An Idiot's Love of Idioms 2

Ever wondered where the sayings we commonly use originate?Sometimes the things we say, if we really think about it, make absolutely no logical sense.Take what I’m saying as read but not with a pinch of salt, I think this book will be a sight for sore eyes and will warm the cockles of your heart.This book won’t cost you an arm and a leg and you won’t have to push the boat out to buy it and I’m not trying to pull the wool over your eyes as there are no smoke and mirrors here. If you like idioms it might be right up your alley and I’ll stick my neck out and say you’ll find it top drawer.Hang fire you say, well, this kind of book only comes once in a blue moon so keep your hair on, don’t flip your lid and remember every cloud has a silver lining even if it’s not cloud nine. So don’t drop a clanger and cut me some slack, buy this book and I guarantee you I’ll have you in stitches.

Abdominal-Pelvic Imaging

Maybe we have an obsession for cases, but when we were resident in radiology, we loved to learn especially from cases not only because they are short, exciting and fun, similar to a detective story in which the aim is to get to ‘the bottom’ of the case, but also because, in the end, that’s what radiologists are faced with during their daily work.The topics covered in the book represent the common and important diseases encountered in abdominal and pelvic imaging. The material presented for each case provides a thorough and comprehensive description of the disease entity, enabling the radiologist or the clinician to develop a clear concept of the entity through the different imaging modalities that are present. What is interesting in this book is one case per page. The book can be used as a means of rapid revision of a large number of cases in a short time or as test of knowledge by masking the radiological description and diagnosis and trying by using the clinical data and radiological images to describe first the pathology then propose a diagnosis.

Trademark Dilution

The world has changed materially since the foundation of traditional trademark laws, according to which the purpose of a trademark was to serve as a differentiating source indicator, preventing source confusion in the marketplace. Traditionally, trademarks protected the public from likelihood of confusion, assisted in consumer decisions and reduced search costs.The need to award a special scope of protection to famous trademarks from use on non-competing goods was first discussed in Kodak in 1898, holding that the use of the word Kodak for a bicycle company does not mislead consumers but takes unfair advantage of reputation. However, the most significant point in the evolution of dilution, in its early stages, was the case of Odol decided in 1924, which was the first to acknowledge the need to protect the advertising power of trademarks from being diluted, even in the absence of a likelihood of confusion.  This book will provide that dilution is a ‘sui generis’ brand remedy applicable to reputed trademarks in accordance to their aggregated inherent and acquired strength. The book will address the non-harmonised nature of dilution, which reflects a problem in an age of borderless trade and cyber commerce and emphasises the need to answer the question: To what extent should reputed trademarks be protected by dilution beyond the traditional trademark protection from likelihood of confusion?The book includes a proposal for an operative legal framework based on conclusions and distinctions derived from the comparison of dilution, as adopted and interpreted in different areas of the world, comparative case studies and comparison with neighbouring legal rights, such as Tort Law, Unfair Competition, Moral Rights, Equitable Rights, Publicity Rights and Unlawful Enrichment.

The Quantum Economy

In a world where technology is driving rapid change and connecting us like never before, one thing has remained stagnant: air travel. Since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003, supersonic civilian flights have become a thing of the past. Entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders must turn to private jet travel to stay ahead of the competition. This book explores the opportunities available to those who act fast, using real-life stories of successful entrepreneurs who have leveraged the speed and convenience of private jets to build their businesses and stay ahead in the quantum economy. Discover how you too can use private jets to connect, compete and succeed in today's fast-paced business world.

Zero-Gapped

The barbershop revolution has rocked the men’s grooming industry in the past decade. Social media, the creation of influencers, the artistic new cutting techniques and barber education have proven powerful instruments to monetise and maximise the earnings potential of barbers and barbershop owners. As with any creative industry, you can only have a finite number of market influencers and barbers providing education to those learning the trade. So what can other barbershops do to maximise all their revenue streams? How can we take a lifestyle business to a scalable brand using organic business growth strategies?Zero-Gapped is a book written by an ex-academic scientist turned-entrepreneur and pro-barber which describes the use of a proven century-long business model and modern growth hacking strategies that can be applied in the barbershop to create value for your business, your customers and yourself.

Your Career Marketing Plan

This book will guide you through the steps of both developing and implementing a career marketing plan. Hopefully, it is going to be a valuable journey for you and one in which you will learn a great deal about the person you are in life as well as in the workplace. More importantly, you will have a better understanding of the field in which you want to pursue your career and the type of employer to whom you want to offer your peerless expertise.

If you will take the time to complete the exercises at the end of each chapter, they will help you to analyse the information gathering you need to do to start building your own Career Marketing Plan. A Career Marketing Plan template is given at the end of the book for you to start entering your strategies, tactics and action steps for the implementation, control and feedback of your plan.

