This is a gathering of Patrick Leigh Fermor s most evocative writings, culled from his books, journalism & letters, many of which are published here in paperback book form for the first time. Contained within is a collection of extraordinary anecdotes that are full of atmosphere & incident, revealing Leigh Fermor to be a congenial, cultured traveller of the highest order. The pieces are arranged in five sections. These include accounts of his journeys in India, Italy, Germany, Romania & the Caribbean, details of the curious incidents & customs that he encounters in his adopted country of Greece, descriptions of his friends, heroes & various eccentrics, a selection of reviews & critical essays & a number of more frivolous, lighthearted writings. Whether tramping across Europe, searching for Lord Byron s slippers in Missolonghi or watching dolphins diving in the Mediterranean, Leigh Fermor remains infectiously enthusiastic & insatiably curious. His passion for words & language make him a superb prose writer. A master stylist, he conveys delight readily & insight easily, making him the leading exponent of the travel writing genre & a pleasure to read. ...

Freedom, speed, possibilty, meditative space & a means to get around---the pleasures that come from riding a bike are deep, & even the casual cyclist can feel the connection that has propelled us forward as inventors, travellers & thinkers. Gathered here are the entertaining, inspiring, & philosophical thoughts about cycling from writers (and riders) including Diane Ackerman, Albert Einstein, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, Carl Sagan, Iris Murdoch, & many more, thoughtfully & playfully paired with black & white photos & illustrations depicting a history of people & bikes. ...

Wordsley in 1901 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers much of Wordsley, at the edge of the Black Country. Coverage extends from Holy Trinity church westward to Lawns Wood & the Kidderminster-Wolverhampton road. The map is a semi-rural one & the main features are at Wordsley, where they include Holy Trinity church, Wordsley House, Wordsley Flint Glass Works, Woodfield House, disused glass works, rectory, The Green, Bellevue area, Old Tack Farm. A section of the Stourbridge Canal is shown, including The Junction, & disused Dial Iron Works & Audnam Foundry. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

This journal features striking gold embellishment combined with the look of an old leather journal that has been lovingly used for at least a century. It is made from paper & thick cardboard & the back cover comes up to wrap itself on the front cover with the help of an invisible magnet, thus protecting the pages inside. It has 144 ruled pages, a memento pouch, & a grey ribbon marker. 13x 18cm. ...

Night after night, chefs & their crews are able to multi task & produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place
- the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus & self-discipline. Through interviews with top chefs working in professional kitchens all over the world, culinary students, line cooks & restaurant employees, Charnas reveals the ten major principles of mise-en-place
- including ` Arranging spaces`, ` Finishing actions` & ` Slowing Down to Speed Up`
- & demonstrates how they can be used to boost productivity in all aspects of life.


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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley & JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life`s work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father`s failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride & sense of self, his marriage & his family. Realising that he might lose them all, he uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty & happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie & their son seems back within Roscoe`s grasp. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their l&. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter &
- no longer an electrician or even a farmer
- he must now carve out a place in a violent new world. ` Gorgeously spare & brilliantly insightful, Work Like Any Other is a striking debut about love & redemption, the heavy burdens of family & guilt, & learning how to escape them.. . Virginia Reeves is a major new talent` Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of The Son ` An exceptional novel.. .I absolutely loved it` Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds ` Assured & absorbing.. .a potent mix of icy honesty & heart-wrenching tenderness` Jim Crace, author of Harvest & Being Dead

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Google receives over 1, 500, 000 unique applications for jobs every year. This book shows you why. * How to learn from your best employees
- & your worst * Why you should only hire people who are smarter than you are * Take away managers` powers over employees * & why not to trust your gut instinct ` We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It`s not right that the experience should be so demotivating & dehumanizing.` So says Laszlo Bock, visionary head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge: this insight is the heart of his brilliant first book. A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work & live, Work Rules! offers both a new philosophy of the new world of work & a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent & ensuring the brightest & best prosper. Your workplace & how you treat your employees has a huge effect on your success. In twelve vivid chapters, Bock lays out a series of surprising lessons from a range of industries
- from household names to little-known innovators. He also takes us inside one of history`s most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world. His years of experience are distilled into a series of entertaining principles that are easy to put into action, whether you`re a team of one or a team of thousands. Work Rules! shows how to strike a balance between creativity & structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do. The way we work is changing
- are you?


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Amazingly, string games are found in diverse cultures around the world. Inuit & Navajo. African & Australian. Melanesian & Polynesian. & strings didn't only appeal to children. Working with lines & ropes was a skill that went with being a sailor, cowboy, & lumberjack. Showing off skills & engaging in fun, interactive gamesmanship has been part of growing up in many cultures the world over.A spliced rope transforms into a loop. In a matter of seconds turn an object like a teacup into cat's whiskers. Show off tricks by sleight-of-h&. Learn how to work the strings. it's fun. Invent patterns & compete for speed. ...

Work Your Way around the World, written by industry expert Susan Griffith, is crammed with information & tips provided by people who are out there living their dream, already working their way around the world. The manual explains the best job opportunities in places the world over, as well as up to date red tape, work permit & visa information, & ideas & contact details for hundreds of jobs. The guide is divided into sections focussing on Europe & the rest of the World, & looks at all manner of roles, including working a passage on a cruise liner, local enterprise, working on a farm, teaching English, looking after children, conservation volunteering, temp agencies & bar work. ...

You want to travel around the world. But how can you afford such a trip? A grim spell of working overtime & denying yourself a social life is one route to being able to join a safari in Tanzania, a water sport instructor's course on the Mediterranean or a bungee jump in New Zeal&. But what if it were possible to skip this stage & head off towards the horizon sooner than that? Work Your Way Around the World is the trusted guide for the self-funded world traveller, now in its 15th edition & fully updated to explain how you can fund your trip by finding temporary work opportunities abroad
- both in advance & on the spot while travelling around the world. Work-for-keep arrangements on a New Zealand farm or Costa Rican eco-lodge will mean that you have to save far less than if you booked a long-haul package holiday to those destinations. Incorporating hundreds of first-hand accounts from people who have actually done the jobs with a mass of hard factual information to offer authoritative advice on how to find work from selling ice cream in Cape town to working as a film extra in Bangkok, Work Your Way Around the World gives information on all the main industries offering temporary work including: Tourism Teaching English Childcare Voluntary work Business Hotels & catering Pubs & Clubs Ski Holiday companies Activity holidays Farming & many more... Work Your Way Around the World also

Includes:: useful information on dates & details of harvest from Denmark to New Zealand & contains a clear, country-by-country guide to all the job opportunities to be found around the world. Work as you travel around the world to self-fund your trip of a lifetime. Working abroad is an excellent way to experience a foreign culture from the inside, but job & work opportunities abroad, like jobs at home, must be ferreted out. Work Your Way Around the World will help you do just that.


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