Culinary Math
Guide for understanding foodservice math and using it appropriately in the professional kitchen. Shows how to determine costs, edible portion costs, recipe costs, beverage costs, carry out purchasing, food costing, and more.
Co-op America’s National Green Pages
Directory listing thousands of green products and services and hundreds of tips for more ways to green your home, work and play.
How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business
If you study the “hidden market” for writing jobs along with the list of potential clients and the marketing techniques and pricing strategies described, you will get new ideas about services to sell and proven, effective ways to market and price them.
Office Correspondence Made Easy
A basic overview of all types of business letters, memos, e-mail, and instant messaging including grammar and punctuation information and the problems that trip up even good writers. Find out how to make every business communication you write clearer and more effective.
Pricing Strategies for Small Business
Whether you are an experienced business owner or a beginner, contractor or retailer, this book offers different approaches to pricing your product or service to help you maximize your profits, and keep your business going strong.
June
Administrative Assistant’s and Secretary’s Handbook
An updated handbook covering information and advice on record keeping, telephone usage, office machines, business letters, computer software skills, and more.
Practical Pricing for Results
A practical guide for manager and directors on how best to manage their pricing policies, strategies and practices so as to capture more fully the value they provide to their customers, and so optimize their own business’s profitability.
Professional Management of Housekeeping Operations
Comprehensive in scope, this book covers such areas as management theory, employee relations, ethics, materials planning, operational planning, facility planning, and other topics that pertain to running a successful housekeeping operation.
Succession Planning Basics
This practical easy-to-use guide will help identify strategies to find the right person for the right job and be useful for initiating organizational change.
Make sure you qualify for independent contractor tax treatment
Make the most of your tax deductions
May
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Writing Business Plans and Proposals
This guide illustrates the techniques of effective business writing, with numerous examples using the skill to write hard-hitting prose that answers essential questions and makes specific requests.
The Fact Book: Property/Casualty Insurance Facts
The almanac of the insurance industry with thousands of facts, figures, tables and graphs designed for quick and easy reference. Covers the dollars and cents of the business, factors affecting costs, losses by category, laws affecting motorists, premiums by line and much more.
Plunkett’s Transportation, Supply Chain & Logistics Industry Almanac 2007
Designed to be useful with market research, strategic planning, employment searches, and financial research. Includes an overview of the transportation, supply chain and logistics field and detail on the evolution of supply chain management for the global market.
Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
An analysis of the venture capital process and guidance on: how to develop a multistage financing map, how to determine the amount of capital to raise and what to spend it on, how to devise a business plan that entices investors, how to negotiate the terms line-by-line and more.
Form Your Own Limited Liability Company
Provides instructions and forms to create an LLC in any state and how to choose an LLC name, prepare and file articles of organization, decide on the best management structure, create an operating agreement, and more.
Health Insurance For Small Employers and Their Employees 2008
Issued by the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, this publication is meant to help small employers understand their options and to provide a comparison of premium rates available in the small employer health insurance marketplace.
Managing a Construction Firm on Just 24 Hours a Day
An in-depth, hands-on guide for day-to-day business contracting that delivers best practices for improving and expanding your business, time-saving business tactics, forms to help stay organized, and examples of effective reports and management information.
The Corporate Records Handbook: Meeting, Minutes & Resolutions
Because meeting minutes are the primary paper trail of a corporation’s legal life, it’s important to know when and how to prepare them. This handbook provides all the answers, instructions and forms you need to get the job done.
Dealing With Problem Employees: A Legal Guide
Another fine Nolo Press guide that provides techniques for dealing with problem employees. Find out how to recognize them, get them back on track, investigate complaints, use mediation, institute effective policies and procedures, and how to avoid hiring problem employees in the future.
EBay Power Seller Secrets: Insider Tips from eBay’s Most Successful Sellers
This second edition is packed with up-to-date guidance in effectively running an eBay store, selling and shipping internationally, finding little-known sources for products, advertising your wares, managing inventory, collecting payments, keeping records and more.
Masonry Skills
Updated with very latest developments in the masonry trade, the book starts by introducing basic work principles and progresses to advanced work using new masonry technology and concepts.
Public Relations Made Easy
An Entrepreneur Magazine publication, this guide offers the secrets to snagging media attention and how to stir up interest in your business and its products or services.
The Best Undergraduate B-Schools: Exclusive Profiles of 121 Business Programs
Based on BusinessWeek’s rating system, this guide provides job stats and salaries of recent grads, the cost of tuition, books, food, etc., the best schools for overachievers, slackers, and strong test-takers, and the SAT and ACT scores schools and looking for.
