Win your place at university with an outstanding UCAS application.Every year, students are rejected from their first-choice university simply because they have submitted a UCAS application that fails to make the right impression on admissions tutors.Written in association with UCAS, this annually updated guide has been helping students stay off the reject pile for over 30 years. Packed with insights from admissions tutors, it provides vital advice on how to...

The ultimate guide to securing your place at university to study business or finance.Now in its 16th edition, Getting into Business & Economics Courses is packed with detailed advice and up-to-date information to guide you through the decision-making process and help you prepare a strong university application.This practical and comprehensive book will lead you through every stage of the process, including:What to consider when choosi...

In Selling the Future**, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives.** Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. Since it was impossible for individual consum...

Your road map to a seven-figure business...in one year or lessBy cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy.This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million:The Grind (Months 0-4): This step-by-step plan will help you identify a winning product idea, targ...

This is the road map to a seven-figure business . . . in one year or lessThe word "entrepreneur" is today's favorite buzzword, and any aspiring business owner has likely encountered an overwhelming number of so-called "easy paths to success."The truth is that building a real, profitable, sustainable business requires thousands of hours of commitment, grit, and hard work. It's no wonder why more than half of new businesses close within six years of opening, ...

Your behaviors, beliefs, and habits around money are holding you back. Financial confidence is hard to come by. Believe it or not, the solution is rarely more money. For the last three decades, author Shannon Ryan (MSPFP, CFP) has had a front-row seat to the financial lives of hundreds of individuals and families. She’s learned that money is emotional—always. Our habits, cultural expectations, past experiences, disappointments, shame, and fears combine to create complicated beliefs that ho...

ReeseCooper Reeves was the boy-next-door. Every milestone, every memory of my youth was entangled with his.We were inseparable... until college.It wasn’t his friends, girls or even sports that came between us— it was me.Tired of being in the friend zone, I finally made a move. Turns out it was the wrong one.Cooper walked away to play his first year of professional football and left me behind with a broken heart.

CooperReese Latham was about to make the biggest mistake of her life.At eight-years-old, we vowed to be best friends for the rest of our lives, thinking nothing could ever change that.We were both wrong— we made mistakes, and grew apart. Until I realized living without her wasn’t an option.I was almost too late... but I wouldn’t stand by and watch her walk down the aisle to another man. She might not choose me, but I’ll spend the re...

Scarlett:Blytheville, South Carolina—have you heard of it? No? Yeah, neither had I, until today. Want to know why? It’s in the middle of nowhere, and I’ve been given the ultimatum of either living on the street in Boston or accepting a job transfer down to this blank spot on the map where people say things like: “Bless Your Heart,” “Over Yonder,” and “I reckon.” Oh, and they don’t cuss, which makes survival a bit challenging for me with my flavorful vocabulary.I’ll cut to the chase. On day...

The tag-team interview show where the celebrity guest becomes the interviewerA complete collection of the talk show with a twist - the guest each week becomes the interviewer in the following episode. Focusing on the career and passions of a figure in the entertainment world whose work they admire, each interviewer gets to delve into the life of their hero as well as revealing hidden aspects of themselves.Featuring great British comedians, award-winning act...

When a group of friends receives unexpected invitations to a dinner party, they see it as a chance to finally meet the bizarre and reclusive new neighbor whose home is enshrouded in layers of security. As the drinks are poured and dinner is served, the group begins to realize things are not what they seem. What starts out as an innocent night of fun soon becomes a seemingly calculated game filled with cryptic messages and chilling revelations. With no way out, the guests are forced to play...

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-PacificCompetition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly felt than in the Indo-Pacific region, where freedom of navigation is challenged by regional states’ continuous investments in naval power, and the renewed political will to use it to undermine its principles....