The Real World of Finance: 12 Lessons for the 21st Century

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A manager's guide to the radical changes in corporate finance

The Real World of Finance focuses on twelve traditional finance concepts that have been turned upside-down in the last ten years and guides the reader through new finance models so they can implement change in their own organizations. Interspersed throughout the text are examples of what Fortune 500 companies are doing to adapt their financial systems to the 21st century.
James Sagner (White Plains, NY) is a Principal of Sagner/Marks and has managed over 250 large-scale studies for companies and non-profit organizations worldwide. He is a faculty member at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, and author of over forty papers and articles that have appeared in a wide range of industry publications.

Over the years, financial professionals around the world have looked to the Wiley Finance series and its wide array of bestselling books for the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financial markets. As the pace of change in financial markets and instruments quickens, Wiley Finance continues to respond. With critically acclaimed books by leading thinkers on value investing, risk management, asset allocation, and many other critical subjects, the Wiley Finance series provides the financial community with information they want. Written to provide professionals and individuals with the most current thinking from the best minds in the industry, it is no wonder that the Wiley Finance series is the first and last stop for financial professionals looking to increase their financial expertise.

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30 models and exercises. Innovation is required in today's marketplace. Leaders often overlook their greatest tool for driving change - the ability to cultivate the commitment, talents and passions of their people. The authors show how to use their proven LOOP™ Leadership concepts to create Linkage and encourage ownership, assess Obstacles, generate Opportunities for improvement, and Plan action. The book gives leaders solid advice for unleashing intellectual energy and making change something to value, not fear. Gerry Sexton, M.D. and Brian McDermott are the leaders of GrowthWorks, Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota consultancy with clients including Microsoft, Allianz-Life, Pfizer, Caterpillar, Textron Financial, Ogilvy Public Relations, Imation, Novell and YMCA.

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Great information...Practical Tools.......2005-01-01

Leading Innovation is a great resource for leaders at all levels and in all types of organizations. The information provided is presented with clarity and useful frameworks. I also found the tools provided very practical and relevant...a great addition to every leader's toolkit.

Invaluable resource.......2004-12-18

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A most impressive book on leading innovation! It's full of wisdom, important stories and best-of-the-best group activities. Eveyone who wants to lead creative change in their organization should have this in their business reference library.

Sherry Sweetnam
President, Sweetnam Communications Inc.

Leading Innovation: Creating Workplaces Where People Excel .......2004-09-23

From the first quote by Kahlil Gibran in Chapter 1, McDermott and Sexton show us how to immediately give ourselves permission to celebrate the innate skills and talent of those who work for us. Then, they show us how, by delivering concrete models of implementation and the research to back it up. Far from ignoring the societal trends of bullying and conforming particularly espoused by television shows such as Donald Trump's, "The Apprentice," or "The Weakest Link," the authors expose the long term danger of trying to quash the freedom for all of us to create, think, and deliver new and 'innovative' ideas in the workplace. They remind us that an organization is nothing without the people who work there; that its success depends on leaders who can galvanize employees by directing their efforts with strategy that venerates ingenuity and enterprise.

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This book considers how the post-Cold War democratic revolution has affected international law. Traditionally, international law said little about the way in which governments were chosen. In the 1990s, however, international law has been deployed to encourage transitions to democracy, and to justify the armed expulsion of military juntas that overthrow elected regimes. In this volume, leading international legal scholars assess this change in international law and ask whether a commitment to democracy is consistent with the structure and rules of the international legal system.

