What makes a great manager? Is it something innate in a person, or can people learn great management skills? First, Break All the Rules is an insider's look at successful managerial behaviour. This book explains why the best managers break the rules everyday by playing favourites and believing that each employee has unlimited potential. This handy book also outlines the world of real-life managers and how they focus, motivate and develop their employees.
Legal Skills encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills essential to the law student in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for first year law students and is also a valuable resource for those studying law at any level. Clearly structured in three parts, the book covers the full range of legal skills you will need to succeed from the beginning of your law degree, through your exams and assessments and into your future career.
Nick Hornby's brilliant third novel offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?
The study of the cinema thus involves two great tasks : the analysis of the cinematic language system and the analysis of filmic writing. This book, as its title indicates, dealt essentially with the first of these.
Jacques Fontanille's The Semiotics of Discourse fills a long-standing need for a clear, comprehensive overview of narrative semiotic theory. The book skillfully blends a historical perspective with an emphasis on recent developments. Outstanding features include a clear, thorough exposition; numerous examples drawn from sports, cooking, and literature; a balance of introductory overview and detailed analysis; figures that graphically represent the ideas expressed; and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter. The book will be of interest to both scholars and students in semiotics, linguistics, literary theory, and the study of narrative.
