Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks 'what are the fundamental principles that should guide decision-making by local councillors and officers?' It seeks to move the agenda from 'what works?' to 'what should local gove[...]

This first aid guide to treating common ailments focuses on just 12 stones that cover a wide range of applications. The guide shows the reader how to identify the right stone for each ailment - the index lists more than 300 specific complaints, including those that occur frequently, such as: allergi[...]

Celebrity model Ines de La Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure. Ines de La Fressange Frances icon of chic shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specif[...]

This diagram is based on the newest Industrial Standard IAPWS-IF97 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Steam.[...]

No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here, fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth to the turn of twentieth centuries are reproduced in gorgeous colour, including the best of Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Seura[...]

The catalog for the exhibition of the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart presents the culture of the Inca from their beginnings in the middle of the 11th Century to the colonial period. Many of the pictured objects are to be shown in Europe for the first time and they impressively demonstrate origin, religi[...]

Isabel Alende - odna iz naibolee izvestnykh latinoamerikanskikh pisatelnits, uvenchana mnozhestvom premij i literaturnykh zvanij. Nachinaja s pervykh romanov - "Dom dukhov" i "Ljubov i Tma" i vplot do takikh knig, kak "Eva Luna", "Skazki Evy Luny", "Doch fortuny", "Portret v korichnevykh tonakh", li[...]