How to Beat the System: Unravel the Red Tape of

From securing the best school for your child to booking a seat in a trendy new restaurant or legitimately avoiding estate agents' fees and dodging tax bills, this book shows you how to beat the system before the system beats you. Subjects include education, health, tax and banking, travel, and houses and house-buying. Each section contains practical information, explaining the systems themselves and your rights within them using straightforward language, uncluttered by jargon, and bullet-point simplicity. It will explain the loopholes, get-outs, and short cuts, illustrated by the best and the most amusing real-life examples. Most importantly, it will unpick the bureaucratic small print to tell you what the people who run the systems often won't. Also included are all the contact numbers you'll ever need for consumer groups and complaints bodies, a comprehensive, cross-referenced index, and a guide to what to say and what to write when you do confront the system.

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The Best Loser: Finding a Way Out

Many of us will go through life following a similar path, one that quite often takes us to the same place regardless of our upbringing, background or financial status. Depression can strike at any time in our life, how we deal with it becomes a personal challenge. Some people never defeat it, the way out for them becomes clouded. What started out as one man’s simple list of ten things he liked about himself resulted in the publication of this book. At times a light hearted and sometimes funny outlook on his life before and after leaving the army, a personal self-help book that transformed his life. If you have ever considered writing a book but thought you weren’t important or interesting enough, just one of life’s losers, then this is a must read book. It’s a book any one of us could write, if only to prove that we have a story to tell.

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