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|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Negotiation 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 a tough thingthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but given how often we do it (for many 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, there are things to negotiate on a daily basis) you’d think we’d be better stupid. It was his ability at itwhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. This book starts with the line ''Like it or not Eventually, you are this turned into permanent employment as a negotiator'' and that’s the bare truth of ittrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin EslerFiona Parashar |title=Lessons from the Top: How Successful Leaders Tell Stories A Beautiful Way to Get Ahead - And Stay ThereCoach |rating=45
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|summary=As 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 journalist and broadcasterfull day, Gavin Esler has interviewed everyone from Bill Clinton which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to Angelina Joliesee if I could give myself a Vision Day, and now he’s taking what he’s learned from those chats to bring us ''Lessons me away from the top…how successful leaders tell stories their vision and back to get ahead – and stay there''my own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684994</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Bussey303091657X|title=What to Do When You Win Disaster in the LotteryBoardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=45
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|summary=You Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might wonder quite why someone who doesn't play seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the lottery is reading collapse of a book called ''What to Do When You Win major company - have left interested parties asking what the Lottery''board was doing. Well, Where were they? Occasionally the answer is simple: it struck me that winning the lottery boards were unaware of what was not the only way in which people were likely happening or they preferred to come into turn a large sum of money blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - there are other forms of gambling, inheritance ignorance or even redundancy, to name 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 fewvery readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. My inner money person mentioned that most people think that coming into money is the answer Over three centuries we seem to ''all'' their problems without realising that it needs active management just like any other life-changing eventhave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780950012</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=Maureen Stantonsuppl_stafl|title=Killer Stuff and Tons of Money|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=For some time the bookshelves in the high street have been awash with titles Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on identifying, valuing and trading in antiques. This is nothing like that. It is basically an account in which the author, a university lecturer in creative non-fiction, shadows dealer Curt Avery as he travels in pursuit of buying and selling antiques across America, setting up his stall or visiting auctions. As he does so he tells her about the pros and cons, the lucky finds and the pitfalls, and what motivates people like him as he seeks to make a living in a precarious but fascinating profession where every day might bring forth some wonderful new (or old) discovery. Before continuing any further, I should stress that this is written very much from an American perspective, so some mental adjustment is required Local Multiplier Effect for any reader who has been introduced to the subject by ‘Antiques Roadshow’ and similar other British TV series. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143121057</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBook Lovers|author=Alex Brummer|title=Britain for SaleKim Staflund
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|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=Buy BritishSo, weyou're constantly told, ve finished writing your book and many people do - you think the French, the Germans, Qataris, Chinese... hard work is all done? If You're convinced that all you want need to buy British you'd be hard pressed to use a British electricity company, the people shifting North Sea oil to you might be foreign, the trains near you may be foreign-operated, and so much of what's in the shops you buy from would of coursed be sourced from abroad, and shipped through foreign-owned ports. Whether or not the country do now is going to hell in a handcart, get it's moving in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, published and the British citizen gets the worst of the deal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940757</amazonuk>}}money will start rolling in?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0008350388|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2012We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Now in its 27th year of publication, the Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides ''To be a comprehensive listing of all issues from the 1d black and 2d blue of May 1840 dark-skinned Black woman is to the Children’s Comics issue of 20 March 2012. As a halfway house between the very basic ‘Collect British Stamps’ and the multi-volume specialised edition, this lists the main variations of each issue, alongside miniature sheetsbe seen as less desirable, special first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, bookletsless hireable, less intelligent and the regional issues from Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, as well as the Channel Islands and Isle of Man prior ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to their postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598467</amazonuk>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstonereed3|title=Are Why You Smart Enough To Work At Google?101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed
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|summary=I find recruitment fascinating. I started my career on a top 10 graduate scheme whose recruitment process included a 24 hour simulation of life in the role, and now some Six years later I'm on from the other side of the tableoriginal edition, taking part in the recruitment book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of the next generationWork'' which includes an additional 10 questions. Prior to that I worked everywhere from multinational software companies to British high street department stores and over the years I've heard everything from the boring (''What are your strengths and weaknesses?'') come to this some 6 years after reviewing the predictable (''Tell me about a time you worked as part of a team original book and encountered conflict'') to my life has changed significantly in the quite frankly brilliant, in my mind (meantime. I''How many piano tuners are there m no longer working in Barcelona?'') Once I had to come up with a variety of uses middle-management having opted for a cocktail shaker after first gaining points for being able down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to identify the item correctly, despite being a tee-total teen at the timefocus on other (not necessarily paying) work. If interviews are a time to shine, I prefer the latter two tasks can therefore relate to the first two because they let you show what you can do, point made in this chapter namely that independence and how you would approach a task, rather than just making you prattle off a prepared responseflexibility are core skills that employees need to have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851689176</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha3110706075|title=The Start-up of YouMaking a Difference: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=In decades gone by, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as an elevator – rising through the ranks of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirement. In today's vastly different job marketLeadership, with much less loyalty from both employers Change and employees, your career is more likely to follow Giving Back the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies and perhaps even completely different industries. Time, then, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIndependent Director Way|author=Justin Yifu Lin|title=Demystifying the Chinese EconomyGerry Brown
