Creating Job Security. Resource Guide. 2nd Edition

Creating Job Security. Resource Guide. 2nd Edition
Author: Debra Yergen
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595691928

You Don't Need More Advice! Creating Job Security Resource Guide is not another advice book. It's an easy-to-use resource guide that gives you what you need in the quickest way possible. It's perfect for new grads and experienced professionals alike. You could spend hours searching for the job leads and resources you need -- or worse risk falling victim to a scam website that leaves you with harmful cookies or malware. Your time is worth more! The 2nd edition of the Creating Job Security Resource Guide is your key to finding what you need right away. Save yourself the hassle, time and risk by ordering your copy today. --- This conveniently-sized guide includes 130+ hot job resources, categorized by industry and featuring executive, general, freelance and stay-at-home Web sites. It includes the exclusive scoring model for turning experience, education, talents, and tools into viable career and business opportunities. The "Green Light Scoring Model" (TM) enables readers to evaluate career opportunities based on seven pre-determined elements for success: Income, Opportunity, Creativity, Feasibility, Flexibility, Stability, and Longevity. This simple but powerful resource guide empowers readers to create a short list of ideal jobs for them right now, along with the critical Web resources matching hiring companies with skilled and talented job seekers. --- In addition to the "Creating Job Security" series, Debra Yergen is the author of "Real Life 101" and a lecturer with Kaplan University. She is a recognized subject matter expert on the jobs market and has been published in more than 25 magazines worldwide, and interviewed by USA Today, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, CareerBuilder.com, CNN.com, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, ABCnews.com, Payscale.com, and others about creating job security.

The Honesties of Love

The Honesties of Love
Author: Bruce Kellner
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1595692304

In this comedy of bad manners, the ill-matched parents of too-young newly-weds Billy and Ann Richardson politely collide in a series of encounters guaranteed to insure catastrophe, when a wry college professor, a glamorous real estate agent, a randy plumber, and a frustrated housewife politely face off on some social and sexual battlefields. The confrontations may begin politely, but they are guaranteed to end in chaos when a husband and a wife - not each other's - find themselves embroiled in an affair that proves to be equally passionate and ridiculous. What begins as a test between social classes ends in a series of sexual confrontations. Billy and Ann find themselves forced to grow up in a hurry to begin to accept their parents as people who are just as vulnerable as everybody else. -- Far from the pastoral romance of "Winter Ridge" (published by Mon-dial in 2008) and the grim landscape of "The Prettiest Girls in Euphoria, Kansas" (Mondial, 2010), Bruce Kellner's novel "The Honesties of Love" turns a baleful eye on the minefield of marriage.

Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Apprenticeship Programs, Third Edition, 2-Volume Set

Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Apprenticeship Programs, Third Edition, 2-Volume Set
Author: Elizabeth H. Oakes
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 981
Release: 2009
Genre: Apprenticeship programs
ISBN: 1438110448

Each two-volume book contains four major sections: . - Introduction and Overview: Provides forewords by notables in the field and an outline of the book. - Essays: Features eight to 10 essays on topics such as workplace issues, financial aid, diversity, and more. - Directory: Contains descriptions and contact information for hundreds of organizations, schools, and associations, arranged by topic. - Further Resources/Indexes: Includes glossaries, appendixes, further reading, and indexes

Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle (German Classics)

Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle (German Classics)
Author: Heinrich Von Kleist
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159569076X

"Michael Kohlhaas" is a novella written by famed writer Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811). The story is based upon the historical figure of Hans Kohlhase, a 16th century merchant who turned violent after being attacked and victimized by the authorities. As a result, he gathered around him a band of criminals and spread terror throughout the whole of Saxony. --- "The novella is a good example of Kleist's excellent narrative art: The action can be summed up in a few words, such as the formula for this story, given expressly on its first page: 'His sense of justice made him a robber and a murderer.' There is no leisurely exposition of time, place, or situation; all the necessary elements are given concisely in the first sentences. The action develops logically, with effective use of retardation and climax, but without disturbing episodes; and the reader is never permitted to forget the central theme. The descriptive element is realistic, with only pertinent details swiftly presented, often in parentheses, while the action moves on. The characterization is skilfully indirect, through unconscious action and speech. The author does not shun the trivial or even the repulsive in detail, nor does he fear the most tragic catastrophes ... The whole work in all its parts is firmly and finely forged by a master workman. --- Kleist has remained a solitary figure in German literature. Owing little to the dominant literary influences of his day, he has also found few imitators. Two generations passed before he began to come into his heritage of legitimate fame. Now ... his place is well assured among the greatest dramatic and narrative authors of Germany." (John S. Nollen)

