THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION Most new businesses fail But most of those failures are preventable The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world It is changing the way companies are built & new products are launched The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want It's about testing your vision continuously adapting & adjusting before it's too late Now is the time to think Lean ...

Winner of the coveted Gaiman Award as the No 1 translated foreign comic book series published in Japan in 2013 this story of perseverance & a young girl&s search for love has been translated from it&s original French into ten languages Author & publisher Stephen D Smith has now translated The Leaning Girl into English & it features an introduction by Karen Green Graphic Novel Librarian at Columbia University After a freak accident on the Star Express roller coaster 13 year-old Mary Von Rathen begins to lean Doctors can not help her so she is sent by her selfish mother & hen-pecked father to a private school in Sodrovni Mary escapes & joins the Robertson Circus where she remains for several years until she hears from newspaper editor Stanislas Sainclair that a scientist Axel Wappendorf might be able to help her Wappendorf is working on a rocket to reach a planet that could hold the secret to Mary&s trouble Meanwhile an artist Augustin Desombres has run away from the busy world & buys an empty building on the High Plains of Aubrac in the French countryside He begins painting murals of strange globes Now as a young woman Mary decides to join Wappendorf in the rocket On the alien planet they discover an area with many globes where she has a chance meeting with the artist Nominated for two 2015 Eisner Awards BEST US EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL & BEST PENCILERINKER
- François Schuiten About the Author Benoît Peeters was born in Paris on August 28 1956 After publishing two novels early in his career he experimented with diverse genres essay biography illustrated story photo novel film television radio theater & of course comics An Herge specialist he has written three books to date on the subject The World of Herge Herge Son of Tintin & Read Tintin He is also the author of several books on comics storyboards & biographical studies on Hitchcock Nadar Jacques Derrida & Paul Valery François Schuiten was born in Brussels on April 26 1956 into a family of architects Early in his career he created two graphic novels with Claude Renard Cymbiola & Rail Then with his brother Luc he created three graphic novels in the Hollow Grounds series Since 1980 he has worked with Benoît Peeters on The Obscure Cities series His graphic novels have been translated into a dozen languages & have received numerous international awards He has also created many illustrations posters & postage stamps across Europe In 2002 he received the prestigious lifetime achievement award from the Angouleme festival He published his first solo effort The Beauty in 2012 & designed a train museum Train World which opened in Brussels in 2015 His 2014 exhibition & accompanying book Revoir Paris has met with international praise
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Praise for The Learner-Centered Curriculum Cullen Harris & Hill provide a clear & practical framework for addressing the root of the problems of today's universities The authors provide a lucid actionable & evidence-based prescription for building an integrated learning system to replace the hodgepodge of miscellany that we have inherited They illustrate the kind of conversations & transformations that could raise the value of & change the prospects for higher education John Tagg author The Learning Paradigm College This book offers a powerful realistic & much-needed plan for changing how learning happens in higher education Anyone concerned about improving teaching & students' learning needs to read this book! Terry Doyle author Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment To help achieve the imperative to make our universities more learner-centered the authors focus on curriculum redesign & offer a solid theoretical approach combined with applied skills that institutional leaders & faculty can use to attain their goals Shared governance autonomous learning assessment technology & physical space are among the elements discussed in this excellent book that universities will need to consider when developing a new curriculum that is more learner-centered Jolene Koester president California State University Northridge Cullen Harris & Hill provide a thought-provoking resource with the compelling advantages & frameworks to create twenty-first-century student-centered knowledge-centered assessment-centered & community-centered curriculum This is a must-read for faculty & administrators committed to transforming their curriculum in order to educate better prepared graduates Deborah L Ford chancellor University of Wisconsin-Parkside This is the book that I have been looking for Written by three leaders who have done the heavy lifting of leading real change it's a book for every academic leader who understands that innovation is essential to the future of higher education Earl H Potter III president St Cloud State University ...

The Learning Rainforest is renowned educator Tom Sherrington's attempt to capture various different elements of our understanding & experience of teaching It is a celebration of great teaching
- the joy of it & the intellectual & personal rewards that teaching brings 256 pages Sherrington Tom
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Eleven years ago six five-year-olds went missing without a trace After all this time the people left behind have moved on or tried to Until today Now five of those kids are back They're sixteen & they are fine Scarlett comes home & finds a mother she barely recognises & doesn't really know who she's supposed to be either But she remembers Lucas Lucas remembers Scarlett too but they can't recall where they've been or what happened to them Neither of them remember the sixth victim Max He doesn't come back & everyone wants answers Addictive & unforgettable The Leaving seethes with rich characters tense storytelling & high stakes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An affair with a neighbour&s wife (Liv Tyler) ends badly when Gavin (Charlie Hunnam
- Sons of Anarchy) is forced onto a high rise ledge & given one hour to jump by a jealous husband (Patrick Wilson) A cop (Terrence Howard) is looking to save both their lives but will he have enough time? Actors Charlie Hunnam Terrence Howard Liv Tyler Patrick Wilson Jaqueline Fleming Christopher Gorham Maxine Greco Geraldine Singer Dean J West Jillian Batherson Tyler Humphrey Mike Pniewski & Katia Gomez Director Matthew Chapman Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)
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The Hugo & Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction ' It's a giant thought experiment that's also a cracking good read about gender' Neil Gaiman 336 pages Le Guin Ursula K ...

The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy Listen The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there & less sanctuary The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast & desolate place
- a place without joy or hope Most of its occupants were taken there as boys & for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty & violence have one singular purpose
- to serve in the name of the One True Faith In one of the Sanctuary's vast & twisting maze of corridors stands a boy He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old
- he is not sure & neither is anyone else He has long-forgotten his real name but now they call him Thomas Cale He is strange & secretive witty & charming violent & profoundly bloody-minded He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time & witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place or die His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way breathtakingly beautiful infinitely Godless & deeply corrupt But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not The Left Hand of God is a must read It is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series Praise for Paul Hoffman' This book gripped me from the first chapter & then dropped me days later dazed & grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden' Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph'A cult classic ' Daily Express


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From the author of Little Children' & now a major new TV series The Leftovers' asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? & some were left behind? Following the sudden disappearance of thousands of citizens Kevin Garvey Mapleton's new mayor wants to bring a sense of hope to his traumatised community but his family has fallen apart in the wake of disaster Kevin's wife has joined a homegrown cult & his son is a disciple of the prophet Holy Wayne Only Jill Kevin's daughter remains & she's no longer the sweet student she once was Written with a rare ability to illuminate our everyday struggles The Leftovers' is a startling novel about love connection & loss ...

Three years after 2 of the world's population abruptly disappeared without explanation The Leftovers
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