Robin Sharma one of the world's top success coaches & author of the international bestseller The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' offers 10 high-impact lessons for success The Greatness Guide' is a strikingly powerful & enormously practical handbook that will inspire you to get to world class in both your personal & professional life Written by Robin Sharma one of the world's top success coaches & a man whose ideas have been embraced by celebrity CEO's leading entrepreneurs rock stars & royalty as well as by many FORTUNE 500 companies The Greatness Guide' contains a proven formula that will help you meet your highest potential & live an extraordinary life Discover The personal practices of spectacularly successful people Potent ideas to get your organisation to greatness Specific strategies to turn setbacks into opportunities Revolutionary tactics for peak performance How to attract true wealth along with real happiness Breakthrough ideas to generate excellent health & an energy explosion Tools for work-life balance & ways to experience a lot more fun ...

You don't need a big title or a business degree in order to lead with impact What you need is practical wisdom the insight judgment & strength of character that all great leaders have but that most business schools & corporate workshops don't teach The Greats on Leadership gets you there Jocelyn Davis takes you on an in-depth tour of the best leadership ideas of the past 25 centuries featuring classic authors from Plato to Winston Churchill Shakespeare to Jane Austen CG Jung to Peter Drucker & many more In a style both thought provoking & entertaining she shows how -history's great writers have always been & still are the real leadership gurus Davis spells out the behaviors that distinguish true leaders from misleaders & covers 20 specific leadership topics including Leadership Traps (Shakespeare) Change (Machiavelli) Power (Sophocles) Dilemmas (Madison Hamilton) Communication (Lincoln Pericles) Personality Types (Jung) Motivation (Frankl) Judgment (Maupassant Melville Austen Shaw) Character (Churchill Plutarch Shelley Joyce) Each chapter begins with a synopsis of a great work by the author & then draws out the key leadership insights weaving them together with business examples the best contemporary research & tools to help put it all into practice In the last two chapters Davis presents a new way to think about leadership levels framing them in terms of the impact you have rather than the title on your business card Whether you're a recent graduate or MBA searching for something more inspiring than the standard textbook a new manager looking for something deeper than the typical how-to book or an experienced executive seeking ideas to lift you to the next level this remarkably readable & practical guide will set you on the road to becoming a great leader ...

A funny read-aloud farmyard tale that teaches colours & days of the week from award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek A funny read-aloud farmyard tale that teaches colours & days of the week from award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek Goat has had enough of eating grass She wants to try something different
- the dog's food the pig's potatoes & even the farmer's pants But things go wrong in this hilarious but cautionary farmyard tale from the Kate Greenaway-Medal shortlisted illustrator described by the Washington Post as "the thinking tot's Eric Carle"
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From Dr Annie Gray presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers & The Confectioners coming summer 2017 What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar Mary on chocolate & Anne was known as ' Brandy Nan' Victoria ate all of this & more The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite both for food & indeed for life Born in May 1819 Victoria came 'as plump as a partridge' In her early years she lived on milk & bread under the Kensington system; in her old age she suffered constant indigestion yet continued to over-eat From intimate breakfasts with the King of France to romping at tea-parties with her children & from state balls to her last sip of milk her life is examined through what she ate when & with whom In the royal household Victoria was surrounded by ladies-in-waiting secretaries dressers & coachmen but below stairs there was another category of servant her cooks More fundamental & yet completely hidden they are now uncovered in their working environment for the first time Voracious & adventurous in her tastes Queen Victoria was head of state during a revolution in how we ate
- from the highest tables to the most humble Bursting with original research The Greedy Queen considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective telling the story of British food along the way
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Leo Zikos should be celebrating securing a perfectly convenient fiancee but it's left him cold Instead it's stranger Grace Donovan's impeccable beauty that fires his blood So he decides to pursue one last night of freedom But that night & the two little blue lines on the pregnancy test that follow it blows Leo's plans apart Now he must break with his fiancee & marry Grace She might resist marrying a man she barely knows but Leo will claim his legacy
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The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling romantic & unforgettable stories in all human history From Achilles rampant on the fields of Troy to the gods at sport on Mount Olympus from Icarus flying too close to the sun to the superhuman feats of Heracles Theseus & the wily Odysseus these timeless tales exert a fascination & inspiration that have endured for millennia There are few people as steeped in the Ancient World as Robin & Kathryn Waterfield & in their hands the heroism humour mystery sensuality & brutality of the Greek Myths are brought brilliantly to life ...

The definitive & comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths' Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions & began soaring towards the sun rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings Presently when Daedalus looked over his shoulder he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves below' These are the greatest stories ever told
- the labours of Hercules the voyage of the Argonauts Theseus & the minotaur Midas & his golden touch the Trojan War & Odysseus's journey home
- brought together into one epic & unforgettable story Ideal for the first time reader it can be read as a single page-turning narrative while full commentaries as well as a comprehensive index of names make it equally valuable for anyone seeking an authoritative & detailed account of the spectacular stories that make up the bedrock of Western literature The Greek Myths is a classic among classics a treasure trove of extraordinary tales & a masterful work of literature in its own right

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A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder human trafficking into Greece & about the corruption surrounding the wall's construction It is a mystery novel & a political thriller but more importantly it evokes the problems of the West incarnated in Greece isolationism fear of immigration economic collapse & corruption While dark it is also poetic & paints an indelible portrait of Athens with its mixed fragrances of eucalyptus freshly baked bread & cigarette smoke ...

They shared a night of mindless passion now he'll take her once again! Reeling from his best friend's death Greek shipping magnate Nik Latsis found oblivion in the arms of a stunning stranger Since then her innocence has haunted his dreams & now Nik knows only another taste will rid him of his burning desire But Nik will need more than seductive charm if he's to entice feisty Chloe back into his bed ...

In this philosophy classic which was first published in 1951 ER Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology Dodds asks ' Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?' Praised by reviewers as an event in modern Greek scholarship & a book which it would be difficult to over-praise The Greeks & the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series ...