Millions to Measure
Title | Millions to Measure PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Schwartz |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2006-05-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0060848065 |
There are millions of things to measure . . . and almost as many ways to measure them! Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is back -- and ready to explore the invention of length, weight, and volume measurements. After that, with another wave of his wand, the wizard introduces the world of metrics and makes it easy to understand the basic pattern of meters, liters, and grams. With Steven Kellogg's playful and delightfully detailed illustrations, measuring has never been such a blast!
If You Made a Million
Title | If You Made a Million PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Schwartz |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1994-11-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0688136346 |
If You Made a Million Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know! An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices Selection
Millions to Measure
Title | Millions to Measure PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Schwartz |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780439633383 |
Travel back in time to see how people measured various things. Includes metric measurement.
On the Scale, a Weighty Tale
Title | On the Scale, a Weighty Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Brian P. Cleary |
Publisher | Lerner Digital ™ |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512478784 |
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! In this wacky look at weight, Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable introduce essential measurement units—from grams to pounds to tons. The comical cats of the wildly popular Words Are CATegorical® series show how to measure trucks, trains, ducks, cranes, and more. Peppy rhymes, goofy illustrations, and kid-friendly examples make light work of this heavy topic.
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Title | How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Clayton M. Christensen |
Publisher | Harvard Business Review Press |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2017-01-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1633692574 |
In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Million-Dollar Hire
Title | Million-Dollar Hire PDF eBook |
Author | David P. Jones |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2011-02-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1118017528 |
Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment, companies no longer have room to get it wrong. Million-Dollar Hire shows how leading companies have re-invented themselves, beat their competition, and added millions to their bottom lines with re-engineered recruiting and hiring practices. Using practical, real world illustrations, it shows that there are tools to treat every hiring decision with the same focus a business applies in acquiring other high-value assets. Shows how new technologies and social networking tools are being used to spider the Internet and find the best candidates before the competition Explains how different approaches to candidate screening translate to different levels of financial return to a business Reveals how to estimate the financial payoff for every hire and how to avoid legal challenges This is an invaluable tool for CEOs, CFOs, COOs and HR professionals who want to revamp what is often one of the least sophisticated parts of a business-the ways it finds talent.
How Much Is a Million?
Title | How Much Is a Million? PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Schwartz |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1985-05-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0688040497 |
This book reveals how big a bowl would be needed to hold a million goldfish, or how many years it would take to count to a million.