The Practical Job Search Guide: Your Action Plan for Finding the Right Job in Todays World Ten Speed Press ( 15 April, 1996 ) Book Our Price : £ 12.99 Prices subject to change. we are currently unable to offer this title. It may be out of stock with the publisher or out of print. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.

Get a Head Start in getting your career ahead.

Gurney clearly has many years solid experience, from which he draws to offer a wealth of advice and opinion. Although there may be a slightly "American" flavour to the book, it is equally relevant to the future of career-oriented individuals based here in the UK. Indeed, the author has worked in The City, and is clearly an internationalist at heart. I love his description of some of the lower echelons amongst recruiment agencies as "flesh peddlars". Refreshingly honest. Excellently presented. Thoroughly researched. Definitely not to be missed if youre ambitious about progressing your career in any serious profession. An excellent career investment, a very good read, and, at Amazons prices, a true bargain. My advice? If you know whats good for your career, Go Get It!

An Essential Read

I initially found the book a slow read but, once I was used to the style, I couldnt put it down. Curtis has trawled through declassified government documents to reclaim our true history. By examining UK foreign policy from 1945 to the present day, he shows that although governments may change, in terms of our foreign policy its "business as usual". Importantly, he shows how the media justifies and supports the governments policies and its here that a Chomsky-style analysis comes in to play. For me, this was an important book because there are very few books available that expose the dirty history of the UK but many on the USA; its too easy to criticise the USA without being aware of our own complicity. As a society, we have been brought up believing in the benevolence of our country and hearing about all the good things we have done. This book is an important counter-balance and, I believe, is essential reading, not just for us Brits to see what is really going on in our name but also for those in the "developing world" who are on the receiving end of policies.

Nice effort - could do better

This book is basically Chomskys "Rogue States" written from a British perspective. Curtis criticises the British Government whereas Chomsky has a go at the US Government. The arguments are the same, the vocabulary is the same. I wonder if Curtis and Chomsky were in the same room when they wrote their respective books? With respect to the arguments themselves, Curtis (or is it Chomsky?) makes many valid points on the hypocrisy and shameful behaviour of the British and US Governments in global affairs. If you think that Britain and the US really are the good guys, that they care about human rights, that they have ethical foreign policies and are prepared to bend over backwards in responding to any humanitarian crisis - then this book may well disabuse you of such opinions, or at least make you view the actions of Britain and the US more critically. If you think that Britain and the US are really the bad guys - then reading this book will feel a little like the proverbial converted being preached at. Curtis could have laid out his arguments more clearly. At times I found him a bit too verbose; meandering through comprehensive lists of illustrative examples before finally nailing down his point. He even shoots himself in the foot when he criticises Britain and the US for rejecting all the Talibans diplomatic overtures before they began to drop bombs on Afghanistan - then in almost the next sentence he notes himself that the Talibans diplomatic offers lacked credibility. If Curtis was able to come to that conclusion, does he not think that Britain and the US were capable of arriving at the same conclusion themselves? And I wish Curtis would stop wittering on about "international law" and how Britain/the US did such and such in clear violation international law. What international law? On this planet, there may be a strong desire and aspiration for a system of international law amongst those who care for human rights. Unfortunately, there is no such system of international law currently in place that is universally accepted by all nation states, and that is universally applied and enforced without exception and without prejudice. If there were, then there would be a very long queue of individuals and nation states waiting to be indicted. If you are one of the converted, buy this book if you want to be confirmed in your conviction. If you have an open mind and are capable of reading a book without totally abandoning your critical faculties, buy this book and be challenged to re-think your assumptions. If you are not one of the converted and you dont think you will be converted, buy this book so you can know your enemys arguments.