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"The job market has never been more competitive, and marketingyourself can be tricky. This title offers practical, step-by-stepadvice on preparing, writing, and presenting an impressive CV that willhelp you 'get your foot in the door' with prospective employers. Covering essential issues such as identifying your goals, creatingdifferent types of CV and a fantastic covering letter to go with them,this is a must-read for all job-hunters."

Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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Richard Fitzpatrick El clásico

Barcelona v Real Madrid

Real Madrid versus Barcelona is regarded by many as the most captivating fixture in world football. But it is not only the on-pitch battles that have forged their rivalry. From General Franco and bloody civil war to the Catalan city of Barcelonas lukewarm reaction to Spains recent World Cup and European Championship triumphs, bitterness is never far from the surface. In El Clásico, Richard Fitzpatrick charts the key political and historical flashpoints between the two clubs. With exclusive interviews...

Engels | 256 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Louise Aronson A history of the present illness

Zestien min-of-meer met elkaar verbonden verhalen over medische zorg aan kwetsbare mensen.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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C.Joseph Greaves Hard twisted

Een 13-jarig meisje en een veel oudere crimineel trekken door Amerika tijdens de grote economische crisis van de jaren dertig van de 20e eeuw.

Fictie

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Lara Feigel The love-charm of bombs

"When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. At the height of the Blitz, Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one 'like a love-charm'. As the sky whistled...

Engels | 400 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Richard Van Emden Boy soldiers of the Great War

"The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible...

Engels | 416 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Richard Eyre National service

"During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the...

Engels | 448 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Get to grips with budgets

"Not everyone has a head for numbers, but if looking after them is part of your job, they're unavoidable. Getting to grips with budgets will boost your confidence with numbers and help you do your job better and more easily. The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists the best sources of further help."

Engels | 96 pagina's (2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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Manage your career

"The world of work moves so quickly these days that to get the bestfrom your career, you need to actively manage it and seek out newopportunities. Manage Your Career will help you make the mostof your talents and potential, and enable your dreams to become areality. Packed with essential advice and practical help, this bookwill help you plan the right move, whether you want to climb to the topof the career ladder or reinvent your working life completely. Whatever your job, Manage Your Career will...

Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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William Dalrymple The last Mughal

"On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, `No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable...

Engels | 608 pagina's (3,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Joshua Cody Sic

Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted.

Engels | 272 pagina's (4,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Tim Coates Patsy

"This is the story of Mary Cornwallis West, who was called Patsy by her family and close friends. High class and Irish born, she married when she was sixteen and had a long affair with Edward, the Prince of Wales, son of Victoria and Albert. Patsy was beautiful and exciting: she loved to flirt and be mad. Thirty years later, in 1915, Britain is on the brink of defeat on the Western Front and a young shell-shocked soldier, Patrick Barrett, has been transferred home to North Wales to convalesce. Soon,...

Engels | 288 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Vicki Mackenzie Cave in the snow

"The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Diane Perry grew up in London's East End. At the age of 18 however, she read a book on Buddhism and realised that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life. In 1963, at the age of 20, she went to India, where she eventually...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Seb Emina The breakfast bible

"When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books, a delectable selection of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany.The recipes in the robust volume begin with the iconic full English - which can mean anything as long as there are eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, bread, potatoes and beans involved - before moving confidently on to more exotic fare such as kedgeree, omelette Arnold Bennett, waffles, American muffins, porridge,...

Engels | 256 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Lucy Lethbridge Servants

"Childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard class offers a fresh perspective on a dramatic century. Here, the voices of servants and domestic staff, largely ignored by history, are at last brought to life: their daily household routines, attitudes towards their employers, and to each other, throw into sharp and intimate relief the period of feverish social change through which they lived. Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and brilliantly observed, Servants...

Engels | 320 pagina's (1,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths

"As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...

Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Niki Segnit The flavour thesaurus

"Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspirationfor what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is thefirst book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair.The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus. The back section lists,alphabetically, 99 popular ingredients, and suggests classic and lesswell known flavour matches for each. The front section contains anentry for every flavour match listed in the back section and isorganised into 16 flavour themes such...

Engels | 400 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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James Barr Setting the desert on fire

"It is 1916. The Allies are struggling in the Great War. The Ottoman Sultan calls for a pan-Islamic jihad against all non-Muslims except Germans. But Sharif Husein, ruler of the holy city of Mecca, is smarting under Turkish rule, fomenting Arab nationalism and lobbying the British to support him. It seems to the British a good idea secretly to encourage an Arab revolt. Setting the Desert on Fire is a masterly account of this key moment made legendary by T. E. Lawrence, but here filled with a wide...

Engels | 384 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Carolyn Burke No regrets

"Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance...

Engels | 304 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Anne Michaels The winter vault

"Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...

Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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