Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even ...
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? ...
''After a lifetime in business, I''ve never been able to develop a set of rules or a step-by-step formula that will guarantee success in anything, much less in a field as dynamic and changing as business. What I can do, however, is talk about how to lose. I guarantee that anyone who follows my formula ...
John Vivian tells you everything you need to know to build your own stone walls from start to finish. He covers everything from basic equipment and materials to building retaining walls, building in gates and stiles, moving boulders, and using lower-quality stone. Clear, detailed drawings show exactly ...
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world during the golden age of Arabic science, including Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern ...
This is an accessible, fascinating book that unravels the mysteries and beauty of mathematics. It covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. This paperback version of the bestselling title includes facts about scientists'''' lives and real-world applications of the theorems. Maths'''' infinite mysteries ...
In recent years, an extensive collection of drawings was discovered in Andy Warhol\''s estate. Dating from the 1950s, the artist\''s early years in New York, the drawings took as their inspiration magazine photographs and illustrations-many fromLIFE magazine-and provide further insight into Warhol\''s ...
Publikácia je určená začínajúcim prekladateľom, tlmočníkom a freelancerom v oblasti poskytovania jazykových služieb. Ponúka rady, návody a skúsenosti pre všetkých, ktorí chcú využiť svoj potenciál v oblasti jazykových služieb. Slovenský text.
Autor předkládá chemické veřejnosti příručku, obsahující komplexní soubor cca 10 000 mezinárodních chemických akronymů, symbolů a zkratek, které byly součástí komunikace pracovníků ze všech oblastí chemie a dalších, s chemií spojených podoborů. Text příručky byl sestaven z velké řady mezinárodních tištěných ...
True Provencal spirit comes alive here through photographs and evocative accounts of the best-loved of all French provinces. Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. The Greeks, the Romans, the barbarians of the North, ...
A celebration of one of the most rich and varied landscapes in Europe, here are thirty-six villages and towns from all over Tuscany chosen both for their intrinsic beauty and for the part they have played in Tuscan history. Stand at the edge of a Tuscan hill village and gaze across one of the most extraordinarily ...
Drawing on the cuisine of the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire to Henry VIII''''s break with Rome, this new treatment of a classic book explores the relationship between food, religion and the ever-widening gap between the tables of the rich and the poor. Featured is an appetizing collection ...
Wo das Gras wirklich grüner ist§Ökologische Architektur heute§Die spannendsten neuen Bauten weltweit sind heutzutage fast alle den Werten Umweltbewusstsein, Nachhaltigkeit und Energieeffizienz verpflichtet. Die Erkenntnis, dass Architektur einer der Hauptverursacher des Treibhauseffekts ist, macht diesen ...
Kniha - česky, Pevná s přebalem lesklá Výpravná obrazová kniha, kterou držíte v rukou, vás vezme na cestu kolem světa – po středověkých jádrech evropských měst, podél bazarů Orientu až k mrakodrapům moderních západních metropolí. Představuje stovku nejkrásnějších měst ze všech koutů planety, mezi nimiž ...
The essence of John Holt\''s insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of "How Children Fail" and "How Children Learn" shows how children learn to read, write, and count in their everyday life at home and how adults can ...
Before Mastery, came The 48 Laws of Power - the New York Times bestseller that started it all §Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, The 48 Laws of Power is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. In the book that People magazine ...
This book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet ...
Kniha - 256 stran, česky, Pevná s přebalem lesklá Nedobytné pevnosti, reprezentativní paláce či pohádkové zámky slavných panovníků… Všechny tyto majestátní stavby, jejichž mohutné zdi odrážejí moc těch, které kdysi chránily, v nás dodnes vyvolávají úžas a obdiv. Výpravná kniha, již držíte v rukou, nabízí ...
