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Peter Rhodes / Succeed at Psychometric Testing

Are you about to attend an interview or assessment centre for a new job, or are you being considered for promotion or training? If that means the daunting prospect of sitting psychometric tests then this book contains plenty of preparation exercises to...

Hans Jürgen Eysenck / Check Your Own I.Q.

Know Your Own I.Q was a best-seller. It also provoked a mass of critical comment and correspondence. Some readers claimed that their answers were as goof as the accepted solution, while others complained that the book was a test of knowledge as much...

Christine Harvey / Start Your New Job Successfully: A Teach Yourself Guide

Learn to start your new job with positive results and start your path to success Written by Christine Harvey, a leading expert on business issues, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to achieve success in your new job. The seven...

Jacqueline Eames / The Best Best Man - Wedding Guide

A short guide to traditional best man duties at weddings     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage...

HarperCollins / Letter Writing: How to Get Results

Aiming to be the only guide you'll ever need to help you write better letters, whether for business or pleasure, this guide shows you how to make the most of your correspondence. Direct and accessible, it explains the general rules of good letter...

James Reed / Why You?: 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again

The international bestseller that has helped many thousands of readers move on in their lives and careers, now completely revised and updatedWhen did you last have a life-changing conversation? The chances are, if you're applying for jobs and being...

Robert Allen / MENSA : Assess Your Personality: The Essential Guide to Testing Your Emotions, Skills, Strengths and Weaknesses

Do you know yourself? Really? Are you a good judge of others? These questions are at the heart of personality assessment. This book examines the background of such assessments and the theories behind them and offers the reader the chance to carry out...

Dominic O'Brien / How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning, Memorise Key Facts, Revise Effectively

The World Memory Champion's fully updated memory tips for students of all ages. Dominic O'Brien, eight times World Memory Champion, outlines in simple language the steps you can take to increase your memory power and pass your exams with flying...

Teach Yourself Series - Getting a Better Job

The current world of work is tough whether you are looking for work or just looking to make better life choices. Things are changing fast and the 'job for life' is a long forgotten myth. This book, perceptively written and full of practical advice, tells...

Mark Oakley / Readings for Weddings

Readings for Weddings is an inspirational collection of Bible quotations, poems, hymns and prose for secular weddings, church ceremonies and services of blessing. Mark Oakley includes such 'wedding classics' as 1 Corinthians 13 and Khalil Gibran's The...

Alan Jones / Winning At Interview : A New Way To Succeed

This is not a book for the faint-hearted but if you have a potentially life-changing job interview coming up then 'Winning at Interview' deserves your full attention. Reader feedback consistently says that 'It completely changed the way I think about job...

Julia Cresswell / Best Baby Names

Best Baby Names is the essential A-Z guide for deciding your child's name. It contains over 1,500 possible choices, from Aaron to Zuleika, through the old-fashioned (Hazel and Gilbert), the modern (Jade and Devon), the unusual (Anselm and Tanith) and the...

Tracing Irish Ancestors

An accessible, user-friendly handbook for amateur genealogists seeking their Irish roots. Detailed guidance on the variety of church, official and unofficial records available and on how to get the most from then, with practical advice on navigating the...

Shelly Hagen / The Everything Groom Book: A survival guide for men!

 Enjoy a stress-free wedding and discover all that is required of a groom on the big day with The Everything Groom Book . Without question, you love your bride-to-be and want to spend the rest of your life with her. Ever since you popped the...

John Eardly / Sex Discrimination At Work : A Practical Guide To The Law In Ireland

 Published 2004   Sex Discrimination at Work: A Practical Guide to the Law in Ireland is a follow-up to the highly successful Bullying and Stress in the Workplace: Employers and Employees - A Guide by the same author. Sex discrimination is on...

Tanith Carey / Mum Hacks: Time-saving tips to calm the chaos of family life

 Family life is pretty chaotic at the best of times and as any busy mum knows it can be an uphill battle to get out of the house in the morning let alone meet the demands of work deadlines. In her witty easy to read style, Tanith Carey encourages...

Howard Dowding / Getting the Job You Want

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Eoghan McDermott / The Career Doctor: How to Get - and Keep - the Job You Want

 As the economic climate changes and more people lose their jobs, it has become ever more important to make the best of your assets and prepare yourself for the economic upturn when it comes. Practical, engaging and full of real-life career stories,...

Claudia Hammond / Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception

 Time rules our lives, but how much do we really understand it?In Time Warped, we meet the people willing to go to extreme lengths to find out. They travel to Costa Rica to find out if hummingbirds can sense the passage of time, they walk towards...

Michael Johnstone / Children's Party Games

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Ivor Spencer / Speeches and Toasts

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Estelle Catlett / Trace Your Ancestors

 How to search for your forebears, find out where they lived and what they did.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing...

