Britain's leading guru looks to the future Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought His books on management
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Peter Tremayne highly acclaimed author of The Devil's Seal & Atonement of Blood returns with The Second Death a gripping new Celtic mystery featuring super-sleuth Sister Fidelma Ireland AD 671 The Great Fair of Bealtain is almost upon the fortress of Cashel & a line of painted wagons carries entertainers to mark the occasion But preparations take a deathly turn when one carriage is set alight & two corpses are found lying poisoned within As Sister Fidelma & her companion Eadulf investigate they are plunged into the menacing marshlands of Osraige
- where the bloody origin of the Abbey of Cainnech is wreaking his revenge Fidelma & Eadulf must face untold mortal danger before they can untangle the evil that strikes at the very heart of the kingdom' Tremayne's super-sleuth is a vibrant creation' Morgan Llywelyn
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Schooldays at St Clare's are never dull for twins Pat & Isabel O' Sullivan in Enid Blyton's much-loved boarding school series In book four the twins have made it to second form New girls Gladys & Mirabel have great talents for acting & music & Elsie the form's unpopular Head Girl learns to be less spiteful Expect more mischief at St Clare's! Between 1941 & 1946 Enid Blyton wrote six novels set at St Clare's This edition features the original text & is unillustrated ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Every country wanted what one man possessed… In the midst of World War 2 intelligence services from England Germany & Russia collide in a fierce fight for the mind of Nicky Raus a genius German Jewish scientist who was developing a weapon of tremendous power An American agent Frank Hossom enters the game when German agents undertake a daring operation to steal the scientist Frank has to get the scientist back
- dead or alive His mission is complicated by his developing relationship with Olga Ryabina Nicky&s lover an actress forced to work for the KGB The love triangle & the international intrigue weave into a deadly net
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No 1 bestselling memoir of Roy Keane former captain of Manchester United & Ireland
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In recent years computers have learned to diagnose diseases drive cars write clean prose & win game shows Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated & employment levels have fallen Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mc Afee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy & chart a path towards future prosperity Businesses & individuals they argue must learn to race with machines Drawing on years of research Brynjolfsson & Mc Afee identify the best strategies & policies for doing so A fundamentally optimistic book The Second Machine Age will radically alter how we think about issues of technological societal & economic progress ...

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID' Everyone who cares about freedom & justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote ' One is not born but rather becomes a woman' In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom & explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity Liberation she argues entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes & crucially in achieving economic independence Drawing on sociology anthropology & biology The Second Sex is as important & relevant today as when it was first published in 1949 ...

TRANSLATED BY HM PARSHLEYOf all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive & enduring impact It is at once a work of anthropology & sociology of biology & psychoanalysis from the pen of a writer & novelist of penetrating imaginative power THE SECOND SEX stands four decades after its first appearance as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man & womankind in our time ...

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism & philosophy An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century & its influence is still felt today The book's success owes much to Beauvoir's brilliant writing style & passion but both are rooted in the clarity of her critical thinking skills She builds a strong argument against the silent assumptions that continually demoted (and still demote) women to second place in a society dominated by men Beauvoir also demonstrates the central skills of reasoning at their best presenting a persuasive case organising her thoughts & supporting her conclusions Above all though The Second Sex is a masterclass in analysis Treating the structures of contemporary society & culture as a series of arguments that tend continuously to demote women Beauvoir is able to isolate & describe the implicit assumptions that underpin male domination Her demolition of these assumptions provides the crucial ammunition for her argument that women are in no way the second sex but are in every way the equal of men ...

Vintage Feminism classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage & scandal Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully & successfully argued De Beauvoir's belief that One is not born but rather becomes a woman' switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women & began a fight for greater equality & economic independence These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID ...