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G&D Media Feel the Deal
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G&D Media Success Mentality
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G&D Media Speak Up
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Sourcebooks, Inc One Great Speech: Secrets, Stories, and Perks of
Book SynopsisTell your story, change your lifeThink about people who are paid to speak at events. They're all celebrities, former politicians, or award-winning experts in their fields, right? Wrong. The truth is that every year, thousands of ordinary people generate five- and even six-figure incomes—just from speaking. And you can too.With the right know-how, anyone can harness the power of their own story to carve out a lucrative speaking career. Listen in as veteran speaking agent James Marshall Reilly shares insider knowledge and tells compelling stories about dozens of successful speakers. Packed with clearly defined strategies and techniques, this book offers the tips and information you'll need to be well positioned for success as a paid speaker, including how to:Identify, hone, and frame your personal story—or message—so other people will pay to hear itCreate compelling marketing materials and get an agentWork with that agent to develop a personal brand and own your nicheIncrease your speaking fees over time, interact with audiences, and handle failureUse paid speeches to sell an idea, attract customers, build your profile, and generate revenue for your business or nonprofitOne Great Speech is the only resource written by an insider that details the ins and outs of the paid speaking industry. It is the essential blueprint for finding that one great speech that will lead you to speaking success.Trade Review"Readers will be drawn in to the well-organized and conversational style of the book...Reilly delivers hope that these people can join others in the accessible speaker's market to grow their brand and personal wealth." - Booklist
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Sourcebooks, Inc If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising
Book SynopsisEven when your job can be done from anywhere, the place you call home still matters-a lot.By the old rules of work, your dream career determines where you live. If you want to make movies, move to Los Angeles. If you want to work in publishing, you must be in New York. And if you're launching a start-up, you'll only succeed in Silicon Valley.But with the meteoric rise of remote and freelance work, more people than ever are becoming location independent. Even doctors, teachers, and other people in more traditional occupations have to make tough choices about where they settle, because living in the right place can still make all the difference for your success and happiness.So if work won't dictate where you live, how will you ever decide?If You Could Live Anywhere answers that question. Melody Warnick unpacks the big-picture concerns that we often miss when we're writing pros-and-cons lists about potential destinations. Because the secret to being happy isn't moving, it's aligning your location with your values. You'll learn how to craft a personal location strategy that will make the most of your money, your community, and your life, with success stories from people who flexed their location independence to find homes and work they love.The future of work is clear: it can happen wherever you are. So where do you really want to be?
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Childfree Guide to Life and Money
Book SynopsisAn essential and comprehensive personal finance and money management guide for Childfree and Permanently Childless people.Design the life you want, then create the right financial plan to get you there.Financial planning looks vastly different for DINKs (dual-income, no kids) and SINKs (single-income, no kids). But nearly all the advice out there assumes you have children or will have them someday. Everything from pursuing the kind of career you want; deciding whether you want to buy a house, rent, or hit the road as a digital nomad; to planning and filing taxes; budgeting and investing your money; and getting set up for retirement or your later years is different. Simply said: When you aren''t following the Standard LifeScript (go to college, get married, buy a house, have kids), you have the time, money, and freedom to do what you want.Childfree Wealth Specialist Dr. Jay Zigmont flips FIRE?Financial Independence, Retire Early?on its head, showing how people without kids can live the FILE life?Financial Independence, LIVE Early?by following his eight No-Baby Steps. Whether you''re single, coupled up, or planning the perfect Golden Girls living arrangement with your best friends, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money is the most comprehensive resource for designing your life, figuring out your finances, and living your best life.
