Most Popular Books by Jason Hall

Genie and Cassie gear up in this homage to the fast paced dime store novelettes of yesteryear. The two girls, as they are want to be called, make their way from a Chicagoan breakout to some dangerous snow machine racing and finally to New York City. They''ll have to be smart and fast on the clutch to prove themselves in the mad world of hot rodding...it''s even tougher for these feminine fugitives. They''ll have to deal with their own hang ups, avoid the authorities, keep their rod on the road, and pull off a big heist to get back the mysterious dosh from the eccentric Campy Carol. If they can, they should be set for life. So come join our leading ladies, sorry, girls, as they take on the Death Race against the Patriarchy.

A fantastic collection of 5 rhyming stories including the Amazon top 10 best seller "The Hungry Toilet" with over 60,00 copies sold.From toilets and dribbling crooks to vengeful dumps the stories in this book are a delight to read either as an adult or a child. They are witty, thoughtful and will stimulate the imagination of readers of all ages. The poems make the absurd fun to read and, with excellent rhyming, each one takes the reader on a very enjoyable flight of fancy. Includes colour illustrations by the author and story activities.

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Created in full collaboration with Warner Brothers and DC comics, this guide provides in-depth profiles of the heroes and villains of the popular series. Full color.

"Ben 10 created by Man of Action"--Page 3.

This is our largest omnibus of never-before-collected and out-of-print Star Wars stories. Included here are one-shot adventures, short story arcs, specialty issues, and early Dark Horse Extra comic strips! All of these tales take place after Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and lead up to Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In Jedi Quest, Anakin Skywalker will work to overcome his fears while on a mission to protect a freighter from pirates. Starfighter: Crossbones pits pirate against pirate, featuring the intimidating Captain Nym. * Collects Star Wars #27: "Starcrash"; Star Wars: The Hunt for Aurra Sing; Star Wars: Jedi Quest #1-#4; Star Wars Starfighter: Crossbones #1-#3; Star Wars Episode II Hasbro Minicomics #1-#4; Dark Horse Extra #35-#37; "Heart of Fire" ; Dark Horse Extra #44-#47, "Poison Moon." Collects previously uncollected and out-of-print Star Wars material!

Originally published by DC Comics as Cartoon Network action pack issues #22-25, 27-42, 44-47, 53, 55, 58, and 60.

If you have ever lived in Hong Kong for any length of time or just visited the city as a tourist, grab a cup of tea, sit down and take a trip down memory lane. Transport yourself back to 1980''s Hong Kong and take a nostalgic journey to a truly unique place and time. ''Caricatures of Hong Kong'' brings together a collection of 100 cartoons in Jason Hall''s own unique style. A wonderful collection of images that you will keep coming back to again and again.

"Originally published by DC Comics as Cartoon Network Action Pack issues #19-26"--P. facing t.p.

Includes character profiles, official timeline; literary heritage of Hellboy and more.

Reviews from parents for this colour illustrated picture book: "Great Fun!" - "Loved this book" - "Perfect for bedtime" - "LoL" - "A great collection" - " Amazing" - "Really really good" - "Illustrations are fab" 40 fun, educational and imaginative rhyming stories, poems, activities and games for children of all ages. Includes colour illustrations by the author, spot the difference, rhyming activity games and fascinating facts. Perfect for bedtimes and beginner readers. CONTENTS: 1. JOCK AND THE SMELLY SOCK 2. THE PIG AND THE WIG 3. BANANA FARMER 4. ANIMALS 5. I''M NOT TIRED 6. CREEPY CRAWLIES 7. ONLY I KNOW THEY''RE THERE 8. WINDOWS 9. MESSY 10. ALL SORTS 11. DREAMS 12. MAGIC WAND 13. DINOSNORUS 14. SINGING SONGS 15. LOTTY 16. LET''S BE SILLY 17. THE SECRET DOOR 18. BOYS & GIRLS 19. MY SCHOOL 20. BE YOURSELF 21. MAGIC WATERING CAN 22. THE DOCTORS 23. THE LOLLY 24. MY MUM 25. I WISH I WAS A KANGAROO 26. I WISH I WAS A MONKEY 27. I WISH I WAS A PIRATE 28. I''D NEVER WISH TO BE A SLUG 29. I WISH I WAS A FIRE FIGHTER 30. I WISH I WAS A FAIRY 31. I WISH I WAS A SHARK 32. I WISH I WAS AN ELEPHANT 33. I WISH I WAS THE QUEEN 34. GOODNIGHT (GIRLS) 35. GOODNIGHT (BOYS) 36. RHYME SEARCH 37. RHYME SEARCH 38. COMPLETE THE POEM 39. WRITE YOUR OWN "WISH I WAS" POEM 40. FASCINATING FACTS

A group of three single and successful friends meet every Monday to bemoan the fact that they haven''t got partners; but when one of them starts seeing a man fifteen years her junior, the other two disapprove and try to break up the relationship. British romantic comedy that under performed at the box office.

