Memoirs of a Geisha
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha.
In « Memoirs of a Geisha, » we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction – at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful – and completely unforgettable.
The promise
Young architect Micheal Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother’s disapproval. Then minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Micheal and Nancy–perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life–Nancy in California, Micheal in New York. But eventually nothing–and no one–can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye.
The right time
Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow takes solace in the mysteries she reads with her devoted father—and soon she is writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, complex crime stories that reflect skill, imagination, and talent far beyond her years. After her father’s untimely death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and the time and encouragement to pursue her gift.
Message in a bottle
Avec Harrap’s, yes you can
Theresa, une jeune journaliste et mère de famille divorcée, se promène sur la plage de Cape Cod. Elle y trouve une bouteille contenant un message qui va bouleverser sa vie. Cette bouteille a été jetée à la mer, au gré des courants, par Garrett, un homme qui ne peut se résigner à la disparition de la femme de sa vie et c’est à elle qu’il destine cette lettre d’amour dont la lecture émeut si profondément Theresa. Celle-ci n’a plus qu’une idée en tête, se mettre à la recherche, identifier, découvrir le visage de l’auteur de cette lettre…
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Vegan Intermittent Fasting
288 pages – This complete vegan guide to 16:8 fasting offers tried and true strategies to living healthier and longer. Vegan Intermittent Fasting is one of the easiest ways to achieve better health, period. But for those of us who follow a vegan diet, finding the balance between plant-based eating and intermittent fasting can prove challenging.
In Vegan Intermittent Fasting, groundbreaking doctor Petra Bracht and recipe developer Mira Flatt share their completely plant-based program. You’ll unlock all the benefits of fasting while still eating the foods you love (without feeling hungry). Vegan intermittent fasting is an easy and sustainable way to improve your whole-body well-being. Intermittent fasting has emerged as an evidence-based revolution in health and wellness. In the popular 16:8 method, you eat 2 to 3 times over 8 hours, then fast for 16 hours (which, of course, includes time spent asleep). The results can be weight loss, a stronger immune system, increased longevity and so much more.
The thing around your neck
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as « one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years » (Baltimore Sun), with « prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes » (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her « the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe. » Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts – graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters’ hearts – on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. In « A Private Experience, » a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s been pushing away. In « Tomorrow is Too Far, » a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s death. The young mother at the center of « Imitation » finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.
Variété de livres couvrant différents aspects tels que la grammaire, le vocabulaire et la pratique de la lecture, adaptés à tous les niveaux, des débutants aux apprenants plus avancés.
Quelques ouvrages plus spécifiques (électronique, tourisme, transports, anglais juridique …)
Tous ces livres sont dans un état correct.
The shadow of the wind
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets–an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Livre bilingue français/anglais – Michel Renaudeau vit avec ses images une passion forte. Images de la vie qu’il surprend avec ses appareils depuis plus de quarante ans. En Afrique et au Sénégal en particulier, (il a vécu de longues années entre Dakar et Gorée), puis dans le monde entier, au gré de ses reportages ou de ses travaux d’édition. Amateur d’art africain et d’art populaire, il a rassemblé dans sa galerie de Dakar, la première exposition de suwers.
Sénégal, Regards croisés. Guediawaye, dans la banlieue de Dakar, 17 heures. C’est le moment où les ors du couchant font chanter les rouges carmin et les bleus durs, où la brise enfin secoue la demi–torpeur qui envahit hommes et bêtes. L’heure préférée de Gora Mbengue le plus grand peintre sénégalais de « suwers », peintures sous verre en wolof. Après avoir courbé sa prière à même la natte aux mille couleurs de son atelier de plein air, Gora boit son thé à la menthe glacé et l’âme en paix, purifié, s’installe sur son petit banc. Tandis que sa bouche murmure le magique « Bissimilai » (À la grâce de Dieu) qui précède toute action chez les musulmans et promet le succès, la main, rapide, saisit une plaque de verre posée contre la palissade …
L’anglais utile
– Pour comprendre l’anglais d’aujourd’hui. – Pour se faire comprendre dans toutes les situations de la vie quotidienne. – Pour vérifier ou approfondir ses connaissances de base. L’ANGLAIS UTILE propose : – Un classement fonctionnel des structures fréquentes de l’anglais reprises dans des dialogues ; – Des informations sur la vie professionnelle dans un milieu anglophone ; – Une cassette des enregistrements de ces dialogues. L’ANGLAIS UTILE est aussi un ouvrage de référence pour une exploitation pédagogique en classe.
Together with « Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate », this book forms part of a series of grammar and vocabulary preparation books for classes taking the Cambridge First Certificate, Advanced and Proficiency exams. Each book provides coverage of the essential structures and vocabulary needed for success in the exams. Each unit contains clear, concise presentation of grammar, with varied and challenging practice exercises, as well as integrated coverage of vocabulary. Genuine learner errors are corrected through the « Longman Learner’s Corpus ».
Advanced language practice
The Advanced level contains grammar that is systematically revised and consolidated through a variety of exercises in the CAE and new Proficiency (CPE) exam styles. There is extensive written and oral practice plus regular consolidation units.
