Serves as a guide to streamlining, shopping for, & maintaining your ideal wardrobe all year round. Containing photographs of clothes & celebrities, this book covers the basics, outlining essential clothing items for each season. It also shows how to complement them with pieces that accentuate personal style. ...

Surround sound is rapidly displacing stereophonic sound as the accepted standard. This book provides the reader a foundation in the technology that can serve them regardless of the software they chose. It demystifies the multichannel process for both musical & visual environments. It teaches techniques for mixing & encoding for surround sound. ...

When crises do occur, a crisis management team talks through the company's business & legal goals, analyses the people & resources to deploy & the allies & experts to call upon, & debates the options before agreeing on a strategy. This title reveals the methods top companies use to tackle crises. ...

Quirky Japanese comedy drama. Kumiko Aso stars as Haname, a young woman who has run out of luck: the magazine she works for is about to fold, & her on-off boyfriend has just moved abroad. Unemployed & aimless, Haname finds herself at a crossroads with no idea which direction to take. Then, following the hospitalisation of her mother, she makes the life-changing discovery that her real father is not who she thought he was, but is actually a hippie drifter nicknamed Light Bulb (Morio Kazama). A series of bizarre events now leaves Haname with a comatose mother, an eccentric stranger for a dad
- & a whole new outlook on life.
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When too much depends on any one person
- even if he or she is the boss
- disaster is always just around the corner. It's time

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To Harley, the landscape around Wishful, California, is exhilarating, untamed, & more than a little dangerous. The same could be said for T J Wilder, who's invited himself along on her trek to study a rare coyote. Harley's career is riding on this trip, & she doesn't need a stubborn, incredibly sexy distraction. ...

Shows first-time trainers to prepare, deliver, evaluate, & fine-tune presentations. This work, in a question-&-answer format, offers tips to help novice trainers deal with issues from overcoming stage fright to energizing apathetic audiences to reaching diverse group members. It features checklists, sample forms, & training resources. ...