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How to Prepare a Business Plan
Call No. 658.4012 B632h 2005
The first step in staring up a business is to draw up a detailed plan. Most providers of finance for startups or expansion insist on seeing a business plan before they will even consider the funding. It is also necessary for all entrepreneurs to clarify their aims and objectives, and a plan is a good way of achieving this. A business plan is essential as it provides a blueprint for the future of a company and a benchmark against which to measure growth.
This fully updated edition of the best-selling How to Prepare a Business Plan explains the whole process in everyday terms, including:
1. writing the plan;
2. producing cash-flow forecasts;
3. planning the borrowing;
4. expanding the business.
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Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition
Call No. 306.81 S342p 2004
Reading & Writing Chinese has been the best-selling standard reference text for foreign students and teachers of Chinese for the last 25 years. Now completely revised with modern (simplified) characters, it draws on the lessons learned from the use of the book in classrooms to provide a convenient and up to date introduction to the Chinese writing system. Materials are organized in units of progressive difficulty and complexity, with clear definitions of the individual characters presented in a logical and systematical sequence.
For each of the basic 1,067 characters, the pronunciation and core meanings are given, along with examples of its use in common compounds and a stroke-order diagram showing how to write it correctly. Memorization tips and cross-references to look-alike characters are also provided. Charts of modern and traditional radicals, necessary to look up words in comprehensive Chinese dictionaries, are printed inside the front and back covers.
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Music in Brazil : experiencing music, expressing culture.
Call No. 781.640981 M978m 2006
Music in Brazil is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present.
As the largest nation in Latin America, Brazil is home to some of the most celebrated music in the world. Music in Brazil covers a wide spectrum of this music, including samba, bossa nova, Tropicalia, and MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira); regional traditional and popular music; Brazilian rock, rap, and electronica; and such genres as sertaneja (similar to country-and-western music) and brega (sentimental pop).
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Nobodies to Somebodies:
How 100 great careers got their start
Call No. 658.4092 H233n 2005
"Nobodies to Somebodies" looks at the early career development of leaders from varied walks of life. Focusing on 100 leaders and their first jobs out of college or graduate school, the book delves into the stories behind the scenes, the ones overlooked by flashier magazine profiles or biographies. It describes that exciting period when these well-celebrated people were lesser known, when they were young, anonymous, and struggling for their big breaks, like the rest of us.
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