Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Best Business, Finance, & Management Book! "One Report" refers to an emerging trend in business taking place throughout the world where companies are going beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and integrating both into a single integrated report. At the same time, they are also leveraging the Internet to provide more detailed results to all of their stakeholders and for improving their level of dialogue and engagement with them. Providing best practice examples from companies around the world, One Report shows how integrated reporting adds tremendous value to the company and all of its stakeholders, including shareholders, and also ultimately contributes to a sustainable society. Focuses on the emerging trend of integrated reporting as a top priority for companies, investors, regulators, auditors and civil society Provides compelling case studies from some of the world's leading companies doing integrated reporting Addresses how companies can move toward One Report and how it can become a keystone of a sustainable strategy for both the company and society Explains what others-such as analysts, shareholders, other stakeholders, auditors, regulators, legislators, and civil society-need to do to enable the rapid and broad adoption of One Report Filled with case studies and the most current trends on integrated reporting, this book is an invaluable guidebook on the future of reporting and how this future can lead to a sustainable society.

Dip your toe in the Ickle story pond risk-free today. Sample stories to make you a believer in these loveable quirky characters. Sample the Ickle collection today- Absolutely FREE! The Ickles® are members of a far-flung family of independent individuals. Each has an incredible story to tell. They live in a parallel universe with nice straight edges. Their world is very like our own. Messed up, but much more magical and exciting. They experience some extraordinary adventures, get themselves into all sorts of trouble, but always come out OK. In many ways the Ickles® are just like us. They laugh, they cry, they have achievements and disappointments. They discover new things about themselves that surprise and delight them. The Ickles® Taste Test! is a sample collection of 4 short stories selected from the 4 Ickle books. It also includes partial excerpts from several other stories that are part of the entire 4 book series. The stories feature a cast of Ickle® characters sure to entertain, educate and amaze you with their crazy antics and unbelievable experiences. The stories range from comedy to action to sci-fi drama. Imagine if your name tells us everything about you. That is how we recognize the Ickles in their own Ickle world. You'll meet Technickle, who invents a robot with an advanced AI brain that takes over his household and threatens his life and all other organic life on the planet. There's Anna Tomickle, who discovers a legendary sea monster speaking perfect English. He asks her to hide him from the local authorities, who seem bent on caging and displaying him like a curious circus attraction. Follow the nail-biting exploits of Athletickle, whose Olympic-level Triathlon skills equip her to rescue a busload of trapped children after a slow-motion crash off the side of a cliff. You'll meet Logickle, whose level-headed reasoning thwarts an invasion of interplanetary aliens from torching Planet Earth to terraform it for their own use. This collection of 4 quirky stories will delight readers whose appetite includes fantasy, nonsense, and sci-fi themes.

Provides a comprehensive framework for achieving higher levels of corporate information disclosure and transparency In order to decide whether or not a company is a good investment, analysts and investment professionals need to know as much as possible about the company's tangible and intangible assets, as well as a variety of critical performance measures. Written by an international team of experts, The Value Reporting Revolution clearly explains why corporations must move toward greater transparency and, more importantly, it provides a comprehensive framework for achieving that goal. Among other important lessons, readers learn how to identify the gaps between how corporate managers perceive their disclosure practices versus how the markets see them, as well as how to leverage their organizations' electronic communications technology and tools to ensure easy access to vital information and more meaningful data analysis. Robert Eccles (Jupiter, FL) is President of Advisory Capital Partners, Inc. Robert H. Herz (New York, NY) is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, US. David Phillips (London, UK) is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, UK. Mary M. Keegan (London, UK) is head of Global Corporate Reporting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, UK.

Featuring music by John Eccles, Gottfried Finger, Bartholomew Isaack, and anonymous composers, the masques The Rape of Europa by Jupiter (1694) and The Loves of Mars and Venus (1696) and the dramatick operas The Mad Lover (1700), and The British Enchanters (1706) come from a particularly tumultuous period of English drama and are representative of the many and varied musical drama genres popular in London’s theaters at the turn of the eighteenth century, just before Italian opera rose in popularity there. The British Enchanters, based on the chivalric romance of Amadis de Gaule, was one of the last dramatick operas and thus one of the last representatives of what in its time was considered a truly British form of music drama. This edition presents all the surviving music for all four of these works, along with their corresponding playtexts and critical commentary.

In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology.

The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, through a chain of physical events, upon the mind of the recipient of the letter. This is what the authors of this book call the 'interaction of mental and physical events'. We know very little about this interaction; and according to recent philosophical fashions this is explained by the alleged fact that we have brains but no thoughts. The authors of this book stress that they cannot solve the body mind problem; but they hope that they have been able to shed new light on it. Eccles especially with his theory that the brain is a detector and amplifier; a theory that has given rise to important new developments, including new and exciting experiments; and Popper with his highly controversial theory of 'World 3'. They show that certain fashionable solutions which have been offered fail to understand the seriousness of the problems of the emergence of life, or consciousness and of the creativity of our minds. In Part I, Popper discusses the philosophical issue between dualist or even pluralist interaction on the one side, and materialism and parallelism on the other. There is also a historical review of these issues. In Part II, Eccles examines the mind from the neurological standpoint: the structure of the brain and its functional performance under normal as well as abnormal circumstances. The result is a radical and intriguing hypothesis on the interaction between mental events and detailed neurological occurrences in the cerebral cortex. Part III, based on twelve recorded conversations, reflects the exciting exchange between the authors as they attempt to come to terms with their opinions.