ARE YOU WORTH TALKING ABOUT?The fight to stand out in your career or business can be intense. Mere technical competence or even good fortune is not enough. Being brilliant but anonymous won’t help you – your reputation will.It’s not fair, but that’s life. If you’re connected, influential and good at marketing yourself, you’ll secure the holy grail of employment – work you love on your terms. That means maximum career choice, power and flexibility.

You can master the mysterious art of networking.Overcome all your networking fears and learn how effortlessly to build and leverage the powerful connections you need to enhance your reputation, raise your profile and win more business. Networking expert Rob Brown will coach you on all the essential skills that will help you meet new people, create new leads, open up opportunities and grow your business – confidently and effectively.

The effect of the internet on public relations is the single biggest subject of current conversation in the public relations industry. As the world of communications changes beyond recognition, those seeking to communicate must revise and revolutionise their approach.Public Relations and the Social Web explores the way in which communications is changing and looks at what this means for communicators working across a range of industries, from entertainment through to polit...

Rupert Crown is a bright but unworldly eleven-year-old in his first year of grammar school in the midlands town in the mid-1950s, and is experiencing more than his share of trials of life. Book themes: family and other relationships, bullying, hope

On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history. Few people knew Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris better than Brooks Brown. Brown and Klebold were best friends in grade school, and years later, at Columbine, Brown was privy to some of Harris and Klebold's darkest fant...

An inquisitive young bison, Benny unwittingly wanders away from his mother and becomes lost. His mother seeks the help of his bird friend Lily to find him. She uses her ability to fly to see Benny safely home. Young readers, through curiosity and imagination, may find themselves one day in a similar situation to Benny. This book teaches them to be calm and wait for a safe resolution. It also shows the importance of being aware of your surroundings and to avoid wandering from safety.

The follow up to *Share This: The Social Media Handbook for PR Professionals.Share This* is a practical handbook to the changes taking place in the media and was conceived and written by 24 public relations practitioners using many of the social tools and techniques that it addresses. The book covered the media and public relations industry, planning, social networks, online media relations, monitoring and measurement, skills, industry change and t...

Fancy setting sail with Blackbeard the pirate, or would you prefer joining Captain Cook on a voyage? Do you want gold, or glory? Be careful - you could end up eating walrus, and going to bed early!Pirate v. Explorer is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will love reading the exciting collection of fiction and non-fiction written by top authors. Inspire them to keep reading through gripping stories and fascinating i...

First in a new series from New York Times bestsellingauthor Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn onthe hunt for Russian commandos in the mountains of Alaska.After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Forceintelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar postalong Alaska’s Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to p...

In this sequel to Dale Brown’s New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon.Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his last. While meeting with a high-ranki...

Fresh off his success in the New York Times bestselling Countdown to Midnight, Nick Flynn finds himself once again facing a vicious enemy—one determined to destroy the United States.When Nick Flynn left the US Air Force to join the Quartet Directorate, he did so with the full knowledge that no one could ever know. This covert private force—called Four by its members—promised him the chance to lead his own missions and make his own decisions, thoug...

After saving the US from a Russian nuclear attack in the bestselling Weapons of Opportunity, Nick Flynn returns in what could be his most dangerous mission yet.Former US Air Force officer Nick Flynn joined the clandestine Quartet Directorate to continue its long-standing mission: to act decisively against serious threats to the free world. And with the backing of Russia’s authoritarian president, no threat is more deadly than that of Pavel Voronin and his ...