Size Zero (Visage Book 1)
Description
<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>"A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style."</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>
Story Behind The Book
Early in my career I reported to a bad boss and I didn't know what to do. That's a problem when you're the HR person. So I learned from the experience and after several years of coaching others, trying different methods, reading several books, and talking to experts, I was encouraged to put my ideas down into a book.
I'm very happy with the outcome. The book really dives straight into practical guidance for how to work better with a difficult and demanding boss. The reality is, clever labels outlining boss types doesn't work for most people. They need something fast and easy to apply. My book does that and everything inside comes from field-tested solutions.
I wrote it to apply to a wide audience. Employees who have to work with a bad boss of course, but for managers to understand what characteristics demonstrate Tyrant boss behavior and for HR folks to improve coaching for employee relations needs.
Reviews
"Tony Deblauwe's approach to dealing with an abrasive, domineering boss is both insightful and inspired."<br />—LAURA CRASHAW, author of Taming The Abrasive Manager <br /><br />"Tangling
with Tyrants offers hope and alternatives for people who may think
quitting is the only option for dealing with a bad boss."<br />— FOREWORD MAGAZINE <br /><br />"This
book is a terrific and practical guide to dealing with bosses, and
demonstrates a remarkable talent by Deblauwe to understand where key
elements of power are focused in the workplace."<br />— BOOKREVIEW.COM<br /><br />"Tangling
with Tyrants identifies and explains dysfunctional relationship roles,
what behaviors will adversely affect an employee, and actually changing
the relationship dynamics with enduring, practical, applicable
solutions."<br />— MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW