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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=[[Trials Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Parashar |title=A Beautiful Way to Coach |rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary= 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 curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description of 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 a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and back to my own.|isbn=103211603X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=303091657X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and Tribulations financially secure. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay]]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: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as 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 Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.''

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Just chance you think I know that youI're picking up a book about what can go wrong m not alone in life for an itinerant sex worker having wondered whether or not Icould turn my hobby into a business. There'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is s a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out lot of motivation to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of inconvenience people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to costs, which can be know about turbines quite considerable and generatorsit could be fun to do, or if he didncouldn't could soon be up it? But where to speed start? What do I need to think about? Well, the extent of being able first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to teach other peopleread ''Making a Living''. Occasionally his skills were used in }}{{Frontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the UKLocal Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=So, but frequently he was abroad. Just every you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily money will start rolling in the news and not in a good way. [[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]]<br>?

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{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=[[The DIY Investor: How ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to take control of your investments be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and plan for a financially secure future ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Andy Bell]]===Otegha Uwagba

[[image:5star''0.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

Investments are confusingOtegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. They're also rather frightening unless you have a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely to make your fortune Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, only to find that you've lost all your moneywith her father joining them later. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nice The family was hard-working, safe building society or bank account only to find principled and determined that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually their children would have the same buying power that it did when you opened the accountbest education possible. You could, There was always a painful awareness of course, spend the money, but what about when you want to buy although this did not translate into a house, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the other two are going to need family acquired a substantial investment potcar. [[The DIY Investor: How For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to take control of your investments a private school in London and plan for then a financially secure future by Andy Bell|Full Review]]place at New College, Oxford.<br>}}

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=reed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=T K WilliamsJames Reed|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the meantime. I'm no longer working in middle-Nelsonmanagement having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110706075|title=Time is MoneyMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|summary=Whatever your age it's frustrating 'You're not there to have run the organisation. You are there to work for someone elsemake sure that it is run properly. If you're under twenty five there's  Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a strong chance that you'll be underboard -valued and probably not paid very well. There is thoughjust a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a certain security in employmentuniversity, usually because a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's a reasonable certainty of income increased diversity on these boards and a possibility feels that this would help to avoid some of paid holidays: when youthe scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're self-employed neither of those are guaranteedthinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. It is, thoughFor this to happen, boards need to have a big step wider field of people to leap into the world of self-employment. choose from when they''Time is Money'' is a self-development tool aimed at young people, creatives and people in businessre looking for an ID.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Duhigg3030513025|title= Smarter Faster Better|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance|summary= ''Smarter Faster Better'' is ideal book for someone who loves both stories and career-related self-improvement. Readers looking for quick answers, bullet points or sound bites may be disappointed as Duhigg's approach is to focus on case studies, told with the flair The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of a short story, governance and then extrapolate from these rather than listing tips and exercises. However, if you have the time and patience to get to the point of each chapter slowly (and surely this is a subject matter worth devoting time what to), you will doubtless find that Duhigg is an excellent storyteller and cleverly articulates the key message from each story so that they stick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947433</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewdo|author=T J Coles|title=The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European UnionFilipe Morais|rating=3.5

|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified''Have you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcare? If so(''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, you might be entitled and (3) is not involved with the day-to compensation-day operations of the company...'' (Corporate Finance Institute)

There wasn't much could make me laugh on Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the morning after executive members of boards and the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed it. Onlyindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), it seems that it wasn't completely a joke - well apart from the bit about compensationtrustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. In ''The Great Brexit Scandal'' T J Coles looks at function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the substantial core executive side of free marketeers in the Conservative party who were determined board - to rid spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the UK of independent director lacks the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activities. You might also knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know these views as ''neoliberalism'', an ideology which looks how to deregulate markets and maximise profitsintervene. On Covid-19 has highlighted the surface failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that doesn't sound bad, until you realise these are extraordinary times and that the benefit all will go be well once we get back to the people who are already 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the group which Coles refers past and there has been a general failure to as the ''megaprepare for what has happened -rich'' and the losers will be working peopleis still happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570813</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Baldwin0241453585|title=The Great ConvergenceBanking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=45

|summary=The globalisation of Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the world economy is financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a central factor senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in life and politics today. 'The Great Convergence' attempts to explain the current driving forces behind throes of recovering from the phenomena 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the likely consequencesfirst to realise that banks needed to do things differently. It is well argued, and supported by AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a wealth of data and research, but it is not one for branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a general readerterminal. A background in economic principles and an understanding of some key concepts would be Boden took things a key requisite in getting the most out of this book. Without this backgroundstep further, the reader will be constantly switching realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the text and cross-referencing the meaning of some of the vocabulary used. With that note old branch network, employing thousands of cautionpeople, and the required understanding, Richard Baldwin's analysis is compellingwould soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067466048X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Wiles3110641119|title=Thinking AllowedThe Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=45

