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The second edition of STP Mathematics for Jamaica provides comprehensive coverage of the National Standards Curriculum. Maintaining its rigorous and authoritative approach, the course uses modern methods to develop problem-solving skills. It prepares students for a high level of achievement in Lower Secondary Mathematics and lays a solid foundation for study at CSEC level. It encourages students to make synoptic links with carefully graded practice questions and varied activities to stretch and challenge comprehension. The course stimulates all levels of ability with investigations, puzzles, and worked examples to illustrate and extend all topics. Written by a team of experts in mathematics education, this curriculum-aligned course fully supports the syllabus in Jamaica.

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This is a major revision of Michael Baker's ""Marketing Strategy and Management"". Retaining its in-depth and analytical approach, the third edition pays particular attention to the implementation of strategy in practice, including the business to business, service, international and social and public sectors. This edition has been re-organised to reflect experiences from its use in teaching. This includes a new Part II, The Marketing Appreciation, which contains material on market research, macro-environmental analysis, customer, competitor and internal analysis. There are three new chapters including Industry and Competitive Analysis, and Current Issues and Trends and more substantial coverage of service industries and new technology.

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MICHAEL J.BAKER was Professor of Marketing at the University of Strathclyde until his retirement in August 1999 where he was Head of the Department of Marketing from its inception in 1971 until 1988. He has also held positions as Dean of the School of Business Administration at Strathclyde, Chairman of the Institute of Marketing and Governor of the CAM foundation. He was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management.

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This selection of Frost's poetry contains forty poems spanning his early and mature collections including choices from ""A Boy's Will"", ""North of Boston"", ""West-Running Brook"", ""A Further Range"", and ""In the Clearing"". This edition has comprehensive notes on the poems and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques within the poetry, such as Frost's pastoral imagery, his friendship with Edward Thomas, and his narrative and lyric voices.

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For courses in strategy and strategic management.

Core strategic management concepts without the excess.

Just the essentials-Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage strips out excess by only presenting material that answers the question: does this concept help students analyze real business situations? This carefully crafted approach provides students with all the tools necessary for strategic analysis.

The third edition continues to be integrated around the highly successful VRIO framework while incorporating an entire chapter devoted to international management.

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This ever popular four-book series Brighter Grammar helps students understand the key points of English grammar, using only essential technical terms. Graded exercises allow teachers to monitor development, and lively illustrations enhance the text and retain the students' intrest.

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The ""Caribbean Language Arts Project"" has been devised, piloted and thoroughly tested in primary schools by the Curriculum and Materials Development Unit of the St Lucia Ministry of Education. The course takes the child through the three distinct, but interrelated, elements of language learning: oral communication (listening and speaking), reading and writing. The main content in all the books is drawn from the everyday lives of the children with great use made of people, objects and scenes in the immediate environment.

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Strategic Management: Text and Cases, 3rd Edition, by Dess/Lumpkin/Eisner is both readable and rigorous- written for today's student. A rocket-ship in its first editions, this revision continues to provide solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management, as well as contemporary topics like entrepreneurship, innovation, knowledge management, and internet strategies. The prestigious author team understands the importance of thorough, modern concepts illustrated by rich, relevant, and teachable cases. The new case selections emphasize variety, currency, and familiar company names. The cases are up-to-date in terms of both financial data and strategic issues. This group of cases gives both instructors and students unparalleled quality and variety. Based on consistent reviewer feedback, these selections combine comprehensive and shorter length cases about well known companies.

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Gregory G. Dess is the Andrew R. Cecil Endowed Chair in Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His primary research interests are in strategic management, organizationenvironment relationships, and knowledge management. He has published numerous articles on these subjects in both academic and practitioneroriented journals. He also serves on the editorial boards of a wide range of practitioner-oriented and academic journals. In August 2000, he was inducted into the Academy of Management Journal s Hall of Fame as one of its charter members. Professor Dess has conducted executive programs in the United States, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia. During 1994 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Oporto, Portugal. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Washington(Seattle) and a BIE degree from Georgia Tech. G. T. (Tom) Lumpkin is the Chris J. Witting Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University in New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse, Tom was the Kent Hance Regents Endowed Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Texas Tech University. His research interests include entrepreneurial orientation, opportunity recognition, strategy-making processes, social entrepreneurship, and innovative forms of organizing work. He has published numerous research articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. He is a member of the editorial review boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and the Journal of Business Venturing. He received his PhD in management from the University of Texas at Arlington and MBA from the University of Southern California. Alan B. Eisner is Professor of Management and Department Chair, Management and Management Science Department, at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University. He received his PhD in management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. His primary research interests are in strategic management, technology management, organizational learning, and managerial decision making. He has published research articles and cases in journals such as Advances in Strategic Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Technology Management, American Business Review, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, and Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies. He is the former Associate Editor of the Case Associations peer reviewed journal, The CASE Journal.