New Releases by Michael Brett

In the best-selling How to Read the Financial Pages, Michael Brett stripped the mystique from the world of investment and finance and sold over 180,000 copies as a result. In How to Figure Out Company Accounts the author once again applies the same practical, jargon-free method to help us all understand company accounts. For investors, both professional and amateur, or anyone in business, the annual report and accounts is the critical document that reveals the health (or otherwise) of a company and points the way forward towards the company''s growth plans and strategies. It is the annual scorecard from which much can be revealed - if you know what you are looking for. If you want to get inside a company, all the information you will need is there for all to see. But in order to understand that information, the "language" of the report has to be learned. This includes not only the financial information as set out in the balance sheet, profit and loss account and the cash flow statement, but also the Notes which contain critical data on how the company is run and by whom, the Chairman''s statement, the CFO''s financial review and the general Review of the year''s operations. All these elements are looked at and analysed in the author''s no-nonsense style. Key financial ratios are also explained, which in themselves provide a critical snapshot of how a company is performing. This is not about creating a set of account. It seeks to set out clearly the language of existing accounts for anyone who needs to understand or interpret them in the course of their work or their personal investment decisions. It assumes no previous financial or accounting knowledge. With his a step-by-step approach Michael Brett guides the non-expert through the basic concepts first before moving on to the more complex detail.

Entrez dans le monde des créatures les plus populaires de la préhistoire ! Vous allez croiser dans ce guide 100 dinosaures différents et étonnants. Une fiche-portrait illustrée détaille chaque animal et déroule son histoire, comme au cinéma. Des rubriques en marge de la fiche avec des précisions sur la géographie, l''alimentation, la taille, le poids, les amis, les ennemis... Un point sur les découvertes les plus récentes, les sites Internet, les musées à visiter, et sur la vie des animaux contemporains des dinosaures. Les auteurs, deux paléontologues passionnés, vous apprennent même comment et où rechercher des fossiles.

The book uses the rise of the Fatimids to survey the Islamic world in the 4th century AH/10th century CE, and reinterpret the role of the dynasty in the history of Islam down to the period of the Crusades.

An illustrated guide to the nation''s national parks takes readers from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the icy slopes of Glacier Bay in Alaska.

Using a simple, jargon-free style this book tackles the complexities of company accounts from the perspective of the beginner, introducing the basic concepts before moving on to detail. The language of accounts is set out to enable the non-expert to understand it.

Dealing with the history of North Africa in the Middle Ages, this book examines the formation of an Islamic state system, and an Islamic society in which Arabism played an increasing part. The subject and the theme derive from the work of Ibn Khaldun at the end of the 14th century.

This book provides a window through which readers can explore this fascinating country in the heart of Africa. Nearly 200 magnificent full-colour photographs evoke the land, its people and in particular the Maasai tribe and their tribal traditions.

One hundred years ago the Maasai ruled over much of East Africa. Their feared warriors, or moran, were renowned for their bravery and cattle-stealing escapades. With the coming of the modern age, the Maasai were restricted to a reservation in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They continue to cling tenaciously to their culture and customs, while the pressures of the modern age build up all around them. Their many rites of passage - rituals that transport the participants from one stage of life to the next - give life a meaning and purpose that is often lacking in other cultures.