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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0241636604|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2012The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Now If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in its 27th year of publicationyour mind, the Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides a comprehensive listing of all issues from the 1d black and 2d blue of May 1840 you're unlikely to the Children’s Comics issue think of 20 March 2012someone like Gary Stevenson. As a halfway house between the very basic ‘Collect British Stamps’ A hoodie and jeans replaces the multipin-volume specialised edition, this lists stripe suit and his background is the main variations of each issueEast End, alongside miniature sheetswhere he was familiar with violence, special first day poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and the regional issues from Waleshe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, Scotlandessentially, Northern Irelanda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as well as the Channel Islands and Isle of Man prior to their postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectivelya trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598467</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane VassFiona Parashar |title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2012/2013A Beautiful Way to Coach

|summary=In its annual report H M Revenue So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and Customs announced that being audacious enough to review it will shed many more staff by the year 2015 so ? Truth is I bought it's now more important than ever to ensure that you are paying the right amount out of tax and that you are claiming all the allowances and reliefs to which you are entitledcuriosity. I spent most of my working life in HMRC and was at an on-line launch for the dedication book and professionalism Fiona’s description of the staff is second her Vision Days appealed to none but when resources are spread more thinly it's difficult to say that something will not giveme. You can, of course, go I wanted to the [http:see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping /supporting /wwwtrying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow.hmrc.gov.uk/ HMRC] site where you will find I also wanted to see if I could give myself a lot of help Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and information - and it's freeback to my own. You might wonder then, why you should buy a book which, on the face of it, does the same job?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686296</amazonuk>103211603X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John B Thompson303091657X|title=Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business Disaster in the Twenty-First CenturyBoardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson

|summary=The publishing industry has been with us since the fifteenth century, but the major changes have manifested themselves Boards must act in the twentybest interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-first century managed and John B Thompson, Professor financially secure. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of Sociology at which have resulted in death or the University collapse of Cambridge, has taken a detailed look at major company - have left interested parties asking what the state of trade publishing (that's board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the type boards were unaware of book you're likely what was happening or they preferred to find in your local library or bookshop)turn a blind eye, the influences leaving watchers wondering which have brought it to that state and the outlookwas worse - ignorance or criminality. This might sound rather dry The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but, trust me, it's not. It wasn't what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a fast readvery readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, but only because there were so many things to think about, prejudices to readjust the South Sea Bubble and information to absorbeven tulip mania. I read it over a week - and for a reviewer that's a rare luxuryOver three centuries we seem to have learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745661068</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone1529393930|title=Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google?Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester

|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=I find recruitment fascinating. I started my career on a top 10 graduate scheme whose recruitment process included a 24 hour simulation of life in the role, and now some years later I'm on the other side of the table, taking part in the recruitment of the next generation. Prior to that I worked everywhere from multinational software companies to British high street department stores and over the years I've heard everything from the boring (''What are your strengths and weaknesses?'') to the predictable (''Tell me about Starting a time you worked as part of a team and encountered conflict'') to the quite frankly brilliant, in my mind (''How many piano tuners are there in Barcelona?creative business has never been easier.'') Once I had to come up with a variety of uses for a cocktail shaker after first gaining points for being able to identify the item correctly, despite being a tee-total teen at the time. If interviews are a time to shine, I prefer the latter two tasks to the first two because they let you show what you can do, and how you would approach a task, rather than just making you prattle off a prepared response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851689176</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha|title=The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future''If not now, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=In decades gone by, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as an elevator – rising through the ranks of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirement. In todaywhen?''s vastly different job market, with much less loyalty from both employers and employees, your career is more likely to follow the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies and perhaps even completely different industries. Time, then, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Justin Yifu Lin|title=Demystifying the Chinese Economy|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=The success I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of the Chinese economy, motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and as Lin makes us aware, there are a success which contrasts strongly with lot of people who have been delighted to accept what appeared major failure in I make as gifts. Selling would offset the recent historical pastcosts, is something which needs explanation. No one can ignore be quite considerable and itcould be fun to do, and we are confronted with the effects of couldn't it from the ownership of Thames water ? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the faces of tourists in London and Stratford on first thing anyone who is considering turning a daily basis. And in the roots of its success are the potential seeds of future change, crafting hobby into a change that now more than ever business should do is crucial to the way the world economy worksread ''Making a Living''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521181747</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jo Owen|title=Leadership Rules|rating=4|genre=Business Wrong and Finance|summary=Owen's latest addition wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to the management self-help canon is subtitled ''50 Timeless Lessons and you had a talent for Leaders''delivering the written word. Fifty lessons in under 250 pages? You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to know that get to grips with the genuine newness book supply chain, which even parts of the insights might publishing industry believe to be on the disappointing side of fabulous. Thatwrong but it's not too difficult to completely write off change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''Leadership Rulesfinally''. I enjoyed reading it. Given its structure have a copy of short sharp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-book in-and-your hands, you're going to have to work out brigade, I can also say that how to sell it reads well as a sit-because it ''is'' going to be down-and-consider bookto you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857082388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Shaxson0008350388|title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the WorldWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45

