What's the best way to drive fundamental, transformative change within your organization? Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. It's called idealized design, and -- as executives in hundreds of organizations will testify -- it's one of the most powerful techniques you'[...]

Paul Addison charts the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War, bringing to the subject the personal point of view of someone who has lived through it all and seen the Britain of his youth turn into a very different country, but who in the final reckoning [...]

Corel's Painter 12 offers photographers a suite of creative tools to produce stunning painterly images. Written specifically with the photographer's needs in mind, this book takes the reader step by step through the complex tools and features of the latest version of this powerful painting software.[...]

Dial Records catered to jazz musicians and record collectors. Charlie Parker was one of the major jazz artists to record with Dial. His Dial sessions occurred at the personal depths and artistic peaks of his career during which he introduced a number of jazz staples such as "Ornithology" and "Scrapp[...]

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that's been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is someho[...]

Examines the theory and practice of teaching Art and Design. This book explores how teachers can frame their own knowledge for classroom practice. It focuses on Art and Design in the classroom and curriculum development as well as aspects of pedagogy and lesson design, evaluation and assessment.[...]

Fundamentals of the Physical Environment has established itself as a well-respected core introductory book for students of physical geography and the environmental sciences. Taking a systems approach, it demonstrates how the various factors operating at Earth's surface can and do interact, and how l[...]

For most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by[...]