The secret of extreme wealth creationThe Outsider's Edge reveals the one common denominator the world's richest self-made people share. Studying the lives of 17 world-famous billionaires, author and researcher Brent Taylor discovered that their one shared experience is that of the outsider. From Bil[...]
This is a beautiful treasury of 125 of the most familiar Bible texts from Old and New Testaments retold simply for the very young.[...]
The BMW '02 series of cars, which includes the 1602, 1802, and 2002, was one of the most successful series ever produced by the Bavarian manufacturer, with more than 800,000 examples built. A surprising number of these are still on the road, as the little Bimmer has proven itself a reliable as well [...]
Anyone who loves creating ceramics knows that glazing can be a labor of great love or the bane of the entire ceramic process. In the instructional and inspirational "Glaze," potters will find a wealth of guidance on the glazing process as several of today's leading ceramicists share the recipes and [...]
MercedesBenz 770K Grosser Parade Car. This book is the first ever illustrated study devoted exclusively to the famous Mercedes 770K parade car used by Hitler during most of the 1930s, and into the 1940s, both in peace and war. Culled from the rich photo archives of Daimler-Benz and the Hermann Gorin[...]
Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and a careful analysis of her writ[...]
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our ageThe Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be heard and all can participate equally. But how true is this[...]
This book argues that Vladimir Putin's strategy for rebuilding the Russian state was fundamentally flawed.[...]
This book is written for human resource, organization development, and training professionals who need real-world best practices that show who actual workplace learning approaches work and how they can be applied.[...]
"Taylor is the Marshall McLuhan or the Neil Postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we need to answer together . . . If "The People's Platform" doesn't spark the conversation about the kind of democracy and culture we deserve, then we'll deserve the one we get."[...]
It's one of the hidden secrets of woodworking, an essential technique, and doesn't require expensive machinery or exotic hand tools: wood bending. By applying the proven methods in this fantastic guide--written by one of the world's acknowledged experts--woodworkers of all skill levels can try their[...]
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level maerial for younger learners. This reader is based on the 2011 movie The Adventures of Tintin about Tintin, Snowy and their search for the hidden treasure. Tintin's Daring E[...]