New Releases by Sally Wright

These Parrot Antics are funny, playful, and bursting with color. Sir Reginald Raucous Van Reek seizes every opportunity to perform for the gallery, reveling in the spotlight. In his world, pride, prejudice, and presumption help him plunder his way through life, while hard knocks roll off him like water off a duck’s back. Despite his mischievous deeds, he steals our hearts with his playful antics, brought to life through the rhythm of rhyming fun. But does this self-proclaimed sage ever learn anything from his roguish rascality?

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting. _______________ The tuff tray is a staple resource in Early Years settings that supports many different styles of learning and play, and offers lots of opportunities to introduce early mathematics. 50 Fantastic Ideas for Tuff Tray Mathematics is filled with fun, creative and inspiring ideas for exploring mathematical concepts using tuff trays, including size, shape, capacity, quantity, distance, volume and numbers. From exploring time with ice cubes to cutting shapes out of tortilla wraps, Sally Wright presents opportunities for mathematical learning objectives to be met in an exciting and creative way.

Sally Wright is the Edgar Alan Poe Award nominated author of six Ben Reese mysteries, as well as Breeding Ground and Behind The Bonehouse, the first two Jo Grant horse country mysteries. The Outsiding is published posthumously. "Sally Wright doesn''t create characters-she breeds living, breathing people right there on the page. Along with her meticulously researched and developed background and intricate plot, The Outsiding is a practically perfect book. And her historical notes at the end are almost as interesting as the novel itself." -Donna Fletcher Crow, Award-winning author

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting. The tuff tray is a staple resource that is often abandoned or underused in early years settings. However, when used effectively, a tuff tray can enhance a child''s learning through its versatile usage, such as messy play or as enhancements to support themes and ideas that are being explored. A simple tuff tray provocation can offer many learning opportunities to help a child progress and develop, as its sensory play approach promotes open-ended investigations and problem solving. 50 Fantastic Ideas for Tuff Trays is packed full of exciting activities that are not only simple and easy to prepare and manage, but that also use materials and tools found in most settings and at very low cost. With ideas for tuff trays that support books, promote mathematics and are ideal for celebrations and festivals, this book creates inviting opportunities for learning objectives to be met in an exciting and creative way.

Let’s Go Aero introduces students (undergraduates, MBAs, executive audiences) to budgeting. The setting is a manufacturer of aluminum trailers. The rich background material allows students to explore budgeting as a planning and coordinating tool. Preparation of multiple budget scenarios emphasizes the interdependency of the functional areas (marketing, purchasing, production, and accounting). The case identifies company policies for monthly inventory needs which are used, along with other projections, to prepare production, purchasing, and cash budgets. By preparing a series of budgets, students are introduced to the potential negative impacts of uneven sales and counter-productive reward schemes.

It wasn''t until thirty years after the attacks, and the lies, and the intricately orchestrated death, that Jo Grant Munro could bring herself to describe it all in Behind The Bonehouse. Her work as an architect, and the broodmare farm she ran with her uncle, and her husband Alan''s entire future - all hung by a thread in 1964 in the complex Thoroughbred culture of bluegrass Kentucky, where rumor and gossip and the nightly news can destroy a person overnight, just like anywhere else. It was hatred in a self-obsessed soul, fermenting in an equine lab, boiling over and burning what it touched, that drove Jo and Alan to the edge of desperation while they fought through what they faced.

Let me Singing is much more than a "legacy of memories" of life in America and, especially, in a Florida beach town from 1935 to the present. It is a beautiful vision of a life of joy and faith. The book begins where author Sally Wright Bayles'' first book, the historical memoir Good Bones, leaves off. Good Bones traces the migration of the author''s family southward from Virginia in the post civil war days, and describes in delicious detail the life of her pioneering family along Florida''s central East Coast. Let Me Be Singing continues the tale with the author being born at home on Coronado Beach on Florida''s central Atlantic coast. It continues with the life of a little girl who enjoyed a loving, carefree childhood, and only after she became an adult came to realize she was, and is, the recipient of the Good Bones of generations of forebears. Her life has been full and blessed with a loving husband and three wonderful children. Ron Bayles, the author''s co-adventurer, says, "My Sally softly and amusingly guides the reader to discover that special inner song. ..." Let Me Be Singing is full of the music of a life well lived. The stories sing with the love of God and family!

