Beating the 24/7
How business leaders achieve a successful work-life balance
By Winston Fletcher
658.4094 FLE
Cairo

Today’s managers and executives are cash rich but time poor. Surveys shows that up to 80% of managers exceed their contracted hours, while cases of work-related stress continue to increase at an alarming rate.

In this remarkable book Winston Fletcher presents specially-commissioned  interviews with 16 of the most accomplished businessmen and women in the UK. Each interview is an exploration of success, despite many sacrifices along the way, and gives hope to everyone that a satisfactory work-life balance can be achieved.

Digital Photographer’s Handbook
Tom Ang
775 ANG
(Life Style – Alexandria)

An updated introduction to the new and innovative world of digital photography provides a close-up look at the technology that has transformed the photographic medium; offers up-to-date information on the latest equipment, software, and accessories; and includes a comprehensive guide to technique, design, lighting, digital image manipulation, composition, and more.

Game
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (PS2)
PS2 HAR
Cairo

Order of the Phoenix follows the story of the book and the movie of the same name. After narrowly avoiding expulsion for using magic in front of a muggle, Harry finds that Hogwarts' new defence against the dark arts teacher seems to have it in for him. To make matters worse, Voldemort is threatening to rear his ugly mug again, and Harry fears that the school will be unable to defend itself. With the help of Ron and Hermione, Harry rallies the students together to form Dumbledore's Army in an effort to ready them for a fight against the dark lord.

Making Money
Terry Pratchett
F PRA
(Fiction – Alexandria)

The long awaited brand new adult Discworld novel. It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mintruns at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is . . . Making Money!

The Shapeshifter, Finding the Fox
By Ali Sparkes
JUN F SPA
Cairo

Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy until one day he changes into a fox! Before long, both a government agent and an ambitious young journalist are on his tail. The agent tells him that he is one of several children with special powers and he's been offered a place at a secret government school where he can develop, and learn to control, these powers. If Dax accepts, on no account can he tell anybody, especially not the journalist!

Dax jumps at the chance of attending the boarding school. His home life is unhappy and he would do anything to escape it. And when he gets to the school, he is amazed to find himself amongst kids with all sorts of talents, from the ability to levitate to the ability to move things using only the mind. Dax immediately feels at home, then he begins to wonder who exactly is behind the school, and what they want from the pupils there. Suddenly Dax's fox senses are on high alert

Cambridge Preliminary English Test
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
EX00/3 CAM
(Exams Support – Alexandria)

Cambridge University Press is the only official publisher of past papers from Cambridge ESOL. These official papers provide candidates with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the PET examination and to practise examination techniques. The book contains practice material for Paper 1 (Reading and Writing) and Paper 2 (Listening), along with attractive colour visual material for Paper 3, which enables students to prepare thoroughly for the paired Speaking test. The audio CD set contains the recordings for Paper 2 (Listening).

Ultimate Gi Jeans Diet
By Rosemary Conley
613.25 CON
Cairo

The Ultimate Gi Diet incorporates, and builds upon, the remarkable results and success stories of the original "Gi Jean's Diet". Rosemary takes the scientifically proven success of Glycaemic Indexing (Gi) and represents it in a straightforward format with an easy to follow A-Z of Gi foods. The book contains no calculations or complex charts, but a simple diet and maintenance plan that promise dramatic weight loss - fast! There is 70 per cent new material, with a greatly extended, easy to follow diet plan offering twice as many meal options and many more new recipes as well as menu plans for solo dieters and shift workers, tips on dining out, easy exercises to speed up weight loss and lots of no-nonsense advice and motivation from Rosemary. There are anecdotes and success stories for slimmers who have lost weight on the original Gi Jeans Diet, many of whom have reported amazing health benefits.

The Passions of Prince Charles A King in Waiting
(DVD – Alexandria)

This is the story of a young prince who did not have a happy childhood, but was locked away in old fashioned boarding schools with cold showers and strict teaching. A shy, sensitive boy who had become a diffident man, he was obliged to marry the wrong girl for what his parents insisted was the right reason – his duty to the crown. Now in middle age, Prince Charles has become his own man.