|summary=Most people think about the subject of tax havens ''To be a dark- if they need skinned Black woman is to think about them at all - be seen as something which is unlikely ever to concern them less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and that they're for the superultimately less valuable than my light-rich and celebritiesskinned counterparts... '' What might surprise them is that more than half of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come ''We Need to you via a tax haven. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite direction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

{{newreview|author=Andrew Levy, Judy Bartkowiak|title=Secrets ''0.7% of Success English Literature GCSE students in Brand Licensing|rating=3|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Brand licensing is England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a huge business, with the annual worth estimated at 150 billion USDwoman. It's hard to avoid Hello Kitty, Thomas the Tank Engine, Peppa Pig or Dr Who. One sometimes wonders if it's even possible to buy non-character pyjamas for a six year old. It ''The Bookseller's not just kids' brands, either (though these dominate the lucrative licensing market). From socialites (Paris Hilton) to actors and pop stars (Hale Berry, Britney Spears), football clubs and individual footballers (Beckham, Pele), magazines (Playboy, National Geographic), TV series (Simpsons) and pure graphic design (Smiley, Hello Kitty), brand licensing and brand extensions surround us on a scale unprecedented in human history. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218959</amazonuk>}}29 June 2021

{{newreview|author=Richard Heinberg|title=The End of Growth|rating=3Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old.5|genre=Business Her sisters were seven and Finance|summary=With the newspapers full of economic doom nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and gloom determined that their children would have the last thing you might want is to pick up best education possible. There was always a book that reiterates it and then some. But while painful awareness of money although this book may seem at first glance to be did not translate into a bit shortage of a downer, anything: it also provides an insight into how things might just work out ok in was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the endfamily acquired a car. Yes For Otegha, they’ll be some big changes – there have education meant a scholarship to be because the direction we’ve been heading a private school in is just not sustainable – but if we’re willing to adaptLondon and then a place at New College, we will survive was the main message I picked up as I flicked through the pagesOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Monneryreed3|title=Safe As HousesWhy You? A Historical Analysis of Property Prices|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Neil Monnery was asked to become a trustee of a local charity with most of its assets in local residential property. Over the years this had yielded good results and the charity was concerned as to whether or not they should continue on the same basis or diversify and Monnery said that he would look into this. That discussion was the genesis for this book as he began to research the history of house prices – in the UK and elsewhere – for as far back as he could go to establish whether or not house were, well, as safe as houses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907994017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Heffer|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=As a child I was taught English grammar. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated the subtlety and nuances of expression that could be achieved by the correct use of language. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no longer the same emphasis on grammar in schools, that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – and now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected to grievous bodily harm. It isn101 Interview Questions You't difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Luke Johnson|title=Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You ThinkJames Reed|rating=3.5

|summary=Luke Johnson Six years on from the original edition, the book is one of our busiest tycoons, being re-issued with a personal fortune bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which runs into nine figuresincludes an additional 10 questions. He I's been ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the driving force behind Pizza Express and Channel 4 original book and my life has a renowned column changed significantly in the 'Financial Times'meantime. HeI's done all this over a couple of decades, so he obviously knows what the score is m no longer working in terms of getting businesses up and running – and then turning middle-management having opted for a profitdown-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. So, 'Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think' is going to be perfect for my friends Mr and Mrs Cook, who want I can therefore relate to open a restaurant, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting from the builder who employs him first point made in this chapter namely that independence and Miss Baker who think flexibility are core skills that our prosperous village is ripe for an artisan bread shop? Well, perhaps…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919411</amazonuk>employees need to have.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist3110706075|title=Pocket World in Figures 2012Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|summary=There are some books which it's very difficult to review and 'You'Pocket World in Figures 2012'' is a perfect example. Each year The Economist completely updates all the figures and reissues them in a format which, even if it won't fit into every pocket, is certainly going re not there to be no problem in a briefcase or readily available in a desk drawer. And it is run the type of book which you're going to want to have readily availableorganisation. It's not a reference book You are there to have tucked away on a shelf – once you find make sure that it is superbly easy to use you're going to want to have it to handrun properly. The problem is that the book is a very similar format every year, just as essential as the year before and still the book which it's unwise to loan to anyone as there's a strong chance it won't return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684730</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lynn Peril|title=Swimming in Gerry Brown is passionate about the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide benefits which Independent Directors can bring to Making It in the Office|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The subtitle of this book suggests a survival guide to secretarial work. However, this is definitely board - not just a handbookcorporate board, but an examination of the portrayal board of the job an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and those who do it in feels that this would help to avoid some of the media and scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in handbooks over the last 100 recent years. It is an American book and all the references are For this to handbookshappen, media, popular fiction and advertising boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from the US, but as a secretary in Britain, I still found it relevant, interesting and very entertainingwhen they're looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338541</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies3030513025|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012The Independent Director in Society: Commonwealth Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970Filipe Morais

