Product Description: This book is a master-class in managing yourself and others, combining all of Adair’s thought and writing on creativity and innovation, communication and presentation skills, time management and personal development, teambuilding, motivation and leadership...read more

Product Description: Fully updated and rewritten, the new edition of The Shorter MBA, a classic best-selling book, is now available in a new user-friendly, desktop format. Most people cannot give up two years to study for a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), but the techniques that are taught for an MBA are invaluable...read more

Product Description: * This is the manual to help you realize your full potential, by putting yourself first for a change* You can be the best business you will ever get to manageMe Time is the time all of us should―but too often don’t―devote to ourselves to develop and exploit our assets, skills and character to achieve personal and financial success and balance in our life...read more

Wargaming is the simulation of accurate historical battles using miniature figures to fight over three dimensional terrain, their movement and combat being regulated by clearly defined rules. This work provides coverage of ancient and medieval wargaming. It gives description and interpretation of military developments from 3,000BC to AD1500.

Product Description: There are many books on communcation. Few writers, however, share John Adair's wide experience of management and leadership development in both business and military spheres, which adds a rarely found depth and insight to hard-edged practical techniques...read more

Product Description: Me-commerce, a mechanism for developing and exploiting assets, skills, and character to achieve personal and financial success is examined in this guide to life improvement through self-analysis and progress charting. In order to create a concrete plan to achieve goals such as taking a sabbatical, moving to the country, making a major career change, raising a family, or starting a business, various life changes essential to achieving long-term objectives are discussed...read more

Product Description: Arthurian romance flourished in medieval Germany, but the pre-eminence of Wolfram von Eschenbach has perhaps overshadowed some of his successors. This book focuses on Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois, the later thirteenth-century Arthurian romance...read more

Product Description: This book develops Adair's classic theory on Team, Task and individual and summarizes all his writing on leaders and motivation and getting the best from people. It includes sections on being motivated oneself, selecting people, target setting and reward and recognition.

Product Description: This book encapsulates all of Professor Adair's writing on how to recruit the right people for your organization, team training, generation of ideas, communication and overcoming obstacles, the key characteristics of innovators and how to organize and use them to best effect.

A unique distillation of the skills that people need to develop to be successful in business. Most people cannot give up two years to study for a Masters Business Administration, but the techniques that are taught for an MBA are invaluable.

Presents a guide to reinventing oneself to achieve success. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Interesting and persuasive... will surely influence the future critical discussion of Heinrich's poem and the medieval Arthurian cycle. ARTHURIANA Diu Crône (The Crown) is one of the most neglected of Arthurian romances, perhaps because it does not fit into the canon of orthodox Arthurian stories: it is Gawain, not Perceval or Galahad, who achieves the Grail, and Heinrich's Arthur is not a predestined, assured imperial figure but a ruler who struggles through reverses and challenges as he attempts to establish his authority, making the eventual triumph of the court and the accolade of the Grail all the more dramatic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work has a range of different topics including: the theme of friendship in Old Norse and Old English wisdom verse; cultural origin and the presentation of an English past - how Celtic a figure is King Arthur in 19th century English literature?; The Southey Circle and Scandinavian mythology and literature; German influences in "The Mill on the Floss"; and The Nibelungenlied and the Third Reich (on the ideological appropriations of the ancient Germanic legacy by the National Socialists)...read more

Product Description: This work studies the transformations of the Arthurian legend on German soil from the late medieval period up to the threshold of the Renaissance. The following works are analyzed: Wigamur, the Arthurian trilogy of Der Pleier, Parzival, Der Jüngere Titurel, Diu Crône, the Prose Lancelot, the Tristan narratives, and Der Nüwe Parzival...read more