The Signs Were There

Author: Tim Steer
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782834621
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
When companies suffer a dramatic even catastrophic drop in their share price, it is the investors who lose their shirts and employees their jobs. But often, a company's published accounts offer clues to impending disaster, providing you know where to look. Through the forensic examination of more than 20 recent stock market disasters, Tim Steer reveals how companies hide or disguise worrying facts about the robustness of their business. In his lively style, he looks at the themes that underlie the ways companies hide the truth and he stresses that in an assessment of a company's accounts, investors should always bear in mind that the only fact is cash; everything else - profit, assets, etc - is a matter of opinion. Full of invaluable lessons for investors, the book concludes with some trenchant observations on what is wrong in the worlds of investment, audit and financial regulation, and what changes should be introduced.

Verse by the Side of the Road

Author: Frank Rowsome, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452267625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
"In the fall of 1925, young Allan Odell conceived the idea of using consecutive signs along the roadside. . . . In 1963 the last signs were taken down, ending the most famous outdoor advertising venture ever.”—1977 Minnesota Almanac The whole story is in this book, plus all the jingles used. The signs are gone now, except for one set on permanent display at The Smithsonian. You can have them all, always, in your own library with this book. “Rowsome’s volume indexes each of the 600 jingles . . . and as you down the list, preferably reading aloud, it might evoke visions of 1940 Chevies, roadside diners, signs that said EATS. . . . Why were the Burma-Shave jingles so universally loved? Because they were light-hearted and humorous in hard times and war times.”—Bov Swift, Knight News Service

Signs

Author: Laura Lynne Jackson
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0399591591
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
"Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift--the ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed, convey messages of love and healing, and impart a greater understanding of our interconnectedness. Though her abilities are exceptional, they are not unique, and that is the message at the core of this book. Understanding "the secret language of the universe" is a gift available to all. As we learn to ask for and recognize signs from the other side, we will start to find meaning where before there was only confusion, we will see light in the darkness. We may decide to change paths, push toward love, pursue joy, and engage with life in a whole new way. In Signs, Jackson is able to bring the mystical into the everyday. She relates stories of people who have experienced these uncanny revelations and instances of unexplained synchronicity, as well as those drawn from her own experience. There's the producer whose lost child appears to her as a deer that approaches her unhesitatingly at a highway rest stop; the name tag of an ER nurse that lets a terrified wife know that her husband will be okay; the Elvis Presley song that arrives at the exact time of her own father's passing; and many others. This is a book that is both inspiring and practical, deeply comforting and wonderfully motivational in asking us to see beyond ourselves to a more magnificent universal design"--

Signs Point to Yes

Author: Sandy Hall
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250066018
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Jane, a superstitious fangirl, takes an anonymous babysitting job to avoid an unpaid internship with her college-obsessed mom. The only problem? She's babysitting the siblings of her childhood friend and new crush, Teo. Teo doesn't dislike Jane, but his best friend Ravi hates her, and is determined to keep them apart. So Teo's pretty sure his plans for a peaceful summer are shot. His only hope is that his intermittent search for his birth father will finally pan out and he'll find a new, less awkward home. Meanwhile, at Jane's house, her sister Margo wants to come out as bisexual, but she's terrified of how her parents will react. In a summer filled with secrets and questions, even Jane's Magic 8 ball can't give them clear answers, but Signs Point to Yes.

What the Signs Say

Author: Shonna Trinch
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826522793
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Although we may not think we notice them, storefronts and their signage are meaningful, and the impact they have on people is significant. What the Signs Say argues that the public language of storefronts is a key component to the creation of the place known as Brooklyn, New York. Using a sample of more than two thousand storefronts and over a decade of ethnographic observation and interviews, the study charts two very different types of local Brooklyn retail signage. The unique and consistent features of many words, large lettering, and repetition that make up Old School signage both mark and produce an inclusive and open place. In contrast, the linguistic elements of New School signage, such as brevity and wordplay, signal not only the arrival of gentrification, but also the remaking of Brooklyn as distinctive and exclusive. Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr, a sociolinguist and an anthropologist respectively, show how the beliefs and ideas that people take as truths about language and its speakers are deployed in these different sign types. They also present in-depth ethnographic case studies that reveal how gentrification and corporate redevelopment in Brooklyn are intimately connected to public communication, literacy practices, the transformation of motherhood and gender roles, notions of historical preservation, urban planning, and systems of privilege. Far from peripheral or irrelevant, shop signs say loud and clear that language displayed in public always matters.

Signs and Wonders

Author: Tama Starr
Publisher: Currency
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
"Coauthored by the third-generation owner of Artkraft Strauss, the century-old company that built most of Times Square's landmark displays," this book details the history of "spectaculars," the giant animated signs best exemplified in Times Square.

The First Signs

Author: Genevieve von Petzinger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476785503
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
"Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geometric images that accompany them. She offers her research on the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now"--

Yet You Married Him: The Signs Are Always There

Author: Phindile Yende
Publisher: Phindile Yende
ISBN: 9780620821148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Often times the burden we carry as women derives from the erroneous decisions taken when choosing our lifetime partners. The connection we make with these men leads us to believing that we have found our "perfect match" or soul mate! Then without hesitation, we disregard contemplating or the urge to seek guidance through giving ourselves time to know what the "perfect match" is all about nor who he really is. "Bear in mind that not every women has put proper thought and deliberation prior to sealing God's union and covenant which is meant to never be broken." Genesis 2:18 - "Then the Lord said 'it is not good for man to be alone, I will make him a helper suitable for him" Then the man said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" Publisher's description.

My First Animal Signs

Author:
Publisher: Baby Signing
ISBN: 9781846430114
Category : American Sign Language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Illustrations of babies and toddlers demonstrate forty-eight signs from American Sign Language for both wild and domestic animals. On board pages.

The Signs of Our Times Collection

Author: Michael Sawdy
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781794336575
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
2 BOOKS - 24 CHAPTERS - OVER 40 SIGNS... THE SIGNS OF OUR TIMES - HOW IS OUR GENERATION SO DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER THAT CAME BEFORE US? THIS BOOK EXPLAINS BY DELVING DEEP INTO 12 SIGNS, WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVE TO OUR GENERATION. BELIEVERS, AND NON-BELIEVERS ALIKE, WILL LIFT UP THEIR EYES TO THE SKY AFTER READING THE CAPTIVATING INFORMATION, LIFE-CHANGING MESSAGES, AND AMAZING REVELATIONS THAT ARE CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK. PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST'S RETURN STRENGTHENED MORE THAN EVER BEFORE! EVEN MORE SIGNS OF OUR TIMES - IN THIS SEQUEL TO THE AMAZON BEST SELLER, READ ABOUT MORE "SIGNS OF OUR TIMES"... COUPLED WITH THE PREVIOUS 12 SIGNS, THOSE FOUND IN THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE NO DOUBT THAT OUR GENERATION HAS WITNESSED THE FULFILLMENT OF "LAST DAYS" BIBLE PROPHECY MORE SO THAN ANY OTHER SINCE CHRIST ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE NOT YET A BELIEVER IN THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF "THE RAPTURE," AFTER READING THIS BOOK - YOU WILL BE! THESE BOOKS ARE THE WAKE-UP CALL THAT THE CHURCH DESPERATELY NEEDS!