£13.49
Authorhouse UK Selling Through Partnering Skills: A Modern
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Authorhouse UK Troubled Skylines: Travails of Nigerian
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Thick Press Its Too Late. Do It Anyway
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£17.10
Organizational Dialogue Press The Rainmaker Effect: Contradictions of the
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£11.39
Hard Ball Press Good Trouble: A Shoeleather History of Nonviolent
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£10.20
Frick Industries LLC The Self Publishing Toolbox: Tools, Tips, and
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£999.99
Mitchell Productions, LLC Pearls: Wisdom and Advice from Emerging Women
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£23.74
Nativetrust Consulting, LLC The Power of Digital Policy: A practical guide to
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£34.20
Alex Vasquez The Real Estate Bible: How To Follow Your Heart
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£18.95
Greenleaf Book Group LLC Return on Ambition: A Radical Approach to Your
Book SynopsisHow do you increase the speed and probability of success--given your ambitions? How do you live an enjoyable and fulfilling life? Most ambitious people strive in at least one of these regards. Return on Ambition gives you a holistic and practical model for thriving with both success and fulfillment. Return on Ambition is itself the result of an ambitious effort to harness insights from recent research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and it recommends simple, yet powerful, practices including the following-- - The 3 Truisms of Return on Ambition: aspects of an ambitious life that you must understand and accept to live with less regret. - The 4 Premises of Ambition: dimensions that help you contemplate what your unique, personal ambition is. - The Return on Ambition Self-Assessment: indicative measures of how well you are currently getting the return that you could. - The Interdependencies among Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being: research and wisdom show that compromises in any of the three elements will cause declines in the others over time. - The 7 Frenemies: descriptions of personal attributes that are your core strengths as the ambitious person you are, but that are also the biggest obstacles to your success and fulfillment in life. - The Return on Ambition Toolbox: 4 tools that will help you articulate and pursue your ambition, expand your self-awareness, and help you learn consciously. - 4 Self-Coaching Sessions: instructions for 30-60 minute contemplations stimulated by eye-opening questions. Authors Nielsen and Tillisch are insiders in the world of grand ambitions, which helps them to understand and take the perspective of their readers. Nicolai Chen Nielsen is an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advises clients on leadership development, culture change, and agile transformations. He is the co-author of Leadership at Scale and has published several articles on personal development. He is currently based in New York with his wife Samira and their two dogs, Napoleon and Caesar. Nicolai Tillisch is a part of Cultivating Leadership, the global coaching firm, and a co-founder of Deliberate Development, the venture behind the Daily Goals software solution. He has been a consultant with McKinsey & Company and was an executive with DDB Worldwide, Hutchison, and Nokia Siemens Networks. Nicolai lives with his wife Ida and their children, Margaux and Axel, in Dubai.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business
Book SynopsisMore and more, women today are challenging long-held beliefs about what they can and can't do. They're speaking up, stepping out, breaking through, and redefining what society has always told them was true about their capabilities. In Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business, Andi Simon tells the stories of 11 women from different industries who opened up the possibilities for their professional careers and personal lives by being authentic, taking risks, and pushing past the obstacles others placed before them. These are stories that tell of innovation, show how women rise, and ignite change. Andi, not only a senior business executive and tenured professor but also a corporate anthropologist, an award-winning author, and a successful entrepreneur, debunks myth after myth as she profiles the women in the book and offers key wisdom, insights, and observations through her unique lens. Whether about entrepreneurs, innovators, scientists, academics, attorneys, or leaders in other fields, the stories demonstrate how all the women have broken down walls and paved the way to more. Readers quickly come to understand that this book isn't just about the 11 women who are pushing boundaries and transforming business, culture, and society; it's about inspiring all women to achieve and showing them a way to launch forward. Rethink provides the tools and framework readers will need to question the norms around them, challenge their own current thinking, and smash the preconceived notions about themselves that can so often hold them back from realizing their goals and dreams. Readers will learn how to take a hands-on approach to examining and rethinking their own personal and professional lives in order to recognize a fuller potential.
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Yum Yum Morale LLC Publishing House Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague
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Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC Presence and Social Obligation – An Essay on the
