This festive little book is jam packed with activities that will keep children busy (and excited!) as they anticipate the arrival of Christmas Inside, a warmly told, illustrated story is accompanied by themed projects, games, drawing activities, puzzles, stickers, stencils, and more.

This festive little book is jam packed with activities that will keep children busy (and excited!) as they anticipate the arrival of winter. Inside, a warmly told, illustrated story is accompanied by themed projects, games, drawing activities, puzzles, stickers, stencils, and more.

More than 5,000 terms related to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, banking, tax laws, and transactions in the various financial markets are presented alphabetically with descriptions. The new ninth edition has been updated to take account of new financial regulations and recent dramatic swings in equities, credit, and other financial developments. Readers will also find a list of financial abbreviations and acronyms, as well as illustrative diagrams and charts. Here's a valuable, thorough dictionary for business students, financial professionals, or private investors.

This updated manual prepares students to succeed on the TOEFL's Independent Task, the all-important essay question, and on the Integrated Task, which combines reading, listening, and writing skills. The author presents a three-step program designed to help students write like native speakers of English. His coaching entails gathering ideas, organizing details, and developing the chosen topic into clear, grammatical written English. He also provides exercises in proofreading and editing. Over 20 model essays and model integrated tasks are included for students to read and analyze. Lectures typical of those presented on actual tests are contained on the MP3 CD enclosed with the manual.

This interactive book was created especially for young children awaiting the arrival of a new baby. An adorably rugged cardboard baby, securely attached to the book by a ribbon, is the star character. Each page contains an illustration with a special opening just for baby. Toddlers can help the baby into the stroller, highchair, or baby swing; into Mommy's arms for a cuddle; and finally into bed for naptime. An engaging way to help toddlers understand how a new baby will fit into their lives, while encouraging little fingers to grasp and manipulate.

This all-new test preparation guide is a shorter version of the brand-new Barron's GMAT manual. Barron's Pass Key to the GMAT gives an overview and explanation of all four GMAT test sections: — Analytical Writing Assessment; — Integrated Reasoning; — Quantitative; — Verbal; It also offers intensive practice and review in all four test areas, presenting many test-like questions designed to help students assess their strengths and weaknesses. All questions come with answers and explanations. Reflecting the most recent changes in the GMAT format, this book gives special emphasis to practice and review for the Integrated Reasoning section, and includes questions that are similar to the ones on the actual GMAT.

Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby dinosaur learns about the world.

Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby panda bear learns about the world.

Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby penguin learns about the world.

Barron's Mini Look at Me Books are miniature versions of our larger Look at Me Books — resized to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original size, these books present the same warm illustrations with a slightly abridged story. In each, a mother animal takes care of her baby, keeping it safe and out of trouble. The stories complement full-color illustrations on every page that are handsomely rendered in a naturalistic style. Here, a baby pony learns about the world.

The updated edition of this quick-reference short-entry dictionary defines more than 2,500 accounting, auditing, compliance, and tax-related terms. General areas covered include financial accounting and reporting, managerial and cost management, auditing and financial statement analysis, compliance, and information technology (IT) terms. Also included are many terms from related business disciplines that the accountant must know, such as finance, personal finance, investments, Internet, economics, quantitative tools, and international finance terms.

Barron's brand-new GMAT is a game-changer, designed to give you the best balance in both the depth of content and breadth of strategies. Written by two of North America's leading GMAT experts and award-winning instructors, Barron's new GMAT book gives you the confidence to tackle every GMAT problem. You will know what to expect, what theory each question tests, what strategies you have in your arsenal and the step-by-step processes to get the correct answer quickly and efficiently.

A Barron's bestseller for more than four decades, this brand-new sixth edition has been expanded and updated with more word lists, definitions, analogies, and more. Word lists and definitions. Analogy exercises. Words-in-context exercises All new words for students to learn are placed in the context of sentences that have been selected from well-known novels, plays, poems, newspaper editorials, and TV broadcasts. For optimal ease and enjoyment in learning, the authors recommend 15-minute sessions with this book. Over the years, thousands of students preparing for the SAT and ACT have relied on previous editions of 1100 Words You Need to Know as an ideal way to strengthen their word power. A new feature in the sixth edition is The Lighter Touch 100, a collection of 100 funny one-liners which use words from the book that you need to know.

Toddlers will love this fun-to-shake board book. It's sturdily constructed, with an extra-thick layered cover that gives Kitty's face a 3D effect. When kids give the book a shake they're answered with a noisy rattle that will make them smile. The friendly front-cover Kitten has an amusing little story to tell in the book's cheerfully illustrated pages. This is one of four titles that Barron's offers in the Rock & Rattle series: Bunny, Kitty, Mouse, and Puppy.

Toddlers will love this fun-to-shake board book. It's sturdily constructed, with an extra-thick layered cover that gives Bunny's face a 3D effect. When kids give the book a shake they're answered with a noisy rattle that will make them smile. The friendly front-cover Bunny has an amusing little story to tell in the book's cheerfully illustrated pages. This is one of four titles that Barron's offers in the Rock & Rattle series: Bunny, Kitty, Mouse, and Puppy.

Updated to meet today's business needs and reflect the use of current technology, this book presents approximately 75 model letters that demonstrate correct formats and modes of expression used in business correspondence. Categories include credit applications, letters of inquiry, orders of goods and services, formal business announcements, letters of recommendation, letters dealing with complaints and claims, in-house correspondence, news releases, sales letters as used by direct marketers, and more. This book also features examples of different letter formatting styles as well as sections on e-mail correspondence and effective presentation of Internet r sum s.

This quick-reference fact finder defines approximately 4,500 key terms that apply to life, health, property, casualty, home owners', tenants', and professional liability insurance. Also included and defined in detail are important terms that apply to pension plans and individual retirement accounts. Newly updated to reflect changes in federal and local legislation, this book is a valuable guide for insurance agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, and virtually everybody who has ever purchased or plans to purchase insurance. It can also serve as a textbook supplement in business courses. A previous edition of this book was praised by The New York Times as... helpful, particularly for employee benefit and retirement issues.

More than 8,000 idiomatic words and phrases that are standard in American English are listed with definitions and sample sentences to clarify their meanings. Earlier editions of this A-to-Z dictionary have proved especially helpful to TOEFL and TOEIC test takers, as well as to other students in North America for whom English is their second language. Idioms undergo constant change in every living language, some falling out of use while new words and phrases become part of the standard vocabulary. This new edition takes account of the latest idiomatic changes and presents a solid background to informal American English.

This newly revised and updated manual gives readers a test overview plus test-taking advice and a timetable for a typical computer-based GRE test. Includes verbal, analytical writing, and quantitative reasoning reviews, two full-length practice tests, diagnostic tests, and more.

An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the Graduate Record Exam. This book has been fully updated to align with the new GRE. It presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam. Words are used in various contexts to familiarize test takers with ways that the words are used in various contexts. The book's additional features include a pre-test that helps to diagnose weaknesses, a lengthy word list with extensive text-completion exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a post-test to assess progress. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the pre- and post-test.