The fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling THE WHITE GIRAFFE series 192 pages St John Lauren ...

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch Larry Bossidy or Michael Dell read their autobiographical advice books right? Wrong says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind Though following best practice can help in some ways it also poses a danger By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results Why? Your situation is different Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do we need to understand & emulate how they think Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new & superior ones Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble Meg Whitman of e Bay Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health & Nandan Nilekani of Infosys Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing & synthesizing by asking probing questions including What are the causal relationships at work here? & What are the implied trade-offs? Martin also presents a model for strengthening your integrative thinking skills by drawing on different kinds of knowledge including conceptual & experiential knowledge Integrative thinking can be learned & The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill ...

A generation-defining collection published posthumously Her voice is relevant sharp fresh unfiltered & poetic with a dry wit You can dive in & out of her questioning & her musings & meanderings So much promise' Jenna Coleman star of Doctor Who & Victoria Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012 She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival & a job waiting for her at the New Yorker Tragically five days after graduation Marina died in a car crash As her family friends & classmates deep in grief joined to create a memorial service for Marina her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News ' The Opposite of Loneliness' went viral receiving more than 14 million hits She had struck a chord Even though she was just 22 when she died Marina left behind a rich expansive trove of prose that like her title essay captures the hope uncertainty & possibility of her generation The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays & stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be & how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world ...

' Poetically written absorbing harrowing' The Times' The raw & emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told' Fiona Wilson The Times' An important book I cried all the way through' Tracy Chevalier From an award-winning BBC journalist this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship & the awakening of courage & conscience'I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that terrible noise I hardly want to You won't understand because you weren't there You can't understand You see I thought I'd heard seagulls screeching Seagulls fighting over a lucky catch Birds Just birds' Emma-Jane Kirby has reported extensively on the reality of mass migration today In The Optician of Lampedusa she brings to life the moving testimony of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission ...

In The Optickal Illusion Rachel Halliburton's meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy Her debut novel questions the lengths women must go to make their mark on a society that seeks to underplay their abilities
- a theme only too relevant today It is three years from the dawn of a new century & in London nothing is certain any more the future of the monarchy is in question the city is aflame with right & left-wing conspiracies & the French could invade any day Against this feverish atmosphere the American painter Benjamin West is visited by a strange father & daughter the Provises who claim they have a secret that has obsessed painters for centuries the Venetian techniques of master painter Titian West was once the most celebrated painter in London but hasn't produced anything of note in years so against his better judgment he agrees to let the intriguing Ann Jemima Provis visit his studio & demonstrate what she knows What unravels reveals more than he has ever understood
- about himself about the treachery of the art world & the seductive promise of genius The nature of truth itself is called into question in this story of envy lust & corruption

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What if Spirit God Quantum Fred the Dude or whatever name you choose to call the big Intelligence that breathes life throughout the cosmos could talk to you? This 52-card deck with accompanying guidebook will not only show you how to create your own reality but also keep you on track while doing it 80 pages Grout Pam ...

Really good Highly recommended Andrew Marr Radio 4 Start the Week From the author of the internationally bestselling The 12 Million Stuffed Shark comes a fresh & provocative look at the high-end art market & whether it is a bubble about to burst Within forty-eight hours in the autumn of 2014 buyers in the Sotheby's & Christie's New York auction houses spent 17 billion on contemporary art Economist & bestselling author Don Thompson cites this & other fascinating examples to explore the sometimes baffling activities of the high-end contemporary art market examining what is at play in the exchange of vast amounts of money & what nudges buyers even on the subconscious level to imbue a creation with such high commercial value Thompson analyses the behaviours of buyers & sellers & delves into the competitions that define & alter the value of art in today's international market from New York to London Singapore to Beijing Take heed if your fortunes are tied up in stainless steel balloon dogs
- Thompson also warns of a looming bust of the contemporary art price balloon A fascinating explanation through the field of behavioural economics for the phenomena that is behind the incredible value of contemporary art
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From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist' My father died eleven years ago I was only four then I never thought I'd hear from him again but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Roed his father is no more than a shadow a distant memory But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair The pages are a letter to Georg written just before his father died & a story ' The Orange Girl' But ' The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story
- it is a riddle from the past & centres around an incident in his father's youth One day he boarded a tram & was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges Suddenly the tram gave a jolt & he stumbled forward sending the oranges flying in all directions The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges Now from beyond the grave he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity
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