Book SynopsisIn precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the nation-state frame of membership that such schemes depend on is becoming evermore evident, as non-citizens form a growing proportion of the populations that welfare states attempt to govern. In Presence and Social Obligation, James Ferguson argues that conceptual resources for solving this problem are closer to hand than we might think. Drawing on a rich anthropology of sharing, he argues that the obligation to share never depends only on membership, but also on presence: on being “here.” Presence and Social Obligation strives to demonstrate that such obligatory sharing based on presence can be observed in the way that marginalized urban populations access state services, however unequally, across the global South. Examples show that such sharing with non-nationals is not some sort of utopian proposal but part of the everyday life of the modern service-delivering state. Presence and Social Obligation is a critical yet refreshing approach to an ever-growing way of being together. Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction Part II: Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share Part III: Theoretical Commentary and Clarification
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Anthony Insolia The Heart and Brain of Your Business: The Role of
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Yokel Local Publications The World's Best Buyer Persona System: The Buyer
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£18.19
Sean Rosensteel The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World
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£10.22
Xelentia Ltd. Becoming the Most Valuable Professional in Your
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£999.99
Fast Company Press Present Future
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£11.25
Cla Consulting LLC Rebel Success for Leaders: Lead, Grow and Sell Fearlessly
£15.19
Fidelis Publishing, LLC Iron-Sharpened Leadership: Transforming
Book SynopsisIron-Sharpened Leadership is a leadership book the reader will find valuable and inspiring. This leadership book is based on operational experience and is peppered with inspirational stories along with actions one can take to become a more effective leader. Gronski takes a values-based approach to leadership effectiveness and the book is oriented along the lines of his leadership philosophy which includes character, competence, and resilience.Trade Review"The never-ending supply of leadership books has been enriched with the release of Iron-Sharpened Leadership , which offers a clear recipe for organizational effectiveness and personal success." Giedrimas Jeglinskas, Assistant Secretary General for Executive Management at NATO and former Deputy Defense Minister of Lithuania"I highly recommend Iron Sharpened Leadership . This book is filled with great advice forged by the author's lifetime of experience as a successful business leader and exemplary military officer." Mark Powell, Lackawanna County District Attorney"Missing amongst the hordes of success-obsessed 'rise-and-grind' social media influencers are men of consequenceleaders who have not only succeeded at the highest levels, but done so when lives depended on it. Success for such men is not a status symbol, but a requirement. Major General John Gronski is such a man, and Iron-Sharpened Leadership fills a considerable void in the self-help world because he understands that leadership is less about demanding respect and obedience than it is about displaying ultimate loyalty, camaraderie, and sacrifice. By the end of his Army career, he had led thousands of men through perilous circumstances, and all those men had gladly walked into harm's way because they believed in their leader. This book expertly distills the Major General's extraordinary life experiences into usable lessons for people from all walks of life working in every industry. When you are finished translating the book's lessons into action, you will be giving fewer orders; instead, you will have transformed your own leadership presence into one that inspires people to regularly go above and beyond what is expected." Chef Robert Irvine, host of Restaurant: Impossible"For those who have been in combat we always have a special place in our heart for those we shared that time with....John Gronski is one of those people. His competence, commitment and compassion while leading the PA 28th BCT in Ramadi in 2006 will always remind me of what "right in a leader looks like." In this book he sets down the traits and principles all leaders need to exhibit and execute every day. Read and reflect then do what you can to personify these ideals as a person of character and virtue. You and your organization will be better for it."Robert B. Neller, general USMC retired 37th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps"'Mentorship is a contact sport!' That's just one of the many leadership observations offered by Major General John Gronski in his new book, Iron-Sharpened Leadership: Transforming Hard Fought Leadership Lessons into Action . Gronski's insights are not only for military leaders; leaders in every walk of life will benefit from his long experience in both military and civilian careers. He uses his personal successes and failures to highlight practical leadership principles that will resonate with leaders at all levels. A great book by a great leader. Keep this on your bookshelf for ready reference."Carter F. Ham, general, U.S. Army Retired, president and chief executive officer, Association of the United States Army"Gronski shines in his gritty and authentic look into leadership. I keep a copy of the book on my desk and you should too. Read it!"Wes Gray Ph.D., CEO of Alpha Architect, and former U.S. Marine Captain
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Columbia Global Reports The Fed Unbound: The Trouble with Government by
