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.

Unique - the economic life

Connections in life are necessary to proceed with gaining what you want in life and achieving the best for yourself. Avoiding loneliness and being part of life is the way to stay alive: to maintain conversation and get news from around the world. Negotiation is the only way to achieve what you want in life.

Understanding Epidemics

This book explains, in non-technical terms, the relationship between man and the many bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms with whom he lives in the most intimate manner throughout his existence.

It is explained that for the most part, this coexistence is beneficial, but that through evolution and natural selection, some bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms may become aggressive to the host in which they live and that others may become aggressive as a result of mutation through other species.

This aggressiveness manifests itself through the diseases which afflict man and all that is living.

The cause and nature of those diseases which have been most devastating for human society and which have greatly influenced the course of history are portrayed in this book, as are the means by which the spread of infections may be controlled before they progress to become epidemics and pandemics.

Understanding and Improving the Effects of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

Looking to gain a better understanding of the difference between dementia and Alzheimer’s disease? Look no further than this informative and practical guide. With a focus on helping readers maintain their well-being and happiness, this book offers clear explanations of the symptoms associated with both conditions, including common signs like losing items such as keys or glasses, forgetting a friend’s name, or struggling to find the right word.

As the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease progress, they can significantly interfere with daily life. However, this book provides practical advice that can help individuals and their loved ones navigate these challenges and maintain their quality of life for as long as possible. Whether you are looking to learn more about these conditions for personal or professional reasons, this book is an excellent resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of this important topic.

Tuppence in the Bank

Tuppence in the Bank is an absorbing and informative read with the ability to capture the attention of all readers, whether they are already well-versed in investing and its origins, or possess little to no direct subject knowledge, and can lead them to become well-informed.

It provides important and useful facts as well as clear and astute analysis, which make for an attractive and instructive read, showing the correlation between smart money management and profitable investing strategies. This will certainly prove to be a valuable tool for universities, newcomers, and enthusiasts alike.