|summary=Each edition of the Independent Director: 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue of the sterling era, a job for which covers the era no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of pounds, shillings and pence up to the end board of 1970 directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with a few exceptionsthe company, sees several changes. The 114th edition (2) is no exception. Reflecting market trends and demand during the previous few months, many price increases affecting almost all areas and periods have been made, including the more modestly priced items as well as some not part of the company'blue chip' pieces. One of the latter now makes historys executive team, as following and (3) is not involved with the recent sale day-to-day operations of an 1847 'Post Office' Mauritius 2d blue, this and its 1d red partner become the first stamps in the Gibbons catalogue to be priced at £1,000,000 or morecompany. As we are told in a note underneath the listing, most known surviving examples are now in permanent museum collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598130</amazonuk>}}(Corporate Finance Institute)

{{newreview|author=Eli Pariser|title=The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=In a world where websites are increasingly personalisedGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and your Facebook profile seems to pop up left, right Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and centre on sites you're visiting for the first timeindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), there's a rapidly shrinking amount trustees or governors of webpages where your experience organisations is the same as the next person'sfrequently unbalanced. Having always ignored Google's targetted adverts, I naively thought The function of the actual search results produced by independent director is to have general oversight of the site were one executive side of the few places board - to spot when and where I'd see things are going wrong - but all too often the same thing as a random user inrelationship is too cosy, say, Australia did. Eli Pariser shatters this myth immediately in his book as he tells us about too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the fifty-seven signals Google uses knowledge and/or experience to build on the companyunderstand what's knowledge happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of us leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and choose whichresults that all will be well once we get back to show us'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092038X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0241453585|title=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2011Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden

|summary=Such are Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the complexity, throes of recovering from the sheer variety 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and number of permutations possible she was one of postage stamp issues in the 21st century, first to realise that any catalogue compiler is faced with an almost impossible taskbanks needed to do things differently. Producing AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a genuinely concise book is largely branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a matter terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of what to include and what to leave outpeople, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598084</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass3110641119|title=Daily Mail Tax The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide 2011/2012to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave

|summary=H M Revenue and Customs is now bigger than ever – itI had no idea what 'journey mapping's taken on more work – was until I read this playbook but at any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the same time it's having to shed staff, many of them being book and acting on the ones with experience and inevitably something will have to givecontents. In the light of this the author rightly concludes that itYou's now more important than ever re going to keep learn how to run a close eye on workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your tax affairsown customers. DonAt this point, please don't assume for example that your PAYE coding say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is correctgoing to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684722</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Webster3110641291|title=Polar Bear Pirates The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Their Quest to Engage the Sleepwalkers: Motivate Everyday People to Deliver Extraordinary ResultsAllen Alexander|rating=45

|summary=I'd like So, why bother? Every time you set out to introduce do something new you to end up with the polar bear piratessame thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. They're the people who believe in life before death – the people who can deliver extraordinary results despite being Why not just ordinary people like you and me. leave it as it is? WellAfter all, me anyway. Theyit's ''re the manager who can motivate their staff to achieve those extraordinary results – even if their staff are sleepwalkers who live on planet complacency, amps or vamps. We wonroughly't mention the potholers. This is a management book like no other – you're going to laughworking, cry just occasionally when you realise that youisn've been seen through and come away with plenty to think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857081276</amazonuk>}}t it?

