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Manage your career
"The world of work moves so quickly these days that to get the bestfrom your career, you need to actively manage it and seek out newopportunities. Manage Your Career will help you make the mostof your talents and potential, and enable your dreams to become areality. Packed with essential advice and practical help, this bookwill help you plan the right move, whether you want to climb to the topof the career ladder or reinvent your working life completely. Whatever your job, Manage Your Career will...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Manage your boss
"Of all the working relationships you have with colleagues, the one with your boss is probably the most important. It can make the difference between looking forward to going to work in the morning, and actively dreading it. Whether you already have a good relationship that you want to build on or a fraught one that you want to improve, this book can help. It offers practical and effective advice on how to survive personality clashes, delegate upwards, develop your influencing skills, and improve...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Get to grips with budgets
"Not everyone has a head for numbers, but if looking after them is part of your job, they're unavoidable. Getting to grips with budgets will boost your confidence with numbers and help you do your job better and more easily. The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists the best sources of further help."
Engels | 96 pagina's (2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Deal with stress
"While it's said that a little stress is good for you, too much can damage your health, your performance at work, and your relationships.With a self-assessment quiz, step-by-step action points, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of handy resources, the now fully revised and updated Deal with stress will help you understand the causes, recognise the symptoms, and find the right answers to put you back in control. You will find practical solutions...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Lead others effectively
"Developing leadership skills is essential if you want to clamber upthe career ladder. Whether you're trying to motivate and inspire yourimmediate team or manage your boss(es), this is the book for you.Packed with advice on how to build your influence positively, Lead others effectively will help you to realise your ambitions. Chapters include: Leading people in difficult times Managing change Taking responsibility Giving feedback well Setting clear objectives Developing influencing skillsLead others...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Negotiate successfully
"You negotiate every day in all types of situations and in many ways.This book will help build confidence and get better results withpractical advice on the basic principles of negotiation, how toprepare, how to keep cool under pressure and how to understand and usebody language to your advantage.The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses,step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind forthe future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summariesof key...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Deal with difficult people
"While we'd all like a quiet life, there are some situations that can't be ignored - a survey by Staffordshire University Business School estimated that 53% of us will be bullied at work at some point during our working life. In offices, workplace bullying is on the rise and discrimination is commonplace. Key customers are ever more demanding, won't take no for an answer and aren't afraid to tell you so. This fully revised and updated Steps to Success title offers solutions and step-by-step advice...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Manage meetings positively
"Too many meetings, never enough decisions. Badly-managed meetings are a waste of time, and often they just don't need to happen at all. If you have to chair or arrange meetings, this book will help you to make sure that they're useful and helpful exchanges of information rather than pointless shouting matches. Manage Meetings Positively offers practical solutions for many situations, including keeping the meeting on schedule, making sure decisions are reached, and dealing with conflict if tempers...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Franzeska G. Ewart Bryony Bell's star turn
"Christmas is coming and the Bell household is busier than ever. Fresh from recent success on Broadway, they now star in their own reality TV show, plus there's rehearsals for the school Nativity Play to perform and Bryony's got a secret plan to ensure that the festive season is full of surprises..."
Engels | 112 pagina's (3,9 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Franzeska G. Ewart Under the spell of Bryony Bell
"Bryony's back. Her family dreams of starring on Broadway but their first stop is the local Empress Theatre. Bryony, the only non-singing Bell, has to make do with befriending the has-been magician, Ken Undrum. The trouble begins when Ken and his white rabbits move into the Bell household. But can Ken's dark secret make everyone's dreams come true?"
Engels | 96 pagina's (4,5 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Kate Manning My Notorious Life
"To the dizzying heights of New York society. But as her fame grows and her name hits the headlines, her reputation as the most scandalous midwife of her time begins to threaten everything she holds dear. And one crusading official will not rest until he has brought about the downfall of `Madame X. It will take all of Axies cunning to save both herself and those she loves from ruin"
Engels | 352 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Alex Scarrow TimeRiders
The Infinity Cage - book 9
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . .The end is approaching for the TimeRiders. In a final effort to prevent time travel destroying history, Liam and Maddy jump forward to 2070 to confront the enigmatic Waldstein and prove once and for all if...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 3,2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014
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Mike Carson The manager
"Whats the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether youre managing a Premier League football team or a FTSE 100 company. Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be"
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Dobbs Down with Big Brother
"The author of this volume was present during the final decade of the Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the "Washington Post". While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctricians were transformed into presidents, while Communist Party leaders became jailbirds or newly-minted tycoons. He identifies the seeds of destruction, and shows how Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular, was the unwitting inspiration for the upheaval of the empire, while he thought he could save the Communist Party by reforming...
Engels | 513 pagina's (3,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Peter Clarke Mr Churchill's profession
"In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines,...
Engels | 368 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Babette Cole The ghostly blinkers
"Fetlocks Hall is in trouble! The school is desperately short of funds and, unless some money can be found, it may have to close! The Headmistress is not sure what to do. Penny is determined to help and draws on her magical powers in a nail-biting bid to solve the problem. Soon Penny and the ghosts, as well as many of the school's ponies, are involved in an exciting race to the finish!"
Engels | 128 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Babette Cole The unicorn princess
"Penny Simms is pony-mad and is thrilled when she wins a scholarship to Fetlocks Hall, an equestrian boarding school. But Fetlocks Hall is no ordinary school - besides schoolwork and riding lessons, Penny has the opportunity to acquire secret knowledge about horses as well as find out about the magical unicorn world of Equitopia. Soon she is caught up in a desperate struggle to help the unicorns combat a terrible plot by the evil Devlipeds, who are plotting to overthrow them. Is Penny the Unicorn...
Engels | 160 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Julia Sweeney If it's not one thing, it's your mother
"Julia Sweeney was nearing forty, and quite famous, when she got on a flight to China to turn her life upside down. She had a flourishing career as a comedienne and performer, ample friends and admirers, but what she didnt have was a child and, after a string of non-committal boyfriends, she decided to adopt alone.Mulan was one-and-a-half years old when she met her new mother, and every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was emphatically not named for). If It's Not One Thing, Its Your...
Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Katherine Swift The Morville hours
"In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's...
Engels | 384 pagina's (5,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Andrew R. Wilson Harold Robbins
the man who invented sex
"Drugs, corruption, greed and, just sometimes, redemption. The world's first playboy writer, Robbins reportedly frittered away $50 million on fast cars, loose women and high living. But, obsessed with fame and fortune, Robbins was a deeply complex and often controversial man, and even his closest friends and lovers could only guess at the past of the man behind the perma-tanned mask and gigantic mirrored sunglasses. This is the fascinating story of his extraordinary life."
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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