This book will hopefully change you and your self-perception in a very positive way and give you greater confidence as well as self-awareness. It will help you know who you are, what you want and how you are going to get it. There is nothing stopping you from having the career you want and, ultimately, the life you desire. You will realise that you have what it takes to control your career destiny.

Best of luck to you on your career path and best wishes for tremendous success with marketing not only your career but also marketing you!

You Can't Raise Children By Text

Coparenting isn’t easy! These experienced, award-winning authors, therapist Dr. Lisa Negrini and former family law Judge Irene Sullivan, provide practical, no-nonsense tips to keep child-centered coparenting the focus for families during complicated family transitions; separation, divorce, family conflict, custody issues, and general parenting stressors. Raising healthy and happy children is everyone’s goal!

Writing in Short, Readable and Elegant Style

The main aim of this book is to make writing in general and in particular essay, article and paper writing as easy as possible. By achieving this target, the learners can reduce various kinds of long and complicated clauses in verbless clauses, phrases and even in compound noun or nouns.Writing in Short, Readable and Elegant Style:- helps English learners develop their knowledge to improve their skills in writing.- provides an accessible reference for writing essays, articles and papers in short, elegant and academic style.- includes practical sections in each chapter improving writing skills.- provides further practices for making long and complicated paragraphs in short and meaningful paragraphs with answer keys.-  includes a lot of phrases which can be reduced to one word.- is particularly helpful for removing some unnecessary grammatical rules, saving our time.

Wholeness and Home in West Indian Literature

Wholeness and Home in West Indian Literature is an invaluable resource for everyone who has an interest in West Indian literature or Culture, West Indian Society or History, Ethnic Tensions, and Psychic Heterogeneity. It is especially useful for university and secondary school students and teachers who teach or need to learn about writers from the West Indies. It offers unique critical insights into the works of globally renowned writers who hail from the Caribbean: V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John Hearn, Jean Rhys, and Derek Walcott.Wholeness and Home is important reading for any student of ethnic relations. The book focuses on the possibilities of a culture that had its very beginnings in genocide and in the forced or fraudulent fetching of human beings from many other places. These people were pitted against each other to ensure division and assure plantation profitability. This book examines how major West Indian writers capture this initial ethnic antagonism that now infects much of the world.  Wholeness and Home also insists on the futility of racism and bigotry by pointing to the enormous potential for social harmony.At the very least, Samad and Harripersaud offer excellent examples of essay writing for teachers and students, especially those at the university and college levels.

Vision: A Pillar of Leadership

Vision’s infinite range of influence knows no boundaries. It flows from the youngest to the oldest, from the novice to the most experienced member of the team. It infiltrates the organization with freshness of purpose and clearness of direction. The leader clothed with the clarity of vision, exposes others to the knowledge, necessity and power of vision. Then becomes an instrument in helping them understand the work of vision. The energy and the contagiousness of vision develops a persistent personality within the leader and within the organization that recognizes it and seeks after it. Vision helps every person within the organization to see that the role of leader calls their name and refers to them as the leader in their area of influence. This keen awareness awakens dreams that ignite the hearts, inspire the minds and move the people to greatness.Questions are presented to help the leader reflect on the current state and identify important next steps that will propel the organization forward. Examples and strategies are included which the leader can employ to inspire vision within others and strengthen partnerships with them that build up the organization and help it move to its highest level of effectiveness.  

Vets In Business

A veterinary degree is long and difficult but, above all, scientific. The world of a practicing vet is far from white coats, test tubes and theory, it is complex, full of human interactions and financial decisions.Understanding these concepts and how they can be managed is key to career longevity, a good work-life balance, and a sustainable profession. There is no wonder cure or magic pill, but this book will help to make things better.

Universal Guide to Negotiation

This book is written with a view to helping individuals, whether in business or not, to negotiate effectively with all the tools of the trade. It will fully equip you with all the techniques, ploys and methods of getting the best out of all situations. And that extends far beyond business practices into many spheres of life. It will be of particular help to experienced businessmen and women engaged in negotiation on a day-to-day basis, but equally represent a veritable arsenal for the budding business person to best equip themselves for success as their careers progress. If you want to confirm whether or not you are getting the best out of business then this book is the ideal place of reference by which to judge your own performance. And for those who do not fully recognise or employ solid negotiating practices then you will not have read far into its pages before recognising the work as a sound wake up call. Good negotiating techniques allied to good judgement are the hallmarks for success for all in business and commerce, the private and public sector and elsewhere alike. This book is far more than just another work of an analytical nature, including as it does a great many examples drawn from the author’s vast experience of real-life situations. It contains the serious and the light hearted, and if you want a good entertaining read in a language that you will be familiar with then this is the book for you. The work is a truly exhaustive treatment based on principles which will always remain timeless.