Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education. His talk, 'How Schools Kill Creativity', is the most viewed in the history of TED and has been seen by millions of people all over the world. In Creative Schools he sets out his practical vision for how education can be transfo[...]

Offers a guide to discover your passions and natural aptitudes, and find the point at which the two meet. This title contains all the tools, techniques and resources you need to discover the depth of your abilities and unlock your potential.[...]

Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers, magazines, personal memoirs, and letters, Peter Cozzens' "Volume 6" brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches, encampments, skirmishes, and full-blown battles, as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside t[...]

A comprehensive Irish accountancy text for students in further and higher education. It is designed for Irish students on a first course in financial accounting at foundation level, first degree level, or the first level of a professional accountancy course.[...]

The highly successful Book-keeping and Accounts is an essential textbook for students undertaking studies of book-keeping and accounting for the first time.   It is a well recognised text used by lecturers teaching students undertaking the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Foundation an[...]

For Picasso, the artist's studio was the centre of the world, the crossroads of all that was occurring in his life and in contemporary society. His paintings of the studio range across nearly every aspect of his art, from portraits of himself, his friends, lovers and children, to commentaries on pol[...]

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought - science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, "Absence of Mind" challenges postmode[...]

"James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical interior as well as Dodington, the Graeco-Roman house that served as the[...]

Sugar Ray Robinson (19211989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my master, my idol"and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything to do with boxing. But for African Americans, he was more than a great boxer. In an era when blac[...]

From the coauthor of the #1 "New York Times, " book, "Lone Survivor, " the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of the three Navy SEALs that captured the "Butcher of Fallujah," then charged with "prisoner abuse," and their long road to justice[...]