Careers for Romantics & Other Dreamy Types

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Take the first step to a profitable and satisfying career!

Do weddings make you swoon? Are you a natural when it comes to flower arrangements? Does a beautifully set table satisfy your most creative urge? If you answered yes to any of the above, your career choice has already been made. Now you need to choose an occupation.

Careers for Romantics & Other Dreamy Types provides practical advice on deciding which calling is for you, along with first-hand accounts of everyday routines, information on working conditions of selected jobs, and a list of resources to help you get your foot in the door. Let Careers for Romantics & Other Dreamy Types put you on the path to a dynamic and rewarding career.

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Careers for Romantics & Other Dreamy Souls lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living--including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.

Customer Reviews:

So much I already knew.......2002-04-16

I consider myself a romantic. I'm about to graduate from college, and I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. When I saw this book in my school's job placement office, I thought it looked like something I should read--careers for romantics! I'm romantic and I'm looking for a career. How perfect!

Sadly, this book is far from perfect. Many of the careers in this book--most of the careers, actually--don't appeal to me at all. Why would I want to be a wedding coordinator when I don't even want a wedding of my own? Romance doesn't always mean marriage. The only career in here that is a possibility for me is to be a romance novelist (mainly because that's what I plan on doing), but the book told me nothing that I didn't already know. Something I was hoping to find in this book was what I can do to support myself before my books start selling... but this had none of that. Other possible careers--like writing love letters for a living, seemed highly unlikely as viable careers. I don't think that many people want to buy letters that someone else wrote--especially not enough to make a living off of. I need to make a living. This book did not help me at all.

Bored with your job or burned out on your current career?.......2001-01-01

This book may be a springboard to a whole new professional life! With insider interviews and insightful descriptions of careers and jobs in more than a dozen industries, career book author Blythe Camenson will get those creative what-ifs going in your brain.

Not just a resource book for romantic people, but a resource book for creative people, entrepreneurial people, and people who seek fulfillment from work, this book could be your ticket to a whole new lifework. With essays from people in various careers, you'll get an insider's look at the pros and cons of different types of jobs, many of them fun.

One of the advantages to the careers in this book is that most of them do not require lengthy training or expensive education, but rather creative talent, desire, and skills that are learned on the job.

I recommend this book to those who seek their destiny, rather than "default" employment. The book is encouraging and inspirational. Ideas will be percolating in your head in no time at all.

Eve Paludan, author of 3 editions of Romance Writer's Pink Pages

Limited Options.......2000-07-20

The careers suggested by the author were limited and unimaginative. Pass on it, there are much better career books out there for both romantic and creative types!

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Many car owners find the mechanics of their vehicle relatively familiar ground, but struggle when faced with the electrics. Increasingly vehicle design depends on a bewildering array of more advanced electronics. This book helps the reader to understand more about car electrics and its workings, and therefore should help with fault diagnosis. It includes the latest developments such as electronic ignition, described in a way that is accessible to anyone with a basic grasp of electricity.

In addition this is a collection of projects, each a practical, useful and proven design. These projects provide an array of elegant and affordable solutions from a digital tachometer, a lights-on warning indicator, a digital device to calculate fuel consumption, and some basic alarm and audio designs. Most importantly, all components and devices described in this book are readily available; readers can be confident of obtaining all the parts and equipment from Maplin either through their catalogue or their network of high street stores. Based on projects from Electronics, the Maplin Magazine, this compendium will spark the interest of anyone who wishes to put their electronics skills to good and fruitful use. Other books in the Maplin Series include: Starting Electronics - all you need to get a grounding in practical electronics. Computer Interfacing - a general introduction to computers covering all aspects of hardware and how they interface. Logic Design - an introduction to digital logic. Music Projects - straightforward design ideas to build. Audio IC Projects - a collection of useful circuits based on readily available chips. TV and Video Projects - a collection of useful and proven design ideas.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling account of the integration of the mills.

Minchin argues that the role of a labor shortage in spurring black hiring has been overemphasized, pointing instead to the federal government's influence in pressing the textile industry to integrate. He also highlights the critical part played by African American activists. Encouraged by passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, black workers filed antidiscrimination lawsuits against nearly all of the major textile companies. Still, Minchin notes, even after the integration of the mills, African American workers encountered considerable resistance: black women faced continued hiring discrimination, while black men found themselves shunted into low-paying jobs with little hope of promotion.

