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July

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.

Competency-Based Performance Reviews: How to Perform Employee Evaluations the Fortune 500 Way
Offers a new and more effective way to handle performance reviews and to coach your employees to emphasize the knowledge, skills, and abilities that they have and the organization needs.

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.

The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry
Revised and expanded, this second edition offers more guidance and business advice for individual wellness entrepreneurs, health product distributors, physicians, chiropractors, and other professionals in the industry.

Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors , Freelancers & Consultants 
Packed with practical advice and clear examples, find out how to:

  • Put important agreements in writing
  • Figure out how much to charge your clients
  • Work at home or at an outside office
  • 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.

MC Candy Buyers' Directory Including the Directory of Candy Brokers
Directory of confectionary, snack, candy and specialty food companies with indexing by product and brand names.

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.                                         

The Public Relations Writer’s Handbook: The Digital Age
Guide to creating basic news releases, pitch letters, biographies, media alerts, speeches, media campaign proposals, and in-house publications.

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.

April

The Concierge Manual: A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting Your Own Concierge Service and/or Lifestyle Management Company
Answers some of the biggest question about the logistics of running a concierge business such as:  How do I structure the business? How do I set up my vendor service and get commissions? How do I create an errand service and hire employees?

Do-It- Yourself Advertising & Promotion: How to Produce Great Ads, Brochures, Catalogs, Direct Mail, Web Sites, and More!
Learn how to launch your own homegrown successful advertising campaigns and new desktop publishing techniques on a limited budget.

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.

Successful Direct Marketing Methods: Interactive, Database, and Customer-Based Marketing for Digital Age
Hailed as the “bible” of direct marketing for over 30 years, this new edition updates and expands the tools and techniques needed to connect and engage customers at every point of contact.

March

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.

Understanding Foodservice Cost Control: An Operational Text for Food, Beverage, and Labor Costs
A comprehensive and practical real-world “operations manual” for understanding cost control concepts that managers use to successfully control costs and mange their operation.

February

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.

Discovering Hospitality and Tourism: The World’s Greatest Industry
Textbook format written for persons considering a career in worldwide travel- tourism- hospitality management.

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.

Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Training: A One-Stop Shop for Everyone Interested in Training, Learning, and Development
Covers in detail: understanding how people learn, designing and delivering training--and evaluating the results, training as a career and a business, using traditional and online methods of training, and more. Includes checklists, surveys, evaluation forms, recommended reading and useful websites.

Google.pedia: The Ultimate Google Resource
Learn about the hidden features of Google, just as Maps, Image search, Product Search, News, Book Search, and more.

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.

How Foundations Work: What Grantseekers Need to Know About the Many Faces of Foundations
Valuable for fund raisers as well as for those considering establishing foundations, this guide aims to provide a greater understanding of foundations—their values, grantmaking philosophies, and the principles that they follow in grantmaking decisions.

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.

December

Advanced Project Management: A Complete Guide to the Key Processes, Models and Techniques
Topics covered include: estimating timescales and budgets, moving from macro to micro planning, team building, project control, winding a project down, and emergency actions.

Bids, Tenders & Proposals: Winning Business Through Best Practice

Guide to winning services and consultancy contracts, research awards and government funding though competitive tenders.

The Complete Real Estate Encyclopedia: From AAA Tenant to Zoning Variance and Everything in Between
An alphabetically organized resource that covers almost 3500 terms, topics, laws, and concepts of real estate.

Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices: The Best Ways for a Financial Manager to Save Money
An authoritative compilation of the best strategies and techniques being used to control costs in various industries and across virtually all business functions.

Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies That Add Value and Improve Performance
Best and worst practices in creating space as a strategic tool that influences the attitude, behavior and the performance of employees.

The Telephone Interviewer’s Handbook: How to Conduct Standardized Conversations
How to collect the highest-quality telephone survey data possible, minimizing interviewer-related error, and avoiding bias.

November

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.

Creating and Maintaining a World-Class Machine Shop: A Guide to General and Titanium Machine Shop Practices
This book covers many of the manufacturing aspects involved in creating and maintaining a world-class machine shop with primary focus on machining titanium.

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.

The Complete Book of Business Plans: Simple Steps to Writing Powerful Business Plans
Provides step-by-step advice on building your business plan from the ground up and creating selling concepts, market analysis, financial presentations and management systems.  Includes 11 actual business plans to use as a reference.

Commodity Fundamentals: How to Trade the Precious Metals, Energy, Grain, and Tropical Commodity Markets
What is a futures contract? What are the major commodity exchanges, and where are they located? What are the differences between hedging and speculating? The answers and more are here in a concise no-nonsense style.

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.

101 Best Businesses for Pet Lovers: What You Need to Know About Starting and Succeeding in a Pet Business of Your Own
Startup guide for businesses such as: pet photographer, doggie daycare, professional pet sitting, dog grooming, pet masseuse, and more.

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.

September

eBay Power Seller Million Dollar Ideas: Innovative Ways to Make Your eBay Sales Soar  
Learn how to design a successful business blueprint, acquire unique and desirable merchandise, build high-traffic auctions, and target an international customer base.
 
The Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007: Creating an Improved Business Environment 
The most comprehensive and authoritative assessment of economies’ competitiveness across the globe, providing valuable insights into the policies, institutions, and factors that contribute to boosting productivity and, thus, enable sustained economic growth and long-term prosperity.

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.

August

Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs: Early Stage Funding for Long-Term Success
Provides insight into how angel investors think, how to identify their expectations, understand the investment analysis process, and advice for both angels and entrepreneurs.

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.

Instant Income: Strategies That Bring in the Cash for Small Businesses, Innovative Employees, and Occasional Entrepreneurs
Author shares how to use a unique combination of finely tuned marketing techniques, advertising campaigns, joint-venture strategies, deal-making methods, sales pitches and other strategies to bring in the cash.

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.

Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology
Contains state-of-the-art knowledge contributed by world experts in different areas of fuel cell technology.

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.

 
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