Most Popular Books by Karen Levine

This work offers tips from successful legal professionals on how to survive on the job as a paralegal. The book discusses paralegal work issues, asking for a raise, and office politics, and gives advice on the job search, administrative responsibilities, time management, and juggling work and family.

A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana''s suitcase was sent to her.

Presents practical advice for cosmetology students from fellow students, teachers, and professionals, providing hundreds of tips arranged by topic.

“A Survival Guide for Students” is a fun-to-read collection of practical, proven tips and hints to make the life of a student easier and more productive. Based on Seven Guiding Principles, this book is an easy-to-read overview of what it takes to succeed in school. A time-keeping chart enables you to analyze how you currently use your time and what changes you can make to use time more constructively. Tips from other students help you cope with challenges and stay focused on your goals. Organized into short chapters and presented in a compact size that makes it easy to take along for browsing whenever time permits, this handy guide can be easily referred to on a daily basis.

In the fast-growing hospitality professions where staff turnover is high and competition for customer loyalty is fierce, students and professionals alike need quick access to helpful information. A Survival Guide for Hotel and Motel Professionals is a lively, easy-to-read book that is full of anecdotes and useful information for the busy student or professional. With tips from hospitality professionals on everything from organization to stress management to front of the house and back of the house challenges, this is one book busy students and professionals won''t want to be without.

From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books -- a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many beautiful houses -- to design neighborhoods in collaboration with production builders today. The Architectural Pattern Book traces the precedents of twenty-first-century manuals from the Renaissance to Georgian and Parisian urban assembly kits and colonial American pattern books. It documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design in large-scale developments by describing techniques and working methods of preparing guides for current design and construction processes, and it shows exemplars that will serve as models for contemporary designers.

PERFECT FOR NEW AND SEASONED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS, CAREGIVERS, AND GRADUATING STUDENTS ALIKE, a purposeful book of tips, reflections, and quotes, this guide is based upon anecdotal observations of educators with years of resourceful experiences to share with others in the teaching profession. Throughout the book are statements from well-known educators and early childhood developmentalists including Piaget and Montessori which give emphasis to primary goals of teaching young children. Also serving as a focus for the book are Seven Guiding Principles that are oriented towards early childhood education. These principles provide educators with unassuming appraisals for defining awareness and simplifying, and organizing their lives with respect to issues of education, time management, and relationships with children, parents, and faculty. Enjoyable to read and beautifully illustrated, this book is an inspiration to educators, and enables a sense of camaraderie between all those who seek to keep the joy of teaching young children a satisfying life experience.

A little book chock-full of simple, practical answers features 380 tips for ways to reduce the clutter, focus on what really matters, and enhance life''s everyday moments, which, after all, make up most of life.

In the fast-paced culinary arts professions where anything that can go wrong will go wrong and where the customer rules, students and professionals alike need quick access to helpful information. Four Star Tips: A Survival Guide for Restaurant Professionals is a lively, easy-to-read book that is full of anecdotes and useful information for the busy student or professional. With tips from restaurant professionals on everything from organization to stress management to owning your own restaurant, this is one book busy students and professionals won''t want to be without.

In March 2000 a suitcase arrives at the educational centre for the Holocaust in Tokyo. It belonged to an orphan called Hana Brady. Who was Hana? What happened to her? A true story about two Jewish Czech children and about what happened to them when their country was invaded by the Nazis during the Second World War.

Since it was founded in 1993, Wild Planet Toys has created a distinctive identity in the highly competitive toy industry. The firm designs and manufactures toys for boys and girls ages 4 to 11 and has earned the loyalty of parents through its commitment to fun, educational, non-violent, and non-gender-specific toys. Wild Planet recognizes that its current web site has major shortcomings and is preparing to overhaul the site. But these preparations have raised an important question. Should Wild Planet sell its products through its site? And if so, how? What will the site contain, who will it be targeted to and how will orders be fulfilled? And how will Wild Planets existing retailers react to the firm selling direct?