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  Nepal - Culture Smart! - The...

  Tessa Feller

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  Culture Smart! Nepal provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! Nepal offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience.

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  Burning Our Money - How...

  Mike Denham

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  Britain is in the midst of a fierce battle over government spending. With debts mounting rapidly, the ?700 billion annual bill is no longer sustainable. But cuts face a wall of opposition, with dire warnings that they will ravage our society: hospital waiting lists will grow, schools will close and the poor will tumble into a new Dickensian abyss. Yet much of what the government currently spends is wasted, and public sector performance is often woeful. In Burning Our Money, Mike Denham casts a critical eye over the services we receive for our hard-earned cash, and finds them radically - often shockingly - wanting. For all the media insistence that the NHS is 'the envy of the world', it stacks up poorly against European healthcare systems. For all our apparently soaring exam grades, our children significantly underperform their future competitors in China, Korea and elsewhere. And for all our hand-wringing about abolishing poverty, our huge welfare system actually damages many of the poor it's supposed to help. Drawing on extensive research and up-to-the-minute reporting, Burning Our Money comprehensively debunks the myth that more public spending means better public services, and shows how we can - and must - get more for less.

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  The Hit Charade - Lou Pearlman...

  Tyler Gray

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  Journalist Tyler Gray’s The Hit Charade is the true story of boy band manager Lou Pearlman’s epic rise and fall. 
   
  Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman’s boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music and began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a huckster who first honed his crooked business skills as a teenage math nerd and blimp enthusiast in Flushing, Queens. From the mid 1980s through 2007, he cheated hundreds of investors out of nearly $500 million. When they finally caught on to him and demanded their money, the “Sixth Backstreet Boy” had already fled to Germany and then to Indonesia, where he was eventually nabbed by authorities and charged with a historic federal fraud. 
   
  In The Hit Charade, Tyler Gray (the only journalist to speak with Pearlman while he was in jail) weaves together the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the greedy desperation of this boy-band mogul and monumental scam artist. Gray unravels Pearlman’s twenty-year long Ponzi scheme and explores persistent rumors about alleged inappropriate behavior by Pearlman toward members of the boy bands and other young men. Along the way, former friends, family members, Pearlman business associates, and band members themselves reveal detailed accounts of everything from the heyday of their stardom to Pearlman’s more troubled times. 
   
  “Lou Pearlman’s schemes were so outlandish they can’t possibly have been real. But Tyler Gray exposes him as one of the most sinister scam artists in history.” —Joe Levy

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  Minding Your Own Business - A...

  Raymond S. Moore, Dorothy N. Moore

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  In this book, Raymond and Dorothy Moore give you some great advice for successfully managing your family. Then, after you’ve organized your home, they show you creative and practical ways that your family can start a home business together. 
  Through many true stories about families that are successfully managing their homes, the Moores help you manage your family effectively by showing you:The importance of mutual respect of parents and childrenHow to teach your children financial responsibilityInformation on potential startup problems & costsHow not to be part of the “wasteful generation”The fundamentals of starting a home businessCreative ways to recycle & what to recyclePractical ways to serve one anotherSuggestions regarding taxesInsight into product qualityIdeas for home businessesMarketing tips 
  “This book gives practical suggestions for young parents trying to make ends meet.” - Phyllis Schlafly 
  “Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore are truly pioneers in the field of home educating and family training. Their efforts have given birth to a multitude of ministries directed toward the family.” - Larry Burkett 
  For more than fifty years, Raymond and Dorothy Moore have worked together and applied the principles outlined in this book as they’ve managed their own home and helped hundreds of other families manage theirs. By following the guidelines identified here, you’ll find effective ways to successfully manage yours.

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  Prevail - A comprehensive...

  Abdulaziz Al-Roomi

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  Do you want to succeed in the game of leadership? 
  Great leaders are made not born - and you can be one too! 
  Prevail offers a unique holistic approach to the principles of effective leadership that will set you apart from the rest. A clear cohesive model which synthesizes many well-known leadership theories with author Abdulaziz Al-Roomi's personal leadership expertise, Prevail helps current and future leaders realize, develop, and capitalize on their strengths. 
  Full of Practical tools, tips, and guidelines, Prevail is the ultimate guide to becoming an impactful, inspiring, and memorable leaders.Realize your values and achieve personal masteryBuild a strong reputation and gain supportLead your team successfully to deliver exceptional resultsConsistently exceed stakeholder expectations 
  No matter what industry you are in, Prevail reveals the essentials of effective leadership which will elevate you in your personal life - and your career. 
  "The Prevail Leadership Model makes Aziz principles simple by combining well-known, proven techniques into practical model that will help leaders and high-potentials become more impactful and effective in their behaviour, leadership, and delivering results...Read it and follow his advice!" 
  Marshall Goldsmith - Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author. 
  “This book is a wonderful compilation of the best thinking about the broad topic of leadership development from one of the most insightful thought leaders of the past seven decades. This information is brought together in a cohesive way and it will become a useful template for anyone aspiring to become a better leader. Highly recommended!” 
  Jack Zenger, CEO of Zenger Folkman - co-author of the best-selling The New Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders.

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  Agile Project Management Box...

  Paul VII

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  The scrum framework brings structure and order to a project in a chaotic, fast-paced environment. It delivers a shippable increment of the product after each sprint and allows a business to increase return on investment through prioritization. As long as the scrum rules are carried out as its creators intended the results are phenomenal and business value is realized. However what happens when the business requires greater output, many related projects to be synchronized to a deadline or a coordinated technical solution? This is where the Scrum-of-scrums technique comes into its own. The Scrum of scrums is a method of coordinating teams and is used to grow and synchronize the scrum framework within a company to huge scale. As a scrum master I have used this technique to great effect in order to keep complex inter-related projects in sync. I have also noticed many "dos and don'ts" that I will share with you. When you have listened to this book, you will fully understand: What the scrum of scrum technique is How it will benefit you and your organization Learning and tips from an industry expert that you can apply to your everyday work

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