Dream Work Experience - Unconventional Strategies to Land the Internship of Your Dreams (Kindle Edition)

Dream Work Experience - Unconventional Strategies to Land the Internship of Your Dreams (Kindle Edition)
By Bill Riddell

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Our teachers, parents and student advisors have tried to do the right thing and teach us how to get an internship, find a job and build an awesome career, but they often give the wrong advice.
They place far too much importance on writing nice resumes and preparing for formal interviews. These can be useful, but there are many better ways to get a job, particularly the job of your dreams.

This book, in over 100 pages combines some timeless advice with plenty of unconventional strategies that have been successfully tested by the author.

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While in school and college Bill Riddell gained work experience/internships with two of the world’s greatest racing teams, combining my passion for writing and car racing.

After graduating his experience earned him a job at Australia’s most respected car racing magazine before turning to freelance work.

Though your dream job may be totally different, by using this unique guide you too can make it come true.

Chances are there are thousands of people out there who want the exact same internship and job as you, many with same company. Some may have better grades than you, others may be nicer or better looking – but, with the tips in this book you will have an unfair advantage over all of them.

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One of the biggest things holding you back may be uncertainty of just what sort of job you want. If so, you are not alone. A whole chapter detailing how to get over this presents many ways to find your calling in life.

Put an end to the confusion, the nagging and pressure from family and friends to "figure out what you’re going to do with your life".

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So who should buy this book?

Anyone in high school, college or university who wants to kick-start their career with an incredible internship and continue on to a great job.

It does not matter if you are unsure what job you want. This book will help you decide.

If you know exactly what company you want to intern at, it will help you get it.

If you are sick of hearing the same advice from teachers, parents and every other good intentioned person you know - this book is definitely for you.

The book includes templates and easy to follow guides to make sure you get it right first time.

“I just wish someone had written this for me when I was in high school and college - it would have saved a lot of time and a lot of failures. Now you can skip the mistakes and go straight to the success,” says the author, Bill Riddell.

“I know what this information has done for my life. And I know the potential to tremendously help you change your life if you follow my book. I’m sure you will get amazing, life changing results.” Read more

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Hard Whispers (Paperback)

Hard Whispers (Paperback)
By Pamela Martin

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Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Hardcover)

Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Hardcover)
By Zbigniew Brzezinski

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America’s most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations’ foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America’s future by the “suicidal statecraft” of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.

On Stieg larsson (Hardcover)

On Stieg larsson (Hardcover)
By Laurie Thompson

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On Stieg Larsson (trans. from Swedish by Laurie Thompson) is a collection of previously unpublished essays about the late author, as well as some of his correspondence. Jonas Sundberg co-founded the Expo magazine with Larsson and a few others in 1995. In 1995, Larsson was among the group that founded Expo, which showcased investigative journalism against extremism, organized racism and anti-Semitism. In the essay "Stieg," Sundberg remembers Larsson as "a guy who preferred to work rather than be seen," who was always willing to pitch in, but refused to be called editor in chief, and was always willing to take a step back when Expo was in the limelight. He also narrates how Larsson would hammer away on his laptop until well past midnight, guessing that the bulk of the Millennium trilogy was written in the wee hours. Larsson had told Sundberg that he was writing a crime novel for his "pension insurance" and he appeared to be happy when he had "sold it for real money." Read more

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Before The Paparazzi: 50 Years of Extraordinary Photographs (Paperback)

Before The Paparazzi: 50 Years of Extraordinary Photographs (Paperback)
By Steven P. Unger

