52 fresh ideas for climbing the ladder...two steps at a time. Cultivate a Cool Career offers the guidance and hints to help job-seekers-whether they're recent college grads or are experienced workers looking for new directions-achieve their professional goals. - Idea #7: Lead with style - Idea #23: Draw your own map - Idea #29: Changing horses mid-career - Idea #48: Make me an offer
A practical handbook for job seekers, both recent graduates or experienced workers looking for a new professional direction, offers more than fifty fresh and effective ideas and suggestions for climbing the workplace ladder to find success in one's chosen profession. Original.
52 fresh ideas for rocking the mike. Whether your goal is clinching the sale, advancing your career, or making the perfect wedding toast, this guide will have the words tripping off your tongue...with impact and ease. Barry Gibbons's brilliant ideas for hooking listeners include: - Idea #7: Sermons and snippets: Why length matters - Idea #32: Come in, Houston: Mastering audio-visual equipment - Idea #41: Uh-oh!: Expecting the unexpected - Idea #42: And so, in conclusion: The art of endings
52 fresh ways to feed the fussiest eaters. From babies and peckish pre-adolescents to appearanceobsessed teenagers, Raising a Healthy Eater is a friendly, simple, and comprehensive guide to deciphering food labels, weaning kids off junk foods, and getting even the pickiest kids to eat right. - Idea #1: First foods - Idea #9: Let them eat greens - Idea #14: Snack attack - Idea #24: Weighty issues
52 brilliant ideas for sizzling sensuality. Be Incredibly Sexy lets women in on the secrets of perfecting the art of being sexy-always. By following certain basic guidelines on how to dress, walk, talk, and dance, anyone can unleash their inner siren. - Idea #1: The confidence factor - Idea #17: Flirt, flirt, flirt - Idea #32: The tan commandments - Idea #51: Bottoms up
52 fresh ways to shape yourself up, inside and out. This accessible and upbeat guide will help readers become more balanced, healthier, and happier people. By making small but important improvements to their health, mindset, and lifestyle, they'll see positive changes every day and new energy restored to their lives. - Idea #3: Vital energy - Idea #6: Get organic - Idea #40: Clutter busting - Idea #52: Retreat!
Offers a handy parent's guide designed to help youngsters develop a taste for proper nutrition, offering practical tips on how to wean kids off junk foods, decipher food labels, and get even picky eaters to eat right. Original.
An upbeat and common-sense guide that emphasizes a total approach to wellness offers a collection of ideas designed to enhance one's health, mindset, and lifestyle by promoting positive changes in one's life. Original.
52 fresh ideas for going from red to black. Over the course of a lifetime, the average person is likely to spend at least two million dollars. They're also likely to spend more than they earn, fail to realize full earning potential, and buy lots of stuff they don't really want or need. Detox Your Finances helps readers get out of the money pit by offering solid advice on key topics including how to earn more, spend less, invest wisely, manage credit and debt, and create a budget they can actually stick to. Ideas include: - Idea #3: Jump start your salary - Idea #9: Don't max your tax - Idea #16: Destroy your piggybank - Idea #22: Sweat the small stuff - Idea #41: Manage your bricks and mortar - Idea #52: Review, monitor and act
Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term “cool?" When has coolness come to be associated with certain modes of contemporary self-fashioning? On what grounds do certain nations claim a privilege to be recognized as “cool?" These are some of the questions that served as a starting-point for a comparative cultural inquiry which brought together specialists from American Studies and Japanese Studies, but also from Classics, Philosophy and Sociology. The conceptual grid of the volume can be described as follows: (1) Coolness is a metaphorical term for affect-control. It is tied in with cultural discourses on the emotions and the norms of their public display, and with gendered cultural practices of subjectivity. (2) In the course of the cultural transformations of modernity, the term acquired new importance as a concept referring to practices of individual, ethnic, and national difference. (3) Depending on cultural context, coolness is defined in terms of aesthetic detachment and self-irony, of withdrawal, dissidence and even latent rebellion. (4) Coolness often carries undertones of ambivalence. The situational adequacy of cool behavior becomes an issue for contending ethical and aesthetic discourses since an ethical ideal of self-control and a strategy of performing self-control are inextricably intertwined. (5) In literature and film, coolness as a character trait is portrayed as a personal strength, as a lack of emotion, as an effect of trauma, as a mask for suffering or rage, as precious behavior, or as savvyness. This wide spectrum is significant: artistic productions offer valid insights into contradictions of cultural discourses on affect-control. (6) American and Japanese cultural productions show that twentieth-century notions of coolness hybridize different cultural traditions of affect-control.
