"Globetrotter's The Best of Series" provides an attractive, handy pocket guide to popular destinations. The book features well-presented, to-the-point sections on the highlights of the city, places of interest, activities, accommodation, where to eat out, entertainment and excursions. It also featur[...]
American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. She sold forty million albums and twenty million singles with the group, and more than four million solo albums and eighteen million solo singles.[...]
How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rat[...]
Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shock[...]
Brutal murders linked to an ancient betrayal send late 17th-century Tokyo into a panic. The victims are descendants of warriors who, more than a century earlier, were involved in the murder of a powerful warlord. As the killings continue, special investigator Sano Ichiro suspects three of the most p[...]
If life is meaningless as Sartre suggests, what is the point of being born? What does Freud have to say about losing one's virginity or Nietzsche about having a mid-life crisis? Drawing on philosophy, art, literature and psychology, this book explores the real meaning of the hoops we all have to jum[...]
The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes "Travel Guides", "Travel Maps", "Road Atlases", "Best Of Pocket Guides" and "In Your Pocket Language Guides", presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softc[...]
This exciting guide aims to inspire and help travellers to plan and enjoy tours in Costa Rica's finest wildlife reserves. In addition to offering advice on planning your trip and discussing available options as well as park etiquette, the guide offers an overview of Costa Rica's natural environment [...]
The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel Series", which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best Of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover versi[...]
A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since his return from exile.[...]
Amid the political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting, complex investigation. Twenty months spent as the shogun's most honourable investigator of events, situations and people have left Sano weary. He looks forward to the comforts of his arranged marriage and month's holiday to cele[...]
Ramming earth has been a method of construction for centuries in many parts of the world and the technique can produce buildings that are strong, durable, safe and desirable. Because earth is an abundant and cheap resource, rammed earth buildings are often very economical. To achieve the best result[...]
Hymac (The Hydraulic Machinery Company) manufactured hydraulic excavators from the early 1960s - indeed, for a period on British construction sites, Hymac was a generic name for excavators in much the same way that JCB stands for backhoe loaders today. This is the first book to deal with the compa[...]
Published in partnership with the National Education Trust, this book provides essential information and advice to help schools make best use of the Pupil Premium grant and improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners. The author visited more than 100 schools over two years and here he shares example[...]
Diana: Warrior Princess is a modern-day role playing game with a difference. Imagine our world, as seen by someone as remote from us as we are from the ancient Greeks, and with as many gaps in their knowledge. Then imagine it converted into a TV series by a production company showing the loving atte[...]
C G Jung in the Humanities offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the significance of Swiss psychiatrist C G Jung's work to the humanities. By penetrating the secrets of the creative psyche and exploring how the individual fits into the social and psychological collective, Jung's work[...]
Denne boka handler om en type behandling som fungerer for unge mennesker med alvorlige atferdsvansker og deres familier, nemlig multisystemisk terapi (MST).Hver dag ber familier om hjelp og behandling til barn og unge med atferdsvansker, og hver dag forsøker terapeuter å gi den etterlengtede hjelp[...]