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Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Any first job is a thrill. It provides a sense of worth, not to mention the pay. A first job presents an opportunity to "get smart" with money, helping young workers to see exactly how money comes and goes. Good money management involves learning how to prepare a budget, how to spend wisely, how to save and invest for the future, how to satisfy the laws, and how to help improve society. This compelling book gives readers a solid foundation in first...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
80 pages.
Language
English
Description
In today's high-tech, fast-paced world, the job market is incredibly competitive. Searching for even part-time summer work, much less the perfect job, can be time-consuming and challenging. Fortunately, this title has readers covered, with practical tips for honing in-person networking skills and using a variety of reputable online resources to find the positions most suited for their passions and skills. They'll also learn how to craft superstar...
7) The rope
Author
Series
Anna Pigeon volume 17
Language
English
Description
The story of Anna Pigeon's past traces her 1995 relocation from New York City and first days as a Glen Canyon park ranger, a new start that is shattered by her abduction and imprisonment in the bottom of a dry well without supplies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.
10) Lawn boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Things get out of hand when a stockbroker neighbor convinces a twelve-year-old boy to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. With Social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen,"...
13) Distortion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Juliet Cole's husband of 15 years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning, then returns home to break the tragic news to her boys. But a threatening voicemail takes this from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack.
14) The wage gap
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the issue of gender gap from the viewpoints of whether it is due to discrimination between men and women, whether a wage gap between rich and poor is harmful, and whether a wage gap among races is problematic for society.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Temp tells the story of the unmaking of American work through the experiences of those inside: consultants and executives, and the temporary (and often invisible) data processors, line workers, and migrant laborers. Drawing on the archives of companies such as Apple, HP, McKinsey & Company, and Manpower, Hyman shows how these firms helped corporations trade long-term stability for short-term profits.
Publisher
Bernan Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
2021-2031 edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 1279 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes different occupations and provides information on the required skills, training, education, working conditions, salaries, licenses, certification, and registrations needed.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 246 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Chris Crisman pairs his award-winning, striking portrait photography of women on the job with poignant, powerful interviews of his subjects: women who have carved out unique places for themselves in a workforce often dominated by men, and often dominated by men who have told them "no."
Author
Language
English
Description
"Before there was 'tourism' or 'leisure time;' before souvenir ashtrays became 'camp' and 'kitsch;' before Goofy Golf became an 'attraction' and today's colossal theme parks could even be imagined, there was 'Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks -- Family Vacationland,' where to this day the ashtrays remain devoid of irony. It was here, at Arrowhead Lodge at Lake of the Ozarks, where Bill Geist spent his summers between high school and college working at...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the Promised Land challenges the reader to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King's legacy and move toward his vision of "the Promised Land" in our own time.