Modern executive chair with a mesh backrest for optimum styling & comfort.

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Create unique kids clothing without breaking the budget. These trendy designs bring the beautiful art of smocking into your child's wardrobe with garments that are modern & practical. This unique collection shows you how to: add small accents
- a smocked pocket on pyjamas or picture smocked patches on a boy's denim shorts; create an eye catching smocked waist band on a pretty skirt or a gorgeous bodice for a drop waist dress; add trendy embellishments to tops for fashion conscious pre-teens; & make cute baby outfits. The ten original designs come with multi-sized patterns & complete instructions for smocking & constructing the garments. Step-by-step photographs demonstrate the various smocking techniques for the beginner from simple embroidery & smocking stitches to picture smocking.
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How often have you wished that you could create a little corner of the Mediterranean in your own garden? How often have you wished that you could eliminate the strenuous & time-consuming chore of watering the garden? How often have you though about growing Mediterranean plants but feared they could not survive in a cooler less hospitable climate? By following the advice in this book you can do all these things & more. You can create a truly beautiful garden using exciting & exotic plants yet at the same time eliminate the need for extra water & reduce the maintenance required. Fully illustrated throughout with scores of photographs & the authors own meticulous drawings of plants this book offers inspiration to anyone wishing to incorporate a dash of Mediterranean style into their garden. ...

Written for advanced undergraduate students postgraduate students planning theses & dissertations & other early career researchers Designing & Managing Your Research Project" helps you successfully plan & complete your research project by showing the key skills that you will need. The book covers: choosing research methods; developing research objectives; writing proposals; literature reviews; getting ethics approval; seeking funding; managing a project; software skills; working with colleagues & supervisors; communicating research findings; writing reports theses & journal articles; & careers in research. " Designing & Managing Your Research Project"

Includes:: lots of examples case studies & practical exercises to help you learn the research skills you will need & also to help you complete crucial project tasks. A key feature is its user-friendly guidance on planning projects & accessing information from the Internet."

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Beds & borders provide the framework for a garden but it can be a daunting task to design & plant them. This book provides exciting planting ideas & schemes for borders that are full of shrubs & perennials & burst with colour & vitality throughout the year. Written by a respected garden designer it

Includes:: diagrams for gardens & plant profiles so you can match the plant you need to the look you want.

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Winner of the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 2002 Goold & Campbell leading thinkers on corporate-level strategy have turned their attention to corporate-level organization design. They bring a rigor to this topic that will help managers wrestling with multiple reporting

Dimensions decentralization & cross-unit co-ordination.
- Professor Gary Hamel London Business School. Author of Competing for the Future & Leading the Revolution". Campbell & Goold are renowned for discovering entirely new & useful

Dimensions to seemingly familiar business issues. This book is another shining example. It allows executives to replace politics & personality as the rationales for an organizational design with clear effective logic & experience.
- Thomas H. Davenport Director Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Author of " Process Innovation & Working Knowledge". A "must read" for managers & consultants. Redesigning the organization is the most powerful & fastest means for aligning decisions & behavior with strategic objectives. Goold & Campbell provide the best & most comprehensive framework for developing & testing the validity of an organizational structure I have seen in recent years. Based on years of research & experience they offer clear principles & a process to guide managers in the many design decisions & trade-offs involved in developing a more effective organization. Professor Michael Beer Harvard Business School. Author of " The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal". Books on organization design tend to fall into one of two categories: those that provide interesting concepts but not help on how to implement them & those that are full of check lists on implementation based on sterile & over-simplified ideas. Michael Goold & Andrew Campbell have written perhaps the finest example of an exception I have ever seen
- a very practical book with detailed guidelines on implementation yet based on a rich & sophisticated understanding of the real challenges of organization design. It will be of immense use to all careful readers.
- Professor Sumantra Ghoshal London Business School. Author of " The Individualized Corporation & Managing Across Borders". As companies search for all sources of competitive advantage many are discovering that the ability to organize & execute complex strategies is an important one. Campbell & Goold have again provided us with a good process through which leaders can give organizing its deserved focus.
- Professor Jay Galbraith author of " Designing the Global Corporation". Campbell & Goold bring much needed clarity & precision to the language of organizational design & show how this can help managers avoid the misunderstandings & differing interpretations that frequently undermine new organization structures.
- Paul Coombes Director Organization Practice Area Mc Kinsey Company. Organization change is close to the top of many companies agendas. Goold & Campbells book equips you with ideas & frameworks to take on the journey. The real-world examples help make it both pragmatic & readable.
- Steve Russell Chief Executive The Boots Company plc. An impressive work. The taxonomy of organizational units & organigram symbols will be especially useful to managers working on structures.
- Philip Sadler Patron The Centre for Tomorrows Company. Author of The Seamless Organization. Incredibly relevant in helping to pull together a complicated structure based around the

Dimensions of channels products customers & geography
- immensely clear & valuable.
- David Roberts Chief Executive Personal Financial Services Barclays plc. A welcome breakthrough in designing more effective corporate organization structures. The nine design tests of Goold & Campbell are a valuable addition to an otherwise sparse toolkit. Jim Haymaker Vice President Strategy Business Development Cargill Inc. Winner of the Igor Ansoff"















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The first part of this book explores Arabella Lennox-Boyds philosophy & establishes the principles of her approach to design: the importance of relating the garden not only to the landscape but also to the spirit of the house & the individuality of the owner; how to establish the bare bones of a design
- enclosing garden rooms & opening up garden space; how to use vertical structures to best effect; & how to clothe bare bones with plants appropriate to the type of garden. Design ideas for everything from paving & pergolas to perennial plantings burst from every page captured in Andrew Lawsons atmospheric images & Lennox-Boyds plans. The second part of the book looks in detail at more than 20 very different gardens many these are private & never photographed before.
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Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social & Ecological Concerns" provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social & natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal & metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size & isolation limits their recreational capacity & makes them ecologically less valuable than large city & county parks. This manual is arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions contradictions or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks natural systems & human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design." ...

Sound is just as crucial an aspect to your animation as your visuals. Whether you're looking to create a score ambient noise dialog or a complete soundtrack you'll need sound for your piece. This nuts-&-bolts guide to sound design for animation will explain to you the theory & workings behind sound for image & provide an overview of the stems & production path to help you create your soundtrack. Follow the sound design process along animated shorts & learn how to use the tools & techniques of the trade. Enhance your piece & learn how to design sound for animation. ...

Ornamental grasses are the ultimate success story as garden plants & tick all the boxes for today's gardeners. As well as providing a glorious visual impact with their swaying stems & feathery seedheads they also provide a dynamic sense of movement & calming background rustle as the wind catches their leaves. On top of all this they are easy to care for provide excellent wildlife habitats & are truly sustainable if you plant the right one in the right place. ...