Tell Us: What are you doing? Improving how you communicate your academic research, relevance and expertise.Learn from the best. Communicate widely and well. Hear the practical tips, examples and candid comments from in-depth interviews with high-profile academics and journalists in Australian and international media. This easy-to-read guide will help researchers, tertiary students, academics and anyone else who wants to hone their skills to maximise the re...

More than a pretty face designed to identify a product, a logo combines powerful elements super boosted with sophisticated branding techniques. Logos spark our purchasing choice and can affect our wellbeing.Lovingly detailed, researched and honed to deliver a specific intention, a logo contains a unique dynamic that sidesteps our conscious mind. We might not know why we prefer one product over another but the logo, designed to connect the heart of the brand to our own hearts, plays...

From the clothes we wear to the cars we drive, we design our lives every minute of every day. Doing this consciously lets us create the life we desire. Successful brands know what they want, and they know how to get it. They design the future they want and create the process to reach it. At the heart of this process lies the logo. Without it, we would not recognise the brand, and we could not display our allegiance to it. The logo identifies and calls us to the brand dream. Our ancient anc...

Yorkshire 1808When 14 year old Alexandra meets Patrick, her handsome and notorious step-brother, she is confused and resentful as he shakes the foundations of everything she has ever known. Driving a wedge between Alex and her brother Simon, he tears apart the fabric of her quiet world. Yet she is intrigued by the enigmatic Patrick and finds herself increasingly drawn to him.These are the years between childhood and womanhood, during which Alex begins to realise that her gr...

What makes a global corporation give away its prized intellectual property? Why are Ivy League universities allowing anyone to take their courses for free? What drives a farmer in rural Africa to share his secrets with his competitors?A collection of hactivists, hobbyists, forum-users and maverick leaders are leading a quiet but unstoppable revolution. They are sharing everything they know, and turning knowledge into action in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Driven b...

LEARN TO CLEAR YOUR MIND AND THINK LIKE A WINNERWe all have so much going on. A million different projects, to-do lists longer than your arm. We all worry about things – money, deadlines.With all this buzzing around in our heads it’s often a nightmare trying to concentrate on one thing. What if someone could show you how to empty your mind of all the noise? If you could be shown how tode-clutter your mind and concentrate on one important thing? Well Jamie Smart, state...

Inclusive Leadership has been officially shortlisted in the 'Management Futures' category for the 2018 Management Book of the Year prize which has just been announced by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Library.The most successful organisations are those with the most diverse and engaged workforces. Studies show an 80% improvement in business performance among those with high diversity levels. When people feel included and able to r...

This book is the definitive guide to Mind Mapping. Tony Buzan has changed the lives of millions with Mind Maps, his revolutionary system of note-taking that will help you excel in every area of your life. This practical full-colour book shows how this incredible thinking tool works and how you can use it to achieve your full potential.The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps will help you:• Come up with brilliant ideas• Find inspired solutions to any problem• Create more...

Change how we organise. Change the world.There are lessons emerging all around us, in the new social movements that have swept the globe, and in the organising patterns found on social media.Could Twitter and Occupy help our NGOs, charities, trade unions and voluntary organisations to both stay relevant in the times ahead and live our values through the ways that we organise?‘Anarchists in the Boardroom’ is a journey through worker-run factories, Oc...

Discover how you can use mind mapping to get organized, improve your memory, plan your business strategy, and much more—from the original creator of this revolutionary thinking tool.For the past five decades, Tony Buzan has been at the leading edge of learning and educational research with his revolutionary Mind Map technique. With Mind Map Mastery, he has distilled these years of global research into the clearest and most powerful instructional work available on the Mind Map techn...

Develop a clear understanding of the concepts and best practices in public relationsExploring Public Relations and Management Communication, 5th Edition by Tench and Waddington is the definitive text on public relations. Blending theory with real-life applications. this book offers critical analysis with updated case studies, exercises and discussion questions that provide you with a holistic subject understanding. It also engages you with the thought proc...

ARE YOU LIVING A SUCCESSFUL LIFE?Do you have a vision?Do you enjoy your work?Are your relationships thriving?Success Intelligence examines how to enjoy real, soulful success while living in a manic, busy, and hyped-up world.Robert Holden is the creator of a unique program—called Success Intelligence—used worldwide by artists and writers, entrepreneurs and leaders, and also global companies and brands such as DOVE, the Body Shop...