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|summary=The success of the Chinese economy, and as Lin makes us aware, a success which contrasts strongly with what appeared major failure in ''You're not there to run the recent historical past, is something which needs explanationorganisation. No one can ignore it, and we You are confronted with the effects of it from the ownership of Thames water there to the faces of tourists in London and Stratford on a daily basis. And in the roots of its success are the potential seeds of future change, a change make sure that now more than ever it is crucial to the way the world economy worksrun properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521181747</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Shaxson3030513025|title=Treasure IslandsThe Independent Director in Society: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Most people think about the subject Our current crisis of tax havens - if they need to think about them at all - as something which is unlikely ever to concern them governance and that they're for the super-rich and celebrities. What might surprise them is that more than half of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come to you via a tax haven. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor what to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite direction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewdo|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Levy, Judy Bartkowiak|title=Secrets of Success in Brand LicensingKakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=35
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Brand licensing is a huge business, with the annual worth estimated at 150 billion USD. ItIndependent Director: 's hard to avoid Hello Kitty, Thomas the Tank Engine, Peppa Pig or Dr Who. One sometimes wonders if it's even possible to buy non-character pyjamas a job for a six year old. Itwhich no one is qualified's not just kids' brands, either (though these dominate the lucrative licensing market). From socialites (Paris Hilton) to actors and pop stars (Hale Berry, Britney Spears), football clubs and individual footballers (Beckham, Pele''Financial Times''), magazines (Playboy, National Geographic), TV series (Simpsons) and pure graphic design (Smiley, Hello Kitty), brand licensing and brand extensions surround us on a scale unprecedented in human history. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218959</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Johnson0241453585|title=Start Banking On It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You ThinkHow I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=3.5
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|summary=Luke Johnson is one of our busiest tycoons, with Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a personal fortune which runs into nine figuressenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. He's been AIB was in the driving force behind Pizza Express throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and Channel 4 and has a renowned column in she was one of the 'Financial Times'first to realise that banks needed to do things differently. He's done all this over AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a couple of decades, so he obviously knows what the score is in terms of getting businesses up and running – and then turning branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a profitterminal. So, 'Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think' is going to be perfect for my friends Mr and Mrs Cook, who want to open Boden took things a restaurantstep further, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the builder who employs him and Miss Baker who think that our prosperous village is ripe for an artisan bread shop? Wellold branch network, employing thousands of people, perhaps…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919411</amazonuk>would soon become redundant.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3110641119|authortitle=The EconomistJourney Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|titleauthor=Pocket World in Figures 2012Jerry Angrave|rating=45
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|summary=There are some books which it's very difficult to review and I had no idea what 'journey mapping'Pocket World in Figures 2012'' is a perfect example. Each year The Economist completely updates all was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the figures book and reissues them in a format which, even if it won't fit into every pocket, is certainly going to be no problem in a briefcase or readily available in a desk draweracting on the contents. And it is the type of book which youYou're going to want learn how to run a workshop to discover what it feels like to have readily availablebe one of your own customers. ItAt this point, please don's t say 'oh (expletive deleted) not a reference book to have tucked away on a shelf – once you find that it another workshop' because this is superbly easy going to use be fun and you're going to want to have it to hand. The problem is that the book is a very similar format every year, just as essential as the year before and still the book which it's unwise to loan to anyone as there's a strong chance it won't returnbe surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684730</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynn Peril3110641291|title=Swimming in the Steno PoolThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Retro Practical Guide to Making It in the Office|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The subtitle of this book suggests a survival guide to secretarial work. Howeverfor Harnessing New, this is definitely not a handbook, but an examination of the portrayal of the job and those who do it in the media and in handbooks over the last 100 years. It is an American book and all the references are to handbooks, media, popular fiction and advertising from the US, but as a secretary in Britain, I still found it relevant, interesting and very entertaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338541</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNovel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Hugh Jefferies|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012: Commonwealth Olga Kokshagina and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970Allen Alexander
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|summary=Each edition of the 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue of the sterling eraSo, which covers the era of pounds, shillings and pence up why bother? Every time you set out to the do something new you end of 1970 up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a few exceptions, sees several changesbit of money spent. The 114th edition Why not just leave it as it is no exception? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. Reflecting market trends and demand during You've also thought the previous few monthssmall, many price increases affecting almost all areas and periods incremental improvements which you have been madeable to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, including the more modestly priced items as well as some extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of the 'blue chip' piecesgrowth''. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. One of You've merely kept the latter now makes history, as following business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the recent sale back of your mind that an 1847 'Post Office' Mauritius 2d blue, this and its 1d red partner become organisation designed for the first stamps twentieth century might not survive in the Gibbons catalogue to be priced at £1,000,000 or moretwenty-first. As we are told in a note underneath the listing, most known surviving examples are now in permanent museum collectionsWhat you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598130</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eli Pariser1472962044|title=The Filter BubbleCreating Value Through Technology: What Discover the Internet is Hiding from YouTech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew Hampshire
