Marshall Cavendish Edition imprint: 285 books
Negotiating Skills for Virgins
Confidence to take on any negotiation task
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Whether you know it or not, negotiations are constantly taking place and thus form a critical part of work life. Negotiation is relevant to discussions between colleagues, people who do not know each other, in the same organisation or different ones and between people of different experience, background,...
CultureShock! Travel Safe
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
You want to go to some less-travelled country—Zambia, for example—but you don’t know what vaccinations are required, much less what health hazards may wait you there. Your friends are planning a trip to Tibet, but you’re worried about how to handle the thinner air up there. You’re travelling...
The Devil's Circle
Singapore fiction, racial tension, political, nation on the brink of chaos
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The War is over, the Union Jack flies again over the Municipal Building. Life has come full circle. Or has it? The old certainties are gone and the British are not universally welcomed to take their former place.Malaya is in ferment and the day of reckoning has come for those who fought for the Japanese,...
When There were Tigers in Singapore
A family saga of the Japanese occupation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Japan invades and captures the British colony of Singapore in 1942. All Europeans on the island are being interned. Edward Schirmer, the author’s grandfather, faces a dilemma — he is German but born as a British subject. In a strange stroke of fortune, he finds himself friends with General Tomoyuki...
Presentation Skills for Quivering Wrecks
A brilliant practical guidebook for any businessperson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book, based on a hugely successful course given to thousands of businesspeople, shows how anyone can speak with confidence to an audience of any size. Laced with humour and wit, the author emphasizes that you dont have to be a brilliant orator to be an effective speaker in business. Simply being “good” is plenty, because 95% of all business presenters are so awful!
CultureShock! San Francisco
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
CultureShock! San Francisco provides first-hand advice that will quickly help you feel at home in The City by the Bay. You will come to know the city’s eclectic and tenacious spirit, and you will understand its overpowering charm. The breathtaking Golden Gate Bridge suspended over the bay, the cable...
S.T.R.I.P.T.E.A.S.E: The Art of Corporate Warfare
The Art of Corporate Warfare studies military strategies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In the intense competition of today’s corporate world, CEOs cannot merely apply the theories of management they learnt in classrooms—unless, of course, they are content with mediocre success. No corporation can hope to succeed without proper strategies, discipline and determination—and there is...
Under Pressure
Understanding and managing the pressure and stress of work
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Everyone needs a certain level of pressure in order to achieve things at work. But when we go beyond pressure, we start to experience stress which is negative, counter-productive and potentially disastrous. Yet stress, especially at work, is a subject that is often ignored because to recognise it can...
Finding Merlin
Handbook for the human development journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As human beings, we are on a daily journey of growth and development. Encountering change has become almost the one constant in modern-day life. How you undertake this journey, and how you embrace and cope with such change, is the key to successful development and fulfilling your potential in work...
The Right Mistakes
Singapore's True story of a young boy’s journey into the murky world of secret societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
“Today I am 22 years of age. I used to be a person who was working in the complex streets of Geylang and the black market. I was a gangster in three different criminal organizations. Robbery, assault, peddling drugs, extortion…At the end of everything I have done in the underworld, I have never brought...
Secret of a Rainbow Goddess
Four hearts entangled in lust and seduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Set against the allures of West-meets-East exoticism and modern Asia, this rareadrenaline-pumped, fantasy-romance novel is satiated with memorable whirlwinds ofdesires and erotica adventures. It seizes the elements of human relationships to thesimplest assertion in life—love triumphs, always. Laura...
Wanderlust in Gay Asia
Exotic Encounters and Erotic Escapades
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Celebrated gay blogger Hans Fritschi has travelled extensively around Asia and his site is one of the leading online gay guides. In this ground-breaking book, he shares with readers his experiences of gay life in Asia. Through the eyes of his flamboyant heroine Suzy Size who is based in Thailand, Hans...
Childhood Allergies: All You Need to Know About Your Child's Allergy
A Comprehensive Guide for parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Whether you are a parent, relative, caregiver or teacher of an allergy-prone child, you know how challenging it is to keep that child safe, happy and healthy. You want to determine what is ‘safe’ and what is not, educate others about your child’s allergies, turn your home into a ‘safe haven’,...
by Dr Ng Kok Kit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Men are living longer today but many find that they do not have the energy or capability to enjoy this extra bit of life. Advancing age does not mean having to slow down because one is older. With knowledge, awareness and better care of his body, a man can extend his physical, mental and sexual capability...