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If you can do it for someone else, why not do it for yourself?
Better communications technology and less rigid working practices allow more people to work freelance than ever before. This creates opportunities for those who; enjoy challenge and variety; need flexible working hours because of family commitments; feel stifled or overlooked in a corporate environment; are facing redundancy but still have much to offer.
Perfect Freelancing takes a practical look at:
-Getting started
-Finding clients - and keeping them
-Coping with the culture shocks
-Working from home and time management
-What to do when things go wrong
-Tax and legal considerations
-Case studies - freelancers and employers compare notes
Aaron Shapiro wants to take over the world
—— Gavin O'MalleyYou can never look upon a sale in quite the same way again. Buy Life's A Pitch and be enlightened
—— Adrian Wooldridge , The EconomistLike Malcolm Gladwell, Philip Delves Broughton is drawn to success stories where natural talent takes second place to hard work. His enthusiasm and admiration are contagious
—— Publishers WeeklyBoth inspiring and humbling, it sure as hell is a darn good read
—— Management TodayOne of the world's most interesting political philosophers
—— GuardianWhat Money Can't Buy selected by the Guardian as a literary highlight for 2012
—— GuardianAmerica's best-known contemporary political philosopher ... the most famous professor in the world right now... the man is an academic rock star [but] instead of making it all serious and formidable, Sandel makes it light and easy to grasp
—— Mitu Jayashankar , Forbes IndiaAn exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life
—— Kirkus ReviewsSandel is probably the world's most relevant living philosopher
—— Michael Fitzgerald , NewsweekMr Sandel is pointing out [a] quite profound change in society
—— Jonathan V Last , Wall Street JournalProvocative and intellectually suggestive ... amply researched and presented with exemplary clarity, [it] is weighty indeed - little less than a wake-up call to recognise our desperate need to rediscover some intelligible way of talking about humanity
—— Rowan Williams , ProspectBrilliant, easily readable, beautifully delivered and often funny ... an indispensable book
—— David Aaronovitch , TimesEntertaining and provocative
—— Diane Coyle , IndependentPoring through Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's new book ... I found myself over and over again turning pages and saying, "I had no idea." I had no idea that in the year 2000 ... "a Russian rocket emblazoned with a giant Pizza Hut logo carried advertising into outer space," or that in 2001, the British novelist Fay Weldon wrote a book commissioned by the jewelry company Bulgari ... I knew that stadiums are now named for corporations, but had no idea that now "even sliding into home is a corporate-sponsored event" ... I had no idea that in 2001 an elementary school in New Jersey became America's first public school "to sell naming rights to a corporate sponsor"
—— Thomas Friedman , New York TimesA vivid illustration ... Let's hope that What Money Can't Buy, by being so patient and so accumulative in its argument and its examples, marks a permanent shift in these debates
—— John Lanchester , GuardianIn a culture mesmerised by the market, Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason ... if we ... bring basic values into political life in the way that Sandel suggests, at least we won't be stuck with the dreary market orthodoxies that he has so elegantly demolished
—— John Gray , New StatesmanWhat Money Can't Buy is replete with examples of what money can, in fact, buy ... Sandel has a genius for showing why such changes are deeply important
—— Martin Sandbu , Financial TimesMichael Sandel ... is currently the most effective communicator of ideas in English
—— GuardianSandel, the most famous teacher of philosophy in the world, has shown that it is possible to take philosophy into the public square without insulting the public's intelligence
—— Michael Ignatieff , New Republic