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Designed for courses in corporate finance, this text is a detailed description of the valuation process, providing an integrated, comprehensive method for valuing assets, firms, and securities across a wide variety of industries. The presentation begins with a review of financial and accounting techniques, proceeds with a presentation of the valuation process, leading towards the development of pro-forma financial statements and the translation of these projections into values. A key strength of this text is teaching students how to use pro forma financial statements as a basis for valuation.. ..
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A rare collection of 90 antique Amish quilts for children is show-cased in this brilliantly colorful volume.

Few antique Amish crib quilts remain because they were put to hard use in large families which typically averaged seven children.

But Sara Miller of Kalona, Iowa, herself a member of the Old Order Amish, began building a collection of lovely antique crib quilts which she learned about as the proprietor of a fabric and quilt shop.

Thus began an unusual odyssey—Sara, who once disparaged the quilting tradition of her heritage, thinking it dull and drab, began to see its graphic beauty when outsiders became intent on owning Amish quilts.

The richly colorful quilts featured here come from Amish communities through the Midwestern United States.

In addition to 90 full-color plates of the exquisite quilts is interpretive commentary and documentation, plus three essays elaborating on the significance of the collection. Author Janneken Smucker descends from a line of quilters in the Amish-Mennonite community of Goshen, IN; Dr. Patricia Cox Crews is Director of the International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, NE; Dr. Linda Welters is Professor of Textiles at the University of Rhode Island.

Amish Crib Quilts from the Midwest: The Sara Miller Collection is an unusual feast visually. The analyses that accompany the boldly beautiful images contribute scholarship to this intersection of art and the life of the Amish..
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Paul and Lloyd Stark, owners of the Stark Bro’s Nursery in Missouri, were looking for the perfect apple. It would be sweet and juicy. It would bring them fame and fortune, and would be crowned Queen of the Apple World! Box after box arrived from farmers who were sure they had grown the perfect apple, but none of the apples was quite right.

Meanwhile, many miles away in the hills of West Virginia, Anderson Mullins was inspecting his new farm. It had been a hot summer and everything was dry as dust. He certainly didn’t expect to find a glossy, green-leaved tree loaded with shining yellow apples.

When the Stark brothers received Anderson Mullins’s yellow apples in the spring of 1914, they were astonished. Never had they tasted anything so crisp and delicious! Was this the apple they had been looking for? Paul Stark set out on a thousand-mile journey to see this marvelous tree for himself.

Based on real events, this story of how the Golden Delicious apple came to be is perfect for discussions on nature and growing fruits and vegetables. Kathleen Kemly’s detailed, cheerful art creates the perfect setting for Anna Egan Smucker’s charming text.
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Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That’ll test any mama’s strength Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musingspicking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway, moving into the “thousandstory house,” enduring 15yearold Matt’s lecture on respect while captive in the car. Then there was the fourweek road trip, which, Dorcas says, “My sisterinlaw warned me would be like putting your whole family in a bathroom and staying there for three days.”

Dorcas and her husband, Paul, are purposeful parents. But they aren’t perfect. Dorcas wonders if their marriage can endure when she and Paul can’t ever figure out what gifts to give each other. She tries to navigate her mild daughter’s development into a very certain self, wondering, “When do I give in, and when do I stand firm?”

There are no recipes here. But there is story upon story. Dorcas has three daughters and three sons. And she has a voiceencouraging, doubting, entertaining, but never taking herself too seriously.

Often slightly offstride, and with disarming humility, Dorcas keeps finding resource in her life at home “Often the things we don’t know we need come into our lives without knocking.”.
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"There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada," Mammy tells her daughter one night. "The law don't allow no slavery there." The very next morning, a ruthless slave trader separates Julilly from her mother, taking Julilly to a plantation in the dreaded Deep South. The slave quarters there are crowded and filthy, and the slaves are as frail and thin as shadows. The cruel overseer lashes out with his whip at every opportunity. So when Julilly gets a chance to escape, she and her crippled friend Liza don't hesitate, despite their terror of what will happen if they are caught. They go disguised as boys, hiding by day and running by night. Along the way they are helped by courageous people who hide them in secret "stations" of the Underground Railway -- and they are pursued constantly by slave hunters and bloodhounds. Each close brush with danger brings them a step closer to Canada ... and freedom.

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Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting is a Good Books publication
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Illus. in full color by Steve Johnson. "The story of a young girl growing up

within the shadows of a great steel mill is eloquently depicted in this

insightful, autobiographical picture book. Studded with vibrant imagery, the

story subtly emphasizes the loving, caring, respectful relationships within a

steelworker's family. Cleanly executed pages, evocative illustrations, and

manageable vocabulary make this a unique purchase for a broad age

range."--School Library Journal




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This touching story of an Amish mother's five-year-old son killed in front of their Lancaster Co., Pa., farm, was written by the mother. Feel the pain, the shock, the stress, the doubting, the love and sympathetic family and friends, but most importantly, the hope that one can truly experience in facing a heart-breaking loss..
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