The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book Kline describes how we can achieve this & presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings solve business problems or build stronger relationships this book offers you a new world of possibilities. ...

Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine they are investigating whether it is possible under the laws of physics. In Newtons three-dimensional world this would have been inconceivable. But with Einsteins theory of relativity a fourth dimension time enters the frame. Is it really inconceivable that we can travel along the timeline? In this book Richard Gott offers an intellectually expansive witty & engaging study of the viability of time travel which takes us from the dream of time travel itself in H. G. Wellss path-breaking novel THE TIME MACHINE to cutting-edge research into astrophysics & quantum teleportation. He explores the scientific social & moral implications of time travel & looks at recent remarkable experiments in which fundamental particles were actually sent into the future. ...

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare & Henry who met when Clare was six & Henry was thirty-six & were married when Clare was twenty-two & Henry thirty. Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets & he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry & Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving & entirely unforgettable. ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see & hear & smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? & how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Travellers Guide... Ian Mortimers radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived whether thats the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative as entertaining as it is startling. ...

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ' Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Richard Grenville & Sir Francis Drake & of great writers such as Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson & William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past & walk the streets of London in the 1590s where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? & if so how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants diseases violence sexism & famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England the Elizabethan" world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries & winning military victories & yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties people still starve to death & Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language & some of the most magnificent architecture & sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America & circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world." ...

Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology
- a world where dark & dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare
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Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology
- a world where dark & dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare
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The grassroots movement that started Sept. 17 2011 with a protest in a park near Wall Street has mushroomed into a series of demonstrations in hundreds of cities around the world. In a year of protests from the Middle East to Madison Wis. the Occupy uprising a passionate outcry for economic justice has been defined by its lack of definition. Now from TIME comes an illuminating collection of stories that answers many of the key questions about Occupy: How did it get started? What's behind the anger of the so-called 99% this group claims to represent? Who leads this leaderless movement? What should its agenda be? How can it transcend the occupation of tiny Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan? What Is Occupy? "
Includes: chapters from the pages of TIME by columnists like Joe Klein & Rana Foroohar as well as new chapters original to the book plus the results of exclusive TIME polls. "
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Zig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools & Tudor theatre primal wildwood & mass-produced cars TIMES ANVIL is a book like no other. Richard Morris brilliantly weaves a series of interconnecting studies of apparently unrelated things & periods that are normally considered in isolation. In the process he re-examines aspects of Englands story from the end of the last glacial period 12 500 years ago to the present touching upon such things as Britains apparent emptiness for long stretches of deep prehistory battlefields & the human element of the Industrial Revolution. Morris not only describes the evolution of archaeologys craft but also explores an awakening curiosity & an open embrace of the mystery of the identity of the early inhabitants of our land who have disappeared & left little trace of themselves but were more like us than we think. Combining the personal with the academic amalgamating literature & myth with science & reflecting on how & why archaeology goes about its business the result is a fresh account of who we are & our relationship with Nature. Humanitys achievement writes Morris is to be the one animal out of one & a half million currently living on the planet to have discovered this story; its weakness is to suppose itself to be the storys subject. TIMES ANVIL challenges some popular assumptions of history such as Domesday Books comprehensiveness or the Romans as civilising colonists. The threads come seamlessly together a mile from where the book began at the graveside of Cardinal Newman. The result is provocative compelling & salutary. ...

A Sunday Times top 10 hardback bestseller. Ancient secrets buried deep in Glastonburys past. & one womans quest to finally set them free. Cambridge present day: Following the death of her mother Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest -- a misshapen sphere of crystal known as the Serpents Stone which seems to hold echoes of concealed mysteries long covered up by the church. Western England 25AD: A stranger has come to the chilly Somerset wetlands with a story of hope & reconciliation. But he is being followed by powerful forces determined that he will not undermine Roman rule in Britain. What connects these ancient events & Abis gift? & why do so many people seem desperate to hide the truth? A strange shadow has fallen across the centuries & a woman is in fear of her life. But is it danger that awaits her or the final truth so long whispered across the echoes of time? ...