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What Color Is Your Parachute 2007?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters And Career Changes (What Color Is Your Parachute)

What Color Is Your Parachute 2007?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters And Career Changes (What Color Is Your Parachute)

by Richard N. Bolles

"What Color Is Your Parachute?" is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favourite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to "BusinessWeek" to the "New York Times", where it has spent five and a half years. The 2007 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated inspiring and detailed plan for... (more)

Tipping the Velvet: A Novel

by Sarah Waters

This stunning and steamy debut chronicles the adventures of Nan King, a small-town girl at the turn of the century whose life takes a wild turn of its own when she follows a local music hall star to London... "Glorious...a sexy, sinewy sojourn of a young woman in turn-of-the-century England."-- The Boston Globe "Erotic and absorbing...If lesbian fiction is to reach a wider readership, Waters is the person to... (more)

Colour Index

by Jim Krause

The best-selling author of Idea Index and Layout Index returns with an all-new title! Color Index provides more than one thousand color combinations and formulas--guaranteed to help graphic artists solve design dilemmas and create effective images for both print and the Web. From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index makes choosing hues for any job easier! Designers will start working with color in... (more)

Creative Sparks

by Jim Krause

This book is a playful collection of rock-solid advice, thought-provoking concepts, suggestions and exercises is sure to stimulate the creative, innovative thinking that designers need to do their jobs well. It will encourage readers to find inspiration in the world about them, spark new ideas and act as a guide to each designer's creative path. Each spread stands alone as a self-contained, thoughtfully... (more)

Photo Idea Index

by Jim Krause

From Jim Krause comes the fifth book in the popular Index series: Photo Idea Index. This innovative guide: -Provides designers with the information they need to take creative photographs, explore different digital manipulations, and use them in real-world design applications -Shares the basics of technical information, then provides a wealth of inspiration, making this both a "what if" book and a "how to"... (more)

The King of Kings County : A Novel

by Whitney Terrell

A sweeping novel of our "suburban nation" In The Huntsman , a first novel hailed by Esquire as "ambitious, rousing and entirely spectacular," Whitney Terrell introduced us to the streets and neighborhoods of Kansas City. Now he offers us the story of their creation. A stunning, intensely private portrait of one man’s life and his city, The King of Kings County presents a dazzling fifty-year arc... (more)

Career Match

Connecting Who You Are With What You'll Love to Do

by Shoya Zichy, Ann Bidou

For some, a job is just a way to pay the bills. For others -- those whose careers fit their passions and personalities -- it is a source of great satisfaction and success. Career Match is designed to help people discover their ideal work. Using the author's revealing ten-minute self-assessment, the book helps readers determine their personality style, then walks them through the range of career choices... (more)

Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It

Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It

by Peggy Klaus

Brag! is a whip smart tool kit--one that tampers with our beliefs about humility by defining bragging as an act of authenticity. Peggy Klaus, a Fortune 500 communication coach, sharpened her strategies in Hollywood, "the bragging capitol of the world," where she learned the art of tooting your horn, without blowing it. "To brag is to talk about your best self with pride and passion in a conversational manner."... (more)

I Don't Know What I Want,But I Know It's Not This

I Don't Know What I Want,But I Know It's Not This

by Julie Jansen

A disturbingly large number of people today are unhappy with their work. In this helpful book, career coach Julie Jansen addresses this work-dissatisfaction epidemic. Using career assessment quizzes and personality exercises, Jansen helps readers understand their present work or career situation, discover the type of work for which they're best suited, and learn how to create the changes they need. Filled with... (more)

Beyond The Body: The Boundaries Of Medicine And English Renaissance Drama (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)

Beyond The Body: The Boundaries Of Medicine And English Renaissance Drama (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)

by William Kerwin

This is a book about two things: medical instability and Renaissance drama. Medical stories are always also social stories, and William Kerwin presents five case studies of how the fragile and dynamic relationship between the medical and the nonmedical played out in Renaissance England. Renaissance drama richly staged that process, presenting medical practitioners in ways that undermined any attempt to imagine... (more)

Nonstop Networking: How to Improve Your Life, Luck, and Career (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development)

