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|author=The Chartered Management Institute
|title=Managing Yourself (The Checklist Series: Step by step guides to getting it right)
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=When you start work, when you become a manager or move up the ladder it's assumed that you will need training in ''managing''. This is always assumed to be managing other people, but it's only very rarely that any consideration is given to managing yourself - and then probably only in specific areas. But - if you haven't sorted yourself out, thought through your own actions and motivations, how can you give leadership to others? ''Managing'' ''Yourself'' remedies this and covers the cradle to grave of working life. If you have ambitions to move up the career ladder - or even if you just want to have a more rewarding and stress-free working life - this book is essential reading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251452</amazonuk>
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|summary=Azar is in labour and about to give birth to her first child. Elsewhere she'd be looking forward to medical care for as long as she needs it and a good chance of a safe delivery. But this is Iran in 1983 and Azar is in the notorious Evin Prison for daring to believe in something different from the government. Amil saves date stones to make into a bracelet for his little baby as she grows into a child without him; he too is incarcerated. Even those on the outside need to be wary of what they say or do as Laila discovers when hair falls over her face while she's out walking. This isn’t the brave new world that the revolution was meant to provide, however it is the world in which they, their children and children's children will need to survive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869027</amazonuk>
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