This revised & expanded edition of the bestselling book The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman gives you everything you need to transform your business your career or your working life forever. An MBA at a top school is an enormous investment in time effort & cold hard cash. & if you don't want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank the chances are it simply isn't worth it. Josh Kaufman is the rogue professor of modern business education. Feted by everyone from the business media to Seth Godin & David Allen he's torn up the rulebook & given thousands of people worldwide the tools to teach themselves everything they need to know. " The Personal MBA" teaches simple mental models for every subject that's key to commercial success. From the basics of products sales & marketing & finance to the nuances of human psychology teamwork & creating systems this book distils everything you need to know to take on the MBA graduates & win. " File this book under: No Excuses". (Seth Godin author of "violet Cow" & " Linchpin"). " Finally here's a GBP10.99 MBA. Well on its way to becoming a business classic. You're pretty much guaranteed to get your money's worth
- if not much much more". (Jason Hesse " Real Business"). " Josh Kaufman has synthesized the most important topics in business into a book that truly lives up to its title. It's rare to find complicated concepts explained with such clarity. Highly recommended". (Ben Casnocha author of " My Start-Up Life"). Josh Kaufman is an acclaimed blogger & consultant who helps people improve their business skills. He previously worked at Proctor & Gamble. Since 2005 Josh has been helping people learn about business without remortgaging their lives through his website."
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An essential text for the AAT Level 4 Diploma in Accounting (Personal Taxation). This clear easy-to-read text is written closely to the syllabus & covers the 2012/13 tax year (Finance Act 2012). We understand that the AAT plan to assess this legislation from January 2013 to March 2014. Tutors & students are advised to check this with the AAT. ...

An essential text for the AAT Level 4 Diploma in Accounting (Personal Taxation). This clear easy-to-read text is written closely to the syllabus & covers the 2012/13 tax year (Finance Act 2012). We understand that the AAT plan to assess this legislation from January 2013 to March 2014. Tutors & students are advised to check this with the AAT. ...

The Personal Trainers Handbook is a one-stop practical reference guide to the day-to-day running of a personal training business covering: essential business skills
- how to target your market insurance finances marketing personal development
- fitness & safety looking after yourself managing the work/life balance how to deal with clients
- managing the first meeting creating the right programme typical client groups considerations for special client groups such as diabetics pregnant women & so on reference material
- sample forms that the reader can use useful websites professional bodies.



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Personality Individual Differences & Intelligence 2nd Edition offers accessible & in-depth coverage of classic & contemporary issues & actively encourages students to develop skills in critical analysis. All chapters have been extensively revised to include the latest research. This new edition

Includes:: four new chapters covering Health Psychology Well being & Personality Disorders Contemporary Ideas & Debates in Personality & Psychometric Testing. The book

Includes:: a range of pedagogical features to engage students stimulate interest & support learning at different levels. In addition the book is supported by a fantastic companion website which

Includes:: a range of exam & essay questions to allow students to consolidate their understanding weblinks & commentary on online journals to help students better understand the research process in the field & three chapters are available exclusively online: Academic Argument & Thinking Statistical Terms & Research Ethics.





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Each of the following statements relates to one of the four basic personality types: Melancholy Phlegmatic Sanguine & Choleric. Which do you relate to most? * I am well organised & keep everything in its proper place. * I find it hard to express excitement even about something that's really important to me. * Sometimes I forget where I parked the car. * I get annoyed when my employees don't follow my instructions to the letter. In this revised & expanded edition Florence Littauer provides valuable insight into your God-given personality & reveals how your unique blend of traits affects your emotions work performance & relationships. She also provides keys to understanding those around you. You will discover how to accept
- & even enjoy
- the traits that make each of us so different. Personality Plus is the tool you need to change your life for the better.

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The fairytale ending was just the beginning... Jessie Woods absolutely believes in fairytale endings. So would you if you had a recession-proof career as a daredevil TV host a palatial pink mansion & the dream boyfriend. But quicker than you can say Cinderella her life falls to pieces & suddenly her prince isnt quite so charming her party-loving friends disappear & even her faithful friend Visa no longer loves her... Utterly heartbroken & jobless Jessie is forced back home to live with her stepmum & two evil stepsisters. Is it time for her to give up on the dream
- or will Jessie learn that happy endings can come in the strangest of places? Avons hot new acquisition presents a tale of princes who turn out to be frogs Manolo Blahnik glass slippers & not-so-happily-ever-afters...
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From sketches through to final paintings Geoff Kersey shows how to incorporate linear & arial perspective how to create depth & distance with light & shade & how to breath a sense of realism into a picture. Flat dull landscapes can be changed into vibrant scenes full of life with sunlight & shadows; distance can be enhanced by placing warm colours in the foreground & cool colours in the background; foreground detail & soft background images can lead your eye into a picture. There are many more tricks which can be used to create an illusion of a three dimensional scene. Fields trees roads rivers bridges buildings harbours--whatever the subject you will need to learn about perspective depth & distance. ...

The author provides the means by which students & interior degigners can learn to draw interior perspectives through the use of a basic formula. He offers an easily accessible & quickly learned method that will serve every interior designers drawing needs. All that is required is familiarity with plan section & elevation drawings & the basic skills of using drafting tools. Beginning with a section on the fundamental technique of two-point perspective which is presented through 14 sequential steps Pile moves on to cover special situations (including one-point perspective circular forms reflective images views from above light effects & furniture); freehand perspective; camera techniques; case studies of 8 typical spaces which are illustrated by 5 well-known designers; analysis of finished perspectives; & a review of computer-aided techniques. Step-by-step demonstrations analysis of constructed layouts & illustrations of completed works make this volume a complete & accurate guidebook. ...

From its first edition in 1979 Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised & updated edition

Features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century placing them in historical & philosophical context information on thinkers of the nineteenth & early twentieth century whose relevance to modern social thought is only now being recognized e.g. Nietszche Saussure Simmel connections drawn between post-structuralist thinkers like Foucault & Derrida & the founding figures of sociology: Marx Weber & Durkheim a completely rewritten chapter on the Synthesisers
- Bourdieu Habermas & Giddens
- & their attempts to generate a consensus from the apparently conflicting theories of their predecessors a new chapter reviewing the rise of British sociology with particular reference to the political context & the changing role of class in sociological thinking a new chapter describing the attempts of sociological theorists to explain current concerns problems & issues in the areas of gender (homo)sexuality & ethnicity in the context of the postcolonial world. While retaining its emphasis & wealth of information on the founding figures of sociology this fifth edition now features a new easy-to-read format (with particular attention paid to the linking & cross-referencing of chapters) &

Includes:: much new material on contemporary social theory with particular reference to its attempts to tackle current problems & issues in the areas of gender sexuality & ethnicity in the postcolonial context.





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