Product Description: York has been England’s second city for much of its almost 2000 years of history. This atlas, produced in the Historic Towns Trust’s large portfolio format, traces the origins and growth of the city from its foundation as a Roman legionary fortress c...read more

Product Description: Business thinking skills that really work Better creative thinking leads to brilliant decision making and successful, innovative solutions to business problems. Using the proven practical skills, techniques and advice in this book, you will learn how to think better, faster and more productively, enabling you to shape, train and inspire your thinking to deliver more effective results...read more

Describes how a migrating humpback whale mistakenly entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam sixty-four miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare.

Product Description: “Gives the nonspecialist reader a fascinatingly detailed picture. . . . Without doubt the most attractively presented study of the Vikings currently available.”―Historian Here is the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the early first millennium AD, through the incredible period of raiding, trading, and settling known as the Viking Age, to the last surviving Viking settlements in fifteenth-century Greenland...read more

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Product Description: Marketing has never been so important because business has never been so competitive.Brilliant Marketingshows you how you can devise and execute winning marketing strategies. With practical advice from start to finish, this updated new edition gives you the lowdown on what works and shows you how to carry out the most alluring marketing campaigns around, so you can attract, engage and retain customers...read more

These are real secrets. Pearls of wisdom learnt through years of experience in some of the most competitive companies around. They are the secrets that seriously successful people use to get ahead, even when times are tough. Here are ten core principles that you can use to be the very best at what you do. They're shameless crutches on which to leverage your talent, powerful ways to develop a reputation for excellence and winning strategies that will help ensure your survival in any economic climate. Very few can build a career that gives them what they deserve -- but now you can. Success can be yours, once you know the secrets. You need this book to keep sane and get ahead in business today. James Arnold-Baker - founding chairman, Doctors.net.uk and Hothouse Fiction; ex CEO Oxford University Press.

Communication and presentation is crucial in all areas of business and a key factor in whether we succeed or not. Unless you can communicate with power and clarity you simply won t progress.If you re part of the majority who do not feel comfortable presenting then worry no more, Brilliant Presentation is here to help. By following its Brilliant Five Point Check List, you will become brilliant in a world of increasingly competent presenters. Full of secrets and tips from the most accomplished and experienced presenters, this book takes you through every stage of your presentation, and integrates both content and personal presentation coaching. There's pragmatic advice for those in need of a desperate quick fix, and a presentation diary to mark your progress from a novice presenter to a brilliant one! This second edition has been updated to follow the internal and external features now found in the latest Brilliant titles and includes a new chapter on informal presentations. Written in Hall s highly engaging and compelling style, and supported by practical exercises, he ensures you have all the  know how you need to deliver a successful visual presentation. Why be an average presenter when you could be brilliant?

Product Description: With budgets being cut and competition fierce, thinking creatively in business has never been so important. Brilliant Business Creativity is an entertaining guide to one of the most important business topics today. A hands-on skills set book, you’ll discover all the techniques you need to be creative...read more

Product Description: Going beyond the science of astronomy, this study looks at the history of Venus' rare passings across the face of the sun which have affected the exploration, colonization, and science of our planet for thousands of years. In response to Venus' 2004 transit, the first in 121 years, the scientists and historians in this study look at the extraordinary impact these astronomical events have had on our culture throughout history, and look ahead to the next transit in 2012...read more

Product Description: Communication and presentation is crucial in all areas of business and a key factor in whether we succeed or not. In today's business world, we all have to present at some point or another, regardless of how much we enjoy doing it...read more

Product Description: The field of employment and industrial relations is undergoing dramatic changes in the developed world; whilst developing economies are also experiencing their own shifts in practice and policy. The chapters in this collection provide detailed and up-to-date analyses of industrial relations developments in four contrasting economies: Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Vietnam...read more

Product Description: This book provides valuable insight and critical appraisal of key areas of intelligent transport systems (ITS) for land transport in Europe. ITS is becoming increasingly important as the means to improving the efficiency, safety and comfort of the transport of people and goods while at the same time helping to minimize environmental damage and the contribution of transport to global warming...read more

Product Description: Swiss Re is one of the leading reinsurance companies in the world. This book documents its built identity by looking at its eleven buildings in six locations (Zurich, Adliswil, Rüschlikon, Munich, London, and New York). It illustrates this corporate architecture with sketches, plans, and photographs and brings it alive in interviews by Roderick Hönig with the participating architects...read more

Product Description: Staffing medieval cathedrals was always a problem. Some English cathedrals introduced monks, but almost half of them put themselves in the hands of secular priests (canons). As cathedrals became complex 'prayer factories' between the 12th and 16th centuries, the canons appointed Vicars Choral to perform liturgical functions in their stead...read more

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Product Description: Success. We all want it, but we often feel like we're not getting enough. This is the book to help you identify what success is, according to your own definition, and then guide you through the core set of skills, behaviours and attributes needed to help you achieve the success you deserve...read more