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The Implications of International Law Revealed.......2003-02-26

Suppose you were living in a village of thirteen people. You and your neighbors elected one person to be the mayor of your village, and made virtually all public decisions by referendums allowing your mayor to put your decisions into action. You would invariably manage few resources, and exert little power on the communities around you; however, you would have a substantial degree of control in your affairs. Now suppose you moved to a village of approximately 63 billion. You now have a village council, a mayor, a local representative, a governor, a national representative, a president or prime minister, and an international representative. There are thousands of issues decided each day, some of these are legislative issues bound to become laws, some judicial decisions that will have legal bearing - all will effect you and your life. Consequently, the degree of control you can exert over your own affairs has virtually evaporated. What happened to the spread of liberal democracy? This much needed text answers these questions with lucid professionalism and keen insight. In a world where the theory of a "global village" is increasingly and increasingly convincingly being advanced, international law theoretically also becomes increasingly necessary - this global village is interdependent, and thus there must be universality to the laws. Messrs. Fox and Roth provide a practical response to theory with this excellent text, which is divided up into five parts: (1) the normative foundations of a right to political participation; (2) democracy and inter-state relations; (3) democracy and the use of force; (4) democratization and conflicting imperatives; and, (5) critical approaches. There are several chapters within each of these larger parts, each chapter is an essay contributed by a significant legal or international studies scholars. For students of any international interest this text is indispensable to forming cogent arguments and/or proposals.

Reforming the World Trading System: Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance (International Economic Law)

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Reforming the World Trading System: Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance (International Economic Law)
James Harrison
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

Exports & Imports | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0199282633

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The 1994 agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) regulates over 95% of world trade amongst 148 member countries. The November 2001 Declaration of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Doha, Quatar, has launched the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade
negotiations in the WTo on 21 topics aimed at far-reaching reforms of the world trading system. On August 1st 2004, the WTO General Council reached agreement on a detailed Doha Work program with the aim of concluding negotiations in 2006.

This volume provides discussion and policy recommendations by leading WTO negotiators and policy-makers, and analysis by leading economists, political scientists and trade lawyers on the major subjects of the Doha Round negotiations. Over 30 contributors explore the complexity of the world trading
system and of the WTO negotiations for its reform from diverse political, economic and legal perspectives.

Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union (Governance in Europe)

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Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union (Governance in Europe)
Beate Kohler-Koch
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0742554910

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The discussion about a constitution for the European Union and its rejection by referendum in two of the EU founding member states has once again spurred public and scholarly interest in the democratic quality and potential of the European Union. Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union brings together distinguished thinkers from law, political science, sociology, and political philosophy to explore the potential for democratically legitimate governance in the European Union. Drawing on different theoretical perspectives and strands from democratic theory, this volume is the best resource for students and readers who are interested in democracy in the European Union.

Parliamentary Committees : Enhancing Democratic Governance in the Commonwealth

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Parliamentary Committees : Enhancing Democratic Governance in the Commonwealth
CPA , Gordon Barnhart , and Commonwealth Parliamentary Secretariat
Manufacturer: Routledge Cavendish
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1859415326

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The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association brought together parliamentarians to assess the functioning of committees. The aim was to recommend ways in which strengthening committee systems can enhance the performance and public perception of Parliaments and parliamentarians.

Contributors from the wide range of Parliaments that form the Commonwealth of Nations combined to produce a rich and diverse set of opinions and recommendations that will prove of interest to practitioners working within the political arena as well as to students of politics.

Private Actors and Security Governance: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
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Private Actors and Security Governance: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Manufacturer: Lit Verlag
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ASIN: 3825898407

Unity in Diversity?: The Challenge of Diversity for the European Political Identity, Legitimacy and Democratic Governance, Turkey's Eu Membership As the Ultimate Test Case (European Union Law Series)
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Unity in Diversity?: The Challenge of Diversity for the European Political Identity, Legitimacy and Democratic Governance, Turkey's Eu Membership As the Ultimate Test Case (European Union Law Series)
Sanem Baykal
Manufacturer: VANDEPLAS PUBLISHING: EUROPEAN UNION LAW SERIES 1
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1600420052
Release Date: 2006-06-30

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The European Union s quest for democratic and legitimate governance, together with an appropriately defined collective identity and boundaries did not start with the current enlargement process. The Union s search for its finalité politique and collective identity, however, will be the determinant factor regarding its final decision on Turkey s membership. This study argues that rather than the size and economic, political and social problems of the country, its factual or perceived divergent identity will influence the course of Turkey-EU relations. The impact of enlargement on European democratic governance and collective identity is analyzed, in this regard, with a view to highlight Turkey s special case status and an analysis of Turkey s impact on European governance from a democracy/legitimacy vs. efficiency perspective is undertaken. In that context, various approaches to the conceptions of collective political identity and constitutionalisation in the EU are examined with a special emphasis on constitutional patriotism , constitutional tolerance , and pluralism/particularism in order to determine the consequences of each option for a viable integration between Turkey and Europe.

