If you are lucky enough to find your place, you should never actually live in it, never make it your home. & never live with the man you think you cannot live without.

Le Village is a small town at the southwestern-most tip of France. Here a young Englishwoman fell in love with France, the French & one Frenchman in particular.

In her seductive, lyrical & witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes about life in Le Village, not as an expat, but as someone adopted by her neighbours as one of their own. By Stefan, the Maoist tennis fanatic, who lives off his lover in solidarity with the unemployed; by Gigi, the chic Parisian who dresses her ex-lovers' girlfriends from the stock of her exquisite boutique; & by Luc, the crumpled cowboy painter & part-time dentist, who, overcoming an aversion to blondes, takes the Englishwoman up to his remote mas, shows her his paintings & teaches her to ride.

Describing the colour & light of the landscape with lyrical intensity, & savouring the languid & sexy flavour of the Mediterranean lifestyle, Helen Stevenson lays bare a romantic but potentially disastrous love affair with the man 'who seems like the only man alive to me, the one with the halo round his head in a crowd, if I should ever see him in a crowd'. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VISITORS may start as an objective guide for tenants arriving at her village house, but it ends as a very personal revelation of how difficult it can be to transplant oneself into someone else's country, someone else's culture, someone else's heart.





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If you are lucky enough to find your place, you should never actually live in it, never make it your home. & never live with the man you think you cannot live without.

Le Village is a small town at the southwestern-most tip of France. Here a young Englishwoman fell in love with France, the French & one Frenchman in particular.

In her seductive, lyrical & witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes about life in Le Village, not as an expat, but as someone adopted by her neighbours as one of their own. By Stefan, the Maoist tennis fanatic, who lives off his lover in solidarity with the unemployed; by Gigi, the chic Parisian who dresses her ex-lovers' girlfriends from the stock of her exquisite boutique; & by Luc, the crumpled cowboy painter & part-time dentist, who, overcoming an aversion to blondes, takes the Englishwoman up to his remote mas, shows her his paintings & teaches her to ride.

Describing the colour & light of the landscape with lyrical intensity, & savouring the languid & sexy flavour of the Mediterranean lifestyle, Helen Stevenson lays bare a romantic but potentially disastrous love affair with the man 'who seems like the only man alive to me, the one with the halo round his head in a crowd, if I should ever see him in a crowd'. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VISITORS may start as an objective guide for tenants arriving at her village house, but it ends as a very personal revelation of how difficult it can be to transplant oneself into someone else's country, someone else's culture, someone else's heart.





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' No war can be conducted successfully without early & good intelligence, ' wrote Marlborough, & from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths & weaknesses, his dispositions & intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have? In this magisterial new study, which will fascinate readers of both military & more general history, the author of A History of Warfare goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about intelligence in war. From the Napoleonic Wars to the sophisticated electronic warfare of the twenty-first century, John Keegan finds linking themes which lead to a compelling conclusion. His narrative sweep is enthralling, whether portraying the dilemmas of Nelson seeking Napoleon's fleet, Stonewall Jackson in the American Civil War, Bletchley as it seeks to crack Ultra during the Battle of the Atlantic, the realities of the secret war in the Falklands or the polymorphous intelligence issues of the contemporary fight against terrorism. ...

The need for high-quality leadership in all areas of business & organizational activity has never been greater. A myriad of inter-linked factors mean that styles of leadership that were appropriate in the past are now no longer working. (These factors include new technologies, more questioning attitudes to authority, the arrival of the 'virtual organization' with its network of contributors, & the unprecedently high expectations of customers & employees.) In Intelligent Leadership, Alan Hooper & John Potter look at how changes affect people in businesses & organizations, including through specific case studies
- & propose practical ways for leaders to provide effective leadership in a quickly changing & confusing work environment. The focus is on winning hearts & minds, on leadership as an emotional & psychological commitment to the people being led, & on the idea of emotional intelligence.
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The need for high-quality leadership in all areas of business & organizational activity has never been greater. A myriad of inter-linked factors mean that styles of leadership that were appropriate in the past are now no longer working. (These factors include new technologies, more questioning attitudes to authority, the arrival of the 'virtual organization' with its network of contributors, & the unprecedently high expectations of customers & employees.) In Intelligent Leadership, Alan Hooper & John Potter look at how changes affect people in businesses & organizations, including through specific case studies
- & propose practical ways for leaders to provide effective leadership in a quickly changing & confusing work environment. The focus is on winning hearts & minds, on leadership as an emotional & psychological commitment to the people being led, & on the idea of emotional intelligence.
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