Most Popular Books by J. Brooks

LARCH fills the need for a low cost, heavily illustrated, introductory, interactive course book to supplement lectures and technical reference books. It does not assume that the reader is already familiar with the material, as most technical references do, and offers a combination of scope, value, and unique interactivity. LARCH is a media-rich delivery system for all kinds of examples and illustrations of the technical aspects of landscape architecture. From Eratosthenes to Descartes to Robert Manning, from hard-core number-crunching calculations to humorous images of where and how we park our cars, LARCH takes the reader through an interactive exploration of the profession's technical side in a way that no regular textbook can possibly do. For Landscape Architects and Architects as reference and for review for professional Licensure examinations. LARCH covers much of the material covered on both the L.A.R.E. and N.C.A.R.B. examinations.

This book prepares the reader to work in the residential security and surveillance business. It includes information on installing and configuring residential security systems, including a wide array of sensors and alarms. It also covers residential surveillance systems and their integration into the security and network systems.

Angeline Porter comes out of hiding on the island of Kauai when she discovers a sister she didn't know she had. The sister may or may not be part of the extortionist mob that was responsible for her other sister's suicide.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, 6E, International Edition delivers an insider's look at actual companies in the face of a wide range of ethical dilemmas. By integrating the latest information on ethics and governance scandals, legal liability and professional accounting & audit issues, this text highlights the most recent ethical issues faced in today's business environment. Providing real-world examples of ethical issues in the workplace, this accounting text gives you insight into the development of sound patterns of behavior on the part of directors, executives, and accountants. Current cases and key readings provide an interesting, challenging, and practical learning experience.

He'll go to any lengths to protect me. Even murder.He's a beast. An executioner with a smile everyone trusts and the looks to match.When I learned his secret, he took me.Now I'm his plaything. The woman who could bring him down, but instead he's bringing me to my knees.His angelic eyes hold deep, dark secrets. And I know them all.He'll never let me go, but part of me doesn't want him to.My brain keeps telling me what we're doing is wrong, but my body says it's deliciously dangerous. I want more.I know Hunter will keep me safe, but that doesn't mean I can trust him.He's still the madman that took me. Except I've enjoyed being taken. I want more than Hunter's body now, I want his heart. But can something so dark ever be loved?This is the final of two exciting romance novels in the "Possessing Her"-Series with a guaranteed HEA that will make your heart melt! Inlcuding a preview of "Damaged Love". Happy reading! - Sarah J. Brooks - USA Today Bestselling Author

My first love is back in our small town. Surprise: He’s my new boss. And after a wild night in his office, he’s also the father of our unborn child – Should I tell him? Dear Universe, What exactly are you trying to tell me? Apparently it’s not enough that Robert broke my heart years ago. You send him straight back to our small town and allow him to be my new boss. Just when I thought I was over him! It took me so many days (and even more nights) to bury everything good about him in a deep, black hole. His electrifying charisma, his irresistible smile, and especially all the moments when I believed in our happily ever after. But when he left me without a word, I learned that he can be as cold and closed up as he can be adorable. And now, all of a sudden, I’m thrown back in time. The wild kisses from the past, the familiar feeling between us – Is it fake or real? But then I discover the secret reason why he left me all these years ago. And Robert’s dark past is about to jeopardize everything I ever dreamed of...

Building my grave.

Includes practice exercises in money making projects, reading directions, reading TV guide, traveling, making graphs, etc.

