AC Black

While we'd all like a quiet life, there are some situations that can't be ignored - a survey by Staffordshire University Business School estimated that 53% of us will be bullied at work at some point during our working life. In offices, workplace bullying is on the rise and discrimination is commonplace. Key customers are ever more...

Figures of speech are everywhere. Popstar or postman, president or paperboy, the chances are you've already used a whole heap of them today without realising it. For business writers, they're pure gold. They make our words more powerful, persuasive and poetic. They add flavour to dreary standard issue language. They help us get our message across...

Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice is a practical manual for all managers, marketers and students who need to get to grips with the powerful techniques available to skilled direct marketers. Fully updated for this new edition to reflect the impact of the Internet on marketing this book is the only comprehensive textbook written entirely by...

Three retellings of the nativity story carefully planned to lead children in Foundation Stage and Reception classes through successful impromptu musical performances - perfect for an informal end of term celebration in class or in front of the parents. Simple practice, performance, costume and artwork suggestions are all included in this complete...

The glorious and instantly accessible Threes series - Three Tapping Teddies, Three Singing Pigs, Three Rapping Rats - rocks into action again with this fine new collection of traditional stories, retold with musical developments for classroom or assembly. Aimed at children at the top end of primary, the stories are well suited to the age level, and...

Today's twenty-somethings have much less idea of how to keep track of their personal finances than previous generations. Young people have continuously been encouraged to use student loans and overdrafts without a thought for the future, but now they are increasingly realising that they need to sit up and take responsibility for their finances....