide to Making Money Online
2. Shopify: Step-by-step Guide On How To Make Money Online

And here are samples of what you're going to learn in this powerful guide:

• How the dropshipping model really works
• Why dropshipping is the perfect, least expensive way to really learn about business
• Why Shopify is the best dropshipping platform for your fledgling business
• Top Shopify apps you need to ensure your store is profitable from the get-go
• Step-by-step instructions on how to build your first profitable Shopify store.
• Different Shopify plans and how to choose the one best suitable for your needs
• Six ways to find a profitable, less-competitive niche
• How to find reliable, superstar suppliers
• How to find a goldmine product that will skyrocket your revenue
• How to takes care of permits, licenses and other legal aspects of dropshipping
• Choosing the best sales platform for your business
• How to get initial traction and first sales
• Fundamental strategies to ensure your store always have orders coming in.
• Advanced tactics to scale your business to five-, six-figure months.
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The sneaker world is now a $1 billion business. You too can cash in on the resale market. In this volume, we discover the world of sneaker terminology, how to get started in the basic method, how to build your inventory, how to price, some cautionary tales and much much more.

Epic in sweep and reach, strongly written and superbly researched, The American Fur Trade of the Far West is a classic if there ever was one. Its publication in 1902 made clear how much the fur trade was indissolubly connected to the history of North America.

Chittenden brought to this enduring work an appreciation of geography and a feeling for the lives and times of colorful trappers and mountain men like Manuel Lisa, William H. Ashley, the Sublette brothers, Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, and Kenneth McKenzie. He provided a comprehensive view of the fur trade that still remains sound.

Volume 1 of the Bison edition includes the organization and financing of the fur trade and a detailed history of the major American companies operating in the trans-Mississippi West to the year 1843.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.