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Alexander Hiam

Auteur van Marketing voor dummies

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Over de Auteur

Alexander Hiam teaches management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and runs a training and consulting firm

Bevat de namen: Alex Hiam, Hiam Alexander

Werken van Alexander Hiam

Marketing voor dummies (1997) 160 exemplaren
The Portable MBA in Marketing (1992) 83 exemplaren
Marketing Kit for Dummies (2000) 62 exemplaren
The Vest-Pocket CEO (1990) 47 exemplaren
Marketing for Dummies (2006) 18 exemplaren
Adventure Careers (1992) 11 exemplaren
Business Innovation for Dummies (2010) 11 exemplaren
Marketing Para Leigos (2010) 2 exemplaren
Strategic Leadership Workshop (2003) 2 exemplaren
Creativity (2005) 2 exemplaren
Innoveren voor dummies (2011) 1 exemplaar
Gestao de topo (1998) 1 exemplaar
La guia facil del marketing (1999) 1 exemplaar
MBA marketing : les concepts (1994) 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1957-08-01
Geslacht
male
Opleiding
Harvard University (1980)
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Korte biografie
Alex Hiam grew up exploring his great grandparents' mysterious mansion in Boston's Back Bay, where Silent's magical academy is located (if you know how to find it...). He returned to the Boston area to study anthropology at Harvard, and has written numerous books including Silent Lee and the Adventure of the Side Door Key. He now resides in an antique farmhouse in the little village of Putney, Vermont with his family of tween and teen readers and his wife Deirdre.

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*thanks to the author who provided me with a copy of the book via Smith Publicity*

Silent Lee and the Adventure of the Side Door Key is the first entry in author Alex Hiam's new Silent Lee series. This is a delightful novel with a spunky, resourceful, strong-willed heroine that I believe fans of Harry Potter (and in particular, Hermione Granger) will enjoy.

We meet Silent Lee in the attic of her Great Aunt Gen's house, the home where Silent Lee had grown up while her mother traveled the world. But with Great Aunt Gen's recent and unexpected death, she'd been moved out of her house and her school, the Girls' Latin Academy of Latin and Alchemy. Readers will delight in the idea that this house is special because if you left through the side door, you would find yourself 100 years in the past.

Her mother's attention feels less than motherly and things feel amiss. Silent shortly finds herself abandoned for the summer, as the cousins she was living with are gone when her mother drops her off at home. Her Aunt Gen's birdcage, which was left to her, reveals a message, and Silent must discover what really happened to her Aunt Gen - and protect the side door from mysterious government agents who want the key. Her classmate and neighbor Raahi joins her (uninvited at first) in her adventure.

Silent is an interesting character - more comfortable in the past than the present, a bit bossy, very confident and direct with adults. She is skilled at magical spells (even though she knows she is not supposed to be using them) and outwits the adults around her. Raahi makes an excellent and equally peculiar sidekick. Due to a vision problem, he wears thick glasses, but that doesn't stop him from reading and accumulating information on all sorts of things - which he tends to overshare, and he is as persistent as his new friend Silent. Both possess above-average intelligence, and possibly below-average people skills.

The plot moves quickly, thanks to short chapters. It's a fun and quick story, and I think it will play out to be an interesting series. In addition to the magic, this is a story about friendship. When it ended, I was definitely left wanting to read more of her adventures.

I mean that both figuratively and literally - because the book DID feel short. The actual story arc is pretty short, and the plot is wrapped up neatly. The first chapter of the next book in the series is included at the end as a taste of what's to come, so I could understand (to a point) why the author stopped when he did, but I really wanted this story to continue a bit longer, and I honestly wish that maybe the book had been expanded to incorporate the second book (at least.) It definitely has the potential to be more developed, particularly with the jumps to the past through the side door.

To that end, the format of the book is a bit confusing - it is thin, and while the content is completely appropriate for all middle-grade readers, my 13-year-old's initial thought was that it was meant for younger middle-grade readers, given the 130-page length. However, when we opened the book, we found a smaller-than-typical font with single-spaced pages (which may be intimidating to the younger reader.)

I am looking forward to reading more about Silent Lee, and I hope that future entries to the series have a little more meat to them. This is an excellent book for younger readers who might like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson but are intimidated by the book length. Don't let them be put off by the smaller font size. Ultimately, this was a fun read that I think children will enjoy.

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jenncaffeinated | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 4, 2021 |
Etliche Empfehlungen darin sind wirklich gut, andere hingegen nicht oder schlichtweg veraltet, zum Beispiel die zum Thema Internet und Online-Marketing. Leider wird der Laie, für den das Buch geschrieben ist, nicht immer den Unterschied erkennen.
 
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pbaumann | Sep 25, 2020 |
I don't know what the other reviews of this book are talking about.
This is a delightful, creative, middle grade, fantasy.
The characters are fun. (not necessarily relatable, but I'm twice the target audience age so...)
 
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Wanda-Gambling | 2 andere besprekingen | May 9, 2020 |
Découvrez comment:
- Elaborer un plan marketing réaliste,
- Satisfaire les attentes de vos clients
- Développer votre créactivité
 
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ACParakou | Dec 9, 2019 |

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Werken
44
Leden
550
Populariteit
#45,355
Waardering
½ 3.5
Besprekingen
6
ISBNs
101
Talen
5

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