A book of ghost jokes, like "Why don't ghosts ever tell lies? Because you can see right through them."

A book of jokes featuring the classroom, including "Why did the teacher wear sunglasses? Because her students were so bright."

A book of jokes about bugs, including "What is a mosquito's favorite sport? Skin-diving."

A book of jokes featuring monsters, like "Why was the Abominable Snowman so popular? Because he was cool."

Laughter is the best medicine, and this book has plenty of dosages! Michael Dahl's Big Book of Jokes is packed with jokes and riddles, covering everything from school jokes to knock-knock and animal jokes. Read them on your own, tell them to your friends, and most of all, have a hilarious time!

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations, business, and citizens all have roles in the public sphere. In so doing, they demonstrate th...

Excel macros. Everybody wants to learn them. You're not a programmer though. How is a non technical user going to learn how to program? You do want to use macros to make your work easier but are you really going to sit down with a huge programming textbook and work your way through every. single. boring. page? Like most people, you'll start with great enthusiasm and vigor but after a few chapters, the novelty wears off. It gets boring.I'm going to try and change that and make learn...

When a woman vanishes from Baker Street station, the Police investigation leads nowhere until her kidnapper leaves the first of a series of coded messages.Unravelling the clues challenges the ingenuity and intelligence of the Metropolitan Police's most skilled officers. Their task is made far harder when they realise that they are not the only ones looking, and finding her first is a matter of national security. It becomes clear that she is a woman with much to hide and much to hid...

Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities. In the context of public life, value is an important measure on the contribution to business and social good of activities for which strict financial measures are either inappropriate or fundamentally unsound.A systematic, interdisciplinary examinat...

Mark Moore always believed he was in charge of his life. All that changed on a beautiful Saturday morning in May 2007. Suddenly he was no longer in control of anything. Though his life will never return to his pre-stroke normality, through this crisis, he has gained a deeper understanding of the centrality of God's role in his life and in all of our lives. A Stroke of Faith tells the story of moving from acceptance to surrender and from hope to faith. It reveals God's work in Mark...

This text provides a concise and internationalized restatement of the public value approach, an assessment of its impact to date - in theory and practice - and of its particular relevance to the challenges of public management in a time of crisis and austerity.

You're passionate about your business and work hard at it, yet you know it's capable of achieving so much more. You want it to be the best in its category, and you want to see the profits to match. You want a Superstar Business. So how do the world's best enterprises reach such great heights, and how exactly do you take your business to the top?Mark T. Moore has done this for himself more than once, so he knows firsthand what makes enterprises grow and thrive. A Superstar Business ...