If you have interviewed, been interviewed, or enjoyed a career in the field of market or social research, these candid stories from the UK and abroad will evoke many memories of the years when this industry grew to its prominent place in our national life. And although the world of work has seen many changes, it will provide some guidance for those considering such a career, showing that this life is varied and rewarding.

Do you have a way with words?No doubt you don't have any difficulty putting your point of view when you're talking to colleagues.But if you're faced with having to make your case in writing, do the words dry up?If so, you've come to the right place. This is a book for people who want to improve their skills at workplace writing.Good, fluent writing designed to communicate meaning succinctly and effectively is a powerful business skill in its own right. It's ...

At some stage in their job or life, everyone is asked to organise a larger scale project - it may be running the company's annual sales conference, preparing a launch of a new product, or planning a move to new offices. Or it may be outside work - like organising a local school fete. Faced with something new, most people are often puzzled about where to start and worried about taking it on. The Perfect Project provides a straightforward road-map for organising most kinds of project, lookin...

Murder from the NewsdeskCrime reporter Colin Crampton uses every newspaper scam he knows to crack 10 more mysteriesA crime reporter chasing headlinesThe clues that set him on the trailThe dangers he faces to land his scoopsColin Crampton opens up his casebook to share 10 of the most baffling stories he's ever chased. Why was a room in a widow's home filled to the ceiling with second-hand clothes? How did a single red sock le...

Rachael will do anything to protect her bakery from the evil Bakermatic Baked Goods Company. Does that include murder?A fast-paced cozy mystery from USA Today Bestselling Author Stacey AlabasterRachael is a pastry chef with a boutique bakery. When a food critic dies after eating a pie from Rachael’s Bakery, she is quickly labeled the prime suspect. Faced with a police investigation that doubts her innocence, she has no choice but to find the real killer. Wi...

Fixing up homes can be tricky.Finding true love can be even trickier.But finding a killer can be plain old deadly . . .Twin sister divorcees Sunny Taylor and Eve Vaughn have had their fill of both heartaches and headaches. So when they settle down in the small Louisiana town of Sugar Ledge and open a remodeling and repair company, they think they’ve finally found some peace—even though Eve is still open for romance wh...

Murder is brewing.While Beatrice Knight is part witch, the only thing she’s interested in nowadays is tea, and copious amounts of it. But that isn’t the only thing boiling in her life.No sooner does she open her very own tea shop in the small, colonial town of Nairobi, someone with a vendetta against young brides murders one and leaves the body in The Cozy Tea Shoppe. With her best friend’s wedding only weeks away, can Miss Knight stop the murderer while ba...

Antique pickers Sherri Green and her bff, lovable town gossip Carol O’Brien, search for treasure amid the trash in their small midwestern town of Paradise.What they find is more than they bargained for.When they score a box of antique vases at a local auction in nearby Round Bottom, it sets off a chain of events that makes a competing picker see red. But that’s not the worst of it. Someone in the tight-knit picking community ends up dead.Can Sherri and Carol discove...

From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes the killer start to a brand new multi-author series...Nani Johnson thought she had it made when she moved from Kansas to the resort town of Aloha Lagoon, Kauai. In spite of her certifiably crazy mom, Nani is determined that nothing will stop her from becoming a ukulele virtuoso! Unfortunately her Julliard training doesn't help her break into the local music scene due to some heavy competition from the Terrible Trio—three hostil...

Viola Roberts is down in the dumps after discovering her boyfriend, Lucas, is snowed in back east. Her best friend, Cheryl, agrees to substitute a girl’s weekend for the romantic Valentine’s Day he had planned. Massages and mani-pedis for the win!That is, until the hotel guests start receiving venomous Valentines, and one of them ends up dead. In a remote resort on the wild Oregon coast, it’s up to Viola to get to the bottom of things before any more guests fall to the killer’s poi...

Come to Silver Hills. Where petting a cat can be a death sentence and yoga is all about survival.Silver Hills Senior and Singles Residence isn’t exactly a boring place. Home to a death-predicting cat named Tolstoy, a night manager who may or may not suck blood and float above the floor, a cook with mad voodoo and pie-baking powers, and a trio of nosy sleuths who are determined to get to the bottom of the corpse in the library (maybe literally)…some might s...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Alicia Rades creates an enchanting young adult paranormal series where friendships form with ghosts and a teen psychic uncovers mysterious secrets. This complete paranormal series bundle includes all four books in the Crystal Frost series—plus a Crystal Frost bonus short story!At age fifteen, Crystal Frost discovers she can see into the future, witness the past, and speak with the dead. Secrets begin to uncover themselves where...