Bean: 220 books

This book is one of a series of books entitled “Essential Skills for the Public Sector”. It sets out the fundamental principles of marketing and applies them to a public sector context. The content includes the marketing mix, how to develop a marketing plan, market research techniques and examples...

This book is for all managers and individuals that have, or will have, responsibility for budgets. It covers devolving budgets; preparing budgets; controlling and monitoring budgets; understanding financial information; and the link between management and financial responsibility. The style is easy...

This book is one of a series of books entitled “Essential Skills for the Public Sector”. It is increasingly important for public sector managers to have an understanding of finance to perform their jobs and deliver value for money services. It explains the principles of finance as well as financial...

The book sets out the process of identifying service costs, establishing unit costs, and cost control, all key activities for ensuring VFM and accountability. It is a useful text for those working in a public sector and not-for-profit environment. It translates private sector principles into practical...

He's scrawny. He's got huge glasses. He's bad at sports. He's Dodson, and he's a great big dork. But somehow he always seems to get into zany situations with his best friend Squishy. Join him this time as he learns about responsibility and faces a problem that's, well...STINKY!...

He's scrawny. He's got huge glasses. He's bad at sports. He's Dodson, and he's a great big dork. But somehow he always seems to get into zany situations with his best friend Squishy. Join him this time as he and Squishy learn the value (and occasional terror) of a job well...

Can you really make money five bucks at a time? Indeed, the question that potential sellers might ask is how is it possible to make a good living by starting out by selling services at five bucks apiece. It hardly seems possible.  Judging by sales of the top ranked sellers on Fiverr, you already...

A trusted practitioner guide and course text, this book provides a complete introduction to the multiple roles of the reading specialist in grades PreK-12. Rita M. Bean offers evidence-based best practices for working with struggling readers; supporting teachers through professional development and...

Vivien Leigh's mystique was a combination of staggering beauty, glamour, romance, and genuine talent displayed in her Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. For more than thirty years, her name alone sold out theaters and cinemas the world over, and she inspired...

He's scrawny. He's got huge glasses. He's bad at sports. He's Dodson, and he's a great big dork. But somehow he always seems to get into zany situations with his best friend Squishy. Join him this time as he faces the most challenging foe he could ever imagine: GYM CLASS....

In this collection of three short stories, people's lives take drastic turns when their dark pasts come barreling into the present.COLD – A diner robbery quickly turns disastrous for a young meth addict.BROTHER’S KEEPER – A high school student makes a horrifying discovery near his house.NASSAU...

After her mother's suicide in 1870, Marie Lancater is sent to live with her aunt and uncle on their Rhode Island estate. Even in mourning she must always remain calm and well-mannered, as her future and marriage prospects would fall to pieces if society believed she was prone to madness like...

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed...

‘Fucking Frogs! My grandfather didn’t die in the English Civil War so’s half the population of France could come over here and live off the soup!’ A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the...