This study investigates how three distinct cultures – Maliseet, French, and British – engaged with and transformed the ecology of the Wəlastəkw/rivière St. Jean/St. John River, the largest river system in the Maritimes and New England. Ranging three centuries, ca. 1550‐1850, it examines cultural interactions relative to the river’s fish, banks, and flow to assess ecological changes. By developing comparisons among Maliseet, French, and British relationships to the river, it analyzes how cultural groups modified and expanded on the ecology of other peoples. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, including Maliseet oral traditions and language, archaeological surveys, scientific studies, historic maps and paintings, as well as diaries, letters, and reports of the waterway and its banks, this research makes significant contributions to a number of scholarly fields: river ecologies and human adaptations of them, Maliseet history, seigneurial settlement in colonial societies, Loyalist ecology, colonial and municipal legal history, historical cartography, and the role of ecological knowledge in governance and environmental activism. Moreover, it contributes to early modern North American environmental history, as well as global studies of rivers. This study brings a historical perspective to pressing economic and political issues facing the watershed today, including conflicts over natural resource use, the impacts of dam construction and removal, climate change adaptations, flood mitigation and prevention, fisheries conservation, and the effects of invasive species. While most historical scholarship on the region is focused on specific linguistic and ethnic groups, this study bridges these divides, bringing together Maliseet, Acadian, and British histories into a single study. The wider temporal and cultural scope and the centrality of the Wəlastəkw/rivière St. Jean/St. John River to the study’s analysis offers a poignant reminder that humanity’s intimate relationship to nature has points of commonality that are as important to understand as our points of difference. This study attempts to do both.

Lally (2007) concludes that regulators must estimate the risk-free rate as the yield-to-maturity on Government debt with a term-to-maturity equal to the regulatory period, to ensure that the present value of expected cash flows equals the investment base. The analytics behind this conclusion assume that forward rates are an unbiased estimate of future spot rates, an assumption which is inconsistent with empirical evidence. This has an important economic implication. With the typical case being that the yield curve is upward-sloping, adopting a short-term risk-free rate would result in equityholders being systematically undercompensated for the actual risk involved in a long-lived project. If we adopt an alternative assumption that current rates are an unbiased estimate of future rates, the regulated rate of return is a function of the entire forward curve of interest rates and the accounting depreciation schedule. For long-lived assets, benchmarking against the yield-to-maturity on long-dated Government securities results in a far closer approximation of the appropriate return than the use of short-term rates.

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The standard valuation technique - discounted cash flows (DCF) - estimates value as the present value of expected future cash flows. This technique is typically implemented under an assumption that investment policy is independent of prices. In reality, management responds to fluctuating commodity prices by altering investment policy, such that production expands in the high price scenario and reduces in response to low prices. Management''s ability to exercise these options to alter investment policy is valuable - approximately 30 percent of the value of high-growth, high volatility firms can be attributed to the value of embedded options (Hall, 2005). Since close to one-third of large, Australian-listed firms are using option pricing techniques to improve decision-making (Truong, Partington and Peat, 2005), this is likely to replace DCF as the standard valuation technique in the foreseeable future.

Stories from members of "The Spirit Seekers Paranormal Investigation, Research & Intervention Team" of Arkansas.

We examine whether it is profitable to trade according to the recommendations of analysts who made accurate earnings forecasts in a prior year. Prior research has shown that analysts who made the most accurate earnings forecasts in the current period also made the most profitable recommendations during that period. Unfortunately, our research shows that these accurate forecasters cannot be identified on the basis of their track record. While there is statistically significant evidence that forecasting ability is persistent, it is not sufficient to generate profitable stock recommendations in the future. We also attempted to identify superior analysts with respect to the combination of forecast accuracy and recommendation profitability. Even with this finer segmentation of analysts there is no difference in their ability to make profitable recommendations in the future. Furthermore, regardless of forecasting ability, analysts are pre-disposed to recommend stocks with low book-to-market ratios and positive price momentum. This bias may impede their ability to make profitable recommendations.

In this paper I examine the relationship between equity valuation and four value drivers - revenue growth, volatility, profit margin and competitive advantage. I derive equity valuation models which are more robust than those used by equity analysts in practice, but require analysts to consider very little additional information. The paper is motivated by evidence that the typical multiples-based valuations of analysts are not associated with improved portfolio performance. Prior research suggests that analysts devote considerable resources to forecasting near-term earnings, but derive target prices from those earnings in an almost arbitrary fashion. In contrast, the valuation practices of industrial firms show an increasing level of sophistication.The models'' predominant assumption is that firms'' competitive advantage is unlikely to be sustained indefinitely. This implies that long-run expected returns on reinvested earnings are equal to the cost of capital - a concept generally-accepted in the literature but which typically results in valuations below transaction prices. Hence, I also account for the value of management''s option to alter investment policy in response to signals regarding expected future growth. This assumption can be implemented by simulating earnings over an assumed competitive advantage period and computing the mean valuation which results from those simulations.

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We measure the contribution of industry sector choice and individual stock selection to the performance of 3350 United States'' equity funds from 1980 to 2005. First, we demonstrate that sector choice makes a relatively greater contribution to portfolio variance, holding constant manager skill in identifying mispriced securities, and correcting for a bias in research methods previously applied to this issue. Second, using managers'' reported stock holdings, we estimate the actual contribution of industry sector versus security choice to portfolio returns. Active managers of funds with a preference for small stocks with a style preference ndash; value or growth ndash; generate abnormal returns above those achieved by less active managers, consistent with managers having style-specific investment skills. This relative performance is attributed to the incremental returns generated from security selection over sector choice. Security selection also explains significantly more variation in returns across funds. These results imply that active managers make relatively greater use of security selection in forming portfolios which differ from benchmark.