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The Ultimate Guide to Successful Networking
According to a recent survey, social anxiety and shyness are on the increase. But we all need to communicate effectively in order to get on in life. This is as relevant to the retired widow as it is to the ambitious young business executive. Much of Carole Stone's time is now spent lecturing people on how to be more confident and network better. This book is a collection of the key things all of us need to know in order to go about our daily and business lives with confidence.
Networking
With more than 14,000 entries in her electronic address book, Carole Stone is a self-confessed people addict who has turned networking and making friends into an art form. Packed with top tips and real-life scenarios, this is your essential guide to getting on with people in all aspects of life. You might be working your way up the career ladder, or have already reached the top; perhaps you're at home looking after the children or you want to liven up your social life. Whatever your situation, this funny, frank and practical guide will help you mix, match and multiply your friends and contacts. You'll soon discover many new ways to expand your network, from approaching the art of small talk to throwing the perfect party. Carole's no-nonsense approach will inspire you to seize the moment, and the right opportunities, so that you not only make more friends, but also make the most of them. For ten years Carole Stone was the producer of the BBC's radio flagship programme Any Questions? Carole is now a television and radio broadcaster, writes for national newspapers and magazines and runs her own media consultancy business.
Rich and Strange
Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to the cultural implications of turn-of-the-century political radicalism. Marianne DeKoven argues powerfully to the contrary, maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism. Organized around pairs and groups of female-and male-signed texts, the book reveals the gender-inflected ambivalence of modernist writers. Male modernists, desiring utter change, ne...
Engaged to Jarrod Stone
The red-hot attraction between a saucy employee and her billionaire boss is no joke in this classic romance from the USA Today–bestselling author. Brooke Faulkner is tired of hearing about all the women her boss, notorious playboy billionaire, Jarrod Stone, has affairs with. Deciding to teach Jarrod a lesson, Brooke announces to the press that Mr. Stone is finally getting married. And the bride-to-be? Brooke herself! But her joke backfires when Jarrod announces he has every intention of holding her to the engagement. And before long Brooke's fervently wishing for their mock engagement to be a real one . . .
Mirrorland
Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs full of pirates, witches, and clowns. El still lives at their old house, with her husband Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return 36 Westeryk Road, which hasn't changed in twenty years. The grand old house is still full of shadowy corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past-. Because someone--El?-- has left Cat clues: a treasure hunt that leads back to Mirrorland, where the truth lies waiting"--
"Burning Interiors"
Possessing a singular musical gift, David Shapiro problematizes self and culture and challenges conventional notions of fixed and commodified identity in work that discovers and resists meaning. This title features essays that illuminate a useful range of Shapiro's major texts through diverse critical approaches.
Far From the Tree
* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * * WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year * This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing so—“a brave, beautiful book that will expand your humanity” (People). Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families copin...
Vera Deakin and the Red Cross
This is a biography of Vera Deakin, daughter of the Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, focussing on her work with the Australian Red Cross. At the outbreak of war she gave up her musical studies to initiate the Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau of the Red Cross in Cairo and later in London. After the War she championed the needs of limbless veterans. During the Second World War Vera undertook similar work in Melbourne for the Red Cross. She was also involved in other Melbourne charities and welfare bodies, including the Children's hospital and Yooralla.
A Manager's Guide To Leadership
This accessible guide to leadership encourages the reader to proactively develop themselves, their colleagues and their organisation.
Engendering Romance
Describes how four 20th-century women writers have inherited and adapted a tradition of American romance. Analyzing fiction by Faulkner and others, this work goes on to explain how women have updated the genre to include alternatives to matriarchal (as well as patriarchal) constructions.
