Great careers don't happen by accident. Take charge of yours.If you read nothing else on managing your career, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you create opportunities, navigate transitions, and achieve your most ambitious goals.This book will inspire you to:Discover what you’re passionate about, and do more of itUse strategic thinking to cra...

The Architect of Excellence is a groundbreaking approach to the art of personal growth and modern leadership expressed through a unique method of story telling and lessons of contextual and interactive learning. Through the process of identifying and relating to atypical professional behavior types and styles, you will begin to consciously identify the way in which individuals are able to transform and align with one another through modeling key behaviors, habits and beliefs within the cul...

This book confronts an escalating crisis unfolding in Australian schools: the influence of manosphere-aggravated misogyny and the everyday gendered violences it produces. Drawing on interviews and testimonies from over 130 teachers, it examines the legacy of the profound harms caused by Andrew Tate, and the ways that other manosphere groups and ideologies are shaping boys’ attitudes and behaviour towards women in schools.The book argues that manosphere ideologies, amplified by powe...

Friends. Fun. Romance. Drama. Danger. Tragedy. HIGH SCHOOL.High School Writing Project 2.0 features short stories and flash fiction written by high school students about teenage characters. The stories in this edition touch on a variety of subjects including teenage suicide, mental illness, superstition, romance, and ESP.Short stories included in the anthology:Everything To Live For by Steven Roberts – When a distraught high school...

Have you ever been discouraged? Has life in general left you down in the dumps?My experiences as a teacher, principal, pastor, husband, father of five, grandfather of twelve and volunteer worker in several overseas countries have convinced me of the need for uplifting articles in our society. Over the last few years I have contributed a weekly column to the on-line newspaper Oliver Daily News in order to inject some of that into the community. I was urged to compile them into a boo...

Create Demand for What You Sell was written for everyone interested in sales, from novice salespeople to business owners. Whatever your business, however you sell—from complex service providers to e-commerce—you'll find the 7 high-impact strategies (though, you'll only need ONE for rapid sales growth!) inside these pages.This book is a must-read for greater sales success! Inside, you'll find:...

Create Demand for What You Sell was written for everyone interested in sales, from novice salespeople to business owners. Whatever your business, however you sell—from complex service providers to e-commerce—you'll find the 7 high-impact strategies (though, you'll only need ONE for rapid sales growth!) inside these pages. This book is a must-read for greater sales success! Inside, you'll find: • 7 Empowering Strategies: Learn how to diverge from the competition, build strategic partnership...

Marketers are one of the main users of personal data in any organisation. Since the introduction of GDPR, marketing professionals must have a thorough understanding of data protection. The penalties for non-compliance are considerable, with fines of up to €20 million or 4 per cent of turnover. The potential for brand and reputational damage is significant.Data Protection for Marketers: A Practical Guide offers advice and guidance for marketers. It is written for marketers by a mark...

This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics.

This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capitalism has reshaped the lives of working-class men around the world. It focuses on the effects of employment change and of new forms of governmentality on men’s experiences of both public and private life. The book presents a range of international studies—from the US, UK, and Australia to Western and Northern Europe, Russia, and Nigeria—that move beyond discourses positing a ‘masculinity crisis’ or pathologizing working-class men. Instea...

Every critical welding technique and process distilled into a one-stop, accessible resourceSafe and effective welding might seem like a pipe dream if you’re just getting started. But with a little help from Welding For Dummies you’ll be a “golden arm” in no time. This guide will give you techniques you need to get a handle on material evaluation, clean-up, and every step in between.You’ll find practical advice on every popular kind of welding, incl...

Since the first Oregon State Fair was held on four acres along the Clackamas River in the Gladstone/Oregon City area in 1861, the fair has been the focal point of Oregon culture--a place to seeand be seen and to compete against the best in the state. It has been a place of victory and a place of discovery for nearly 150 years. For many generations of Oregonians, the fair was a chance for families and friends to reunite and share the excitement of this grand, uniquely Oregon event. Today th...