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|summary=In a world where websites are increasingly personalised, and your Facebook profile seems to pop up left, right and centre on sites I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're visiting for the first timeeighteen, so there's been a rapidly shrinking amount lot of webpages where your experience 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 typewriter. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the same time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as the next person'sexpected. Having always ignored Google It's targetted adverts, I naively thought also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the actual search results produced by the site were one knowledge of the few places where Irequired technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they'd see the same thing as re at a random user indisadvantage. They need help, say, Australia did. Eli Pariser shatters this myth immediately in his book as he tells us about the fifty-seven signals Google uses to build on the companybut they frequently don's knowledge of us and choose whichresults to show ust know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092038X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=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 (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 to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hugh JefferiesLinda Scott|title=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2011The Double X Economy
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Such '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the complexityworld''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the sheer variety following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the impact on the local and number of permutations possible of postage stamp issues world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the 21st centurywest? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, that any catalogue compiler is faced with an almost impossible task. Producing a genuinely concise book is largely a matter of and what to include can chimpanzees and what to leave out.bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852598084</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass0349424926|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2011/2012Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed
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|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=H M Revenue Do you have a guaranteed and Customs is now bigger more-than ever – it-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read ''Life's taken on more Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work – but at or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the same time itchairman and chief executive of REED, Britain's having biggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry. Who better to shed staff, many of them being give you the advice you need?}}{{Frontpage|author=Anne Boden|title=The Money Revolution|rating=4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= Money is changing. It might not be in the ones with experience ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and inevitably something will 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 give. In suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on the light of street, but although this book has the author rightly concludes subtitle that includes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. Instead, it's now more important than ever to keep a close eye on your tax affairs. Donabout the ''management''t assume for example that of your PAYE coding is correctfinances, and how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684722</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Webster1949395324|title=Polar Bear Pirates and Their Quest to Engage the SleepwalkersFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Motivate Everyday People to Deliver Extraordinary Results4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar
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|summary=I'd like 'Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to introduce you to the polar bear pirates. TheyKnow ''re the gives people without an accounting background who believe have risen in life before death – a company the knowledge to understand the people who can deliver extraordinary results despite being just ordinary people like you and meaccounts which show how the company is doing. WellThe book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, me anywaythen moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the terms used. They're We then look in detail at the manager who can motivate their staff to achieve those extraordinary results – even if their staff are sleepwalkers who live on planet complacencybalance sheet, amps or vampsthe income statement and the statement of cash flows. We won't mention the potholers. This is a management book like no other – you're going to laugh, cry just occasionally when you realise that you've been seen through and come away with plenty to think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857081276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jakob Lovstad1946383627|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact FighterCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5|genre=SportBusiness and Finance|summary=Some books seem determined to put you offI'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. Unless itThe accounts give me ''s literary fiction broadly'Going Mental' suggests something that what I need: Iknow whether we've gone to great lengths to avoid. The man on re making a profit or a loss and I can look at the cover is bald, bloodied expenses and apparently screamingsee what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. I've been avoiding men like My problem was that too. '…not for the soft and sensitive!' it says and whilst I wouldnaccounts didn't describe myself as either really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad turned to mess with my head is the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's a cage fighter ICost Accounting and Management''m ready to run. What has that got to do with my business? Because that, part of Vibrant Publishers's what this book is about – reaching your goals in business Self-Learning and sportsManagement series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1072549271|title=ObliquityThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved IndirectlyA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sometimes I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the shortest route to a destination isntraditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the quickest way big bucks required to get therego down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. Take crossing central America for example. Instinctively I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, you think that the best way to navigate your way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific is to travel directly from east they wouldn't know where to weststart. It may seem counter intuitive but the designers of the Panama Canal realised I can empathise with that the easiest way to make the journey was in fact to use . Despite having used a thin strip computer for about thirty years, running most of land my life ''and then go in seemingly the wrong direction from west '' a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to eaststarting something new. Architects and cartographers found that the obvious route wasn't the best way I like someone to solve hold my hand as I go through it for the problem put in front of them. An indirect or oblique approach would prove to be far more successfulfirst time. That in a nutshell is noted economist John Kaywas why I was very interested when ''s concept The Simple Act of obliquitySelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682894</amazonuk>
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