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Succeed as a new manager
"It's great to have a new challenge at work. Managing others, though,can be a daunting new responsibility and can be tricky if you're nowthe boss of former colleagues or friends. Packed with practical advice,it will help you sail through issues such as getting to know your team,dealing with internal politics, motivating others, and celebratingsuccess. Whatever your new job, Succeed As a New Manager will help youfind your feet and get great results along the way. This book alsoincludes a quiz, step-by-step...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Chitrita Banerji Eating India
"In Eating India, the award-winning writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on a thrilling journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. In mouth-watering prose, she explores how each wave of newcomers brought innovative new ways to combine the subcontinent's rich native spices, poppy seeds, saffron and mustard with the vegetables, fish, grains and pulses that are the staples of the Indian kitchen. Along the way, she visits traditional weddings, tiffin rooms,...
Engels | 3,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Sultan bin Muhammad al- Qasimi My early life
"With insight the dramatic palace coups in his own country and the neighbouring emirate of Ras al-Khaimah and the struggles for power during the formation of the United Arab Emirates. Revealing fascinating and untold parts of"
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Bill Barich A pint of plain
"When Bill Barich moved to Dublin, he began searching for a traditional pub to serve as his local. Although he had no shortage of choices, he had trouble finding one that measured up to the archetypal ideal. As he roams from hectic urban pubs to their dwindling rural counterparts, he chronicles the state of the `Irish' pub today, both in Ireland itself and all over the world. Entertaining, charming and full of insight, A Pint of Plain chronicles Barich's quest for the perfect pint, at the same time...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Tim Birkhead Bird sense
"What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Get the best from a career break
"Whether you're hankering after the gap year you never took, you have new family responsibilities, or you want to pursue a long-held dream, taking a career break can give you the time and space you need. Get the best from a career break offers you practical advice that will make even the most tentative plans a reality.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...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,5 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Precious Williams Precious
"`Where are you from?' is a question I always find hard to answer. 1971: an ad in Nursery World. `Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby' - me. The lucky applicants are a 57-year-old white woman and her daughter, who love babies, especially black babies. My mother arrives, a haughty Nigerian woman in a convertible with a moses basket on the seat beside her, setting the net curtains in this all-white council estate twitching. And though the whole place makes my privileged mother's...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Claire Dederer Poser
"First class. She fell madly in love.Over the next decade, she tackled Triangle, Wheel and the dreaded Crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. At the same time she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation.Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the way, Claire and her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good. Yoga seemed to fit right into this virtuous programme, but to her surprise...
Engels | 352 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Owen Matthews Glorious misadventures
"The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russias furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Wendy Plump Vow
"There are so many ways to find out. From a mobile phone. From a bank account. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005, Wendy Plump's neighbour came over to tell her that her husband was having an affair. The news hit her with an almost audible click. It was not a shock. Actually, it explained quite a lot. What she was not prepared for however was the revelation that he had an eight-month-old son living within a mile of their family home.Monogamy is one of the most...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Paul Rusesabagina An ordinary man
"Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flatter, and deception, Paul Rusesabagina managed to shelter more than 1,200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes during the Rwandan genocide. His autobiography explores the inner life of the man in a way the film could not. Rusesabagina discusses the racial complexity within his own life - he is a Hutu married to a Tutsi - and his complete estrangement from the madness that surrounded him during the genocide....
Engels | 288 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Joshua Cody Sic
Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted.
Engels | 272 pagina's (4,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Mick Brown The spiritual tourist
"The extraordinary figure of the 19th-century occult adventuress Madame Blavatsky, via the philosopher Krishnamurti, to the genial Scottish clairvoyant who claims that the Christ of the age is alive and well and living in London. In India, he encounters the miracle-working Sai Baba, and discusses reincarnation with the world's most revered spiritual figure, the Dalai Lama. In Germany, he joins the pilgrims who kneel at the feet of the young Indian Woman, Mother Meera, believing she is divine. In...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Atka Reid | Hana Schofield Goodbye Sarajevo
"But as the Bosnian war escalates and months go by without contact, their promise becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia, while Atka and their younger siblings battle for survival in a city overwhelmed by crime and destruction. Then, when Atka manages to find work as a translator, events take an unexpected turn, and the remarkable events that follow change her life, and those of her family, forever."
Engels | 352 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Christopher De Bellaigue Rebel land
"What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land the acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out. Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of Varto, a place left behind in Turkey's march to modernity, medieval in its attachment to race and religious sect, he explores the violent history of conflict between Turks, Kurds and Armenians, and the...
Engels | 1,7 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Dava Sobel A more perfect heaven
"During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory, in which he placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of our universe, with the planets, including the Earth, revolving about it. Titled his Commentariolus,...
Engels | 288 pagina's (4,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamin Mohammadi The cypress tree
"Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history.The Cypress Tree...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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John Burningham The time of your life
"Ageing is that part of the future that we try to keep in the future. And `nobody likes to get old ... that doesn't mean to say you have to be an old fart sitting in the pub talking about what happened in the 1960s' Mick Jagger. John Burningham has collected fine examples of the wisdom and wit that comes with age from those in the know, woven with a rich selection of quotes and fifty poignant drawings by Burningham himself."
Engels | 6,3 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Sheila Hancock The two of us
"Personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born in Manchester, the son of a lorry driver. When he arrived at RADA on a scholarship he felt an outsider. In fact his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and television was beginning to make its mark. With his roles in Z-Cars and The Sweeney, fame came quickly. But it was John's role as Morse that made him an icon. In 1974 he married Sheila Hancock, with whom he shared a working-class background and a RADA education. Sheila was already...
Engels | 320 pagina's (13 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Lynn Schooler Walking home
"In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by labouring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, travelling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America.Walking Home is filled with stunning...
Engels | 272 pagina's (3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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