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Career Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, publishes general non-fiction that addresses real, practical human needs. Our useful, accessible, how-to books reach a broad market of average Americans — people grappling with universal issues relating to job -hunting, career management, education, money, personal goals, HR & workplace issues, management, marketing/sales, negotiation, small business/entrepreneurship, and motivation/self-help.

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When Bad Grammar Happens To Good People

Ever stumble when choosing between who and whom, affect and effect, "lay" and "lie"? Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? How you use language tells people a good deal about who you are, how you think, and how you communicate. Making simple errors in written and spoke
€9.80 excl tax

Homework Helpers: Earth Science

HOMEWORK HELPERS: EARTH SCIENCE covers all the topics typically included in a high school or undergraduate course including: · How to understand 'the language of rocks' · The events that we see in the sky and how they affect us · Earthquakes and what they can tell us about the inside workings of our world · How to understand the weather and what the weatherman is saying HOMEWORK HELPERS : EARTH SC
€7.80 excl tax

Courting Business : 101 Ways for Acelerating Business Relationships

Why waste your time chasing after prospects when you can get them to come to you? Most self-proclaimed rainmakers let business drizzle in rather than positioning themselves to experience a downpour. Courting Business gives you the strategies for getting prospects to contact you. Ann Marie Sabath's proven three-step strategy will inspire you to be creative, consistent, and politely relentless in
€7.80 excl tax

Law School Breakthrough : Graduate in the Top 5% of Your Class, Even if You're Not a First-rate Student

After doing very poorly on his law school entrance exam and almost dropping out during his first year as a law student, Chris Yianilos went on to graduate in the top 10 percent of his class. The Law School Breakthrough shows exactly how he did it-and how you can, too. Three years in law school convinced Chris that he could write the only book a budding lawyer needs before his LSAT entrance exam. T
€7.50 excl tax

Partnering Solution

The Partnering Solution shows employees and managers at every level how to work together, with a clear method, cutting-edge strategies, and practical tools. It is the first book to show readers how to achieve lasting results in a broad range of applications. Its methods will work equally well for large corporations and professional firms, universities and small groups, outsourcing and strategic al
€9.80 excl tax

2 Second Commute : Join the Exploding Ranks of Freelance Virtual Assistants

Virtual Assistants work from home, providing everything from administrative support to high-end consulting via email, phone and fax. Predicted to be a $130 billion industry by 2008, they don't commute, they set their own hours, and they get to spend time with their kids. Wouldn't you like to be a VA, too?Christine Durst founded the Virtual Assistant industry in 1995 from a basement office in rur
€9.30 excl tax

Small Business Owners Manual

An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly look up information in the midst of a crisis. For example: Choose among 13 ways to get new financing and the 17 steps to building a winn
€11.90 excl tax

50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Places To Live (Includes Cd-Rom) (O

If you're looking for a gay-friendly place to call home but can't decide among the urban hustle of New York, the laidback seaside of Key West, or the open, daily life of Minneapolis, this book is for you! Travelers, Urban Pioneers, gay families and those searching for a new hometown now have an easy-to-read book that profiles 50 of America's gay-friendliest cities.
€12.90 excl tax

Jerks At Work : How to deal with People Problems and Problem People Revised Edition

In this updated and revised edition of Jerks at Work, popular syndicated columnist Ken Lloyd returns to grapple once again with one of America?s most popular (or unpopular) workplace topics, and presents his practical, upbeat, and professionally sound as an antidote. Drawing on e-mails and letters from employees and employers across America, Dr. Lloyd presents numerous examples of some of the mo
€10.30 excl tax

20 QUESTIONS TO ASK IF YOUR CHILD HAS ADHD

You've just been told your child has ADHD. Suddenly you feel overwhelmed and helpless. And you have questions…lots of questions. Just what is ADHD? Is it the same as ADD? Does your child really have it? Is it curable? What do you do now? Does your child need medication? How can you help your child still feel good about him - or herself? And what can you do about your own negative feelings and stre
€8.80 excl tax