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When we chose a few hundred pictures for Before the Paparazzi: Fifty Years of Extraordinary Pictures to represent the life's work of a legendary press photographer, thousands more pictures had to be left, literally, "in the box." Before the Paparazzi contains about 28,000 words of text and over 250 pictures-most of them with an accompanying "story behind the pictures." Almost all of the pictures appeared in the New York Post and other New York City newspapers during the years-primarily the 60s through the 90s-that Arty Pomerantz was a staff photographer and assignment editor, and many of them were on the newspapers' front pages. Arty pioneered the use of 35mm cameras in photojournalism-with their motorized shutter and interchangeable lenses, they revolutionized the industry-and was honored by his peers, who voted him President of the New York Press Photographers Association. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and lost track years ago of the number of national and regional photography awards he's won. His pictures have appeared in virtually every major newspaper and magazine in the country. It would be easier to list the movie stars, Presidents, and poets who are not among these photographs than those who are-on the cover alone you can see Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor, Walter Winchell, and the Beatles. There are pictures of looters in the heart of the city during the Blackout of 1977, pictures of fires and tickertape parades and of the assassination of a Mafia godfather. Chapter introductions provide the reader with a context for the entire book by describing the day-to-day life of a New York City press photographer-for years the only night photographer for the New York Post-who bore visual witness of that quintessential American city's people and events through decades of profound social, political, and technological change. Arty loved his work and the people he photographed, and that love, combined with consummate skill, is apparent in every picture Arty made. As described in the Preface: "On a typical night, the reporter and I would talk to press agents-if Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were in town, for example, their press agent would get us together. There might be a crime scene or a fire. Whatever happened, there'd be a story in the morning, [along with] the picture I'd made . . ." Arty was a protégé of Weegee, whose photographs appeared in the original Naked City (later a movie and a TV series), and who at one time was paid five dollars per bullet hole by Life magazine for his pictures of murder victims. When Arty started his first press photographer job in 1956, newspaper photos were shot with a 4 X 5 Speed Graphic, a big, bulky camera with a bellows and a film holder. Arty not only changed cameras, he changed from a radio that connected his car to an answering service, to a police radio and a real car phone. Over the years he partnered with cub reporters like Pete Hamill, Nick Pileggi, and Nora Ephron, who would go on to become best-selling authors while remaining Arty's lifelong friends. Peter Riva, a literary agent and specialist in media licensing and rights representation since 1975, said of Before the Paparazzi: "There is something here, there is something in these images that harkens to a time in transition, a time now lost, when New York was the center of the media universe. Sadly, Arty's pictures are all that is left of a world that has vanished forever. Arty Pomerantz is the successor to Weegee, before US and People, before the paparazzi." Read more

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
By Niall Ferguson

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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.

Through Ferguson’s expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world’s first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.

With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What’s the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?

This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can’t provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the world’s biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation—an economic transformation unprecedented in human history.

Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts—sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that’s why, whether you’re scraping by or rolling in it, there’s never been a better time to understand the ascent of money. Read more

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The Scientist and the Sociopath (Kindle Edition)

The Scientist and the Sociopath (Kindle Edition)
By Joseph D'Agnese

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DECEPTION
A modern-day computer scientist struggles to unlock the secrets of a mysterious book apparently written in a secret code, matching wits with a sociopathic con man who died 400 years ago.

RECOGNITION
A humble cosmologist conceives one of the biggest theories of the universe---and watches helplessly as the Nobel Prize goes to someone else.

DEDUCTION
A maverick doctor investigates bizarre ailments using a method that seems shockingly radical in modern medicine: befriending patients and asking them how they feel.

THE SCIENTIST AND THE SOCIOPATH features remarkable nonfiction stories, some of real-life scientists tackling theories and discoveries that will change our world, others of laymen grappling with some aspect of science in their lives.

Along the way, there are smashed ancient skulls, dead chimps in the back of pickup trucks, flying snakes, lordly windmills, haunted warriors, and beautiful, geeky kids building us a new world, one Lego at a time. These all-too-human players overcome their own foibles to make sense of the unknown, touching on everything from the Big Bang theory to tissue engineering, human evolution to cryptography, strange animals, robots, and the secret of human ingenuity.

Culled from the author’s extensive reporting for magazines such as Discover, Wired and Seed, these tales are bundled together for the very first time. This collection includes two bonus stories on green energy and two never-before-seen stories---for a total of 12 stories and 47,000 words in all.

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“D’Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books.”---Bookviews

About the Author
Award-winning journalist JOSEPH D’AGNESE is known for his compassionate portraits of scientists. His work has appeared in Best American Science Writing. He’s written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. He’s author of THE MONEY BOOK FOR FREELANCERS, PART-TIMERS & THE SELF-EMPLOYED (Random House); SIGNING THEIR LIVES AWAY: THE FAME & MISFORTUNE OF THE MEN WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (Quirk); and the children’s picture book, BLOCKHEAD: THE LIFE OF FIBONACCI (Holt). His website is josephdagnese.com.
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