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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Handley0241636604|title=Everybody WritesThe Trading Game: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good ContentA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Ann Handley has compiled a one stop resource for writers of any kind of marketing and promotional material. Assuming If you have command were to bring up an image of basic vocabulary and know how to write a simple sentencecity banker in your mind, Handley takes you through everything you could ever need 're unlikely to know for a huge variety think of platformssomeone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, purposes where he was familiar with violence, poverty and problems, in order injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to better represent your business on the internetLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he 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, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear AgainFiona Parashar |authortitle=James ReedA Beautiful Way to Coach
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|summary=No-one likes So what am I doing job interviews. This includes most recruiting managersreading this book, using this book, but for candidates and being audacious enough to review it ? Truth is one I bought it out of life's most stressful situationscuriosity. No matter whether it's I was at an on-line launch for the next step book and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to me. I wanted to see if there were things in our carefully planned career or ''just there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a job''full day, no matter whether it's our first job or our fifteenthwhich I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, that 45 minutes to an hour of conversation has the potential bring me away from their vision and back to fundamentally affect our happiness for the foreseeable futuremy own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241970210</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca303091657X|author=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summarytitle=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at Disaster in the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Price of Fish A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better DecisionsBoardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Michael Mainelli Gerry Brown and Ian HarrisRandall S Peterson|rating=3.5
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|summary=Don't be put off by Boards must act in the titlebest interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The Price of Fish isn't just 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a treatise on how very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the local fishmonger chooses South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to mark up his prize catchhave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886224</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business
|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=Crafts
|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economistsuppl_stafl|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund
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|summary=There are people who donSo, you't understand ve finished writing your book and you think the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstance. hard work is all done? If youYou're one of those people then this book will mean little to convinced that all you, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy need to a diplomat do now is get it published and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had to know without delay. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth money will start rolling in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>}}?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Hytner0008350388|title=Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I've always been fascinated by the existence of that shadowy figure, the consigliere, in stories about the Mafia. He - and it was always a man - appeared We Need to be full of wisdom, with the interests of the family at heart and without an ambitious bone in his body, or so it would seem. It was the title of Richard Hytner's book which drew me in - along with the idea that coming top is sometimes second best. That seemed to go against everything that I'd ever been brought up to believe. So - does he make a good case for being the second in command?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250464</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday LifeTalk About Money|author=Uri Gneezy and John ListOtegha Uwagba
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Wow! This ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is a most surprising economics bookto be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Kelseyreed3|title=Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How Why You Can Change? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=4.5
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|summary= WeSix years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work're all so busy these days it's easy to veer between headless chicken and cherry picking modes, or at least it is for mewhich includes an additional 10 questions. ( I really hope my boss isn’t reading 've come to this!) In fact procrastination is some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my super power which was why life has changed significantly in the meantime. I grabbed [[:Category:Robert Kelsey|Robert Kelsey's]] book from the shelf with excited anticipation: m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a selfdown-help book with one of the longest titles known shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to man, he promises focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to help us become more efficient time managers the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to stop putting things offhave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857083082</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way
|author=Gerry Brown
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=''You're not there to run the organisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music business3030513025|authortitle=Simon Parkes and J S Rafaeli|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Who on earth would want to buy and run a live music venue The Independent Director in deepest Brixton, Society: Our current crisis of governance and manage what to keep it running for fifteen years, transforming it against all the odds into what becomes one of Britain’s most iconic establishments of its kind? Such an undertaking calls for somebody with special managerial skills who can keep one step ahead of the game, walking a precarious tightrope, keeping gangsters, punters, promoters and the local authorities onside. It also requires a good deal of luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689554</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewdo|author=Chip Heath and Dan Heath|title=Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and WorkFilipe Morais
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|summary=I donIndependent Director: ''t have a problem with making decisions, probably because Ijob for which no one is qualified've always tended to the view that it's better to make a decision and get on with life than haver and waste time in limbo. With a few notable exceptions it(''s served me well, but when Financial Times''Decisive) Independent Director: '' appeared on my desk it struck me that there could be advantages to improving An independent director is a member of the quality board of the decisions too. The Heath brothers directors who (1) do not have a good history material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of collaborating on such subjects the company's executive team, and delivering books which open (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the mindcompany.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk>}} (Corporate Finance Institute)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241453585|title=What if Money Grew on Trees?Banking On It: Asking the big questions about economicsHow I Disrupted an Industry|author=David BoyleAnne Boden