Secrets Of Power Salary Negotiating

Are you earning what you're worth? Master negotiator Roger Dawson, author of the best selling Secrets of Power Negotiating, shows you how to get a better deal from your current employer and how to negotiate the best deal from a new employer.And you won't come off as greedy, overly aggressive or selfish. In fact, you'll learn how to win salary negotiations and still leave your boss feeling like he
€9.80 excl tax

Encyclopedia of job-winning resumes

Encyclopedia of Job-Winning Resumes, Third Edition, is the most helpful and comprehensive resume book you can buy. It includes more than 400 success-proven resume examples that teach you how to personalize your resume according to your own unique career situation. The 17 chapters contain resumes that cover all major industries, span every job level from entry-level to CEO, and are helpfully arrang
€9.30 excl tax

Climbing The Corporate Ladder In High Heels

Favoring neither the "in your face" aggressive tactics of the "break through the glass ceiling" school of thought, nor the "sugar and spice is everything nice" little-girl approach, Climbing the Corporate Ladder in High Heels shows women how to be outstanding successful and personally actualized without becoming just like men. There are 63 million working women in America, but only nine are top co
€7.80 excl tax

Better Than Perfect Hb : How Gifted Bosses and Great Employees Can Lift the Performance of Those Around Them

With the crisp style and provocative insights that have made him a leading syndicated columnist, Dale Dauten explores how the best bosses, employees and suppliers think, learn, and communicate differently. The title of his new book is taken from his conversation with the late Jean-Pierre Rampal, who reigned for decades as the world's leading flute player. When asked about his willingness to experi
€10.40 excl tax

Beyond The Resume : Phrases Tips & Tactics for Making the Right Impression Through E-mail Cover Letters Resumes and Pre-Interviews

Using the right phrase at the right moment can make all the difference! It can generate real interest in you, provoke more questions, and show an interviewer that you are the right person for the job. The same applies to written communications such as letters or emails and to voice mail messages. Like learning a foreign language, these phrases, when practiced carefully and used properly, become na
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Capitalizing On Being Woman Owned : Expert Advice for Women who Have or Are Starting their Own Business

This book is a reference guide and resource tool not only for women who own businesses, but, also, for people involved in working with and buying from woman owned businesses. It provides practical information and guidance on: understanding the advantages of being woman owned; marketing to all types of government and business entities; finding real resources and using them effectively; and research
€8.20 excl tax

Essential Supervisors Handbook

The key to a good business is good employees. The key to good employees? A great supervisor. The Essential Supervisor's Handbook provides a guide for both new and experienced supervisors featuring expert explanations, advice, and motivation. It is a quick reference guide that covers a wide range of topics, from employee relations, team leadership, and motivation to the legal aspects of hiring, fir
€8.80 excl tax

Finding A Job After 50 : Reinvent Yourself for the 21st Century

When you--re 50 or 60 years old, the job market is a combat zone, no matter what your skills or experience. Battle-scarred veterans report that they're passed over time and again for jobs which they are eminently qualified for. Successful applicants, often with fewer skills and almost always with far less experience, do seem to have one significant thing in common-they are younger, sometimes pai
€7.80 excl tax

Bridging The Generation Gap

Miscommunication -Employee conflict -Work ethic debates -Loyalty issues -Varying wants and needs -If you are a manager, human resources professional, or business owner, you are faced with these types of issues every day. But why? Because currently, there are five generations in the workplace: Radio Babies (born during 1930-1945); Baby Boomers (1946-1964); Generation X (1965-1976); Generation Y (19
€8.80 excl tax

No-Nonsense Resumes : The Essential Guide to Creating Attention Grabbing Resumes that get interviews and Job offers

For the first time ever here's a resumé book that clears away the clutter and gets down to the brass tacks of what it takes to write and design a resumé that will get you interviews and job offers. Authors and professional resumé writers Wendy Enelow and Arnold Boldt share their insights knowledge and more than 35 years of combined experience to help you prepare a resumé that will get you noticed
€7.80 excl tax