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Perfect Slow Cooking
by Elizabeth Brown- Would you like to get the most out of your slow cooker? - Do you want to create healthy home-cooked meals with the minimum of effort? - Do you want to save money and time without compromising on taste? Perfect Slow Cooking is an indispensable guide to this healthy and economical way of preparing meals. Covering everything from how to choose the right appliance to advice on the most affordable cuts of meat, it walks you through every aspect of the slow-cooking method and offers tried-and-tested tips that will help ensure all your meals taste fantastic. With a selection of mouth-watering recipes for soups, curries, roasts and desserts, alternative options for those occasions when you don't have all the ingredients, and useful advice on finding the time to cook during a busy day, Perfect Slow Cooking has all you need to prepare delicious, healthy home-cooked meals on a budget.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Relaxation
by Elaine Van Der ZeilPerfect Relaxation is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to learn how to remain calm and powerful in challenging situations. Covering everything from how to stop obsessing to how to start thinking positively, it gives step-by-step guidance on beating stress and shows you how to make relaxation a part of your everyday life. With helpful suggestions for instant calming techniques and daily exercises to help combat tension, Perfect Relaxation has everything you need to bring your stress levels under control.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Readings for Weddings
by Jonathan LawPerfect Readings for Weddings is an anthology of the best poems, prose passages and quotations about love and marriage. Including everything from familiar blessings and verses to more unusual choices, it covers every sort of reading you could wish for. With advice on how to choose the right readings for the occasion and tips on how to ensure that everything runs smoothly on the day, Perfect Readings for Weddings has everything you need to make sure the whole ceremony is both memorable and meaningful.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Quality: :All You Need to Get it Right First Time
by Bryn OwenThe need for quality has never been greater. Advertising, corporate image, mission statements and league tables all place emphasis on quality. But there are numerous different approaches to quality, and many gurus show the way. Total Quality Management, SPC, QED, Zero Defects, Right First Theme, Katzen and ISO 9000 all address quality and any of these approaches can contribute towards it. It is generally accepted that for quality to be achieved everyone in the organization, from boardroom to shop floor, from council chamber to traffic warden, has to understand what quality means, be committed to it and be prepared to be involved in attaining it.Perfect Quality explores the meaning of quality for all organizations and provides practical guidance on how it can be achieved. It cuts through the jargon and philosophies and answers the Who, What, Why, When and How of quality.-What is Quality?-Why is Quality vital to survival?-Who is responsible for Quality?-How is Quality achieved?-When is Quality achieved?Dr Bryn Owen is an international quality expert and Executive of optimum Systems for Quality Ltd.
Perfect Punctuation
by Stephen CurtisPerfect Punctuation is an invaluable guide to mastering punctuation marks and improving your writing. Covering everything from semi-colons to inverted commas, it gives step-by-step guidance on how to use each mark and how to avoid common mistakes. With helpful examples of correct and incorrect usage and exercises that enable you to practise what you've learned, Perfect Punctuation has everything you need to ensure that you never make a mistake again.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Pub Quiz
by David PickeringPerfect Pub Quiz is the ideal companion for all general knowledge nuts. Whether you're organising a quiz night in your local or you simply want to get in a bit of practice on tricky subjects, Perfect Pub Quiz has all the questions and answers. With topics ranging from the Roman Empire to Little Britain and from the Ryder Cup to Alex Rider, this easy-to-use quiz book will tax your brain and provide hours of fun.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name.Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Psychometric Test Results
by Ian Newcombe Joanna MoutafiPerfect Psychometric Test Results is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to secure their ideal job. Written by a team from Kenexa, one of the UK's leading compilers of psychometric tests, it explains how each test works, gives helpful pointers on how to get ready, and provides professionally constructed sample questions for you to try out at home. It also contains an in-depth section on online testing – the route that more and more recruiters are choosing to take. Whether you're a graduate looking to take the first step on the career ladder, or you're planning an all-important job change, Perfect Psychometric Test Results has everything you need to make sure you stand out from the competition.The Perfect Series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Project Manager
by Peter BartramAt some stage in their job or life, everyone is asked to organise a larger scale project - it may be running the company's annual sales conference, preparing a launch of a new product, or planning a move to new offices. Or it may be outside work - like organising a local school fete. Faced with something new, most people are often puzzled about where to start and worried about taking it on. The Perfect Project provides a straightforward road-map for organising most kinds of project, looking in detail and with examples at core skills such as planning, scheduling, progress-chasing, choosing and co-ordinated the team, budgeting, handling unforeseen problems.
