Alison Weir our pre-eminent popular historian has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest most sympathetic & wronged heroine of Tudor England Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father & a ruthless mother for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes she lived a life in thrall to political machinations & lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing & essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII & the cousin of Edward VI Mary I & Elizabeth I she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty intelligence & strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics to her nine-day reign & its unbearably poignant conclusion. ...

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013. What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam & Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives & families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful reckless & troubled Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid
- & everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches Adam is torn between duty & temptation security & freedom & must make a choice that will break either one heart or many. ' Wonderful...witty...an astonishingly accomplished debut which will draw comparisons between Segal & Zadie Smith & Monica Ali' Stylist.
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' Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe & the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad a book so funny & provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World
- to Paris Milan Florence Venice Pompeii Constantinople Sebastopol Balaklava Damascus Jerusalem Nazareth & Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings & sculptures of the ' Old Masters'. He responded with wonder & amazement but also with exasperation irritation disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.
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Developed specifically for undergraduate students Innovation & Entrepreneurship is an accessible introductory text written primarily for those studying business & management but also engineering & science degrees with management courses. The book features contemporary applications such as services (public & private) innovation for sustainability social entrepreneurship innovation for development & creating & capturing value from innovation & entrepreneurship. In this second edition the authors develop an explicit process model of entrepreneurship with clearer links between innovation & entrepreneurship. The second edition also features an extensive collection of web-based materials including: tools to support innovation & entrepreneurship audio & video cases solutions manual testbank additional case studies & image archive. An accompanying website is available at: www.iande.info ...

Turn team members into innovators Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity. Every so often employees are sent to Brainstorm Island" an off-site replete with trendy lectures creative workshops & overenthusiastic facilitators. But once they return it's back to business as usual. Innovation experts Paddy Miller & Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg suggest a better approach. They recommend that leaders at all levels become "innovation architects " creating an ecosystem in which people engage in key innovation behaviors as part of their daily work. In short this book is about getting to a state of "innovation as usual " where regular employees--in jobs like finance marketing sales or operations--make innovation happen in a way that's both systemic & sustainable. Instead of organizing brainstorming sessions idea jams & off-sites that rarely result in success leaders should guide their people in what the authors call the "5 + 1 keystone behaviors" of innovation: focus connect tweak select stealthstorm (and the + 1) persist:
- Focus beats freedom Direct people to look only for ideas that matter to the business- Insight comes from the outside Urge people to connect to new worlds- First ideas are flawed Challenge people to tweak & reframe their initial ideas- Most ideas are bad ideas Guide people to select the best ideas & discard the rest- Stealthstorming rules Help people navigate the politics of innovation- Creativity is a choice Motivate everyone to persist in the five keystone behaviors Using examples from a wide range of companies such as Pfizer Index Ventures Lonza Go Travel Prehype DSM & others " Innovation as Usual" lights the way toward embedding creativity in the DNA of the workplace. So cancel that off-site. Instead read " Innovation as Usual"--and put innovation at the core of your business."
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Why do even well-educated people often understand so little about maths
- or take a perverse pride in not being a numbers person?
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A Templar in disguise. A dangerous scientist. & a killer who turns hearts to iron.. . In 14th-century Italy Mondino is a university anatomist
- a man of science in a land governed by the brutal Inquisition. But the corpse brought to Mondinos laboratory one stormy night defies natural law: The victim is a Templar knight & his heart has been transformed into a block of iron. Is it alchemy? Or the diabolical work of an ingenious killer? Aided by his headstrong student Gerardo
- a young man concealing a deadly secret identity
- Mondino must outwit both ruthless Inquisitors & vengeful Templars if hes to stop a murderer who threatens to shake the very foundations of Christendom.


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Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But its worth it in the end because once you get there you can move mountains". (Steve Jobs " Business Week" May 25 1998). To Steve Jobs Simplicity wasnt just a design principle. It was a religion & a weapon. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. Its what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011 & guides the way Apple is organized how it designs products & how it connects with customers. Its by crushing the forces of complexity that the company remains on its stellar trajectory. As a creative director Ken Segall played a key role in Apples resurrection helping to create such critical campaigns as Think Different & naming the i Mac. " Insanely Simple" is his insiders view of Jobs world. It reveals the ten elements of Simplicity that have driven Apples success
- which you can use to propel your own organization. Reading " Insanely Simple" youll be a fly on the wall inside a conference room with Steve Jobs & on the receiving end of his midnight phone calls. Youll understand how his obsession with Simplicity helped Apple perform better & faster."
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From the best-selling author of PRINCESS DIARIES comes this supernatural romance with real bite... Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper. Meena Harper is familiar with the supernatural. After all she knows how youre going to die (Not that youre going to believe her. No one ever does.) But not even Meenas precognition can prepare her for Lucien Antonescu-who she meets & then makes the mistake of falling in love with-a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side for which an ancient society of vampire hunters would prefer to see him dead. The problem is Luciens already dead. Maybe thats why hes the first guy Meenas ever met with whom she could imagine herself having a future. See while Meenas always been able to see everyone elses destiny shes never been able look into her own. Lucien seems to be everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend though he might turn out to be more of a nightmare. So now would be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future.. .if she has one. ...

This book offers an exquisite glimpse into the strange & wonderful world of insects. Right now all around you thousands of insects are doing strange & wonderful things. But you cant always see them straight away. Sometimes you have to know where to look... This wonderful book illustrated by Charlotte Voake & written by Steve Voake tells us all about the different kinds of insects hiding away in your garden & how to recognise them. Its full of glorious detail but remember
- if it doesnt have six legs its not an insect!
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