Night after night, chefs & their crews are able to multi task & produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place
- the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus & self-discipline. Through interviews with top chefs working in professional kitchens all over the world, culinary students, line cooks & restaurant employees, Charnas reveals the ten major principles of mise-en-place
- including ` Arranging spaces`, ` Finishing actions` & ` Slowing Down to Speed Up`
- & demonstrates how they can be used to boost productivity in all aspects of life.


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Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley & J M Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life`s work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father`s failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride & sense of self, his marriage & his family. Realising that he might lose them all, he uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty & happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie & their son seems back within Roscoe`s grasp. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their l&. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter &
- no longer an electrician or even a farmer
- he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley & JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life`s work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father`s failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride & sense of self, his marriage & his family. Realising that he might lose them all, he uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty & happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie & their son seems back within Roscoe`s grasp. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their l&. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter &
- no longer an electrician or even a farmer
- he must now carve out a place in a violent new world. ` Gorgeously spare & brilliantly insightful, Work Like Any Other is a striking debut about love & redemption, the heavy burdens of family & guilt, & learning how to escape them.. . Virginia Reeves is a major new talent` Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of The Son ` An exceptional novel.. .I absolutely loved it` Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds ` Assured & absorbing.. .a potent mix of icy honesty & heart-wrenching tenderness` Jim Crace, author of Harvest & Being Dead

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Google receives over 1, 500, 000 unique applications for jobs every year. This book shows you why. * How to learn from your best employees
- & your worst * Why you should only hire people who are smarter than you are * Take away managers` powers over employees * & why not to trust your gut instinct ` We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It`s not right that the experience should be so demotivating & dehumanizing.` So says Laszlo Bock, visionary head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge: this insight is the heart of his brilliant first book. A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work & live, Work Rules! offers both a new philosophy of the new world of work & a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent & ensuring the brightest & best prosper. Your workplace & how you treat your employees has a huge effect on your success. In twelve vivid chapters, Bock lays out a series of surprising lessons from a range of industries
- from household names to little-known innovators. He also takes us inside one of history`s most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world. His years of experience are distilled into a series of entertaining principles that are easy to put into action, whether you`re a team of one or a team of thousands. Work Rules! shows how to strike a balance between creativity & structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do. The way we work is changing
- are you?


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Amazingly, string games are found in diverse cultures around the world. Inuit & Navajo. African & Australian. Melanesian & Polynesian. & strings didn't only appeal to children. Working with lines & ropes was a skill that went with being a sailor, cowboy, & lumberjack. Showing off skills & engaging in fun, interactive gamesmanship has been part of growing up in many cultures the world over.A spliced rope transforms into a loop. In a matter of seconds turn an object like a teacup into cat's whiskers. Show off tricks by sleight-of-h&. Learn how to work the strings. it's fun. Invent patterns & compete for speed. ...

You want to travel around the world. But how can you afford such a trip? A grim spell of working overtime & denying yourself a social life is one route to being able to join a safari in Tanzania, a water sport instructor's course on the Mediterranean or a bungee jump in New Zeal&. But what if it were possible to skip this stage & head off towards the horizon sooner than that? Work Your Way Around the World is the trusted guide for the self-funded world traveller, now in its 15th edition & fully updated to explain how you can fund your trip by finding temporary work opportunities abroad
- both in advance & on the spot while travelling around the world. Work-for-keep arrangements on a New Zealand farm or Costa Rican eco-lodge will mean that you have to save far less than if you booked a long-haul package holiday to those destinations. Incorporating hundreds of first-hand accounts from people who have actually done the jobs with a mass of hard factual information to offer authoritative advice on how to find work from selling ice cream in Cape town to working as a film extra in Bangkok, Work Your Way Around the World gives information on all the main industries offering temporary work including: Tourism Teaching English Childcare Voluntary work Business Hotels & catering Pubs & Clubs Ski Holiday companies Activity holidays Farming & many more... Work Your Way Around the World also

Includes:: useful information on dates & details of harvest from Denmark to New Zealand & contains a clear, country-by-country guide to all the job opportunities to be found around the world. Work as you travel around the world to self-fund your trip of a lifetime. Working abroad is an excellent way to experience a foreign culture from the inside, but job & work opportunities abroad, like jobs at home, must be ferreted out. Work Your Way Around the World will help you do just that.


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Travelling the world is something everyone should do. But a trip of a lifetime does come at a cost, & if you don`t want to wait years saving, then working your way around the world is for you. For summer jobs, volunteering or jobs abroad, Work Your Way Around the World is the number one guide for the self-funded world traveller providing all the information you need to successfully find work abroad & have the trip of a lifetime. Choose from hundreds of potential job opportunities in Work Your Way Around the World, from a ski instructor in the Alps or a teacher in Italy, to picking strawberries in Denmark or farming in Louisiana. Also

Includes:: all the essential practical advice you need to safely travel the globe, such as work visas, medical information & permits. Find out:
- Hundreds of job opportunities across the globe
- Up-to-date & current contact details for each job listing
- Insightful case studies from travellers who have been there & done it
- Advice for applying & securing jobs abroad
- Culture & lifestyle information by country Discover how to fund your trip around the world without breaking the bank.






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National Geographic is pleased to present our new Collector`s Series. Each 6” by 6 1/2” gem is a fresh presentation of one of our world-famous photography books. A beautiful special gift & lovely to own, in a size you can easily carry & easily afford. Our first volume, ” Work: The World in Photographs”, showcases this most universal human pastime through images culled from National Geographic`s vast photographic archive as well as other important collections. This fascinating, wide-ranging volume presents a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work
- in great cities & tiny villages; in 19th-century China & 21st-century New York; in fields, factories, food carts, four-star restaurants, & just about everywhere else we earn our keep. Here are cowboys & clowns, shepherds & shopkeepers, street musicians & artists` models all plying their assorted trades; on one page a professional quarterback fires off a pass as the crowd cheers him on, on the next a lone fisherman casts his net in the silent solitude of a Pacific lagoon, & on the next a nomadic tribesman erects a yurt on the Mongolian plain. Work is a subject that is both worldwide & personal. It is a shared endeavor at the very core of our identity. From the glamour of a Parisian fashion show to the grit of an African diamond mine, there are countless ways to make a living. The book illuminates scores of them
- many in never-before-published photographs
- offering revealing glimpses into various eras & cultures & engaging the reader with entertaining text & informative captions. With a wonderful mix of the utterly unexpected & the instantly familiar, this vivid panorama takes an essential human activity & shows us myriad ways in which work is at once universal & delightfully, unforgettably unique.


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Bob Slocum is anxious, bored & fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Heller`s workplace is a cradle of paranoia, bravado & nauseating banter, forever shadowed by that perennial question, who`s really running the show here? In Heller`s hands, our daily grind has never seemed so absurd. Selected from the book Something Happened by Joseph Heller VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Drinking by John Cheever Swimming by Roger Deakin Liberty by Virginia Woolf Death by Julian Barnes. ...

This famous book, representing some of the finest thinking & writing about the history of American labor in the twentieth century, is now revised to incorporate two important recent essays, one surveying the historical study of the CIO from its founding to its fiftieth anniversary in 1985, another placing in historical & comparative perspective the declining fortunes of the labor movement from 1980 to the present. As always, Brody confronts central questions, both substantive & historiographical, focusing primarily on the efforts of laboring people to assert some control over their working lives, & on the equal determination of American business to conserve the prerogatives of management. Long a classic in the field of American labor history, valued by general readers & specialists alike for its brilliance of argument & clarity of style, Workers in Industrial America is now more timely than ever. ...