Winner of the Longman\'s History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature, this book recreates the atmosphere of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious

Provides a dazzling array of useful tips to get the performances you want from your

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions--and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame The world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we witness political leaders and others who lack any sense of shame, even as they display carelessness

One Christmas Night by Jules Bennett They\'re in for a little holiday

For undergraduate-level courses in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Business Psychology, Personnel Psychology and Applied Psychology. Psychology and Work Today provides an invaluable foundation for anyone entering today\'s global business and industrial world. This informative, sophisticated, and entertaining text teaches students about the nature of work in modern society. By focusing on

From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness--a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether you\'re an extrovert or introvert, socially adept or socially anxious.Can you judge a book by its cover? Is a friend

\"A must-read...It reveals important truths.\"--Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer \"One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century--easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimidatingly perceptive.\"--Thomas Rid, author of Active Measures Cyber attacks are less destructive than we thought they would be--but they are more pervasive, and much harder to prevent.

Supporting Modern Teaching in Islamic Schools: Pedagogical Best Practice for Teachers advocates the revamp of the madrasah system and a review of the Islamic curriculum across Muslim countries and emphasises training needs for Islamic teachers for modern instructional practice. Islamic schools across Muslim countries face 21st-century challenges and teachers need continuing professional development

In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. \"Backgrounds and Contexts\" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe\'s prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation

For the first time, a Tantric scholar and expert in the Hindu traditions of Ayurveda and astrology presents a system of numerology that combines numerical calculations, astrological data, and an analysis of body type. He illustrates the Vedic Square and the visual patterns that can be derived from it, casting a revealing light on the more esoteric interpretations of numbers and their relationship to

Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life. After all, he doesn\'t have much time

Children need only dip into just one page of this book to pick up useful life skills - read the whole book and children will have the knowhow needed to look after themselves better andbuild awareness and resilience for the challenges that are yet to

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From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, something has gone wrong with the workings of the

A beautifully clear and accessible explanation of how to live a Taoist life--by renowned Taoist master Eva Wong Taoism isn\'t a spiritual extracurricular activity, it\'s an integral practice for living all of life to the fullest. Taoist living rests on four pillars--the public, the domestic, the private, and the spirit lives. Not only do Taoists strive to live these four aspects fully and in a balanced

No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig experts Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set up a no dig garden, including how to: - Make compost and enrich soil - Learn skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg - Harvest

A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera\'s eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi\'s L\'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen

This book examines the role of trust in public life. It seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of certain fundamental concepts in political and legal theory, such as the concepts of authority, power, social practice, the rule of law, and justice by furnishing and sharpening our concepts of trust and trustworthiness.Bringing together contributors from across the social, cognitive, historical,