Best Selling Books by David Booth

The Buffalo and the Cowbird follows the commensalism between two animal friends who have their friendship criticised by other animals. The book�s main objective is to have children think about the way they make friends, and exclude others who are different. My father, a retired artist and graphic designer has provided the illustrations to compliment the story. The words are colour-coded and relate to a separate activity section for children to develop their skills further.

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An anthology of old and new poems for reading aloud or alone.

This paper examines the relation between dividend smoothing and asymmetric information between managers and investors. We find that the extent of dividend smoothing are negatively related to the measures of information asymmetry. Firms with higher levels of asymmetric information have a higher propensity to smooth their dividends. These results imply that a firm''s information environment affects its dividend smoothing decision.

We examine the choice and the offer spreads between callable and non-callable bonds. We find significant differences by industry sector so our results are segmented by financial and non-financial industries. For the financial sector, the popularity of callable and non-callable bonds is significantly related to the economic environment. Financial and high grade non-financial callable bonds are also more likely to be issued via a shelf prospectus. While firms that issue callable bonds do not consistently display the characteristics associated with severe agency problems, the issue choice for below investment grade non-financial and lower rated financial bonds, where we can expect agency problems to be more severe, is more consistent with agency theory than the issue choice for higher rated bonds.

"How will little Nia escape from the wolf?" (publisher).

"To help teachers incorporate graphic novels into the school program the authors provice strategies using different dynamics -- independent reading, literature circles, guided reading, whole class shared reading, and curriculum and media links."--Back cover.