Book SynopsisDo the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the banking system have pushed the Fed to take on more and more responsibilities to keep the economy out of recession, as it did during the 2008 crisis, and again during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it created $3 trillion to stop another financial panic. Legal scholar and former Treasury official Lev Menand explains how the Fed did this, and argues that it is time to cure the disease that has plagued the American economy for decades, and not just rely on the Fed to treat its symptoms. The Fed Unbound is an urgent appeal to Congress to reform the U.S. economic and financial infrastructure.Trade Review“The best book ever on the Federal Reserve system.” —Project Syndicate “On a monetary-policy bookshelf weighed down with thick, self-congratulatory tomes from big-name practitioners who too often obscure more than they explain, Menand delivers a minor miracle of sorts: a short, crisp, nuanced volume that will help you understand what the Fed is up to.” —The Wall Street Journal “A clear, textbook-style history of the founding of the Fed and an explanation of what it actually does in the money markets.” —The Washington Post “In a refreshingly quick read, Lev Menand takes a deep look at the history of the Federal Reserve, its recent actions in times of crisis, and its future possibilities.” —Porchlight Books, editor’s choice “Lev Menand’s The Fed Unbound is an important and provocative book that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the Fed’s role in the financial system and the economy.” —Business Economics “A clear and cogent assessment of how the nation’s central bank might be reformed.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating and deep analysis of what has gone wrong with the American financial system. Lev Menand peels back the layers of mythology and hagiography surrounding the Federal Reserve, to reveal just another government agency that fell in love with deregulation and now struggles with the consequences. The rise and rise of the repo market is central to how a stable and well-functioning financial system became so precarious. This is a must read for anyone who cares about macroeconomic policy and the future of the global economy.” —Simon Johnson, professor at MIT Sloan, and co-author of 13 Bankers “No American institution is more important, or more opaque to the outsider, than the Fed. Now, Lev Menand has somehow, magically, made its functioning, its history, its limitations, and its possible futures completely lucid, even for the non-mathematically inclined, and, along the way, managed to sound several alarms about the risks even the most well-meaning opaque institution presents to democracy.” —Adam Gopnik, author of A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism “Born out of the need to govern the private money supply in a democracy, the Federal Reserve System manages a marriage between the state and the banks it is designed to regulate. As Menand shows, neither partner has been able to effectively contain the other. The outcome of this ‘quixotic dance’ is The Fed Unbound. A crucial read for anybody interested in the structural causes of today’s monetary policy.” —Katharina Pistor, professor at Columbia Law School and author of The Code of Capital: How Law Creates Wealth and Inequality “Over the past century, the Federal Reserve has grown massively in power, size and influence. Yet the reasons for this evolution, and the myriad consequences that flow from it, have often remained shrouded from view. In The Fed Unbound, Menand provides a provocative and fresh account of the Fed’s rise to one of the most important institutions of our time. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in how the government or financial markets actually work.” —Kathryn Judge, professor at Columbia Law School and author of Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source “Lev Menand explains that shadow banking and some newer innovations should be treated as within the private part of the monetary system, while the Fed should not be treated as an all-purpose substitute for the elected Congress. These profound propositions need urgent attention given U.S. world leadership depends on the effectiveness, integrity, and legitimacy of the Fed. Read this book.” —Paul Tucker, author of Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State “The Fed Unbound is a wonderfully lucid and provocative account of the Fed’s ever-expanding role in the U.S. and global economies. Everyone who reads Menand’s account will rethink their understanding of the Fed’s place in the U.S. economy and in the government. This book will be a landmark in the growing field of law and macroeconomics.” —Yair Listokin, professor at Yale Law School and author of Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Remedies to Recessions ”Lev Menand’s incisive analysis of the Fed’s authorities could not be timelier. The Fed Unbound demonstrates how our chronic dependency on the central banking system—and thus, private banks—has failed to benefit the broader public, even in times of crises. In a rare feat, Menand’s work not only interrogates the Fed’s power on a technical level, but points toward the reconstruction of power that should not be.” —Raúl Carrillo, Deputy Director, Law & Political Economy Project
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Platform Books An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen
Book SynopsisIn more than five decades as a reporter, editor and publisher, Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time.As a young journalist for I.F. Stone''s Weekly, one of the leading publications of the turbulent 1960s and in 18 years at The Washington Post , he covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, the Soviet Union at the height of Kremlin power, Washington D.C. as National Editor, "Swinging London" in the 60s and Thatcher''s Britain in the 1980s.At Random House and the company he founded, PublicAffairs, he was responsible for books by four presidents -Carter, Clinton, Obama and Trump; celebrated Washington figures including Robert McNamara, House Speaker Tip O''Neill and Vernon Jordan, first ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan, the billionaire George Soros, basketball superstars Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson, legendary spies, political dissidents and the writers, Molly Ivins and Peggy Noonan, among many others.In this unusually wide-ranging memoir, Osnos uses a reporter''s skills to portray historic events and encounters beginning with his parents'' extraordinary World War II experiences escaping Europe to India, where he was born, to the present day. He shares unique portraits of the famous people he worked with and an insider''s perspective of the news and publishing businesses. As he charts the evolution of his career and recent history, he also explores the influence and impact of family, character, curiosity, luck, resilience, a well-pressed suit and some unexpected wrinkles.Also featuring a "virtual attic" of photographs, documents and video at anespeciallygoodview.com.
