Today the very word meeting conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit airless offices. People sitting around tables unsure why they are there & wishing they were somewhere else. Hour after hour. Day after day. David Pearl can change that & in this book he shows how you can take back control of your working life. Will There Be Donuts?" is about a big mistake that almost all companies are going to make this year. & the next. & the one after that. Well call it nearly meeting. It happens the length & breadth of the business world from boardroom to shop floor. Will There Be Donuts? is business expert David Pearls first book & he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings & crucially how to make them great. His client list is a whos who of FTSE & NYSE names & they seek his advice on how to engage employees at every level to make their meetings more efficient effective & engaging. His list of achievements in the field
Includes:: * Identifying GBP30million of savings by changing ineffective meetings at GSK. * Persuading the CEO of Skandia International to saw through his boardroom table. * Showing the Department of Work & Pensions that having your mobile phone on in a meeting could be seen as a good thing. At every level of an organisation not just the very top. if your meetings are ineffective then its likely that your business is too. " Will There Be Donuts?" will reinvigorate you as a person & as an employer/employee. Consider the following: You are in a role which requires you to attend three hours of meetings a day. Lets say youd score those meetings 70% effective. Lets also imagine there are 100 people like you in the company & that your average wage is GBP60k. You personally just wasted 5 whole weeks in meeting time this year. Your company lost a combined 2500 days of productivity; thats the equivalent of 11 person-years costing the company GBP675 000. Whats more if you were to continue at this rate for a conventional career youd be burning a total of 9 years 6 months & 3 days of your working life. All for the sake of some ineffective meetings. " Will There Be Donuts?" will help you reclaim your working life."
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This title is tenth in the brilliantly addictive series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed & popular writer. Poppy & Graham are staying in a grand country house for the weekend to help at a family christening party but they're seriously unimpressed. Dull dull dull! Not to mention the fact that baby Marmaduke has taken a shine to Graham & won't let him out of his sight without shrieking the place down. Then events take a mysterious turn when a filthy tramp turns up in the churchyard...dead. As Poppy & Graham begin to dig around they realize that all is not as it seems... ...

The latest title in the bestselling Last Word" series. Why do birds sing at dawn? Whats the slowest a plane can fly without stalling & falling out of the sky? & how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? The eagerly-awaited new " Last Word" collection has the answers to these questions & many more. Seven years on from " Does Anything Eat Wasps?" the " New Scientist" series still rides high in the bestseller lists with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more stimulating or more enjoyable. Like " Why Dont Penguins Feet Freeze?" " Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" & " Why Cant Elephants Jump?" this collection of wry & well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling questions is guaranteed to delight." ...

With this his first collection Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark Carver showed how humour & tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people & won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories poems & essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life. ...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...doesn't it? What happens when two people decide to give themselves the year off...from each other? Annie & Dan were the perfect couple. But now the not-so-newly weds feel more like flatmates than soul mates & wonder where all the fun & fireworks went.. . When Annie lands her big break in a smash-hit show that's heading for the bright lights of Broadway she's over the moon. Goodbye remote Irish village of Stickens hello fabulous Big Apple! But with their relationship already on the rocks how will Annie & Dan survive the distance? They're hitting the pause button on their marriage. One year off from each other
- no strings attached except a date to meet in twelve months at the Rockefeller Centre to decide their fate. Will they both turn up? Or is it too late for love? Lose yourself in a fabulously entertaining & poignant love story
- perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella & Marian Keyes.

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Will.i.am: The Unauthorized Biography" traces the rise to fame & fortune of William James Adams Jr. (stage name Will.i.am). The book explores his troubled childhood & shows how his early love of flamboyant dress & his talent for rap saved him from the sad fates that befell many of his friends & neighbours. Bringing the story up to date it reveals the truth behind his self-confessed freak out in 2008 his mixed fortunes as a manager his relationship with pop princess Cheryl Cole & his eventful first series as a judge on " The Voice". His role on this show has propelled Will.i.am to ever more remarkable heights playing a key role at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert a stint carrying the Olympic torch & working alongside NASA on a project designed to inspire children to get involved in science. He has also been praised for his philanthropic work most recently donating the majority of his earnings from " The Voice" to the " Princes Trust". This is the perfect book for fans of this enigmatic individual at last revealing the truth behind the shades..." ...

Bear Adventure is the next authorised Willard Price book by award-winning author Anthony Mc Gowan for 8+ readers looking for action adventure & animals! Amazon & her cousin Frazer are members of TRACKS. Normally they protect the world's rarest animals but their mission just got personal. Amazon's parents have been lost in a tragic plane crash
- her only hope is that they are wondering the wild forests of Canada. But they are not alone in the brutal wilderness. Two Spirit Bears a mother & her cub are searching for food. When a boy is attacked these beautiful creatures become the hunted. Can Amazon & Fraser save their family & the bears? & what is the mysterious predator that waits for them? The good old-fashioned adventure romp brought up to date without losing the fun or the thrills". (Independent). About the author: Anthony Mc Gowan is a multi-award-winning author of books for adults teenagers & younger children. He has a life-long obsession with the natural world & has travelled widely to study & observe it. He has also written feature articles & travel journalism for The Times Guardian Daily Telegraph Evening Standard & Mail on Sunday. Also available: Willard Price: Leopard Adventure & Willard Price: Shark Adventure."
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This special Royal Wedding souvenir guide celebrates the most joyful prestigious social event of 2011 & tells the story of a genuinely romantic true-love match between William & Catherine the worlds most famous royal couple. Inspiring words & spectacular pictures capture every detail of the royal wedding day & reveal the public & private faces of the husband & wife who will one day become King & Queen & are now the image of a thoroughly modern monarchy. ...

Traditional photography books put me to sleep
- They were untouchable academic & boring. For me design graphics & layout were almost
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Magician of the North is the first full-scale biography of this extraordinary man. William George Armstrong was a visionary inventor engineer & businessman who bestrode the 19th-century world like a colossus bringing global renown to his great Elswick works on the Tyne while adding lustre to Britains imperial might. In its heyday Elswick employed 25 000 people in the manufacture of hydraulic cranes warships & armaments. He created Cragside in Northumberland the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity & planted in its grounds seven million trees. At Cragside his guests included the Shah of Persia the King of Siam the Prime Minister of China & the future kings Edward VII & George V. This book is much more however than the life of one man. It is the story of Britain at the height of empire riding the crest of industrial success a country awash with scientific & technological achievements bursting with hopes & dreams. It will appeal as much to lovers of romance as to more practically inclined readers. The Queen & the Prince Consort played a vital role in fostering the scientific ferment but so did characters such as Michael Faraday Charles Darwin & Thomas Huxley. It was the era of the self-made man & no one personified Samuel Smiless doctrine of self-help more clearly than William Armstrong. ...