Noel Whelan / Showtime or Substance? 2007 : A Voter's Survival Guide to Election

  Providing voters with an up-to-date overview of politics in Ireland ahead of the 2007 elections, this book looks at the respective parties and where they stand on key issues such as health, childcare, the status of refugees, taxation and the...

Leonie Elphinstone / How to Get a Research Degree: A Survival Guide

    How to Get a Research Degree breaks down the mystique surrounding major academic research projects. It shows how to develop a topic, manage the research and writing process, balance personal and professional life, and use the degree to...

Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa

  We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the...

Jennifer Worth / Letters to the Midwife

 Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world.Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it is filled with all sorts of heart-warming...

John Gribbin / Stephen Hawking : A Life in Science

 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely appropriate to their subject' New Statesman'Intriguing . . ...

William Doyle / The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

 Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still...

Stuart Jeffries / Mrs. Slocombe's Pussy : Growing Up in Front of the Telly

  For most of us, sitting in our living rooms looking for an excuse not to talk to each other of a Thursday night, a million million miles away from moon landings and Cold War tension and Third World famine, it is the addiction to a little...

Max Eggert / Perfect CV

  Bestselling Perfect CV is essential reading for anyone who's applying for jobs. Written by a leading HR professional with years of experience, it explains what recruiters are looking for, gives practical advice about how to show yourself in...

Pat Kane / The Play Ethic

 `Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs' James Harkin, IndependentWe all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what...

Wess Roberts / Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Alice Leahy / Not Just a Bed for the Night: The Story of Trust

  This work presents three parallel and interwoven stories: the story of a homeless person as told by himself; the story of Alice Leahy whose life's work is with the homeless; and the story of TRUST, the organization she founded and which she...

Julie-Ann Amos / Write a Winning CV

  A concise, practical book that aims to guide you through the essentials of writing a CV that should work for you. Discover how to present your experience, emphasize your strengths and highlight your skills.       All of our...

Patrick Hanks / Babies' Names

  This brand new edition of Babies' Names will help you find the right name for your baby. The book gives over 2,500 names in common use in the English-speaking world with information on their meanings and origins. It spans traditional names,...

Andrew Byrne / The Complete Wedding Speech Guide

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

A. G. Elliott / General and Social Letter Writing

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Rosalind Fergusson / Perfect Babies' Names

 Perfect Babies' Names is an essential resource for all parents-to-be. Taking a close look at over 3,000 names, it not only tells you each name's meaning and history, it also tells you which famous people have shared it over the years and how...

Dennis Sewell / The Political Gene

 The Political Gene is a fascinating examination of the way that many scientists and politicians have sought to use Charles Darwin's ideas to solve social problems, or to bolster political ideologies. Sewell's beautifully crafted narrative shows us...

Polly Toynbee / Hard Work

  'A passionately reasoned and compelling account of the avoidable cruelties still embedded in the underside of British life - by a writer who has literally worn the clothes, lived in the flats and done the jobs of the poor. Every member of the...

Laline Paull / The Bees

 Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.Born into the lowest class of her society,...

Jacqueline Harrod / The New A-Z of Babies' Names

  A researched book of babies' names with a new approach.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers...

Michael Parker / Unaccustomed as I am... : The Wedding Speech Made Easy

 All wedding types will be catered for: big, small, religious, second marriage, atheist, straight, same-sex, church, field...All speakers will be addressed: bride, groom, father, mother, best woman and literally everyone in between...All...

Kate Fox / Watching the English

  In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating...

V Shanley / Classroom Clangers

  A collection of mad misprints, daft headlines and humorous anecdotes in relation to school, education, teachers and pupils.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Christina Skye / Code Name: Baby

  Federal agent Wolfe Houston is assigned the task of protecting civilian dog trainer Kit O'Halloran and her four biologically enhanced puppies from a legion of deadly mercenaries that want to get their hands on the powerful pups, forcing them...

Eve Devon / The Wedding Planner

 A charming feel good romance perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and Sarah MorganWedding bells are ringing and gossip is spiralling in Whispers Wood...Single mum Gloria Pavey has a bad habit of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time...

George Davidson / Perfect Wedding Speeches and Toasts

 Perfect Wedding Speeches and Toasts is an invaluable guide to preparing and delivering unforgettable speeches. Covering everything from advice on mastering your nerves to tips about how to make a real impact, it walks you through every aspect of...

James Glennon / 4001 Babies' Names and Their Meanings

  This is essential reading for parents-to-be. It reveals the meanings of over four thousand names, both well known and less well known, and explains their origins from many languages, ancient and modern. With this book you can satisfy your...

John Bowden / Making the Father of the Bride's Speech

  You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories - they may even be captured on video for future generations to hear. So what are the golden rules of speech-making? How can you...

John Clarke / Right Way to Write Your Own CV

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Jacqueline Harrod / 21st Century Babies' Names

  This title contains 21st Century names for 21st Century babies! Jacqueline Harrod has scoured the registers of the Family Records Centre and researched the new millennium's current most popular names.       All of our books...