|summary=''Thinking Allowed''? ''Hmm'', I thought, ''had no idea what has that got to do with building a thriving optical lens business?'journey mapping' But within a few pages of starting to was until I read, I was convinced this playbook but any business that it was perfectengages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the contents. You see, this isn't a book which you read, rather like a Delia Smith book, re going to give you a precise recipe for learn how you must proceed to achieve run a perfect resultworkshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customers. No two businesses are alikeAt this point, any more than any two owners are alike and Julian Wiles allows you to approach please don't say 'your'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' business from all angles: there are even ways because this is going to be fun and you can get his personal advice. This is no ordinary 'how re going to' bookbe surprised by what emerges. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524633100</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fraser3110641291|title=Forestry Flavours of the MonthThe Radical Innovation Playbook: The A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Face of World ForestryBreakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=4.5

|summary=Alastair Fraser's experience of forestry spans more than five decades 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 having the benefit quite a bit of the long view hemoney spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ideally placed to consider the changes which ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have occurred over the course of his careersaid it, but you've probably thought it. He You've also has thought the abilitysmall, not as common as it ought incremental improvements which you have been able to be amongst professionalsmake - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, of being able to look at what he does both from the point extension of view your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of the business ''andgrowth'' the people who work in it . It's been manageable and are affected largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by ita competitor who takes a more radical approach. ThereYou've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a lack nagging suspicion in the back of tunnel vision too: he sees what's happening in forestry both your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the narrow focus and where it sits globally so far as economics and politics are concernedtwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524628921</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Voss and Tahl Raz1472962044|title= Never Split Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Difference: Negotiating as if Tech that Can Transform Your Life Depended on ItBusiness|author=Andrew Hampshire

|summary= Negotiation is I was once told that 'technology'nothing more than communication with results'is anything that happens after you're eighteen, according to Chris Voss. so there''Never Split the Difference'' is all about maximising the chances s been a lot of these results being technology in your favourmy life. Drawing upon years of experience as I once worked for a crisis and kidnapping negotiator, Voss has developed manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a set of highly honed tools, fieldtypewriter. Times -tested in numerous highthankfully -stakes negotiation situations involving have moved on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the FBItime to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. In contrast to It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the widely accepted paradigm for negotiation taught in schools and universitiesrequired technology, this toolkit throws aside complex game theory and dense mathematical considerations so they start off in favour of an approach conversations about technology feeling that places emotional intelligence, empathy and subtle communication techniques they're at its corea disadvantage. The focus is on developing an understanding of the thought process of individuals during any given discussion. Effective communication not only helps derive these insights They need help, but allows them to be used to move a negotiation in the direction you want it to go, while simultaneously resolving a discussion with minimal conflictthey frequently don't know what help they need. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847941486</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Byrne1526362759|title= DragonsDosh: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built BritainHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating= 45|genre= Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Liam Byrne MPWhat a relief! A book about money, a minister in the last Labour governmentfor children, has come up with a novel way clear explanations of telling British history through the ages in this book. His approach what it is not one of Kings and Queens, wars or scientific discoverieswhy it matters, but through the business world how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and several what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of the key – and often unsung – entrepreneurs and commercial venturers from medieval times it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to the twentieth centurysome extent. As he says in his preface, the people through whose lives he has chosen You might want to narrate the saga reveal the best and worst of human endeavoursgo into business, as he serves us up several explorersbe a clever shopper, inventors a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and moral leaders alongside a motley crew of fraudstersthere might be something you really, warmongers and unembarrassed imperialists''really'' want to buy. All of them took risks, some made fortunes and some lost them, but for better or worse they all contributed towards There's also the tale possibility of British enterprise and using to do good in the making of the modern world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857474</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen WittLinda Scott|title= How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the ThiefDouble X Economy|rating= 45|genre= Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary= In '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the digital age, new technology made recorded music a free-for-allworld''. It was good news 's a bold statement for the consumeran opening chapter, but dealt a major blow to it's far from hyperbole as the beleaguered music industryfollowing pages explain. Where people once amassed physical collectionsThis book shines a light on what is happening in different places, they now had and the choice of file-sharing insteadimpact on the local and world economy. This book describes how everything changed What can be learnt from the midgreat strides in gender-1990s onwards. It is however written more with equalising legislation in the computer enthusiast or business student than west? What can be done about the music lover in mind. selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>0571353606

