Relevant across a range of management courses the Second Edition of A Very Short Fairly Interesting & Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations" offers students a lively focused & challenging discussion of classical & current ideas about organizations & their management. Building on the hugely popular first edition a new chapter explores the relationship between organization theory & behaviour as it exists today. Chris Grey shies away from the sterility of conventional textbooks offering students an accessible & palatable overview of the field of organization studies that questions & challenges the traditional literature." ...

A New Windmill Book of Very Short Stories contains a collection of very short stories from a range of genres chosen to interest & appeal to students at Key Stage 3. Some of the stories are written by well-known authors such as Paul Jennings Jan Mark Susan Price & Ray Bradbury. Others are by new authors. Each of them can be read in less that 10 minutes & offers & example of a well-structured & complete text. The stories have been arranged into pairs so that students can compare writing on similar themes or in the same genre. The activities at the end of the book are based on identified sentence & text level objectives of the Framework for Teaching English. Speaking & listening objectives are also covered. The stories have been chosen to enable students to read for meaning understand the authors craft & apply what they have learnt to their own writing. They ae also accessible stories that will arrest the attention & engage the imagination of all students across Key Stage 3. ...

Its the night before Christmas & Big Mouse & Little Mouse are putting up decorations. Little Mouse scampers out to search for holly but finds big white flakes falling from the sky. As Little Mouses world is covered in snow he discovers strange things all around him. ...

She was the last icon of an age of leisurely travel fading into memory even as she embarked on her maiden voyage: a luxurious ...

Meet Valentine an unforgettable & passionate woman with a heart & a dream as big as New York City. Her dream? To design the perfect pair of shoes.. . The Angelini Shoe Company makers of exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 is one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village. Now in the twenty-first century the company run so devotedly by Valentine & her grandmother Teodora faces financial ruin. Juggling a romantic relationship with dashing chef Roman Falconi her duty to her family & a design competition for a prestigious department store Valentine accompanies her grandmother to Italy in the hope of finding inspiration. There in Tuscany & on the Isle of Capri she discovers her artistic voice & much more turning her life around in ways she never expected. ...

From a pre-eminent biographer in the field this well-documented & illustrated biography examines the life & time of the emperor Vespasian & challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation & universally acknowledged achievements. Examining received opinions on Vespasian Barbara Levick examines how this plebeian & uncharismatic Emperor restored peace & confidence to Rome & ensured a smooth succession. Outlining how he gained military experience & political skills Levick goes on to explore how Vespasian coped with the military political & economic problems of his reign & his evaluation of the solutions to these problems before she finally examines his posthumous reputation. Part of the bestselling Roman Imperial Biographies series Vespasian will engage enthral & inform both students of classical studies & history & the general classical enthusiast alike. ...

ONE MAN Born in rural obscurity ONE DESTINY To become one of Rome's greatest Emperors 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome his sights set on finding a patron & following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil & an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus commander of the Praetorian Guard. Sejanus is ruler of the Empire in all but name but many fear that isn't enough for him. Sejanus' spies are everywhere
- careless words at a dinner party can be as dangerous as a barbarian arrow. Vespasian is totally out of his depth making dangerous enemies (and even more dangerous friends
- like the young Caligula) & soon finds himself ensnared in a conspiracy against Tiberius. With the situation in Rome deteriorating Vespasian flees the city to take up a position as tribune in an unfashionable legion on the Balkan frontier. Even here rebellion is in the air & unblooded & inexperienced Vespasian must lead his men in savage battle with hostile mountain tribes. Vespasian will soon realize that he can't escape Roman politics any more than he can escape his destiny...""

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The Cahills aren't the only family searching for the Clues.... The Cahills thought they were the most powerful family the world had ever known. They thought they were the only ones who knew about Gideon Cahill & his Clues. The Cahills were wrong. Powerful enemies --the Vespers-- have been waiting in the shadows. Now it's their time to rise & the world will never be the same. In Vespers Rising a brand new 39 Clues novel bestselling authors Rick Riordan Peter Lerangis Gordon Korman & Jude Watson take on the hidden history of the Cahills & the Vespers & the last terrible legacy Grace Cahill leaves for Amy & Dan. ...

Italy 1944
- this is the setting of one of the most convincing & quietly magnificent stories about man & war that has ever been
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Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde
- societys most fashionable portrait painter is a wit a dandy a rake the
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