Germinie Lacerteux (French Classics)

Germinie Lacerteux (French Classics)
Author: Edmond De Goncourt
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1595690670

In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French literary salon, the Academie Goncourt, and later the famous Prix Goncourt, an award that to this day remains France's most significant literary prize. --- The Goncourt brothers, who co-authored a series of novels on social themes, were among the founders of literary "Naturalism" in France. Emile Zola would emerge as this movement's most important representative in his cycle of novels "Les Rougon- Macquart". --- Among the novels co-written by the Goncourt brothers, "Germinie Lacerteux" (1865) is especially noteworthy. The double-live of the novel's Parisian domestic servant, who is ground down and destroyed by the conditions she lives in, but who for decades keeps these conditions hidden from her employer, continues to captivate book-lovers in France and the rest of the world to this day.

The Hunger Pastor (German Classics)

The Hunger Pastor (German Classics)
Author: Wilhelm Raabe
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2015-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1595690751

Wilhelm Raabe's novel entitled Der Hungerpastor (1864) is a classic example of the so-called "poetic realism" to which many - primarily bourgeois - German writers were devoted between 1850 and 1890. --- Wilhelm Raabe (1831 - 1910) became famous following the publication of his first novel, Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (The Sparrow Lane Chronicle), in 1856. His late works are known for their social criticism, while earlier novels, such as The Hunger Pastor, were intended to be primarily educational. --- With the figure of Hans Unwirrsch in The Hunger Pastor, Raabe completely lives up to his motto - "Look up to the stars. Pay attention to the streets." The budding pastor, who was born into poverty, "hungers" for knowledge and a respected place in society, but he constantly stumbles over obstacles that his own life, as well as the lives of his family and friends, place before him. --- Raabe's rambling style makes his works difficult reading for many contemporary readers. In this version of The Hunger Pastor, several chapters have therefore been summarized by the translator, while the most important ones are published in their original length. --- Despite some anti-Semitic elements, which were commonly found in the works of some 19th century bourgeois writers in Germany, The Hunger Pastor is and remains a German literature classic.

Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics)

Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics)
Author: Alphonse Daudet
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1595691057

Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose) - Alphonse Daudet's (1840-1897) first published, though not his first written, novel - appeared in 1868. The first part was composed in that Southern France it describes so charmingly; its first chapters form one of the most touching of autobiographies. In the second part Daudet has to tell of the struggles of an idealistic young poet in the selfish, devouring whirlpool of Paris. The whole book seems to bear the impress of the circumstances under which it was written. It is full of the milk of human kindness. --- When Daudet wrote Le Petit Chose in his early manhood, he succeeded in producing one of the most delightfully idyllic of his works, one that will probably continue to be read as long as any of the more powerful novels of his prime. It is one of the most perfect representations in literature of childhood's hopes and fears and of youth's aspirations and defeats. It is perfect because it is real. --- Enjoy to the full one of the purest and most exquisite stories of youthful experience to be found in French or in any other literature. (W. P. Trent)

Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics)

Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics)
Author: Romain Rolland
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1595691332

"Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows. The story is gay and humorous, and full of wise observations about life. --- "Colas Breugnon is the jovial Burgundian, the lusty wood-carver, the practical joker always fond of his glass, the droll fellow. Before everything, Colas Breugnon is a free man. He loves his king, but only so long as the king leaves him his liberty; he loves his wife, but follows his own bent; he is on excellent terms with the priest of a neighboring parish, but never goes to church; he idolizes his children, but his vigorous individuality makes him unwilling to live with them. He is friendly with all, but subject to none; he is freer than the king; he has that sense of humor characteristic of the free spirit to whom the whole world belongs. From the artistic point of view, 'Colas Breugnon' may perhaps be regarded as Rolland's most successful work. This is because it is woven in one piece, because it flows with a continuous rhythm, because its progress is never arrested by the discussion of thorny problems. It is written throughout in the same key. The first sentence gives the note like a tuning fork, and thence the entire book takes its pitch. Throughout, the same lively melody is sustained. The writer employs a peculiarly happy form. His style is poetic without being actually versified; it has a melodious measure without being strictly metrical. This work is unlike any of Rolland's other writings. It is not an historic study, a critical appreciation, a philosophic essay, nor yet even, in the strictest sense of the word, a novel. It is rather a volume of reminiscences as told by a man of fifty; and the very aimlessness with which this man talks is in itself a pleasure; for Breugnon is himself the one subject of the book, holding our attention by the display of a wayward, sympathetic, and aggressive personality." (Stefan Zweig)