The BVR Legal and Court Case Yearbook 2014 is a must-have for business valuation professionals and attorneys who want to stay up-to-date on the most important legal issues confronting the profession in a range of fields, including: marital disputes, breach of contract actions, dissenting shareholder disputes, estate state and gift tax cases, and bankruptcy litigation. Readers gain insight into how debates over economic damages, goodwill, M&A-related appraisals, discounts, and Daubert challenges played out in court during the past year. The Yearbook does not merely abstract the most critical court decisions, but it offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches the parties and the courts took to arrive at the decisions. Ninety digests show the reader some of the best (and worst) practices that attorneys and experts used in making their case in courts throughout the country. BVR's acclaimed legal analysts continuously track published (and even unpublished) decisions from all state and federal jurisdictions, including such influential courts as the Delaware Court of Chancery and the United States Tax Court. In addition to the digests, The Yearbook contains a case summary table, as well as a listing by state/jurisdiction, court, and case name, followed by a one-sentence description of the key valuation issue of each case.

Based on direct field experience, this title discusses the stages in the development of local water supplies, from the initiation of a programme through to the community management of a supply system. The importance of involving all the members of a community in decisions about water provision is emphasized, as is the need to incorporate hygiene education from the outset. Many short case-studies, drawn from the practical experience of the authors, are used throughout the book to illustrate the application of a partnership approach in practice.

This is a hugely successful practical handbook for all relief workers involved in giving humanitarian assistance. It provides the information needed to implement an effective engineering response in the aftermath of an emergency. This second edition maintains the practical content of the first but has been revised and updated to reflect developments in humanitarian relief in recent years. The combination of "hard" topics, such as water and sanitation, and "soft" topics, such as managerial skills and personal effectiveness, has been retained from the original edition and the book expanded to include two new chapters on security and telecommunications. The new second edition will be available both as a paperback book, and a hardwearing field edition with pvc cover and handy CD-ROM included for portability. "Engineering in Emergencies" was developed in collaboration with the agency RedR - Engineers for Disaster Relief

The presentation intended to provide a broad overview of what the International Space Station LISS) is and how it is being developed, who the International Partners are, and the vision for the Space Station. The presentation is predominantly pictorial with top-level station information included such as the size and weight, the amount of pressurized volume, amount of power, etc. that will be available when the station is completed. The presentation also acknowledges the countries participating in the ISS Program, the contributions of the International Partners in terms of both hardware elements and launches, the Crews that have helped assemble, outfit, and/or occupy the Station, and the research that is already underway onboard. The major hardware elements to be delivered over the next several years are shown and the presentation ends with slides giving the overall functionality and capabilities the International Space Station will provide when complete.

When Dawn finds a mysterious golden box covered in indecipherable hieroglyphs on a daytrip to the tiny island of Hilbre, she thinks it's a pretty trinket, an artefact from the island's smuggling past, a good luck charm for her band's next gig. Little does she, or anyone around her, suspect its power - no one, that is, except Rob, her band mate, who has a nasty glint in his eye. But all is not as it seems. For at that very moment warring alien forces are frantically searching for the precious Nexus Facilitator and will stop at nothing to retrieve it, and it just happens to be gold in colour and engraved with detailed star maps.

When a lively group of schoolfriends embark on a ferry trip across the River Mersey, they expect to arrive at Liverpool but somehow end up on the shores of Egypt! Can it be that half of a strange green stone recently found by one of the children has got something to do with this mysterious voyage? The group unwittingly are drawn into a dangerous adventure centred round an archaeological dig at the Great Pyramid. The tomb of an ancient god in the pyramid must not be disturbed, or disaster will hit the world. But the evil Doctor Gwendolyne Deeath, an archaeologist at the site, has special plans. And she has the other half of the green stone. Will the most terrible horrors be unleashed on the earth or will the children's courage and friendship be strong enough to resist the treacherous Doctor?

You are about to go on an incredible journey into the past with young Andy, who, after football practice on a building site with his friends, stumbles across a security barrier and is somehow transported back to an old-fashioned looking cafe, the Apollo. He knows something is out of the ordinary when a lovely girl offers him a ticket to a Beatles concert This is the world of the 1960s and the Apollo Cafe is the haunt of two rival gangs, the Mods and the Rockers. For a dare, a would-be Rocker steals the World Cup which England won in 1966, but the young waitress in the cafe plays a trick on him which later has almost fatal consequences for some of the gang members. Why has Andy been 'chosen' to travel between the present and the 1960s? Will he retrieve the World Cup in time to prevent a murderous fight which could change future lives for ever?