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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fraser0241636604|title=Forestry Flavours of the MonthThe Trading Game: The Changing Face of World ForestryA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London 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.
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|rating=5
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|summary=Alastair Fraser's experience So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of forestry spans more than five decades curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book and having the benefit Fiona’s description of the long view he's ideally placed her Vision Days appealed to me. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to consider the changes a full day, which have occurred over the course of his careerI know would send them scurrying for their burrow. He I also has the ability, not as common as it ought wanted to be amongst professionalssee if I could give myself a Vision Day, of being able to look at what he does both bring me away from the point of view of the business ''and'' the people who work in it and are affected by it. There's a lack of tunnel their vision too: he sees what's happening in forestry both in the narrow focus and where it sits globally so far as economics and politics are concernedback to my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524628921</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=303091657X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Chris Voss Gerry Brown and Tahl RazRandall S Peterson|titlerating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary= Never Split Boards must act in the Differencebest 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 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Negotiating Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as if railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Life Depended Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' 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 motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on Itthe Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund
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|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary= Negotiation is ''nothing more than communication with results''So, according to Chris Voss. you''Never Split ve finished writing your book and you think the Difference'hard work is all done? You' re convinced that all you need to do now is all about maximising get it published and the chances of these results being money will start rolling in your favour? Wrong and wrong again. Drawing upon years of experience as a crisis You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and kidnapping negotiator, Voss has developed you had a set of highly honed tools, field-tested in numerous high-stakes negotiation situations involving talent for delivering the FBIwritten word. In contrast You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the widely accepted paradigm for negotiation taught in schools and universities, this toolkit throws aside complex game theory and dense mathematical considerations in favour of an approach that places emotional intelligencebook supply chain, empathy and subtle communication techniques at its core. The focus is on developing an understanding which even parts of the thought process of individuals during any given discussion. Effective communication not only helps derive these insights, publishing industry believe to be wrong but allows them it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be used the first to move try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a negotiation copy of the book in the direction your hands, you want 're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to go, while simultaneously resolving a discussion with minimal conflictbe down to you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847941486</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Byrne0008350388|title= Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built BritainWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating= 45|genre= Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Liam Byrne MP''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to 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 ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a minister in the last Labour government, has come up with book by a novel way writer of telling British history through colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the ages in this bookUK from Kenya when she was five years old. His approach is not one of Kings Her sisters were seven and Queensnine. It was her mother who came first, wars or scientific discoverieswith her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, but through the business world principled and several of determined that their children would have the key – and often unsung – entrepreneurs and commercial venturers from medieval times to the twentieth centurybest education possible. As he says in his preface, the people through whose lives he has chosen to narrate the saga reveal the best and worst There was always a painful awareness of human endeavours, as he serves us up several explorers, inventors and moral leaders alongside money although this did not translate into a motley crew shortage of fraudsters, warmongers and unembarrassed imperialistsanything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. All of them took risksFor Otegha, some made fortunes education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and some lost themthen a place at New College, but for better or worse they all contributed towards the tale of British enterprise and the making of the modern worldOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Wittreed3|title= How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the ThiefWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating= 45|genre= Business and Finance|summary= In Six years on from the digital ageoriginal edition, new technology made recorded music the book is being re-issued with a free-for-allbonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. It was good news for the consumer, but dealt a major blow I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the beleaguered music industry. Where people once amassed physical collections, they now had the choice of file-sharing instead. This original book describes how everything and my life has changed from significantly in the midmeantime. I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-1990s onwardsshift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. It is however written more with I can therefore relate to the computer enthusiast or business student than the music lover first point made in mindthis chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=3110706075|title=Rasmus HougaardMaking a Difference: Leadership, Jacqueline Carter Change and Gillian CouttsGiving Back the Independent Director Way|titleauthor=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessGerry Brown