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|summary=In Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a climate senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the throes of increasing economic uncertainty, we may often find ourselves exploring recovering from the big questions about money, finance 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the global marketfirst to realise that banks needed to do things differently. For example, during AIB thought it was at the recent downturncutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, experts were faced with such questions as ''What if we just kept printing more banknotes?'' and ''What would happen if realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the banks crashed again?'' Theseold branch network, and other thought-provoking speculative questions have been put to a team employing thousands of experts and their answers have been recorded in a fascinating and absorbing little book called ''What if Money Grew on Trees?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240046X</amazonuk>people, would soon become redundant.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan H Palmer3110641119|title=Talk LeanThe Journey Mapping Playbook: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better RelationsA Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=45
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|summary=When I think back to my days as an employee had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the memory of book and acting on the meetings makes me shuddercontents. They were usually badly prepared and managed with little aim other than You're going to learn how to tick run a box so that someone could prove workshop to discover what it feels like to ''his'' manager that he held meetingsbe one of your own customers. The waste of time was on a monumental scale and I doubt that I'm alone in thinking At this. Include other meetings which you have on personal matters and youpoint, please don'll probably agree that itt say 's rare to emerge feeling that youoh (expletive deleted) not another workshop've achieved what you wanted because this is going to achieve - or that be fun and you haven't been manipulated. Alan H Palmer has a plan for making meetings shorter and getting better results, but most importantly (for me) he wants you re going to be able to do it all openly, with no tricks, no gimmicks and complete honestysurprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110641291|title=The CurveRadical Innovation Playbook: From Freeloaders into Superfans: The Future of Business|author=Nicholas Lovell|rating=4.5|genre=business and Finance|summary=Back in the 20th century, companies tried to sell the same products to everyone A Practical Guide for the same priceHarnessing New, and needed to shift massive amounts of them if they wanted to make a lot of money. Today, there is the potential to get just as much money from customers by selling expensive items Novel or services to a small number of big spenders. Of course, the trick is getting enough of these big spenders to discover what you're marketing in the first place Game- and one of the best ways to do that is by giving something away for free. But how do they then turn these freeloaders into superfans? Author and consultant Nicholas Lovell gives us an overview of the changing world, and advice on how to take advantage of it, in this fascinating book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670923834</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewChanging Breakthroughs|author=Scott Berkun|title=The Year Without Pants: WordPress.Com Olga Kokshagina and the Future of WorkAllen Alexander|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sometimes you find a book which you simply can't ''not'' read. So, why bother? 'The Year Without Pants' was one of them. It's not what Every time you're thinking (money's not ''that'' tight) - but the story of what happens when an old-school management guru goes back set out to do something new you end up with the coal face to lead a team which had not had a leader before - to be accurate they'd not had teams - same thing in a revolutionary company which takes remote working to the extreme. Members of Scott Berkun's team lived all over the world slightly different form and worked for quite a company which had largely gone beyond email, had headquarters which were rarely used and had no rulesbit of money spent. SoWhy not just leave it as it is? After all, why did I it's ''haveroughly'' to read the book? Wellworking, the company in question is Automattic which brings us WordPress, the open source software which powers fifty million websites. I run a website which uses open-source software - and Iisn've been in business for the last seven and a half years with someone to whom I've never even spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118660633</amazonuk>}}t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland Smith1472962044|title=The Reality TestCreating Value Through Technology: Still Relying on Strategy?Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire
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|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=If you are in business the chances are I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you know 're eighteen, so there are areas 's been a lot of technology in which you need help, my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - at the very least thankfully - could improvehave moved on. Sometimes it's quite difficult to quantify ''where'' you need Nowadays the help, but you're probably quite sure about what you ''donproblem is that someone running a business doesn't'' need have the time to keep up with constant innovation and thatthey might also be scared because previous IT investments haven's best summed up t delivered as too much science, jargon you donexpected. It't understand or anything s also a fact that you no one develops a business because they have to wade through to come up with the conclusion knowledge of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that you were doing it roughly right in the first placethey're at a disadvantage. A good starting point is a book which you can dip into as you They need and which edges your thinking into areas ithelp, but they frequently don's not been into for a whilet know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250790</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson OBE1526362759|title=Freedom from Bosses ForeverDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=HumourChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=When we first meet Canadian businesswoman Leonora Soculitherz What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (don't struggle nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's pronounced ve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don'so cool t matter: we all need it hurts') she's on her way from Manchester Airport to Scarborough, the home of her agent, Tony Robinson OBEsome extent. You get the measure of the woman straight away as she lets her irritation show about the problems might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you find in the First Class carriage on the train. (She is really, ''soreally'' right - I was once grateful want to spend the journey perched on a luggage rackbuy.) Her mission is a piece of investigative journalism thatThere's going to introduce her also the possibility of using to some very superior people as she searches for information about why people do good in small businesses don't get the help they needworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CE5BKKI</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George BrockLinda Scott|title=Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital AgeThe Double X Economy|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=At about '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the turn of following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the century most people impact on the street where I live had a morning paper delivered local and a good number also got an evening paperworld economy. The queue at What can be learnt from the newsagent great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the village would west? What can be out done about the selling of the door each morning as people picked up a paper on their way to work. I young women into marriage, and what can't remember when I last saw a newspaper boy (or girl) on their rounds chimpanzees and we only buy the weekend papers as an indulgence with a more leisurely breakfast. Times have changed - and there's no sign that the situation is likely to settle in the near future.bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749466510</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dee Blick0349424926|title=The 15 Essential Marketing Masterclasses for Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Small BusinessCareer|author=James Reed
