This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know--English. Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first, but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken aspect. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and

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Essentials of Occupational Health Psychology provides a thorough overview of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) with a focus on empowering readers to take appropriate and reasoned action to address a wide variety of worker health, safety, and well-being challenges that are present in working situations all over the world.Although relatively new as an area of specialization, OHP research and intervention

We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and institutions continue to avoid taking decisive action even when there is general agreement that a serious threat exists. Understanding how people, social groups and social organizations understand, respond

This book is a practical guide to content transformation. It lays out the process to get from an overcrowded website, app or service to something people can use and enjoy. Hinrich von Haaren has worked on transformation projects in the public and private sector. Here, he shares his experiences and those of the incredible teams he has worked with. Whether you are a lone content person or small content

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Hiring decisions can be challenging for even the most experienced managers. You want to hire top talent - \"A\" players, high achievers, and top performers who are engaged and passionate about their work. But how do you screen for these important traits during the interview process to hire the best candidate for the job? Is there an interview method which would give you more confidence in your hiring

Stunning images of mandalas as they appear in our universe illustrate the story of unity, making this book an uplifting visual treat that reveals our connection to the world and to one another. The mandala is an archetypal symbol of wholeness that is replicated on a cosmic scale, not only in art, architecture, and religion, but throughout the universe. The concepts and primal patterns it represents

This revised translation of Fritz Graf\'s highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently documents the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. First surveying the various definitions of myth that have been advanced, Graf

Country gardening may not always be glamorous, but it\'s always entertaining. This humorous and light-hearted guide to getting your hands dirty is the perfect gift for any gardener, whether they\'re about to embark on a life in the countryside, or just someone whose town garden is never tidy and wonders how the professionals do

Packed with recipes for deliciously unpretentious, modern rustic food, The Tin and Traybake Cookbook is for everyone who loves to cook and eat beautiful food. Baking tins usually see daylight only when we\'re making cakes or the Sunday roast. But with a little imagination, these kitchen stalwarts can do so much more. Did you know that the best chocolate brownie tin is also a perfect fit for Sweetly

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The definitive pilgrim\'s guide to the sites visited by St Paul on his missionary journeys. This new edition has been fully updated and redesigned with new maps and plans, and many new colour photographs. Expanded, with new sections on St John and his writing of the Book of Revelation on the island of Patmos, together with other Greek

\"The solution isn\'t to do away with dreaming and positive thinking. Rather, it\'s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.\" So often in our day-to-day lives we\'re inundated with advice to \"think positively.\" From pop music to political speeches to commercials, the general message

Welcome to the hidden world of the most popular bugs on Earth. Opening the beautiful and accessible pages of this book is like turning over a series of stones under which you\'ll find a fascinating array of the world\'s coolest creepy-crawlies. This fully photographic book profiles bugs, beetles, wasps, bees, ants, caterpillars, butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, flies, crickets and grasshoppers, and

Discover the origin, design, range, and function of arms including stone axes, swords, machine-guns, and sniper rifles, and meet the warriors who wielded them. An epic, 4,000-year illustrated volume, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor traces the evolution of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage. All the major arms through the ages including

As the only female village chief in the province, the pressure to succeed politically and personally on Kong Fanhua is enormous. Amid a crackdown on the controversial one-child policy, a pregnant runaway triggers a series of bizarre and seemingly intractable problems for Fanhua to solve involving ghosts, camels, Americans and

This series of books represents the first introduction to classical Chinese that focuses solely on medical texts. The selections that make up the chapters span a period of nearly 2,000 years, covering the entire written history of Chinese medicine. The extensive vocabulary lists, detailed grammar notes, example sentences, and clear explanations make this series suitable for self-taught learners and

Written by an experienced tutor, Savoir-Faire Plus is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today\'s generation of language undergraduates. Focusing on the life of an Anglophone first year undergraduate studying French in the UK and sharing a house with four francophone students, this engaging textbook provides: a clear, logical structure a blend of communicative, research-based and