Why do some artworks stand out head & shoulders above others? Exceptional art somehow satisfies at a deeper level than the rest. What Makes Great Art showcases a selection of 80 outstanding paintings & sculptures from around the world & throughout time assessing just what it is that makes them so great. Some owe their greatness to composition of colour others offer profound insights into their human subjects & some convey their message particularly effectively. Andy Prankhursts succinct appraisive text will open your eyes to the unique defining qualities of these key works enabling you to appreciate the groundbreaking talents of every age. ...

Why are some photographs so much more effective & powerful than others? What Makes Great Photography showcases 80 outstanding photographs from the first daguerrotypes to todays digital masterpieces & by photographers as diverse as Alfred Stieglitz Diane Arbus Ernst Haas & Don Mc Cullin. Val Williams highlights the elements of each photograph that distinguishes it from its peers such as composition colour texture & fidelity to subject explaining just what it is that makes it so great. Her insightful text will open your eyes to the defining qualities of the key photographs of every period & genre from portraiture to landscape & from photojournalism to the nude. ...

Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other & why? What are the right & wrong ways to propose marriage? & which important Austen characters never speak? In What Matters in Austen John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austens brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks & intricacies of her fiction
- by asking & answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels he reveals their devilish cleverness. In twenty-one short chapters each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austens novels Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of the fiction. So the reader will discover when people had their meals & what shops they went to how they addressed each other who was allowed to write letters to whom who owned coaches or pianos how vicars got good livings & how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Austen explores the rituals & conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity & sheer daring as a novelist. Though not a book about Jane Austens life it uses biographical detail & telling passages from her letters to explain episodes in her novels; readers will find out for example what novels she read or how much money she had to live on or what she saw at the theatre. Inspired by an enthusiastic readers curiosity written with flair & based on a lifetimes study What Matters in Austen will appeal to all those who love & enjoy Jane Austens work.
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What are the right & wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other & why? & which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short chapters each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austens novels John Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of Austens fiction. Inspired by an enthusiastic readers curiosity based on a lifetimes study & written with flair & insight What Matters in Jane Austen? uncovers the hidden truth about an extraordinary fictional world. ...

This is not a book about one thing. Its not a 250-page dissertation on leadership teams or motivation. Instead its an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes relentless change & ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. Its not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead its an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it-to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism organizational life & the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is the norm. Wherever one looks one sees the exceptional & the extraordinary: Business newspapers decrying the state of capitalism. Once-innovative companies struggling to save off senescence. Next gen employees shunning blue chips for social start-ups. Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in the blogosphere. Entry barriers tumbling in what were once oligopolistic strongholds. Hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevant overnight. Newbie organizations crowdsourcing their most creative work. National governments lurching towards bankruptcy. Investors angrily confronting greedy CEOs & complacent boards. Newly omnipotent customers eagerly wielding their power. Social media dramatically transforming the way human beings connect learn & collaborate. Obviously there are lots of things that matter now. But in a world of fractured certainties & battered trust some things matter more than others. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless; leadership bandwidth isnt. Thats why you have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issues are that are paramount: values innovation adaptability passion & ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda for leaders everywhere who are eager to...move from defense to offense reverse the tide of commoditization defeat bureaucracy astonish their customers foster extraordinary contribution capture the moral high ground outrun change build a company thats truly fit for the future Concise & to the point the book will inspire you to rethink your business your company & how you lead. ...

What Money Can't Buy" is the Top Ten " Sunday Times" Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher' Michael Sandel. Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons or selling citizenship? In recent decades market values have impinged on almost every aspect of life
- medicine education government law even family life. We have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In " What Money Can't Buy" Michael Sandel asks: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? & how do we protect the things that really matter? " Brilliant easily readable beautifully delivered & often funny.. .an indispensable book". (David Aaronovitch " The Times"). " In a culture mesmerised by the market Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason". (John Gray " New Statesman"). " Provocative & intellectually suggestive.. .little less than a wake-up call". (Rowan Williams " Prospect"). "A star philosopher.. .entertaining & provocative". (Diane Coyle " Independent"). " Let's hope that " What Money Can't Buy" by being so patient & accumulative in its argument & examples marks a permanent shift in these debates". (John Lanchester " Guardian"). Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His legendary ' Justice' course is the first Harvard course made freely available online & on television. His work has been translated into 15 languages & been the subject of television series in the U.K. the U.S. Japan South Korea Sweden & the Middle East. He has delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford & been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne Paris. In 2010 " China Newsweek" named him the "most influential foreign figure of the year in China". Sandel was the 2009 BBC Reith Lecturer & his most recent book " Justice" is an international bestseller."
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Have you ever spent all day looking after your baby or young child
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What Next After School?" has established itself as a key guide for helping students to understand the many options available to them as they approach the end of their school years including education options (academic as well as vocational training) gap years the world of work & practical issues such as finances debts & insurance. This new 10th edition also

Includes:: case studies illustrating how other students have adapted to life after school as well as detailed information on making the most of the decisions facing all school leavers."

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In WHAT NOT TO WEAR we established the rules for dressing to suit your body shape. While you now know which skirt to avoid & which dress length to wear many women say they still dont know what to wear to certain occasions
- a job interview a hot date a wedding a school function going on from work or just running around. This book is occasion led. It brings together those other elements that will give you total confidence to attend any event work in any environment go anywhere on holiday & feel totally appropriately dressed FOR YOU. Whether you want your look to be casual trendy or smart Susannah & Trinny will show you how to sally forth with style & confidence.
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In What on Earth Happened? Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day taking giant narrative leaps across millennia & continents. Along the way he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella how the Earth's collision with another young planet created the moon how dragonflies the size of seagulls emerged out of the prehistoric waters & how the Big Bang can be detected in your television. Accessible & endlessly entertaining this massive book draws on disciplines as wide-ranging as astrophysics & anthropology & will appeal to experts amateur enthusiasts & the simply curious alike. Completed by 250 colourful photographs maps historic paintings engravings & specially commissioned illustrations What on Earth Happened? takes an entertaining & informed sideways look at the last 13.7 billion years in the life of our universe. Do you know What on Earth Happened? Test your knowledge of the earth in a five minute quiz at www.whatonearthhappened.com ...