Editor & Publisher Market Guide
An annual publication covering the newspaper industry with detailed metro market information. Data includes 2008 estimates of census data. Unique combination of demographic data, metro economic profiles, and market rankings.
101 Mission Statements From Top Companies: Plus Guidelines for Writing Your Own Mission Statement
Selected mission statements from among corporations that share a vision of excellence, including superiority in their fields, respect for and responsibility toward employees and clients, dedication to stated business goals, and community-oriented values. Instructs the new entrepreneur in crafting a mission statement that will inspire, motivate, and meet the specific aspirations of any organization.
January
Gaining
Control: Managing Capacity & Priorities
Provides best practices for optimizing control of manufacturing
processes to meet business objectives. An easy-to-read resource
that offers real solutions and proven methodologies for achieving
measurable improvements in effectiveness and employee engagement
and morale.
Guide
to Sales and Use Taxes
This annual handbook explains the major features of the sales and
use taxes imposed by 46 states and the District of Columbia to
aid users in understanding the requirements of theses taxes and
assist in dealing with tax compliance problems.
The
Handbook of Model Job Descriptions
Source of over 200 job descriptions based on actual jobs and selections
of hundreds of job elements to enable quick and easy assembly and
personalization of any job description.
Mail
and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method
Definitive guide for creating and conducting successful surveys using
traditional and new media channels. Includes directions for how
to conduct web surveys, visually design questionnaires, and use
paper mailed surveys.
The
Team Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace
Teams
Completely updated and expanded, this popular resource on team building
provides guidance on how to: have effective team meetings, improve
accountability, assess performance, resolve conflicts, recognize
pitfalls, and more.
Brush
with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning
A history of lead poisoning focusing on three primary modes of exposure: occupational,
pediatric, and environmental and the regulatory mechanisms, medical technologies,
and epidemiological tools that arose in response.
The
Encyclopedia of Wood
Prepared by the Forest Products Laboratory, this volume comprehensively
covers the structure, properties, and preservation of wood—an
essential resource for builders, architects, engineers and woodworkers.
Hybrid
and Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Covers the theory, diagnosis, and repair information that service
technicians and automotive technology students need to know in
order to safely and effectively service these vehicles.
Patent
Searching: Tools & Techniques
Details the methods used in the art of professional patent searching,
the current tools to accomplish that task, and approaches for reporting
that information.
Wiring
Regulations in Brief
The requirements of the IEE Regulations, BS7671:2001 and approved
Document P and related standards are presented in an informal easy-to-read
style that strips away confusion.
October
Building
Construction: Principles, Materials, and Systems
An accessible resource that presents the complexities of building science as
applied to the art of transforming materials and systems into constructible buildings.
An exhaustive work, it uses text and concepts and detailed drawings to convey
construction assembly techniques, theory, and technology inherent in architecture.
Landscape
Estimating Methods
Published by R.S. Means, this guide provides detailed information
for landscape contractors, designers, and facilities maintenance
staff on estimating, bidding, scheduling, and team coordination
of landscape construction and maintenance jobs.
Strategic
Human Resource Management
Guide to the new discipline of Strategic Human Resource Management
which is based on the recognition that organizations can be more
effective if their human resources are managed with policies and
practices that deliver the right number of people with appropriate
behaviors, the needed competencies, and the feasible levels of
motivation to the organization.
How to Break Software: A Practical
Guide to Testing
Demonstrates attacks you can use to find bugs in your own software
at three vulnerable places: the user interface, the file system
interface, and the operating system interface.
How to Start a Home-Based Personal
Chef Business
Through plain language and easy-to-follow worksheets, the author
takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving
home-based personal chef business, from estimating your start-up
costs and finding clients to cooking for special needs and staying
profitable.
McGraw-Hills’s
National Electrical Safety Code 2007 Handbook
A rule-by-rule annotation of the NESC™ that clarifies the
often confusing Code text covering installation, operation, and
maintenance of electrical supply stations and equipment, as well
as overhead and underground electric supply and communication lines.
Wall Street Lingo
Extensive compilation of Wall Street terms and definitions that will
be useful for novice investors and experienced financial professionals.
How to Start a Business in Wisconsin
Second edition of a handy guidebook that provides current state and
federal startup information, statistics, financial management,
sales and marketing tips, licensing information and sources of
assistance.
Mechanical
Engineers’ Handbook
Third edition is expanded into four volumes: Materials and Mechanical
Design; Instrumentation, Systems, Controls, and MEMS; Manufacturing
and Management; and Energy and Power.
Selling
Graphic and Web Design
Revised edition includes new chapters on ethical business conduct,
branding, trademarks, strategic partnerships, online content management,
and marketing Web sites.
New
Acquisitions