Good Bones is a story of courage, perseverance, and a pioneer family''s lust for life. A historical memoir, it tells the story of Florida''s expansion in the last decades of the 1800s, and of the slow arrival of true civilization in the Sunshine State during the early part of the twentieth century. In the years following the Civil War the federal government encouraged Americans in other states to risk their safety and comfort to settle the Florida wilderness. The Wrights and McPhersons were two families who answered that call. When children of those families were joined in matrimony, a legacy began which persists to this day. It wasn''t easy. The early years were marked by battles with mosquitoes and a sometimes uneasy coexistence with the Seminole Indians. In those early years, the railroad had not yet reached past Jacksonville, roads were sketchy at best, and rivers offered the most reliable "highways" for travel. Land for citrus groves had to be carved from the dense subtropical forests. Survival required a determined and hardy breed of people, but despite their challenges, the pioneer families were bent on living life to its fullest. They enjoyed music, hunting and fishing, picnics, and, of course, they fell in love, married and raised families to be proud of. The strength of those bloodlines continues today in the ancestors of those pioneers who tamed the Florida landscape.

A significant concern in behavioral research in accounting has been the effect of experience on judgment and decision-making. As widely recognized, there are, however, several dimensions to experience, including general domain experience and task-specific experience. One important dimension that has received limited attention is industry experience. For instance, in an audit context, greater industry experience is expected to lead to greater effectiveness and efficiency as auditors develop a knowledge-base of the unique risks and audit approaches for a particular industry. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of industry experience on the generation of hypotheses of likely errors in conducting analytical procedures. Other audit planning tasks are also examined (e.g., risk assessment and extent of testing). Seventy-two auditors, 34 with significant retailing experience and 38 without such experience (both groups ranging in rank from senior to partner), completed a comprehensive, realistic case for a retailing client. Four material errors, three relating to a retailing environment, were present in the case. The findings indicate that industry experience significantly enhanced hypotheses generation in identifying errors but did not result in expected risk assessments or revisions to planned extent. Proportionately greater audit hours were, however, assigned to more experienced audit staff for misstated accounts.

Negotiations are a pervasive feature of the audit process (e.g., the resolution of proposed audit adjustments and disclosures). The results of such negotiations are of great importance to the capital markets, the client and the auditor. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of three promising, pragmatic intervention methods for enhancing auditor negotiation performance: a role-playing intervention - assuming the client''s position in a mock negotiation; a passive intervention - explicitly considering the client''s interests and options; and a practice intervention - engaging in a mock negotiation prior to the client negotiation. We posit that the role-playing intervention will improve negotiation results, because this approach requires direct experience in considering and arguing the client''s position and more cognitive effort in obtaining an understanding of the counterpart''s position, a critical factor identified in the negotiation literature for successful performance. Forty-five audit managers and partners were provided a realistic case based on an actual scenario involving the potential writedown of inventory due to obsolescence. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups (role-playing, passive or practice) and asked to negotiate the issue with a confederate playing the role of the CFO. Auditor conservatism and a large actual subsequent writedown suggest that a significant adjustment is warranted. The results indicate that the role-playing intervention method led to an enhanced negotiation outcome (greater writedown) compared to the passive and practice groups. Process improvements on a number of dimensions were also found, particularly for the role-playing group compared to the practice group.

"One of the challenges policy-makers face is the lack of systemic analysis around the concept of labour mobility, especially in relation to how mobility is changing and what can be done to improve it. Case studies of the mining, meat processing and early childhood care occupations and analysis of data from the longitudinal survey Australia at work have been undertaken to explore key issues and implications for advancing the labour mobility research field." - NCVER website.

Ahora disponible en español, Mi primera Biblia -para bebés- es la Biblia ideal para niños muy pequeños.Las historias más conocidas, desde la creación del mundo hasta la historia de la fuerte tormenta, están incluidas en esta Biblia para infantes bellamente ilustrada. Estos son pasos hacia la fe fundamentales para ayudar a los más pequeños a aprender acerca de Dios. Disponible en inglés a través de Anno Domini Publishing Services Ltd. Now available in Spanish, Baby''s First Bible is the ideal first Bible for very young children. From the creation of the world to the story of the raging storm, all the best-known stories are included in this beautifully illustrated Bible for babies. These are steps to faith, building blocks to help the very young learn about God.

A Ben Reese Mystery - Ben Reese, university archivist and part-time investigator, is alarmed when his old friend Kate Lindsay receives a disturbing package. It contains her husbands eyeball, retrieved from the front line and posted arriving twenty years later. Kate needs some answers so decides to visit veteran Ross MacNab, but when MacNab commits suicide hours before she arrives, Kate fears foul play. Bens suspicions, meanwhile, rest on another war comrade, but army records show he died years before . . .

In the fourth novel in Wright''s Edgar Award-nominated series, archivist Ben Reese investigates the mysterious death of the matriarch of one of the aristocratic families of Georgia''s Cumberland Island.

Features photographs and anecdotes from the famous Hollywood Brown Derby during its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, and includes many of the restaurant''s recipes.