Katy Carr is untidy tall & gangling & lives with her brothers & sisters planning for the day when she will be beautiful & beloved & amiable as an angel". An accidental fall from a swing seems to threaten her hopes for the future but Katy struggles to overcome her difficulties with pluck vitality & good humour." ...

What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited & rebellious American girl Katy Carr & her family who first appeared in What Katy Did. What Katy Did at School is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials & adventures are all interwoven with a sense of fun & gently ironic good humour. What Katy Did Next describes a tour by Katy of Europe as she evolves from the child of earlier books into a spirited young woman & brings to a satisfying close this delightful trilogy. ...

Katy Carr can hardly believe it when she is invited to spend a whole year in Europe with Mrs Ashe & Amy. Although a year seems like a long time away from her beloved family living in the small American town of Burnet Katy embarks enthusiastically on her greatest adventure. This charming story first published in 1886 is the third of Susan Coolidges three hugely popular Katy books. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics. Likened to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women What Katy Did Next is a timeless classic for both children & adults to enjoy. The story of Katy Carr the lanky good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle & patient is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge's popular Katy series. When Mrs Ashe a widower discovers that her visiting nephew has scarlet fever she sends her only daughter Amy to stay with the Carr family. Amy finds a true friend in Katy Carr & Mrs Ashe invites Katy to join them on a trip to Europe. After some initial reluctance she agrees. We follow Katy as she is reunited with her old friends from Hillsover including the mischievous Rose Red Browne. Katy's journey takes her to rainy England where she finds out what constitutes a 'fine day' for the English & what a Dickens-commended muffin tastes like. The Carr family from her most popular Katy series was modelled on Coolidge's own family with the protagonist Katy modelled on Coolidge herself. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons auctioning admission to elite universities or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isnt there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? In recent decades market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life-medicine education government law art sports even family life & personal relations. Without quite realizing it Sandel argues we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Cant Buy" Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time & provokes a debate thats been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society & how can we protect the moral & civic goods that markets do not honour & money cannot buy?" ...

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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