“Jeremy Wyatt is the biggest playboy you’ll ever meet. He’s a great attorney and a decent friend, but he’s an ass to women. He’s all about the conquest, and then he loses interest. You’re too good for a guy like him. And I don’t want to have to break his arms for messing with you. You’re young, Lena. And a little naive. A man like Jeremy would eat you up and spit you out.” My big brother’s words should have been enough of a warning. He knows his business partner very well. But Jeremy is the most gorgeous specimen of masculinity I’ve ever encountered. You have to be dead or unconscious not to feel a twinge in your lady bits at the sight of him... Full lips, dazzling blue eyes, and broad, muscular shoulders. Plus, he’s witty, intelligent and charming. And more importantly, we simply clicked. At least that’s what I thought – until my brother’s warning turned out to be spot on. And my heart was shattered into a thousand pieces. Since then, I’ve set up a new rule for my life: I will never be taken in by a pretty face and smooth words again. From now on, I officially hate Jeremy Wyatt. Which is kind of complicated, because he turns out be my new boss. And it doesn’t take long until the butterflies are back again. I want to forget all about him and move on. But now I have to handle Jeremy daily without gouging his eyes out. Sometimes he asks me to stay in his office for overtime. That’s when I break my new rule. Again. And again. A few weeks later, morning sickness tells me that the unthinkable has happened. Is now a good time to tell Jeremy and my brother that I’m carrying a secret surprise?

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We examine this in the context of China and India -- two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor "markdowns", i.e., the gap between wage and the value of the marginal product of labor, and the screen examines how they comove with local labor market share and the share of cooperating firms. Applying this test, we find that markdowns substantially lower the labor share: by up to 10 percentage points in China and 15 percentage points in India. This impact has fallen over time in both countries as firm concentration in these labor markets has decreased.

"Unleash the power of real estate investing without the property hassles! Are you tired of earning measly interest rates on your hard-earned cash while inflation eats away at your savings? With interest rates at historic lows, traditional savings accounts and money market funds are offering laughably low returns, leaving you struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living. But what if there was a way to generate passive income without the hassles of property ownership or management? Discover a smarter way to grow your wealth and secure your financial future with "REIT Investing 101" by esteemed financial expert William J. Brooks. In this transformative book, William demystifies the world of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)--the little-known investment gems that can supercharge your income without the burdens of direct property ownership. Why settle for pennies when you can earn dollars? With REITs, you can unlock incredible dividend yields of up to 9%, outperforming the paltry returns offered by banks and other investments. Imagine earning $1,000 or more per month without the headaches of direct property ownership. With straightforward language and no-nonsense advice, "REIT Investing 101" empowers you to make sound investment decisions, regardless of your financial background. No MBA required! Unlock the secrets of billionaire investors like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and George Soros, who have long praised REITs as a cornerstone of their portfolios. Now, you can learn their insider strategies and join the ranks of successful REIT investors. Ready to take control of your financial future and build lasting wealth?"--

The John J. Brooks collection includes 33 diaries, one for each year between 1866-1898. The diaries focus on the activities of Brooks and his family as they go about the day to day tasks of running the family farm.

This article discusses the compliance risk posed to corporations by the practice of protection unionism in supply chains in Mexico. The article explains the concepts of protection unionism and "labor protection contracts," shows how the practice distorts genuine tripartism in the workplace, outlines CSR indicators of the presence of a labor protection contract in a workplace, and analyze the practice under US law, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and corporate anti-bribery compliance principles.

Industrial networks offer a prime example of the tension between system stability and change. Change is necessary as a response to environmental variation, whereas stability provides the underpinning for long-term investment and the exploitation of efficiencies. Whilst one of the key themes in industrial network research has been the dynamics of change, relatively little work, empirical or theoretical, has been devoted to the dynamics of stability. This paper presents a new approach to this problem by using Boolean networks, which were originally devised by Stuart Kauffman as an abstract model of genetic networks. The elements in the model are connected by rules of Boolean logic, and a novel aspect of this research is that the elements represent the industrial network exchanges rather than stock entities (the organizations). The model structure consists of interactions between the exchanges, and the results represent the pattern of exchange episodes. A total of 42 networks were modeled and the dynamics analyzed in detail, and five of these cases are presented in this paper. The models produced realistic behavior and provided some insights into the reasons for stability in industrial networks.

Our approach also leads to an iterative scheme for computing shape from shading that adjusts the current estimates of the local normals toward or away from the direction of the light source. The amount of adjustment is proportional to the current difference between the predicted and the observed brightness. We also develop generalizations to less constrained forms of reflectance maps."