{{newreview|author=Jakob Lovstad|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact Fighter|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Some books seem determined to put You might not have said it, but you off've probably thought it. Unless it's literary fiction 'Going Mental' suggests something that IYou've gone also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to great lengths to avoid. The man on make - the cover is baldoptimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, bloodied and apparently screaming. Ithe extension of your existing products into new areas - haven've been avoiding men like that too. t really delivered in terms of '…not for the soft and sensitive!' it says and whilst I wouldngrowth't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head is the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that heIt's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a cage fighter I'm ready to runcompetitor who takes a more radical approach. What has that got to do with my You've merely kept the business? Because thatticking over and there's what this book is about – reaching a nagging suspicion in the back of your goals mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in business and sportsthe twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1472962044|title=ObliquityCreating Value Through Technology: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Sometimes the shortest route to a destination isn't Discover the quickest way to get there. Take crossing central America for example. Instinctively, you think Tech that the best way to navigate your way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific is to travel directly from east to west. It may seem counter intuitive but the designers of the Panama Canal realised that the easiest way to make the journey was in fact to use a thin strip of land and then go in seemingly the wrong direction from west to east. Architects and cartographers found that the obvious route wasn't the best way to solve the problem put in front of them. An indirect or oblique approach would prove to be far more successful. That in a nutshell is noted economist John Kay's concept of obliquity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682894</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Lewis|title=The Big Short|rating=4|genre=Can Transform Your Business and Finance|summary=So. The subprime mortgage crisis, the worldwide financial crisis, people losing their jobs, their money, their houses, their security. Unregulated greed, that went on and on and on. And the people who caused it all got rich during and after, very few felt any sort of consequences, and millions of other people worldwide suffered greatly. Strip away all the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts to bets with unbelievable amounts of money. How did it all come about and how did it play out? Michael Lewis explains the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liar's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated the excesses of Wall Street in the 1980s, so does ''The Big Short'' perfectly tell the tale of Wall Street in the 2000s. In fact, given the extent of the current global clusterfuck, it makes the shocking ''Liar's Poker'' look positively mild by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic ThinkingAndrew Hampshire

|summary=This littleI was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, black book with its gold lettering on the front cover is beautifully presentedso there's been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Truly pocketTimes - thankfully -sized to make it easy to refer to at any time, any placehave moved on. Divided into four neat sections dealing with 'Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the self'' time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It'others'' (others in s also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the main being say business partners, colleagues or like-minded people) these fifty working models are designed to give knowledge of the individual both self-awareness and ammunition, if you likerequired technology, so they start off in order to cope with various business/political and even social scenariosconversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, for examplebut they frequently don't know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683955</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons1526362759|title=Stamps of the World 2011Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|genre=Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In describing reference books the word ''bible'' has been used too frequently What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of late. Slim booklets on a particular subject have the word emblazoned on their coverwhat it is, why it matters, which makes how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it rather difficult when you encounter a book – or in this case a set 've managed to get hold of six books – which merits the wordit. Stanley Gibbons Your reasons for wanting money don'Stamps of the World 2011' is genuinely t matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a bible – saver (you might even become an essential tool for a dealer ''investor'') and the serious collectorthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. ItThere's now available also the possibility of using to do good in six soft-bound volumes and is rightfully the company's flagship publicationworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597894</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lambert and Eli HolzmanLinda Scott|title=Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon That is Changing Bosses and Employees EverywhereThe Double X Economy|rating=3.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=I guess I have to admit to '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a certain weakness bold statement for a certain type of reality TV – an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a long time since I watched Big Brother light on what is happening in different places, and I've not been sucked into watching talent contests – but I do quite like programmes the impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in which the participants swap places and/or step out west? What can be done about the selling of their normal lives toyoung women into marriage, allegedly, see how someone else lives.and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0470916001</amazonuk>0571353606

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Prince's Trust0349424926|title=Make it Happen: The PrinceLife's Trust Guide Work: 12 Proven Ways to Starting Fast-Track Your Own BusinessCareer|author=James Reed

|summary=Who hasn't dreamed Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of being able your life? Do you have no need to work , either for themselves, be their own boss, and not have income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to worry about the drag of a 9 read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to 5 job? Of course, the reality of starting your own business is Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work or considering that there are rather a lot of things you might need to consider before getting started, as my sister found out when she started selling her own handmade greetings cards. Thankfully, make some changes then this is the book was on hand to help her get things going you need. James Reed is the chairman and shechief executive of REED, Britain's found it a really invaluable toolbiggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080458</amazonuk> Who better to give you the advice you need?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert AshtonAnne Boden|title=How to be a Social Entrepreneur: Make The Money and Change the WorldRevolution

|genre=Business and Finance|summary=This book Money is aimed at those individuals amongst us who want to make a differencechanging. They may have an idea of what they want to achieve but It might not sure of how to take that vital first step. This is where this book comes be in, says Ashton in his conversational stylethe ways you think. He takes We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the reader by 1, 2, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the hand and guides him/her through homeless on the business maze. And before we go any furtherstreet, what, exactly do we mean by but although this book has the subtitle that includes the perhaps woolly phrase of word ''digital'Social Entrepreneur'? Many think , it’s not really about this either. Instead, it means doling out charity of some description to vulnerable individuals. Not quite. It's all about helping people to help themselves - and in doing so, they in turn are helping their families by lifting them out the ''management'' of povertyyour finances, joblessness or even hopelessness. And I found that the inspirational elements of this book were upliftingand how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857080601</amazonuk>1789660610

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Stewart1949395324|title=The Management MythFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar

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