Best Selling Books by James McDonald

Upon a simple, ordinary piece of paper live the Scribbles. Not your ordinary bunch of squiggly lines, but something more. In the hands of a child the scribbles become everything imaginable.

It's Saint Patrick's Day, and Wilford has an important lesson to learn with help from his best friend Blue. Goofy, games, and sharing shamrocks with friends are just some of the celebrations in this funny animal book for young children about Saint Patrick's Day. Wilford decides that sneaking up and startling friends on the farm is a fun way to celebrate Saint Paddy's Day. With help from his best buddy Blue, it doesn't take long for Wilford to understand that having fun at the expense of someone else isn't very nice and can come with consequences.It's Saint Patrick's Day at the farm and Farmer McDonald is ready to decorate. He starts with a nice green bow for his favorite sheep, Wilford. What Farmer McDonald doesn't realize is the chain of events set off by the fun of wearing green on this favorite holiday.

When factory workers fall victim to horrifying accidents in Japan's oldest coat hanger factory, all fingers point at Hiroki Hiroto, the company's owner, and corporate pariah. Behind closed doors, his board stages an illegal coup to take over his business while factory workers call for his blood. His incredible wealth and powerful family connections will not save him from this fait accompli. While his company is under investigation for sabotage and on the verge of collapse, he suffers a major heart attack, and his wife and family abandon him while he fights for his life. After a heart transplant operation in a Hawaiian hospital, the donor's troublesome spirit begins taking over his life and down a slippery path; he does not want to go. Coat Hanger Empire is a tale of absolute power, blind greed, and a cry for justice with more hooks and turns than the coat hangers it makes.

Although food processing sector production is inherently linked to the availability and prices of agricultural materials (MA), this link appears to be weakening due to adaptations in input costs, technology, and food consumption patterns. This study assesses the roles of these changes on food processors costs and output prices, with a focus on the demand for primary agricultural commodities. Our analysis of the 4-digit U.S. food processing industries for 1972-1992 is based on a cost-function framework, augmented by a profit maximization specification of output pricing, and a virtual price representation for agricultural materials and capital. We find that falling virtual prices of MA and input substitution have provided a stimulus for MA demand. However, scale effects have been MA-saving relative to intermediate food products, and disembodied technical change has strongly contributed to declining primary agricultural materials demand relative to most other inputs.

This paper explores the ability of some popular income distributions to model observed skewness and kurtosis. We present the generalized beta type 1 (GB1) and type 2 (GB2) distributions' skewness-kurtosis spaces and clarify and expand on previously known results on other distributions' skewness-kurtosis spaces. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to estimate sample moments and explore the ability of the generalized gamma, Dagum, Singh-Maddala, beta of the first kind, beta of the second kind, GB1, and GB2 distributions to accommodate the skewness and kurtosis values. The GB2 has the flexibility to accurately describe the observed skewness and kurtosis.

Shows how to create a mathematical model of a business problem, explains how they can be used to develop a solution, and looks at actual case studies