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what you''You're doing not there to answer an email? run the organisation. Do you try You are there to multitask, thinking make sure that youit is run properly.''re being more efficient? Do you have far too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogers3030513025|title=Campaigns that Shook the WorldThe Independent Director in Society: The Evolution Our current crisis of Public Relationsgovernance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance |summary= I dithered about how Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-to begin this review-day operations of the company. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that I the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have a work related interest in marketing general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and communications. On where things are going wrong - but all too often the other handrelationship is too cosy, Danny Rogers too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has written a book which appealed highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to me on several levels. Campaigns think that these are about psychology extraordinary times and storytelling – which of course leads us into branding that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In short, I a pandemic was looking forward predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure to reading this prepare for many reasons – what has happened - and it didn’t disappointis still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Crabbe0241453585|title=BusyBanking On It: How to Thrive in a World of Too MuchI Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=In Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the United Kingdom independent directors are usually known as non-executive directors to distinguish them 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 throes of recovering from the executive – those people charged with actually running 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the company on a day-first to-day basis - but Gerry Brown usually refers realise that banks needed to them as independent directors, a phrase which is common in other parts of the worlddo things differently. Initially, I found AIB thought it was at the phrase somewhat unusual but as I read ''The Independent Director'' I came to prefer that usage as cutting edge when it stresses what the director must be above all else – independent and able proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to stand back from the management of access their accounts via a business and view what is happening and what is planned with terminal. Boden took things a dispassionate and critical eye. There's little in the way of training and it can be argued step further, realising that no one is actually qualified to do customers could access their accounts from their homes: the jobold branch network, but Brown's book is as good as you're going to get in terms employing thousands of spelling out the responsibilities and pitfallspeople, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113748053X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Platt3110641119|title=Criminal CapitalThe Journey Mapping Playbook: How A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeValue of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=45
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=It used to be estate agents we reviled the most, but theyI had no idea what 'journey mapping've now achieved relative respectability. MPs briefly took the top spot, was until I read this playbook but for many years now any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the list has been topped by bankers following book and acting on the 2008 financial crisis, when huge taxpayer-funded financial bailouts were required to keep the world's financial system afloatcontents. Most people will think that weYou've heard the worst of re going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what has been going on, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking and mis-selling might well it feels like to be just a minor part one of what is your own customers. At this point, please don't say 'stilloh (expletive deleted) not another workshop'' happening in the industry and that government attempts because this is going to counter the problems are misguided be fun and unlikely you're going to be effectivesurprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Gabay3110641291|title=Brand PsychologyThe Radical Innovation Playbook: Consumer PerceptionsA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Corporate ReputationsNovel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Confession - I'm So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of a brand geekmoney spent. I do have some marketing work experience but that Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't the reason why Iit? You might not have said it, but you'm a bit of a brand geekve probably thought it. I think You've also thought the attraction for me is that brands small, incremental improvements which you havebeen able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, or the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in some cases, are, storiesterms of ''growth''. I have always It's been fascinated manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by how a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and why people can relate to those stories, there's a nagging suspicion in the same way back of your mind that I am fascinated by how anyone relates to any story! If you have any interest an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the business of brands, this twenty-first. What you need is a fascinating read and it delivers on far more fronts than just the business oneinnovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749471735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacky Fitt1472962044|title=How to Get Inside Someone's Mind and Stay ThereCreating Value Through Technology: The business owner's guide to content marketing and confident copywritingDiscover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=As a small business owner I know itwas once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's difficult - sometimes it feels impossible - to get your message out to your potential customers 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 manner which is going to reward the effort which you put into ittypewriter. Besides, how do you know who your potential customers are? Times - thankfully - have moved on. How do you know how Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation and they would like to might also be approached? scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. In It's also a factthat no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the required technology, how are you going to get inside their head - and stay there? so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. Jacky Fitt has written a comprehensive guide which takes you through They need help, but they frequently don't know what's needed and allows you to develop your own action plan for your businesshelp they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00MXXQ5GU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Murphy1526362759|title=Cowboys and IndiesDosh: The Epic History of the Record IndustryHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=EntertainmentChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It’s not difficult to find What a history relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of popular or recorded musicwhat it is, written around the musical names who made why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it happento some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'Cowboys ') and Indiesthere might be something you really, ''really'' takes a different approachwant to buy. While there is plenty There's also the possibility of using to do good in these pages about several of the most important stars, there is just as much again if not sometimes more about the movers and shakers, the inventors, managers, impresarios, and record label founders without whom there would not have been a record industryworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann HandleyLinda Scott|title=Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good ContentThe Double X Economy|rating=45|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Ann Handley has compiled '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a one stop resource bold statement for writers of any kind of marketing and promotional materialan opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. Assuming you have command of basic vocabulary and know how to write This book shines a simple sentence, Handley takes you through everything you could ever need to know for a huge variety of platformslight on what is happening in different places, purposes and problems, in order to better represent your business the impact on the internetlocal and world economy.What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00PJOTG4I</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349424926|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions YouLife'll Never Fear Agains Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career
