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 ...
The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn''''t count on anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights ...
The field of illustration has flourished over the last decade, with professionals working both by computer and by hand. In illustration, the single most challenging and captivating subject has been the portrait, frequently used in editorials, advertising, products, and most recently, being the subject ...
The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality returns with thought-provoking work to challenge our preconceptions about dishonesty and urge us to take an honest look at ourselves. Does the chance of getting caught affect how likely we are to cheat? How ...
The epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America''''s real secret service. ''''Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once'''' President Woodrow Wilson, 1919. The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy ...
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 ...
An extraordinary record of great photographs being captured, edited and made, reissued to mark Magnum’s 70th anniversary. This exceptional book, published here in an accessibly priced paperback format, comes out just as the shift to digital photography threatens to render the contact sheet obsolete. ...
Freewheeling Tamara de Lempicka, icon of Art DecoTamara de Lempicka (1896 1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre ...
Genuinely funny: indeed, the story will… keep you entertained for a very long time'''' Sunday Times Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of the current alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a new sound - dark, hypnotic, intense - that would influence U2, ...
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 ...
This textbook offers theoretical and practical knowledge of the finite element method. The book equips readers with the skills required to analyze engineering problems using ANSYS®, a commercially available FEA program. Revised and updated, this new edition presents the most current ANSYS® commands and ...
Whatever your programming language, whatever your platform, you probably tap into linker and loader functions all the time. But do you know how to use them to their greatest possible advantage? Only now, with the publication of "Linkers & Loaders", is there an authoritative book devoted entirely to these ...
To Save Everything, Click Here, the new book by the acclaimed author of The Net Delusion, Evgeny Morozov, is a penetrating look at the shape of society in the digital age, of the direction in which the 21st Century may take us, and of the alternate paths we can still choose. Our society is at a crossroads. ...
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, "The Looming Tower" is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES BESTSELLER GUARDIAN BESTSELLER AMAZON TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE SECRETS OF PERFECT DECISION-MAKING Have you ever.Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn''t worth it? Overpaid in an Ebay auction? Continued doing something you knew was bad for you? ...
"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was ''''not edited for the old lady in Dubuque''''. "The New Yorker" has also ...
Success is not about having power over other people -- it''s about power over yourself! In Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins, the undisputed master of the magic of mind power, tells listeners how to harness theirs. He demonstrates that your state of mind determines what you can and can''t do, that what ...
Titul je viazaný na špeciálnu objednávku, ktorú nie je možné vrátiť (platia Všeobecné obchodné podmienky)! "Keby Leni Riefenstahl neurobila nič iné, len navštívila Afriku, jej miesto v dejinách by bolo isté. " - z predslovu Kewina Brownlowa. Na začiatku šesťdesiatych rokov začala Leni Riefenstahl často ...
Due to the functions it houses, the bathroom must respond to a set of highly specific characteristics, making it one of the most complex spaces in the home. The layout options of this space are infinite and this book presents a vast selection of bathrooms chosen for their quality and originality, and ...
Tak mám tu malárii, nebo nemám? Toto je autentická zpověď z Jižního Súdánu, nejmladšího státu světa, jehož území už celá desetiletí sužují ozbrojené konflikty. Na začátku roku 2017, kdy zemi navíc zasáhla vlna kritického nedostatku potravin, se do míst, kde se až příliš daří infekčním a tropickým nemocem, ...