Perfect Positive Thinking
by Lynn WilliamsPerfect Positive Thinking is essential reading for anyone who wants to feel optimistic and enthusiastic. Written by a professional life coach, with years of experience in the field, it gives practical advice on how to overcome negative feelings, explains how to deal with problems like anxiety and self-doubt, and provides helpful tips on how to gain energy, motivation and a sense of purpose. Covering everything from exercising to eating, and from stretching to sleep, Perfect Positive Thinking has all you need to feel happy and confident.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
A Perfect Planet
by Huw CordeyThere is no place like home.The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our planet - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's forces serve to nurture its spectacular biodiversity. A Perfect Planet shows in stunning detail how Earth has always been more than the sum of its parts. Unlike any other astronomical body, it is a living world.Focusing on four key natural forces - global weather systems distributing fresh water to all corners; marine currents delivering nutrients to the deepest reaches of the ocean; solar energy warming and electrifying everything it touches; and volcanic activity fertilising the earth's surface - Huw Cordey reveals to us new levels of this living world, a place populated with astonishing characters living remarkable lives. From Arctic wolves prowling moonlit landscapes or wood frogs, frozen in winter and magically thawing back to life, to flamingos flying thousands of miles to a vast volcanic lake in Africa to breed, we see time and again how animals are perfectly adapted to whatever the environment throws at them.Packed with over 250 full-colour images, and including a foreword by Alastair Fothergill and stills from the BBC series' spectacular footage, A Perfect Planet is a stunning exploration of life on Earth - life that is increasingly precious and rare.
The Perfect Pint: A Beer Lover's Handbook
by Andy HamiltonWith over 300 breweries opening in the UK every single year, why not swap 'a pint of the usual' for something more unusual? Andy Hamilton has tried hundreds, if not thousands, of pints from the avalanche of new flavours now available and has convinced commercial, craft and home brewers across Britain to share some of their top secret best recipes. - Learn how to taste - and talk - beer like the professionals.- Drink some of the finest ales made in Britain.- Find out the secrets of a perfect porter, an irresistible IPA, a super stout or that marvellous mild. An in-depth tour of beer and brewing, this is the essential companion for anyone who enjoys a decent British pint.Cheers!
The Perfect Picnic
by Hilda LeyelTake a warm summer's day, a secluded spot in the dappled shade, a blanket and a bottle of wine, friends and family, and a spread of delicious homemade food, and you have that timeless rustic idyll - the Great British picnic.Perfect picnic food is simple, elegant and delicious, based around much-loved classics. Hilda Leyel, who wrote this book in 1936, was extraordinarily before her time. She influenced generations of foodies with her wonderfully inventive recipes , where retro meets modern, such as: Egg mayonnaise on crusty bread Watercress, beetroot and nasturtium salad Chicken and leek pie Spiced plum cake and salted almondsShe championed local, seasonal ingredients like watercress and asparagus; she promoted traditional recipes from raised pies to strawberries and cream; and she set a benchmark of refinement with crab soufflé and spaghetti and truffles.
Perfect Persuasion
by Richard StoreyPerfect Persuasion is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their powers of influence. Written by Richard Storey, an expert with years of experience in the field, it explains how to identify other people's motivations, gives practical advice about dealing with resistance calmly and effectively, and takes you through every skill you need to win people over to your point of view. Whether you need to influence colleagues at work or would like to make some changes in your personal life, Perfect Persuasion has everything you need to make sure you get your point across effectively.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Personality Profiles
by Dr Helen BaronPerfect Personality Profiles is essential reading for anyone who needs to find out more about psychometric profiling. Including everything from helpful pointers on how to get ready to a thorough breakdown of the personality traits that questionnaires examine, this book walks you through every aspect of personality profiles. Whether you're a graduate looking to take the first step on the career ladder, or you're planning an all-important job change, Perfect Personality Profiles has everything you need to make sure you stand out from the competition.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect People Skills
by Andrew Floyer AclandPerfect People Skills helps you to deal with other people effectively and how to be aware of your own behaviour too. Differences of direction and motivation, personality, ethnic group, gender, class and ability can all bring problems, as well as those challenges presented by 'difficult types'. The author provides some powerful ideas for preventing people problems, resolving conflict and building harmonious homes and workplaces. The book is comprehensive and yet concise and to-the-point. It is written in simple, clear language and is designed to be of immediate, practical benefit to readers in developing better relationships at work and outside work. Chapters include advice on: Grounding, Listening, Questioning, Empathising, Speaking, Negotiating, Proposing, Counselling, Confronting and Preventing.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from finding your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Party Games
by Stephen CurtisPerfect Party Games is essential reading for anyone who has a party to plan. Whether you need some ideas to keep everyone entertained at a family get-together or you're organising a big do for your child's whole primary school class, you're bound to find inspiration in this collection of over 200 fun-filled games. With easy-to-follow instructions for everything from 'Alphabet tales' to 'Yes or no', and an indispensable guessing games section offering film, book and TV programme titles, Perfect Party Games will help provide hours of fun for everyone. The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Numerical Test Results