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Hiring the Black Worker: Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980. (book review): An article from: The Oral History Review
Spencie Love
Manufacturer: Oral History Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FC2N0
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1006 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Hiring the Black Worker: Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980. (book review)
Author: Spencie Love
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Page: 136(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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HIRING THE BLACK WORKER; THE RACIAL INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1960-1980.

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HIRING THE BLACK WORKER; THE RACIAL INTEGRATION OF THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1960-1980.
Timothy J. Minchin
Manufacturer: UNC Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ON4VNU

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Do you long to be seductive? Have a desire to be seduced? Then “let lips do what hands do” and put into practice the most enticing baubles of seduction ever written. Shakespeare and the Art of Verbal Seduction contains the Bard’s best seducing lines to cajole, charm, and even proposition the object of your desire.

Shakespeare is the master of persuasion. He induces the hardest of hearts to give up mind, body, and soul with a brilliant flash of words. Here they’re collected for you, his little miracles of language, arranged in ten strategies for every stage of a love affair, from first encounter to the full throes of passion. Never again let your desire flounder in bad come-ons. Learn the art of seduction from the greatest seducer of all time, and get what you want.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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A perennial bestseller, this definitive guide to all legal, economic, and financial aspects of the music business better than ever in its revised, thoroughly updated new edition. This edition addresses the implications of MP3, the Copyright Term Extension Act, union treatment of digital music, and more.

As this "bible of the music business" moves into its 40th year, the book's expanded scope addresses challenges and opportunities of a new century, including:

MP3 record duplication, Internet sales, and cybercasting
Digital record performance rights for artists and record companies
New markets emerging from WIPO and GATT treaty enforcement of copyright protection against counterfeiters and bootleggers
Greater reliance on major labels, further merging of powerful companies, and reduced record distribution by independents
Revised markets opened by the European Economic Union and other consolidations
The impact, both positive and negative, of growing motion picture and theater investments in the music business

Customer Reviews:

Good, Hard Studying .......2007-06-01

You'll need to buckle down to study this one as a text & not a reference book. If you don't have the attention span for a dense textbook, you'll wind up using this book as a reference text. If you're looking for something easier to study from, get: "Everything You Need To Know About the Music Business" by Donald Passman.

A crucial text that goes way back to its first printing in 1969.

Definitely the Definitely Guide!.......2007-05-18

I definitely gained some insight into the ins and the outs of the music biz. What a Great read!

If you want to win, read this book.......2007-01-17

Music is an art form, selling it is business and a ruthless one at that.
If you want to get ahead, you must know the rules. This book is the real deal not magical thinking and wonderlust. Get it and get ahead.

A classic!!!!!!!!!.......2006-07-03

I highly recommend this book to gain greater insights in the Music business or any business. Its one of the best books your ever buy on the music Industry. I have two copies to reference one for my home and one for the office. It was a great buy along with a couple of manuals I purchased from Musicbrains.net entitled the Indie label Kit.

Good.......2006-05-19

The music business is a cruel and vindictive world where many people perish looking for the best deal and young artists are crushed because they have no experience in dealing with the legal aspects and mostly don't have the people skills tu survive in a cruel world like this hwre every weak point is axploited and taken advantage of.Most people don't understant that without a proper knoledge of this system succes is improbable, this book comes as an aid for those trying to make it big in the music industry, explaining almost all of the steps needed for complete success.

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Examines how the recent boom in the museum and heritage industry has led to its increasing commercialisation, which, Walsh argues, frequently serves only to distance us from our own heritage.