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Greenleaf Book Group LLC Optimizing Strategy for Results: A Structured
Book SynopsisEvery executive acknowledges the importance of having a business strategy, but when it comes to creating and implementing a strategy for their organization, the "how" and "what" of strategic planning becomes elusive. In their manuscript, Optimizing Strategy for Results, authors Price, Waema, and Baiya give leaders the tools, processes, and step-by-step instructions to- * Establish a proven framework for creating a strategy that can be dynamic and responsive; * Address the importance of creating a culture aligned to create and execute on this strategy; and * Align the diversities of people's talent, skills, and passions as a key component of leveraging their strengths throughout the strategy continuum. Strategy is a process, not an event. When it is done well, strategy includes great preparation over time, vigorous debate about what should and should not be a part of the strategy commitment, meticulous planning, ongoing focus, regular review, meaningful evaluation, and learning. Optimizing Strategy for Results will teach readers how to prepare for, create, and optimize strategy in order to achieve results
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Savvy Dimension Publishing Stretching: The Race toward Diversity, Equity,
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Willchar Press Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective
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Westgroupone, Inc. DBA Smoke Tree Press Yes! You Can Do It!: The Young Woman's Guide to
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Raging River Press From Fire to Water: Moving Through Change - Six
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Paul White Enterprises Play to Win: 5 Principles to Succeed in Life and
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Kg Builder Solutions Find Your Six: Stop Lead Generating & Start
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Multilingual Media The 2022 Nimdzi 100
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Ruby Fremon LLC Potent Leadership: Drop the Mask, Ignite the Real
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£16.49
Widervision Media The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey
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£999.99
Dr. Jared Smith LLC Learning Curve: Lessons on Leadership, Education,
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Cougar Hill Publishing The Values Delta: A Small & Simple Way to Make a
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Mike Warner Playlists Una Guía Para El Músico
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Pullington Bogota to Beirut: Halcyon Days in the Whisky
Book SynopsisBeguiled by the eccentric, the foreign and the unusual, David Maxwell-Scott gives a lighthearted account of his time in the drinks business. From his first days in the wine trade in 1962 to his role as managing director of J&B Whisky, David's story spans three decades and five continents, and is enlivened by an engaging cast of characters. A compelling storyteller, David draws from an era when maverick traders and unorthodox marketing often combined to make his role both joyful and hugely successful. AUTHOR'S ROYALTIES WILL BE DONATED TO CAFOD'S HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR UKRAINE.Table of Contents1 In the Beginning PART 1 ~ BY WAY OF BACKGROUND ~ 1962-1969 2 A Wine Cellar under Charing Cross Station 3 Camden Town 4 Speyside Distilling 5 Ireland, North and South 6 Oporto and the Douro 7 Jerez and La Rioja 8 Bordeaux and Burgundy 9 Harlow and Stockwell PART 2 ~ EXPORTING ~ 1970-1996 10 Latin America 11 Colombia 12 Andre 13 Venezuela 14 Brazil 15 Argentina 16 Uruguay and Paraguay 17 The Competition 18 J&B Rare: The New Kid on the Block 19 Peru 20 Chile 21 Communication and Travel 22 Bolivia 23 Ecuador 24 The Guianas 25 Panama 26 Central America 27 Mexico 28 West Africa 29 Firing an Agent 30 The Caribbean 31 Hispaniola 32 Dorrien's Boys 33 The Port Game 34 Europe: Beginning with Spain 35 Intermezzo in Italia 36 Franco's Spain 37 Portugal 38 Back to Spain in the Sixties 39 A Cautionary Tale 40 Spain: The First Hurdle 41 Franz v the Professor 42 Spain: Overtaking Johnnie Walker 43 How to Catch a Condor 44 The Magic of Scotland 45 The Million Bottle Parties 46 Cooper Goes to Epernay 47 Publicite Francaise 48 Ignition in Spain 49 Don Rafael's Fish 50 Learning Italian 51 Modern Marketing 52 Lunch in Greece 53 Dinner in Las Vegas 54 Travelling with Great Uncle Bulgaria 55 Return to Go 56 Game Fishing off Cape Town 57 Musical Chairs 58 The End of the Ullivarri Era 59 Emerging Markets: The Third Wave 60 The Old School Tie at Work in Monte Carlo 61 The Power of the Label 62 On Tipping and Practical Jokes 63 The Barons Get the Sack 64 Operation Dunkirk 65 Spain: Was it Just Luck? 66 The Lebanon Acknowledgements Image and Photograph Credit
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Paul Harper Publishing Reinventing the Financial Advice Profession: From
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Gretton Books The Soviet Union and Its Successors 19702020
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Newcastle Libraries & Information Service Speaking as we Find: Women's Experience of
Book SynopsisThis book takes us back to the beginning of the 1980s against the background of the impending miners’ strike and the strained relationship between the unions and the Thatcher government. Caroline Barker Bennett recorded the experiences of twenty women industrial workers on Tyneside. The eldest of these women started work in 1934 and the youngest in 1981. These interviews are documented here and give a unique insight into the lives of working women at the time. Working as an industrial chaplain, Caroline got to know the women through visiting George Angus, an engineering company in Wallsend, and Louise Argyle, a women’s clothing co-operative, in Hebburn. These fascinating oral accounts document the changing conditions, struggles and everyday experiences of working in many different factories, shops and offices and are a valuable contribution to an important part of the region’s social history that is often overlooked.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Leaving School at Starting Work 2. Becoming Workers 3. Shop and Factory 4. Changing Jobs 5. Working in Engineering 6. A Way of Life that Went: The Colliery Shop 7. Experience as Supervisors 8. Views on Management and Trade Unions 9. The Clothing Industry 10. Working in a Co-operative Conclusion
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Nulla Fraus Publishing Tu N'Es Pas Un Imposteur: Le guide d'un
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Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd Wrestling in Honey: The Selected Writings of Martin Kelner
The long-awaited collection of some of the best columns, principally on sport, written by Martin Kelner, gathered together for the first time with some memoires and unpublished material. With a foreword by Gary Lineker.
