• Go freelance

  "Deciding to leave the security of a permanent job and go freelanceis a brave decision - and is not to be taken lightly. However, as longas you manage your time, work-flow, contacts, and money, it may turnout to be the best career move you ever made! Go freelance is packed with essential advice, including: Working out when it's time to move on. Do you have the right skills to be your own boss?Finding new workNetworking to market yourself and your skillsManaging work-flowManaging your time. Looking...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• John Foot Pedalare! Pedalare!

  "Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist, by name, from his balcony in St Peters in Rome. It was a sport so popular that it created the geography of Italy in the minds of her citizens, and some have said that it was cycling, not political change, that united Italy. Pedalare, Pedalare! is the first complete history of Italian cycling...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Alice Roberts The incredible human journey

  "Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they tried to settle continents. On her travels she has witnessed some of the daunting and brutal challenges our ancestors had to face: mountains, deserts, oceans, changing climates, terrifying giant beasts and volcanoes. But she discovers that perhaps the most serious threat of all came from other humans....

  Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 6,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Kate Bussmann A Twitter year

  "Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan's nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A babysitter mistaken for a cricket match? Or Darth Vader's advice to angry US voters? The answer, of course: on Twitter.The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a `review of the year' as written by the Twitter community. With profiles of...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (5,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Get that job

  CVs

  "The job market has never been more competitive, and marketingyourself can be tricky. This title offers practical, step-by-stepadvice on preparing, writing, and presenting an impressive CV that willhelp you 'get your foot in the door' with prospective employers. Covering essential issues such as identifying your goals, creatingdifferent types of CV and a fantastic covering letter to go with them,this is a must-read for all job-hunters."

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• James McBride The color of water

  "As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what colour God was, she said 'God is the colour of water.' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter,...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Murīd al- Burġūṯī I was born there, I was born here

  "In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, within a year Tamim himself had been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War and found himself...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ed Hawkins Bookie gambler fixer spy

  "A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Prince Rupert Loewenstein A prince among stones

  "In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn't understand why the Rolling Stones had no money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock'n'roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as 'a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny', usually enthralled but...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (1,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Anna R. Beer Milton

  "For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or a saintly blind man. But, as Anna Beer shows, his personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional one. By close and groundbreaking analysis of Milton's careful editing of his own life, his wider family's affairs, the records of his government work, and the history of...

  Engels | 480 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Richard Eyre National service

  "During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Hugh Barker Hedge Britannia

  "Creations. Fromformal garden features to emphatically rustic barriers, Hugh exploresour hedges in all their diversity. Hedge Britannia offers a wittyinsight into the history of hedges and the way they relate to ourculture as well as our landscape. Hugh travels the breadth of Britainmeeting fellow enthusiasts who range from horticultural experts to theBrixton man who lovingly cultivated a whale-shaped hedge and ran intotrouble with the local council."

  Engels | 336 pagina's (13 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Keith Jeffery MI6

  "A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a uniquely important examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world."

  Engels | 864 pagina's (8,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Emma Smith Maidens' trip

  "In 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Lorenza Clifford Interview others

  "Interviewing prospective job candidates can be a real challenge, and sometimes the interviewers are just as nervous as the interviewee! If you are new to interviewing and need to learn some essential skills, Interview Others is the book for you. Full of advice on how to get the best from others and from yourself, it covers everything from preparing for an interview, to dealing with different types of interview situations, to the right (and wrong) questions to ask, to making a job offer. This book...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Carolyn Burke No regrets

  "Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Suzanne Braun Levine The woman's guide to second adulthood

  "Second Adulthood is a new stage of life for women over fifty. The first generation of socially emancipated women have reached an important frontier; they have fulfilled all their roles - daughter, wife, mother, career woman. Yet with longer life expectancy and better health they have no intention of retiring from the world. At the same time these women are experiencing an often bewildering array of physical readjustments: their brains experience a growth very similar to that in adolescence, they...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Niki Segnit The flavour thesaurus

  "Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspirationfor what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is thefirst book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair.The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. The back section lists,alphabetically, 99 popular ingredients, and suggests classic and lesswell known flavour matches for each. The front section contains anentry for every flavour match listed in the back section and isorganised into 16 flavour themes such...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Michael Mansfield Memoirs of a radical lawyer

  "A radical lawyer with an unparalleled commitment to his clients, driven by anger at injustice and hypocrisy, intelligent, handsome and dynamic, Michael Mansfield has been tearing down the citadels of arcane legal conventions for more than forty years. Unafraid of rejection or failure, Michael has taken on the most difficult and challenging cases of our times and despite the odds, won plenty. In Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Michael dissects many of them, revealing his motivations, meticulous approach...

  Engels | 512 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Rodney Bolt Lorenzo da Ponte

  "By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cosí fan tutte and Don Giovanni. After losing all his money and the woman he loved he started afresh in New York, and by the end of his life he had founded its first opera house and become a university professor. Lorenzo Da Ponte is a fascinating and entertaining...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (4,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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