The $50,000 Stove Handle and Other Perils of Home Improvements


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Gordon Pape's family's tribulations – a shower that won't stop leaking, a wine cellar that smells like a paint factory, and a stove handle that ended up costing more than $50,000 – will keep readers chuckling from start to finish.




Tony Aspler's Cellar Book


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Tony Aspler returns with a book for anyone who has fallen under the spell of the glorious grape — and dreamed of having their very own wine cellar. Tony Aspler’s Cellar Book provides guidelines for anyone, whether their regular tipple is a $15-Australian or a $100-Bordeaux, who wants to keep a supply of wines that will age with grace and flavour and be ready to consume for a mid-week dinner or a spontaneous celebration. Tony’s suggestions for general approaches to establishing a cellar, specific bottles and even themes will help you create the perfect collection — big or small. Basic techniques for evaluating the right cellar for your needs are accompanied by sidebars of cellaring experience and advice from well-known wine celebrities. Follow Tony as he builds his own cellar in his condo, while picking up tips on how to build your own.







Canadian Crime Fiction


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Home Improvement Series Volume Two


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Change Management An Introductory Overview


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Change Management - An Introductory Overview provides a practical approach to: • Explain the background to change management (including common management errors, trends, etc) • Look at the suitability of some frameworks used to handle organisational transition • Make explicit the ingredients in the framework required to achieve effective organisational transition, ie a road map to create a peak-performance, innovative, agile and robust organisation in a world of constant flux • Identify/explore some innovative and creative techniques that assist in successfully achieving organisational transition • Analyse you and your organisation’s current capability in meeting the change challenge • Anticipate and overcome the most common challenges in the organisational transition process • Address/explore the challenge of implanting the change process permanently in your organisation’s culture, such as behavioural changes • Highlight the importance of leadership, rather than management, in organisational transition • Identify the strategies available to facilitate empowerment and to reward others for follow-through on any change




Model Rules of Professional Conduct


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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.