Building a democratic state: is it possible?(State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century )(The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy ... from: Journal of International Affairs

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Building a democratic state: is it possible?(State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century )(The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy ... from: Journal of International Affairs
Robert A. Pastor
Manufacturer: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1912 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Building a democratic state: is it possible?(State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century )(The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad )(Book Review)
Author: Robert A. Pastor
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 58 Issue: 1 Page: 251(4)

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The democratic legitimacy of public-private rule making: what can we learn from the World Commission on Dams?: An article from: Global Governance

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The democratic legitimacy of public-private rule making: what can we learn from the World Commission on Dams?: An article from: Global Governance
Klaus Dingwerth
Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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This digital document is an article from Global Governance, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8105 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The democratic legitimacy of public-private rule making: what can we learn from the World Commission on Dams?
Author: Klaus Dingwerth
Publication: Global Governance (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Page: 65(19)

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In search of democratic governance in Central America: political parties are controlled by a handful of people who profit from running the parties in a ... from: Journal of International Affairs

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In search of democratic governance in Central America: political parties are controlled by a handful of people who profit from running the parties in a ... from: Journal of International Affairs
Carlos Sojo
Manufacturer: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 6742 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In search of democratic governance in Central America: political parties are controlled by a handful of people who profit from running the parties in a patrimonial style, and there are narrow prospects for economic reforms. Why has so little progress been made?(Strong and weak states: cases of governance)
Author: Carlos Sojo
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 57 Issue: 1 Page: 153(15)

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The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of International Affairs

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The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of International Affairs
Mona Lena Krook
Manufacturer: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1923 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance.(Book Review)
Author: Mona Lena Krook
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 57 Issue: 1 Page: 256(5)

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This book provides a wealth of astronomy knowledge designed for the non-science major. Presents thorough coverage of the big ideas in astronomy. For self-study purposes for those interested in astronomy.

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much applies to any course.......2006-12-26

Much of the book could readily be applied to teaching other topics. The authors discuss how to motivate students that may be coming to your class with no prior knowledge or interest. So active participation is one of the key suggestions. Get them involved! Like having them write several essays. Ideally, this forces them to actually read and understand your lectures.

Assessment is another vital area. With feedback both to you and the students being necessary to measure progress.

The class is meant to be at the university level. For 1st year undergraduates.

Learner-Centered Astronomy Teaching: Strategies for ASTRO 101

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Learner-Centered Astronomy Teaching: Strategies for ASTRO 101
Timothy F.Adams, Jeffrey P. Slater
Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OI9DS8

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Karen Spärck Jones is one of the major figures of 20 ^th century and early 21 ^st Century computing and information processing. Her ideas have had an important influence on the development of Internet Search Engines. Her contribution has been recognized by awards from the natural language processing, information retrieval and artificial intelligence communities, including being asked to present the prestigious Grace Hopper lecture. She continues to be an active and influential researcher. Her contribution to the scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of such computer systems has been quite outstanding.

This book celebrates the life and work of Karen Spärck Jones in her seventieth year. It consists of fifteen new and original chapters written by leading international authorities reviewing the state of the art and her influence in the areas in which Karen Spärck Jones has been active. Although she has a publication record which goes back over forty years, it is clear even the very early work reviewed in the book can be read with profit by those working on recent developments in information processing like bioinformatics and the semantic web.

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An excellent book for people interested in NLP research.......2007-05-18

This book contains a selected papers published in NLP. Papers describe current research in Thesaurus, IR, Multilingual IR and Corpus annotation.

This is a avaliable book for people interested in NLP research.

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What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males.

In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order.

Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.