Nonstop Networking: How to Improve Your Life, Luck, and Career (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development)

by Andrea R. Nierenberg

"The Queen of Networking" reveals her secrets for making long-lasting, positive, professional and personal contacts!  Book reveals a new and refreshing approach to networking based on mutual benefits rather than personal gains.  Author is a successful consultant and speaker with Fortune 500 clients, and is frequently quoted in national and international news media and in major business and career publications. ... (more)

Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life (Bluestreak)

Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life (Bluestreak)

by Mary Cappello

Cappello, a professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, has a lovely way with images: the "night bloom" of the title is a Night-Blooming Cereus that after much care blossoms suddenly at night, a flower that occasioned spontaneous parties in the Cappello family. These beautiful images tend to pile up without cohering, however, and the material in this disjointed memoir is somewhat familiar, if elegantly... (more)

Animals of Habit (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, Ser. 3, No. 7)

Animals of Habit (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, Ser. 3, No. 7)

by Catherine Pierce

"In 'Love Poem to the Phrase Let's Get Coffee,' Catherine Pierce writes 'I adore / your elegant manner, / one hand on the car door, / the other on the ass.' She writes with her own tricky elegance, one that acknowledges yet adores language's self-serving grace. Pierce deftly blends repetition with sophisti-cated syntax, and a sinister wit glows inside the emotional wisdom of her vision. Animals of Habit is an... (more)

Ordination (The Ohio State Prize for Short Fiction)Scott A. Kaukonen

Ordination (The Ohio State Prize for Short Fiction)

by Scott A. Kaukonen

The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature

The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature

by Raphael Dalleo

In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship of art, politics and the market. Dalleo and Machado Sáez engage with the major critics from the field to dispute the consensus view of Latino/a literature from the... (more)

The Anatomy Theater: Poems (The National Poetry Series)

The Anatomy Theater: Poems (The National Poetry Series)

by Nadine Meyer

An exciting first collection of poetry from an emerging talent, Nadine Meyer's The Anatomy Theater was a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series Open Competition, selected by esteemed poet John Koethe. For over twenty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis... (more)

The Pyramids of Malpighi

by Steve Gehrke

Winnner of the 2002 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry I met a woman not long ago who told me that, as a new mother, she no longer has the concentration for the two-week commitment that a novel requires; instead, now she reads a poem every day. To her, I'll recommend Steven Gehrke. Poems like "First Snow: A Memory" and "Secretary School Graduation Dance, 1968" relate complex histories in compact form and will... (more)

Michelangelo's Seizure (National Poetry Series)

Michelangelo's Seizure (National Poetry Series)

by Steve Gehrke

Providing poetic entry into the visual arts In Michelangelo's Seizure, Steve Gehrke seizes the lives of several classic and contemporary painters--from Caravaggio and Magritte to Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock--to demonstrate how these artists transformed physical, psychological, and political suffering into art. Mirroring the brushstrokes in long, metaphor-laden sentences, Gehrke moves freely through the... (more)

The Resurrection Machine

by Steve Gehrke

Miller Williams selected this book to receive the first John Ciardi Award for Poetry, sponsored by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Many of these poems explore newly revealed dimensions of the relationship between physical and emotional identity. The book's title, for example, is drawn from the poem "News Item: Man Receives First Hand Transplant": "Our bodies are repaired with... (more)

Scorekeeping: Essays from Home

by Bob Cowser

In 1970 Esquire named the rural West Tennessee college town of Martin as one of the nine happy towns left in the United States. Bob Cowser, Jr., offers a dissenting opinion on this assessment of the bucolic environs of his youth in his collection of forthright reflections on boyhood in Martin and episodes in the other locations that have thus far constituted "home." Ranging in tone from confessional... (more)

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by Richard N. Bolles

by Sarah Waters

by Jim Krause

by Jim Krause

by Jim Krause

by Whitney Terrell

Connecting Who You Are With What You'll Love to Do

by Shoya Zichy, Ann Bidou

by Peggy Klaus

by Julie Jansen

by William Kerwin

by Andrea R. Nierenberg

by Mary Cappello

by Catherine Pierce

by Scott A. Kaukonen

by Raphael Dalleo

by Nadine Meyer

by Steve Gehrke

by Steve Gehrke

by Steve Gehrke

by Bob Cowser