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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Personality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation & personality development. It starts at inter-utero life & goes through to adulthood focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development & the interplay of internal processes & external circumstances. Contents include: * intra-uterine life & the experience of birth * babyhood: becoming a person in the family * the toddler & the wider world * the latency period. Using clinical & observational material it will be of interest to those teaching personality development courses as well as mental health & child care professionals. ...

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
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- 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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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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What does persuasion mean
- a firm belief or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's
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At twenty-seven Anne Elliot is no longer young & has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austens last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis & Bath Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity & pretension but above all it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities." ...