One of the Sunday Times Top-10 Best Summer Reads Today, the very word 'meeting' conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit, airless offices.Hour after hour. Day after day. David Pearl can change that and in this book he shows how you can take back control of your working life. Voted one of the Sunday Times 'Top-10 Best Summer Reads' of 2013 "Will There Be Donuts?" is about a big mistake that almost all companies are going to make this year. And the next. And the one after that. We'll call it nearly meeting. It happens the length and breadth of the business world, from boardroom to shop floor. 'Will There Be Donuts?' is business expert David Pearl's first book and he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings and, crucially, how to make them great. At every level of an organisation, not just the very top. if your meetings are ineffective then it's likely that your business is too. "Will There Be Donuts?" will reinvigorate you as a person and as an employer/employee. Consider the following: You are in a role which requires you to attend three hours of meetings a day. Let's say you'd score those meetings 70% effective. Let's also imagine there are 100 people like you in the company and that your average wage is GBP60k. You personally just wasted 5 whole weeks in meeting time this year. Your company lost a combined 2500 days of productivity; that's the equivalent of 11 person-years costing the company GBP675,000. What's more, if you were to continue at this rate for a conventional career, you'd be burning a total of 9 years, 6 months and 3 days of your working life. All for the sake of some ineffective meetings. "Will There Be Donuts?" will help you reclaim your working life.

An indispensable handbook for anyone seeking inspiration and fresh direction. In work. In life. And beyond. As you'll discover, the answers to our questions are right in front of our eyes. We walk past them every day. Step by step, Wanderful shows us how to fire up our innate internal guidance system, get off the straight & narrow and find wonder in the everyday. Every-day. David Pearl is the inventor of Street Wisdom, an international social venture that's bringing experiential learning to city streets the world over through its free, guided WalkShops. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to streetwisdom.org

Piano Exercises For Dummies features a wide variety of exervises and technique-building drills. Beginning with warm-up exercises, readers will transition to simple drills that help lay the foundation for exemplary technique. They'll then move on to specific skill-building drills to build strength, speed, and precision. Theyll practice correct hand and body posture and discover how to incorporate facets of musical performance such as tempo, phrasing, and dynamics into their exercises and drills.
Concluding each lesson is a musical piece for the reader to try. All practice pieces are included on the bonus audio CD. Whether theyre studying under a tutor, or looking for a self-paced resource, readers will find everything they need to build skill and gain confidence playing the piano with Piano Exercises For Dummies.

(Piano Instruction). Expand your keyboard knowledge with the Keyboard Lesson Goldmine series The series contains four books: Blues, Country, Jazz, and Rock. Each volume features 100 individual modules that cover a giant array of topics. Each lesson includes detailed instructions with playing examples. You'll also get extremely useful tips and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus two audio CDs featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book 100 Blues Lessons includes 12-bar blues, 8-bar blues, 16-bar blues; right-hand fills, left-hand patterns; stylings of the great blues pianists; chord voicings; dominant 7th chords, dominant 9th chords; and much more

(Piano). Any true fan of the Dan know that Donald Fagen's wizardry on the keys is as unique as his voice, and just as eccentric. This book in the Just the Riffs series culls more than 65 great riffs from Can't Buy a Thrill through Two Against Nature and transcribes them note-for-note, just as Fagen played them. Includes riffs from: Babylon Sisters * Black Cow * The Boston Rag * Cousin Dupree * Deacon Blues * Do It Again * Gaucho * Green Earrings * Hey Nineteen * Josie * Kid Charlemagne * Reeling in the Years * Rikki Don't Lose That Number * Time Out of Mind * and more.

(Educational Piano). This book breaks down the elements that go into playing rock piano the melodic riffs, chords, rhythms and bass lines and explores styles and techniques all over the map: from hard-driving rock to sweet ballads, funky blues riffs to jazz-inflected polychords. Section I takes examples from dozens of famous songs and shows you exactly what goes on in the piano parts. Section II has seven note-for-note transcriptions of piano solos by classic rock pianists. These are written out in meticulous detail and analyzed for study and inspiration. Proceed and learn the way of the masters

The Family Law & Society; Cases & Materials is an invaluable resource for students. Produced by an esteemed author team it provides a wealth of carefully selected materials offering an overview of the social, economic, and political trends which have come to shape contemporary family life. The materials are linked by the authors through detailed commentary, opening up the complex legal issues for discussion and offering academic and judicial viewpoints.
This new edition has been fully revised to include the significant developments in family law and policy since the fifth edition, including the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Gender Recognition Act 2004, and landmark cases such as Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane, Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partner), Stack v Dowden, Wilkinson v Kitzinger.