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=A problem Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will be common to most small businesses is finding last the time rest of your life? Do you have no need to market yourself. work, either for income or fulfilment? YouIf you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read 're small - you spend your time working 'Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to earn the money Fast- that is (after all) why youTrack Your Career''re in business. You don't have the time to add on something which begins to seem like a whole new business in itself and If you're probably not making the money which would allow yet in work or considering that you might need to employ someone to do it for make some changes then this is the book youneed. Besides - ''where'' do you start? WhatJames Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED, Britain's going to be worth your time biggest and money? best-known name in the recruitment industry. What should Who better to give you avoid? How can you find out without wading through lots of theory and science and ''still'' be left wondering if this is the road advice you should be takingneed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Reed and Paul G StoltzAnne Boden|title=Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You LoveMoney Revolution
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|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Money is changing. It's well over a decade since I was involved might not be in hiring staff for an employer but over the last seven years I've been active in bringing reviewers to Bookbagways you think. Certain reactions stand out from both experiences. The first is We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that skills rarely matter: if they're important for offers anything different to the job I can usually teach or polish them. In fact ''well1, 2, this is how we did it at...'' can be 5 model?) We’re getting a disadvantage not least because lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the temptation to throttle someone can become quite overwhelming homeless on a bad day. Paper qualifications are not really that important either: for the most part street, but although this book has the bare minimum will suffice and I've often found subtitle that includes the more highly-qualified applicants can find it quite difficult to adapt themselves to the job Iword ''digital'm offering. At the other end of the scale I've taken people on and after a while thought that if I had half a dozen people of , it’s not really about this calibre I could send the rest homeeither. What marks these people out is their attitude. Nowadays Instead, it's called mindsetabout the ''management'' of your finances, and how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241003547</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949395324|title=Brick by BrickFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry4th Edition|author=David Robertson and Bill BreenKalpesh Ashar|rating=3.54
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=There can be few of us whose lives were not untouched at some stage by ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a phase of building things out of LEGO bricks. They comprised a time-honoured toy for children of all ages company the knowledge to understand the accounts which weathered many a storm since Ole Kirk Christiansen, a master carpenter, founded show how the family-owned company in Billund, Denmark in 1932is doing. However fashions changeThe book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, and this was never more true than when computer software swept nearly everything before it towards the end then moves on to give an excellent overview of the last century. Brand loyalty and an inability (or refusal) to adapt sufficiently was not enough to protect it from the combined onslaught types of video games, MP3 players accounting systems which will be encountered and other hi-tech delights, or a harsh business climate in a cut-throat market where competition was intense and famous names were rapidly going to the wallterms used. In 2003, three years after two different surveys had called We then look in detail at the LEGO brick ‘the toy of the century’balance sheet, the Group announced income statement and the biggest loss in its history and it appeared to be doomedstatement of cash flows...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794115X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1946383627|authortitle=The Chartered Cost Accounting & Management InstituteEssentials You Always Wanted To Know|titleauthor=Managing Yourself (The Checklist Series: Step by step guides to getting it right)Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=When you start work, when you become I'm capable of drawing up a manager or move up profit and loss account (income statement in the ladder itUSA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. The accounts give me 's assumed that you will need training in 'broadly'managing'what I need: I know whether we'. This is always assumed to re making a profit or a loss and I can look at the expenses and see what looks as though it could be managing other people, but it's only very rarely that any consideration is given to managing yourself - and then probably only trimmed back in specific areasfuture years. But - if you havenMy problem was that the accounts didn't sorted yourself outreally give me any help in making decisions, thought through your own actions and motivations, how can you give leadership which was why I turned to others? ''ManagingCost Accounting and Management'' , part of Vibrant Publishers''Yourself'' remedies this Self-Learning and covers the cradle to grave of working lifeManagement series.. 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne1072549271|title=Winning Without LosingThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced lifeA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=ItI frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don's a common assumption t have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if youthey're a serious entrepreneur then youve considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn're going t know where to have to dedicate your start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life to making money, passing up on the good things (apart from those which can be ''boughtand'', obviously) such as a happy family lifewebsite online, the world outside of work and quite probably your health tooI'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. But what if there was a way I like someone to have hold my hand as I go through it all? for the first time. That was why I was very interested when ''Winning Without LosingThe Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon' doesn't give a blueprint which will enable you to go out and make your first million and have a wonderful life outside work - but it does give you sixty six ideas for ways in which you could adjust your working life to make the most of it without ruining everything elsecame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251509</amazonuk>
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