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Marble Hill Publishers MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history of
Book SynopsisRichard Charkin’s experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been (at different times) a scientific and medical publisher, a journal publisher, a digital publisher and a general publisher. He has worked for family-owned, publicly-owned, university-owned companies and start-ups. In this memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrate the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purpose of publishing. Of course there are stories about well-known personalities he has encountered in his career - Madonna, Jeffrey Archer, Robert Maxwell, Paul Hamlyn, Mohammed Al-Fayed and many more. But his primary purpose is to provide an insider’s account of the social, technological, commercial and geographical developments as seen through the eyes of a gifted all-round publisher who has made a very significant contribution to the profession. This is an insider’s account of the last fifty years of the publishing industry: the essential guide for writers, readers, students of publishing, and book industry professionals including librarians, booksellers, literary agents, printers, copyright lawyers, digital experts. Table of ContentsPreamble; 1. Starting Out; Working Life of a Young Editor; Family Ownership and Management; Fast Forward Fifty Years: Last Day at the Bloomsbury Office. 2. The Brave New World of Scientific Publishing; Publishing and the Life Sciences; Leaving Pergamon in Abrupt Circumstances; The Not so Brave New World of Oxford University Press; Decision-Making at Oxford University Press: A Beginner’s Guide. 3. A Time of Crisis; Cost-cutting, Upheavals and Outsourcing; First Encounters with Computers; The Transformation of Printing ; The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition; Trying to Leave Oxford University Press. 4. Things Speed Up; The World of Trade Publishing; Bad Behaviour in the Roaring 80s; Academic vs Trade Publishing; The Perils of Literary Publishing; Distinctly Non-Literary Bestsellers. 5. Consolidation, Change and Controversies; The ‘Big Bang’ of Trade Publishing; The Changing Retail Landscape; The Demise of Book Clubs; The Decline of Theological Publishing; The End of the Net Book Agreement; Reed Elsevier: The Anti-Book Publisher. 6. The Start-up Years; The Art of the Publishing Deal; Multimedia CD-ROMs; Innovation and Adding Value;The Rise and Rise of Journal Publishing. 7. A Global Family Business; Nurturing Nature; Open Access takes on Journal Publishing; Do No Evil: Going to Battle against a Tech Giant; Macmillan India: an Imperial Legacy; Children’s Publishing Grows Up; Accidental Successes; Managerial Diversions. 8. Making Bloomsbury Less Magical; Wisden – a Long-running Love Affair; Becoming a Digital Publisher in a Digital World; Public Library Online: Trying to Modernise Library Services; The Culture of Bloomsbury and Industry Progress; Design, Marketing and Sales. 9. British Publishing: An International Bestseller; The Growth of ELT Publishing; The Dominance of the English Language; Adventures in the Gulf; International Diplomacy. 10. Being a Mensch; Publicity and Sales in a Digital World; Publishing by Numbers; Coming to Terms with Agents; Print on Demand and the Curse of Book Returns; How Do you Value a Publishing Company?; The Ever-Changing Geography of London Publishing; An International Publisher in a Post-Brexit World. Afterword; Reasons to be Cheerful, or Why 2022 might be Better than 1972; Publishing People; Companies; Technology; Marketplace; Authors. And Finally…Post-amble
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