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by Amy Goldwasser
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Every cat owner knows that no two cats are alike. This pitch-perfect illustrated book proves this simple fact by diving whiskers first into the unique personality, charisma, and character of 50 real all-black cats. From Alfie, who "has no tolerance for wet humans or being ignored," to Sashi,...
by Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
**Too lazy to drive to his girlfriend's house, a man ties helium balloons to a lawn chair--and ends up at 15,000 feet, closing the L. A. airport.
*A Chinese contraception program causes the birth rate to rise when men are discovered taking birth control pills and unrolling condoms over their...
by Bradley Schaufenbuel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Records management professionals, IT personnel, compliance experts and general counsel all need to work together to develop a comprehensive framework for handling E-Discovery requirements. This pocket guide provides expert advice on how to build such a framework within your organisation in order to assess and to manage the risks associated with E-Discovery.
by James E Houck
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
This book is about my time in the plumbing field. I worked in the plumbing trade for forty years, starting as a young apprentice in high school. I worked in all phases of the plumbing trade, and this book deals with how it was for me to serve my time in the trenches and progress to eventually become...
Musings of a Mean, Fat, Cranky Bitch
a call center goddess offers her thoughts on work, life, and the apparent limitlessness of human stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Wendy Wishart came by the title "Mean, Fat, Cranky Bitch" honestly. What made her that way? Her call center job, and life in general. Idiots to the left of her, morons to the right of her, and she gleefully slags them all in this hilarious compilation of past (and no longer available other...
Works Well with Others
An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Esquire editor and Entrepreneur etiquette columnist Ross McCammon delivers a funny and authoritative guide that provides the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what’s going on.
Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine and...
by Stephen McIndoe, Andrew Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Delivering patient safety, increased return and enhancing reputation. The essential resource for implementing sustainable packaging labelling and artwork capabilities. Foreword by Steve Richmond, Head of Global Packaging, AstraZeneca. The knowledge and expertise contained in this book will help you...
Pioneer Programmer
Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In early 1945, the United States military was recruiting female mathematicians for a top-secret project to help win World War II. Betty Jean Jennings (Bartik), a twenty-year-old college graduate from rural northwest Missouri, wanted an adventure, so she applied for the job. She was hired as a “computer”...
by Douglas D. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Having practiced law for ten years now, the author of this book believes that it is especially difficult to begin and maintain a successful practice these days. He shares his youth's turmoil and the benefits to him of entering law practice. Being in the profession has furthered his general belief that...
by Albert Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Readers Digests Laughter the best medicine is not without merit. Various medical studies have arrived at the same conclusion. Here is a book that aspires to meet the challenge. This book is a short compilation of humor that the author collected over his career. This book maybe useful for those undergoing...
by Massimiliano Musina
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Giovanni Pintori (Tresnuraghes 1912–Milan 1999) was one of the best-known, widely admired and respected Italian designers worldwide. The winner of sought-after international awards, he designed impressive works that created the Olivetti image and were an emblematic reference in the history of 20th-century...
Being Geek
The Software Developer's Career Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he’s a jerk? Join that startup? Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Netscape,...
Fascism
100 Questions Asked and Answered
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
After World War Two, 'fascist' became the F word of political debate to be applied liberally against anyone who left-wing polemicists disliked. But what did it really mean and what did its British supporters really stand for? In this pre-War book written in convenient Question and Answer form by Oswald...
Design Your Life
The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Design Your Life is a series of irreverent and realistic snapshots about objects and how we interact with them. By leading design thinker Ellen Lupton and her twin sister Julia Lupton, it shows how design is about much more than what's bought at high-end stores or the modern look at IKEA. Design is...