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"This book is a guide to how you can better understand yourself and find the work or career that is right for you and your lifestyle. When you are in the right job or career, you're doing something that matches your interests, strengths and values, your work reflects the real you -- the person you really are. Whether you're just starting to think about a career, you want to take your career in a different direction, or want a complete career change,...
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"In this exhilarating book, readers will take to the skies and discover all there is to know about fighter jet pilots! They'll find out what it takes to pursue this daring career including education, training, and on-the-job expectations. Fighter pilots fly at speeds of more than 1,000 miles per hour. They gather intel, launch missiles, and perform death-defying maneuvers. Featuring fascinating fact boxes that highlight key information, this high-interest,...
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2024
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Military bases, whether in the U.S. or overseas, ships, subs, and field commands are all like little cities. They need people to perform jobs from firefighters to dentists, in addition to jobs specific to accomplishing the mission of defending the U.S. and its allies"-- Provided by publisher
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Praise for Becoming a Therapist
"This resource is filled with practical and personal advice, relevant stories, and examples, and reads more like help from a friend than a typical textbook."
-Roberta L. Nutt, PhD, ABPP, Visiting Professor and Training Director, Counseling Psychology Program, University of Houston
"Ah, now this is the book I wish had been available when I entered the field. Tom Skovholt has defined the initial experiences and...
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You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art--through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond.
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Overview: Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in Culinary Careers. Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilow - president of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), the award-winning culinary school in New York City - who has seen ICE graduates go on to prime jobs both in and out of professional...
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Biomedical Science in Professional and Clinical Practice is essential reading for all trainee biomedical scientists looking for an introduction to the biomedical science profession whether they are undergraduates following an accredited biomedical sciences BSc, graduate trainees or experienced staff with overseas qualifications. This book guides trainees through the subjects, which they need to understand to meet the standards required by the Health...
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The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design
Anyone who has ever tried to launch a fashion design career knows how grueling it can be. The fashion industry is a highly prominent field, yielding a competitive environment that is greatly guarded, secretive, and difficult to infiltrate. Becoming a Fashion Designer provides all the information, resources,...
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2011
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For anyone considering a career in one of the many counseling professions but undecided on which one to pursue, this book will be an excellent resource. It provides insight and information into the different career opportunities available and suggestions and activities to assess one's fit in one of these careers. These activities include exercises and self-tests to help readers explore their own personal characteristics and determine if they are
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The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons for artists and writers-or anyone interested in the creative path. Written in the same frank, fearless, and occasionally outrageous...
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Providing engineers with the tools and skills to survive and become successful in the work place
• Gives experience-based, highly realistic guidance to a cross-section of young and even established engineers
• Delivers practical guidance and acts as a handy resource so that lessons do not have to be learned the hard way with numerous errors, and costly problems
• Includes real world examples and case studies from a 45 year veteran in the engineering...
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A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher.
Act: The Modern Actor's Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America's most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg's techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions...
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Mujer, empoderamiento y legado trae a colación a las mujeres en un escenario global y brasileño, sus desafíos, particularidades y dificultades, y la reflexión y análisis de la sociedad tan desigual que vivimos todos los días. Al elegir un tema fuerte como este, la autora Silvana Mello busca contribuir y dejar una huella positiva para las futuras generaciones de mujeres.
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"This book gives readers a close look at what it's like to work as a chemist. Readers will come to understand STEM concepts through a career focus as they learn about how chemists use science, technology, engineering, and math every day. This book covers chemistry basics, while explaining the different tools chemists use. Readers can also explore several careers in chemistry and learn how to land one. Accessible and engaging text is paired with color...
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Tell your story, change your life
Think about people who are paid to speak at events. They're all celebrities, former politicians, or award-winning experts in their fields, right? Wrong. The truth is that every year, thousands of ordinary people generate five- and even six-figure incomes-just from speaking. And you can too.
With the right know-how, anyone can harness the power of their own story to carve out a lucrative speaking career. Listen in...