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a chance encounter of the eye-opening kind.......2000-09-12

I encountered this book on a low shelf at the main library of the hebrew university in jerusalem, while looking for a certain photography book, and quickly and curiously took it out, its title being simmilar to a theses i was going to write. as i opened the pages and looked through them, i felt both amazed at all the subjects it aims to cover, and a little sorry, that someone else has already done something which i had thought of doing. so i took it home, (still have it!) and read it. it has fulfilled my expectation and is a serious book about the representation of the past in museums and heritage centers, something which is taken for granted as both `educational` and `entertaining`. in the book the processes leading to the creation and maintenance of heritage centers and museums are analysed seriously, with a light marxist-postmodern bend, but a well researched and convincing presentation. case studies are presented and various strategies for making the representation of the past, both conceptually and socialy, a better one. although it deals specifically with england, i found his statements and anlyses convincing for my country, israel, a land smitten with heritage and memory in a unique way. my comments deal with two areas, (each taking half a star off its rating!). there is no visual material at all, no photographs, plans or diagrams. in a book dealing with representations in the real world, something so rife in visuality, this is a serious drawback, as so many meanings would be far better and more widely understood with the proper visual material. as the very subject matter of the book is visual it is a pity that the analyses it includes do not contain visual readings of museum presentations. the other point is the whiff of serious and judicious thinking about a subject which should be also fun and games. it assumes a seriousness on the part of visitors and downplays the need of heritage centers to get people interested at all, and most challenging of all, to get a place in their own memories. so anyway, chapeau! and i have recommendad it all it all around!.

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The Boardgame Book
Robert Charles Bell
Manufacturer: distributed by Bookthrift
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Binding: Hardcover
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Activities include Puzzles, Mazes, Wordsearches, Boardgames, Colouring, Bookmarks, Doorhangers, Crosswords, and Games.

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Can You Beat Ken? Spinner Book and Boardgame

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The object of the board game is to be the first player to win the jackpot of over two million dollars. Advance the game token and watch your earnings grow by correctly answering questions covering more than 30 different categories.

In the Spinner Book you'll compete with Ken and each other in round after round, game after game, and get the ones he missed for double the points!

We posed every question to Ken and handicapped him by not giving him the options on the multiple choice questions, but he still scored an amazing 75 percent! Here's your chance, though, to match wits with him and see if you can beat Ken at his own game!

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Alice Becker-Ho , and Guy Debord
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Monopoly Book, The Strategy & Tactics of the Worlds Most Popular Real Estate Game invented During the Depression ( History of the game and its impact on the game-playing public. With more than 20 theories and Strategy methods for winning Boardgame )
Maxine , DJ design Gene Siegel, illustrated Brady
Manufacturer: David McKay, NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD75O2

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Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop CS tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running on Photoshop CS2 in no time:
* Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks
* Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step
* Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task
* Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules

Learn how to
* Browse and sort images in Bridge
* Change image size and resolution
* Paint and draw with color
* Create duotone images
* Apply layer and filter effects

Customer Reviews:

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS2.......2007-01-09

Instantly, I was able to use photoshop. Get this book. It will be a quick read. It explains on one or two pages, each task you wish to perform. Once you master the material in this book, you can progress to more elaborate procedures and more technical books. The perfect beginners book.

Decent quick reference, poor for teaching yourself.......2005-12-10

If you already know how to use another photo-editing program and you're transitioning to PhotoShop, this might just be the book for you. It has a rather clever and innovative way to show exactly where on a cluttered screen the item under discussion is, and it also has some decent "quick tips". The examples are also pretty good. However, I don't see how anyone can claim to write a book that will "teach" you a software program if it doesn't give you exercises to work your way through; Photoshop is way too powerful and complex to learn without also practicing. It also doesn't explain why you might want to use any of its myriad features/effects/filters. But as I said, if you're transitioning from another program and you already know what any photo-editing program should do, this could be an excellent choice.

It's intended for normal people.......2005-12-08

This book was great for me. I am a web application developer (database and code not graphics) and all I need to know is basics and I don't want to spend hours, days, years to learn it. This book is quick and concise and gets you going without having to wade through exhaustive text. If you are a graphics artist that does photoshop all day, every day, then get a book that is intended for learning that depth of knowledge. If you are a typical person that just needs to create or edit stuff for occasional professional use or just at home, this is a great book.

Photoshop CS2 manual.......2005-09-26

Easy to read and follow, but skims the surface of the program. There is so much more to learn, so many tools and functions that it never even covers, especially some of the stuff that is new to the CS2 version like placing type on a path.

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