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts0349424926|title=One Second AheadLife's Work: Enhance 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessCareer|author=James Reed|rating=45

|summary=Have Do you ever worked at have a task guaranteed and found more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your mind wandering to something elselife? Do you find yourself breaking off what you're doing have no need to answer an emailwork, either for income or fulfilment? Do If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you try really ought to read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to multitask, thinking that Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're being more efficient? Do not yet in work or considering that you have far too much to attend might need tomake some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED, to complete Britain's biggest and nowhere near enough time to do it all? You do? Me toobest-known name in the recruitment industry. You Who better to give you the advice you need this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137551909</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny RogersAnne Boden|title=Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public RelationsMoney Revolution|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance |summary= I dithered about how to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I have a work related interest in marketing and communications. On the other hand, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – which of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In short, I was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – and it didn’t disappoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Crabbe|title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Serendipity often brings you to the important books. Recently I heard myself say to a friend: ''I'm far too busy to do some of the important stuff''. It pulled me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - and then I had the opportunity to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'' and I knew that it was something I ''had'' to do and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''. Because that was what I was doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Shaun Smith and Andy Milligan|title= On Purpose: Delivering a Branded Customer Experience People Love|rating= 3.54

|summary= This Money is changing. It might not be in the ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the 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 homeless on the street, but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about business things – brandingthis either. Instead, specifically. How to communicate your purpose to customers through an identifiable marketing strategy. How to ensure your company portrays it's about the image you want and how to get ''management'' of your stafffinances, and customers, how to buy into ittake control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749471913</amazonuk>1789660610

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Tojeiro1949395324|title= The Art of Possible|rating= 4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= As I recently wrote on this website, I started reading management manuals and self-improvement books at a time when my life was not going so great. Since then, it seems that they have continued to drop into my life just as I need them. I'm sure there's something to the science of "serendipity", which basically means we notice stuff more when it's what we need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993236901</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Damian McKinney|title= The Commando Entrepreneur|rating= 4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= It always helps to know the bias of anyone reviewing a book for you, so cards on the tableFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: I am something of a "self-help" / "self-improvement" junkie. I use both expressions because it's often difficult to know where the boundary between management text books and teach-yourself-a-better-way-to-live books lies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909273619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview4th Edition|author=Ray Barron Woolford|title=Food Bank BritainKalpesh Ashar

|genre=Politics Business and SocietyFinance|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in waste bins for food, less than a mile from company the knowledge to understand the riches of accounts which show how the City of Londoncompany is doing. Intrigued as to what was going The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on he went to ask. The man explained to him that he'd just got a job after two years give an excellent overview of the types of being unemployed, but it would accounting systems which will be five weeks before he was paidencountered and the terms used. He couldn't claim benefits as he was We then look in work and had no savingsdetail at the balance sheet, so the bins had to be his source of food income statement and by the following week he would have to walk to work as he couldn't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for the [http://wwwstatement of cash flows.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry Brown1946383627|title=The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director's Guide to Effective Board PresenceCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers

|summary=In the United Kingdom independent directors are usually known as non-executive directors to distinguish them from the executive – those people charged with actually running the company on I'm capable of drawing up a day-to-day basis - but Gerry Brown usually refers to them as independent directors, a phrase which is common profit and loss account (income statement in other parts of the worldUSA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. Initially, I found the phrase somewhat unusual but as I read The accounts give me ''The Independent Directorbroadly'' what I came to prefer that usage as it stresses what the director must be above all else – independent and able to stand back from the management of need: I know whether we're making a business and view what is happening and what is planned with profit or a dispassionate loss and critical eye. There's little in I can look at the way of training expenses and see what looks as though it can could be argued trimmed back in future years. My problem was that no one is actually qualified to do the jobaccounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, but Brownwhich was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management's book is as good as you're going to get in terms , part of spelling out the responsibilities Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and pitfallsManagement series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113748053X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Platt1072549271|title=Criminal CapitalThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: How the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5

|summary=It used I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be estate agents we reviled published by the mosttraditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing theyexplain that they don've now achieved relative respectability. MPs briefly took t have the top spot, but for many years now the list has been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisis, when huge taxpayer-funded financial bailouts were big bucks required to keep the world's financial system afloatgo down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. Most people will think that weI then ask if they've heard considered Kindle and the worst of what has been going onanswer is, inevitably, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking and mis-selling might well be just they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a minor part computer for about thirty years, running most of what is my life ''and'still'a website online, I' happening in the industry and that government attempts m still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to counter hold my hand as I go through it for the problems are misguided and unlikely to be effectivefirst time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>