|author=James Reed
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=NoDo you have a guaranteed and more-one likes doing job interviews. than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? This includes most recruiting managersDo you have no need to work, but either for candidates it is one income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of lifethose questions then you really ought to read ''s most stressful situations. No matter whether itLife's the next step in our carefully planned career or Work''just a job: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career'', no matter whether it. If you's our first job re not yet in work or our fifteenth, considering that 45 minutes you might need to an hour make some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of conversation has REED, Britain's biggest and best-known name in the potential recruitment industry. Who better to fundamentally affect our happiness for give you the foreseeable future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241970210</amazonuk>advice you need?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaAnne Boden|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfThe Money Revolution
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|genre=Popular ScienceBusiness and Finance|summary=We're screwedMoney is changing. Wherever we look, whatever we It might not be in the ways you think of doing, there is . We’re not suddenly getting a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, 3p or £3 coin (and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what have you eat, how you work, how you rest ever even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke found a serious illness or worse. And outside country that daily sphere there are economic disastersoffers anything different to the 1, nuclear meltdowns2, errant AI scientists 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and passing comets the homeless on the street, but although this book has the subtitle that could turn our world upside down at includes the blink of an eyeword ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for Instead, 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 Decisions|author=Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Don't be put off by s about the title. The Price ''management'' of Fish isn't just a treatise on your finances, and how the local fishmonger chooses to mark up his prize catchtake control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1857886224</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve J Martin, Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini1949395324|title=The small BIGFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: small changes that spark big influence4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=It's a commonly-held belief that if you want 'Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to advance your business - bring in the extra money, get more customers and generally move up a step - then youKnow ''re going to gives people without an accounting background who have to spend big money and bring risen in a company the experts. Martin, Goldstein and Cialdini tackle the problem from the other end: sometimes it's knowledge to understand the smallest, least expensive and quick changes accounts which can bring about show how the improvement that you needcompany is doing. In ''The small BIG'' they offer over fifty tipsbook begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, hints, ideas then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which can make will be encountered and the differenceterms used. Sometimes they cost nothing, but bring We then look in millions. Occasionally they require a small investment of your timedetail at the balance sheet, but it can be as little as five minutes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252742</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William Poundstone|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in income statement and the business statement of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to movecash flows.. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. So, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1946383627|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers
|rating=4.5
|genre=ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=There are people who donI't understand the joy m capable of raw data: no accompanying analysis drawing up a profit and loss account (or spinincome statement in the USA) - just and a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstancebalance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. If youThe accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're one of those people then this book will mean little to you, but if you want making a pocket (well, certainly handbag profit or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasure. loss and I once gave a copy to a diplomat can look at the expenses and he kept his wife awake until the early hours see what looks as he came across another gem which she had to know without delaythough it could be trimmed back in future years. The 2015 edition is My problem was that the twenty fourth accounts didn't really give me any help in the series making decisions, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of Vibrant Publishers' Self- Learning and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtManagement series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alannah Moore1072549271|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) in a WeekendThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=I've run a website for over eight years now frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when Isuggest self-publishing they explain that they don've always shied away from any inclusion of e-commerce on t have the site. It seemed big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like too large a subject, too much complexity and choice and the possibility of problems which could go disastrously wrong. I first encountered Alannah Moore when I read [[The Creative Personthen ask if they's Website Builder by Alannah Moore|The Creative Person's Website Builder]] ve considered Kindle and was impressed by the way that she approached her subjectanswer is, so when I had the opportunity to see how to create an online store in a weekendinevitably, I jumped at the chance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Money: The Unauthorised Biography|author=Felix Martin|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Occasionally books are not exactly what that they seemwouldn't know where to start. When I picked this up, read the blurb and began the contents inside, I was expecting a kind of biography or history of money through the agescan empathise with that. The opening chapterDespite having used a computer for about thirty years, a brief sketch running most of the economy of the Pacific island of Yap my life ''and how '' a website online, I'm still nervous when it worked, seemed comes to confirm thisstarting something new. It tells us how in the late nineteenth century Yap, east of the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting of stone wheels around 12ft in diameter, called fei. The population did not carry these around, let alone own them I like we possess pounds and pence, someone to hold my hand as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit management.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Hytner|title=Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I've always been fascinated by go through it for the existence of that shadowy figure, the consigliere, in stories about the Mafiafirst time. He - and it That was always a man - appeared 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 why I was the title very interested when ''The Simple Act of Richard HytnerSelf Publishing With Amazon''s book which drew me in - along with the idea that coming top is sometimes second bestcame across my desk.. 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>
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