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Insights Into the Evolution of Human Behavior.......2006-12-05

Found this book to be an excellent read. I am a biologist and physical anthropologist by training...with specific interest in human evolution. The links between behavior in our closest primate relatives and ourselves...are very relevant. I found Hrdy's scientific discussion of these issues...appropriate and as insightful as science allows us to be. I would recommend this book and other books by this author...she is a scientist with the background to draw connections AND and excellent science writier. Enjoy.

title a tad misleading.......2000-04-27

This book deals mostly with primates. Despite the layperson style title, the book itself is quite scientific and detailed. This can be great for those educated in anthropology and sociobiology as it is very thorough, giving exact names and evolutionary history on the primates discussed, yet can seem a little dry to the layperson, especially if read for long stretches. However, layperson, do not despair. Hrdy will often use humour to lighten or better explain an idea and when she occasionally uses jargon it is usually tongue-in-cheek and always explained. Many of you will be attracted by the feminist-sounding title, but do not be fooled. Only rarely does the author tie in her observations with human behaviour. In fact, any feminism does not appear until the final 2% of the book and seems to simply be angry raving against the oppression of women, and is not linked as well as it could be to the previous 150 or so pages. Generally, however, I enjoyed the book, even though it contained more detail than I, as a layperson, actually needed. To anyone unhappy with the stereotype of the strong male in charge of his passive harem of females or with the aggressive male just using the females as a vessel for his genes, then this can shed new light on the way primates behave and are shaped by their biology. Tying in the information with the woman in the title is left up to the reader.

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This is the first comprehensive treatment of the interactions of atoms and molecules with charged particles, photons and laser fields. Addressing the subject from a unified viewpoint, the volume reflects our present understanding of many-particle dynamics in rearrangement and fragmentation reactions such as electron capture, target and projectile ionisation, photoabsorption and Compton scattering, collisional breakup in Coulomb systems, and dissociative ionisation. The individual chapters, each written by leading experts, give a concise picture of the advanced experimental and theoretical methods. The book also describes experimental methods such as recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy (RIMS), electron microscopy (REMI), and many-particle time-of-flight and imaging techniques. Theoretical approaches treated include the three-body Coulomb problem, R- and S-matrix as well as classical approaches, close-coupling methods, and density-functional theory.

Many-Particle Quantum Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Fragmentation

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Many-Particle Quantum Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Fragmentation
V. P. Shevel'ko
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHLI7U

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Step into the mind of writer Bil Romain as he takes you on a magical roller coaster of a ride with more unbelievable characters than you can imagine. Travel with Colin Doremus as he moves from America to Gonnil Ireland. Gonnil is the only spot in all of Ireland where boys and girls own pigs and Irish myth and legend come to life. Get introduced to Mayor Fitzbister and his daughter Dawn, Cratty Garrett, Miss Milly, MaryAnn and Frances and Willie OLoney. Say hi to Jack OCrattey at the post office and Mr. William at the bookstore. Over across from Hoggie park and down from the comic book shop theres the Fitzgibbons butcher store and at the other end is the Aherne Blacksmiths forge. Theres Darkeen Ra his friend Bishop and Teal the talking Magpie. Meet Colins friend Ayala, Colins pet pig Joan and go with them as they explore the marsh and boglands where Jasper, Pug and the others live. Others that just happen to be Miggies, Mites, Sprites, Brownies and a few P! olkas too. There are up and down land Fairies a forest of Dryads and a screaming Banshee. Theres a clan of Fachans, a Boggie or two, Gilly Willies, a flock of Easter Chickens and the rottenest swamp hag youve ever met named Meg. Meg is one of the foulest characters that has ever been written on paper. Meg is green, disgusting, and awful and when she aligns herself with Eann, Ellis and Ott Fitzgibbons, the worst boys in Gonnil, no good can come of it. You will uncover the secret of the Manor at the tip of the hill. An eight hundred year old Manor at the edge of the marsh and boglands. A Manor that Colin moves into when his family inherits it, a Manor with secrets all its own. If you want to truly believe in magic and learn the tale of the simple crown then open the door to the Shamessamson Manorand step inside.

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