New Releases by Jim Slater

Storytelling from Boyhood and Beyond By: Jim Slater Storytelling from Boyhood and Beyond is a collection of stories relating to multiple generations of family: “a first trip from home,” “high school graduation,” “a letter from home when in Korea,” “engagement, marriage, and a lethal pancreatic cancer departure after fifty years.” Readers find themselves woven into a time they themselves lived through – or a time they were told about. Some stories invoke a chuckle or laughter – and yes, even tears.

All Shapes and Sizes is a real blockbuster of a book, taking the reader on an action-packed and wonderfully meandering journey through the history of film and television. It is a must-read for anyone who has wondered about the technology behind both the big and small screens.

A brand new edition of the classic bestseller The goal of all investors is to make the maximum possible profit from their investments. Beyond The Zulu Principle shows you how to do this by focusing on growth shares. Jim Slater believes he has discovered a major market anomaly that should enable both private and institutional investors to enjoy exceptional returns in the stockmarket. A number of important factors are crucial to successful investment. Jim Slater explains how to choose a company operating in the right sector with an advantage over its competitors. He also highlights the importance of directors'' dealings, CEO changes, relative strength, cash flow accelerating earnings, and the capacity of some companies to clone their activities. Simple but enormously effective, the guidance offered here should help readers to make stockmarket profits well beyond the market averages.

Jim Slater''s classic text brought back into print Jim Slater makes available to the investor – whether the owner of only a few shares or an experienced investment manager with a large portfolio – the secrets of his success. Central to his strategy is The Zulu Principle, the benefits of homing in on a relatively narrow area. Deftly blending anecdote and analysis, Jim Slater gives valuable selective criteria for buying dynamic growth shares, turnarounds, cyclicals, shells and leading shares. He also covers many other vitally relevant aspects of investment such as creative accounting, portfolio management, overseas markets and the investor''s relationship with his or her broker. From The Zulu Principle you will learn exactly when to buy shares and, even more important, when to sell – in essence, how to to make ''extraordinary profits from ordinary shares''.

Annotation Acknowledging that getting a handle on the new features of a development environment is difficult, the tips in this guide organize the new features of Visual FoxPro 9 into functional categories, revealing how and why to use each of them. Visual FoxPro 9 features improvements in many areas, for example, the Report Designer, which include multiple detail bands; built-in output to HTML, XML, and image files; object protection; an improved userinterface; extendible Report Designer; extendible run-time features; and GDI+ rendering.

Technical presentation of current television systems. The author offers suggestions for the future, describes the current colour television standards, discusses the impact of satellite transmission and its implications for HDTV and considers digital transmission systems.

Magic candy which causes him to shrink and the help of new animal friends make it possible for a boy called Grasshopper to save his mother''s cottage from an unscrupulous landlord.