The narrative follows Jim and Elena as they navigate a dangerous reunion and a subsequent flight for survival:The Reunion: After ten years of silence, Jim and Elena meet at a foggy pier in the Atlantic. Their reunion is cut short by a sudden pursuit from Jim's past.The Pursuit: A man named Miller, representing a network Jim tried to escape, hunts them through the harbor and warehouse district.The Safe House and Tru...

The only book offering a comprehensive guide to using the internet to develop your career, providing an overview of both the online tools needed for profile building as well as online job searching and the recruitment processes.Written for a digital twenty-first century audience, this book explicitly addresses the impact of new technologies on the world of work and recruitment.

The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years.This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of...

This collection of articles by IT industry experts explores the challenges IT professionals face when moving from a technical into a managerial role. The authors look at the skills required to scale the career ladder, the opportunities for training and development and how to progress from a first job in IT to CIO. Each article ends with a range of current resources and recommendations including blogs, books and websites.

DISCOVER THE SCIENCE BEHIND BRAIN-BASED COACHINGBy understanding how the brain works, coaching professionals can better tailor their language, strategies, and goals to be in alignment with an individual’s “hard-wired” way of thinking. Written by two well-known coaching professionals, David Rock and Linda Page, Coaching with the Brain in Mind presents the tools and methodologies that can be employed by novice and experienced coaches alike to create an effective—and ultimate...

Are you sick of working day after day for someone else, dreaming of what you'll do one day when you retire? Why wait until you're old to enjoy retirement? How would you like to retire in 12 months?Stop dreaming about a better life in the future – create one for yourself today!If you're serious about getting the most out of life and want to discover how you can use your passions to pay your bills, then How to Retire in 12 Months is the book for you.Author Se...

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

The marketing secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of MarketingIncludes how to:• Position your product for a target market• Build a brilliant marketing plan• Create stunning branded marketing materials• Use memorable publicity to build market interest• Take advantage of new technology

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether histori...

New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should ...

The project management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Project Management.Includes how to:• Deliver a successful project from start to finish• Communicate effectively with people at all levels• Manage changes and control scope creep• Identify and deal with risks• Work with common project management methodologies

What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use essential questions in your classroom?Essential questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning. In the classroom, EQs are used to stimulate students' discussions and promote a deeper understanding of the content.Whether you are an Understanding ...