by Ian Newcombe Joanna MoutafiPerfect Numerical Test Results is the essential guide for anyone who wants to secure their ideal job. Written by a team from Kenexa, one of the UK's leading compilers of psychometric tests, it explains how numerical tests work, gives helpful pointers on how to get ready, and provides professionally constructed sample questions for you to try out at home. It also contains an in-depth section on online testing - the route that more and more recruiters are choosing to take. Whether you're a graduate looking to take the first step on the career ladder, or you're planning an all-important job change, Perfect Numerical Test Results has everything you need to make sure you stand out from the competition.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Numerical and Logical Test Results
by Joanna Moutafi Marianna Moutafi-Have you been asked to sit a numerical or logical reasoning test?-Do you need some help preparing for the questions you'll be asked?-Do you want to make sure you perform to the best of your abilities?Perfect Numerical and Logical Test Results is an essential guide for anyone who wants to secure their ideal job. Written by two experts in occupational and clinical psychology, it explains how numerical and logical tests work, gives helpful pointers to help you prepare for the big day, and provides professionally constructed sample questions so that you can practise at home. It also contains an in-depth section on online testing - the route that more and more recruiters are choosing to take. Whether you're a graduate looking to take the first step on the career ladder, or you're planning an all-important job change, Perfect Numerical and Logical Test Results has everything you need to make sure you stand out from the competition.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Negotiation
by Gavin KennedyThe ability to negotiate effectively is a vital skill for business and for everyday life. Whether you want to negotiate a business deal, a pay rise – or the price of a new house or car, Perfect Negotiation shows you how to get a better deal every time – and avoid costly mistakes. Perfect Negotiation tells you everything you need to know about the art of negotiation, from what it is, to how to perfect the technique for yourself. Soon you will be able to bargain yourself to success.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Money Saving
by Smita Talati- Do you find you're always strapped for cash at the end of the month?- Are you worried about paying your credit card bills?- Would you like some practical advice on how to make your money go further?Perfect Money Saving is the essential guide for anyone who wants to take control of their finances. Covering everything from home-made presents to cheaper mortgages, it gives step-by-step guidance on how to cut your costs without giving up the things you enjoy. With sections on debt management and your financial portfolio, as well as a month-by-month breakdown showing where and when to grab the best bargains, Perfect Money Saving has all you need to make the most of every penny.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Memory Training
by Dr Fiona McPhersonPerfect Memory Training is essential reading for anyone who wants to strengthen their powers of recall. Written by Dr Fiona McPherson, a psychologist with years of experience in the field, it explains how memories are created and stored, sets out a range of techniques to help you improve these processes, and provides exercises to help you track your progress. Whether you want to get better at remembering names, faces, lists or pieces of general knowledge, Perfect Memory Training has everything you need to boost your mental ability.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
The Perfect Life: The new gripping thriller you won’t be able to put down from the bestselling author of DAY OF THE ACCIDENT
by Nuala EllwoodHAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE SOMEONE ELSE?Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape.That's how it started: looking round houses she couldn't possibly afford. Harmless fun really. Until it wasn't.Because a man who lived in one of those houses is dead.And everyone thinks Vanessa killed him...______________________Praise for Nuala Ellwood'A gripping, poignant novel ... I read it in one sitting' Rosamund Lupton'A clever, twisty plot that takes psychological mind games to a new level. Nuala Ellwood has done it again!' Jane Corry'This book will take all your expectations and upend them, making you question everything you thought you knew' Emma Kavanagh'Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist! I was consumed until the final heartbreaking page' Claire Douglas'Absolutely brilliant - exciting, clever, it deserves to be a bestseller' Priscilla Masters
Perfect Letters and Emails for All Occasions
by George DavidsonPerfect Letters and Emails for All Occasions is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to get the most out of their written communication. Covering everything from advice on how to write to your MP to tips about 'netiquette' and avoiding offensive blunders, it is a one-stop-shop for anyone who wants their writing to get results. Whether you're sending a reply to a formal invitation or a covering letter for a job application, Perfect Letters and Emails for All Occasions has all you need to make sure you get your message across elegantly and effectively.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
Perfect Leader
by Andrew Leigh Michael MaynardPerfect Leader shows clearly how everybody can learn to exercise leadership. Are leaders born or made? The book is comprehensive yet concise and to the point. It is written in clear language and is designed to be of immediate, practical benefit to readers. It explains exactly what it takes to be a leader by identifying and examining the seven 'I's of leadership: Insight --Initiative --Inspiration --Involvement --Improvisation --Individuality --Implementation. Today's business methods, with their emphasis on teamwork, and on fewer layers of management, mean that there is a need for effective leaders to bring about corporate success - and in the process build themselves a satisfying career.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.
The Perfect Interview: All you need to get it right the first time
by Max EggertPerfect Interview is an invaluable guide for anyone who's applying for jobs. Written by a leading HR professional with years of experience in the field, it explains how interviews are constructed, gives practical advice about how to show yourself in your best light, and provides real-life examples to help you practise at home. Whether you're a graduate looking to take the first step on the career ladder, or you're planning an all-important job change, Perfect Interview will help you stand out from the competition.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.