Want to broaden your horizons? Re-plan your career? Improve your work/life balance? The portfolio life is the answer to today's changing world of work. It lets you take control. You decide how much to earn, how many hours to work, who to work with.Leading management guru Charles Handy describes the portfolio life as "a portfolio of activities - some of which we do for money, some for interest, some for pleasure, some for a cause...the different bits fit together to form a balanced whole...the whole is greater than the parts."Building a Portfolio Career is the 'How To' book for the philosophy of Charles Handy and has been guided by his writings and inspired by discussions with him. It is packed with real examples from the authors' and others' life-changing experiences, and includes special models to help you explore your talents, together with expert advice on a host of topics such as networking and running your own business.This third edition has been completely revised and updated and includes a brand new section on the use of social media to develop your career portfolio, written by a leading practitioner in the field.

You know you should be more than just housemates with your kids, but as their lives become as busy as yours, that feeling of belonging together can fade. How do you maintain close bonds with your kids? What can you do if you sense that your kids are pulling away in an unhealthy manner? And what can you, as a family, actually do together that will be more meaningful than staring at screens in the same room? With practical advice on how to deepen and expand your most important human connections, Ideas for Parents will lead you in ways to develop and nourish the spiritual appetite of your family. From rebuilding the heart connection with your child to giving the gift of your attention to learning the importance of saying I m sorry, here is wise counsel, quick tips, and a Christian perspective on how to deal with a host of parenting concerns."

This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation to definiteness and related grammatical phenomena, such as demonstratives, possessives and personal pronouns. It outlines work done on the nature of definiteness in semantics, pragmatics and syntax, and develops an account on which definiteness is a grammatical category represented in syntax as a functional head (the widely discussed D). Consideration is also given to the origins and evolution of definite articles in the light of the comparative and theoretical findings. Among the claims advanced are that definiteness does not occur in all languages, though the pragmatic concept which it grammaticalizes probably does.

Definiteness is the concept expressed by definite articles such as "the", and also by other expressions such as demonstratives ("this", "that") and personal pronouns. This textbook surveys such expressions in the many languages of the world, and also examines the theoretical literature on this aspect of grammar, to establish what definiteness is and how languages can express it.