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Provides tips for choosing a personal training certification, managing a business, conducting workouts with clients, and expanding the business.

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Complemented by an A-to-Z treasury of practical tips and techniques, a comprehensive guide explains how to clean every room in the house quickly, thoroughly, and efficiently. Original.

Product Description: This convention-defying follow-up to The Renegade Writer ensures that freelance journalists get the assignments they want more quickly and for better pay with the right query letter. Successful freelancers and the editors that buy their work share their advice on pitching the perfect story with real examples that earned great assignments from major magazines...read more

Discusses how people told time before clocks, how present-day clocks and calendars were invented, and how to make simple timekeeping devices at home.

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