Each of the 100 phrasal verbs is introduced, explained, and practised in the same way. Page title. This shows the general form of the phrasal verb with important grammatical information. For example, break something down (into something). Study. Example sentences show the usual contexts for the phrasal verb and all the possible grammar patterns. Check. Using the example in the Study box students check they understand the meaning of the verb and the grammar patterns. Practise. ‘Exercises’ practise using the verb. The answers are in the Reference Key. Build Your Vocabulary. Extra information about the phrasal verb such as related nouns or adjectives, synonyms and opposites, other meanings of the verb, or verbs with similar or related meanings help develop vocabulary. The Revision and Review pages in the centre of the book look at the meaning of the particles used with phrasal verbs or group verbs into themes. Exercises helps students review what they Published On: 2005-10-05.
Oxford practice grammar with answers
This text gives clear explanations of English grammar with exercises on the facing page which provide practice in form and use. The revised edition provides additional grammar topics and expanded treatment of others, more exercises and progress tests at intervals throughout the book, and more illustrated dialogues and texts (the grammar presentations make frequent use of pictures and dialogues to establish contexts for use).
Twentieth century english
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Looking back on 20th century British drama from its’ historical, social and political perspective enables the reader to set each play in a broader context. Contents include a selection of play extracts from well-known authors including Harold Brighouse, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Reader’s digest Readings
« Collectif » and « Reader’s Digest Readings » refers to books published by Reader’s Digest or its French counterpart, « Sélection du Reader’s Digest, » often as educational materials for English as a Second Language learners or general-interest titles like condensed novels and popular non-fiction. The term « Collectif » (collective) is used as the author, indicating these are works compiled by various contributors rather than a single identified person.
Oxford learner’s wordfinder dictionary
A resource book which starts from ideas and guides students to the words needed to express them.
International business english
New International Business English is a thoroughly revised and redesigned new edition of the highly successful course International Business English. While maintaining the first edition’s flexible learner-centred approach for people who need English in their day-to-day work, New International Business is now easier to use and even more effective in the way it addresses the key Business English language skills such as telephoning, socializing and taking part in meetings. The key features of the new edition are: – bright, open design at large format, and in colour for the Student’s Book. – shorter, more manageable units. New International Business English is a genuine 90 hour course. – a new unit on Negotiating.
Longman : Pronunciation dictionary
Need help with pronunciation? The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary: Helps students with over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and American English using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Helps students with intonation by showing the stress patterns of thousands of compounds and idioms. User-friendly graphs show the preferred pronunciations of British and American speakers, based on extensive research by Professor Wells. NEW – now with the Longman Pronunciation Coach CD-ROM. Students can listen to the pronunciation of all entries in British and American English, then record and check their own pronunciation. Self Study Lab – Students can learn the International Phonetic Alphabet and practise their pronunciation with thousands of interactive exercises and feedback from Professor Wells. Teachers’ Resource Centre provides you with downloadable exercises for use in class.
English Vocabulary in Use is a vocabulary book for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English, primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, but can also be used for classroom work. Firmly based on current learning theory, its emphasis is on the practical needs of the learner. It aims not only to present and explain words but to demonstrate how to use them and how to work out rules for using them. Vocabulary is explained and presented on left-hand pages with a wealth of innovative follow-up activities opposite. * 100 units, covering approximately 3,000 new vocabulary items. * offers learners the opportunity to consolidate and expand existing vocabulary. * promotes invaluable learning techniques. * gives study tips and suggests follow-up tasks * contains a comprehensive key with additional helpful comments. * includes a detailed index and phonetic transcription.
Exploring spoken english
A practical, insightful exploration of natural spoken English based on 20 varied authentic extracts. Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use in groups and for self-study. The cassette consists of 20 varied extracts of authentic spoken English drawn from the Cambridge University Press and University of Nottingham corpus of spoken English.
MASTERING BUSINESS ENGLISH: A LEARNING RESOURCE BOOK est un manuel destiné aux étudiants francophones se spécialisant dans l’anglais des affaires. Il s’adresse donc aux étudiants des Écoles de commerce mais aussi à ceux des filières universitaires de gestion, économie, commerce, management et autres disciplines apparentées. Le manuel prépare également les candidats à l’examen du Diploma in Business English de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Franco-Britannique. Fruit d’une longue collaboration d’un groupe de professeurs d’anglais du Groupe ESC Clermont, cet ouvrage met l’accent sur les activités interactives favorisant spontanéité et efficacité dans la communication. Le CD joint est un complément indispensable au livre. Il propose, pour chacun des chapitres, des exercices de compréhension orale pour une meilleure appréhension des spécificités de la langue.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start–Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia’s father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon’s head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke’s wedding (one of whom is given a donkey’s head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny.
A novel of Pearl Harbour – A boy at war
December 7, 1941: A morning like any other, but the events of this day would leave no one untouched.
For Adam, living near Honolulu, this Sunday morning is one he has been looking forward to — fishing with friends, away from the ever-watchful eyes of his father, a navy lieutenant. Then, right before his eyes, Adam watches Japanese planes fly overhead and attack the U.S. Navy. All he can think is that it’s just like in the movies. But as he sees his father’s ship, the Arizona, sink beneath the water, he realizes this isn’t make-believe. It’s real.
Over the next few days, Adam searches for answers — about his friends, the war, and especially, his father. But Adam soon learns sometimes there are no answers.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Passing through the streets of London late at night with hurried footseps, Edward Hyde, a man of evil, follows up his private pleasures, ready to attack and murder anyone who hinders him.
Henry Jekyll, a man who is rich, successful and clever, sitting at home with his friends, loved and respected by all, holds a dark secret: the knowledge of who Edward Hyde really is.
Which of these two men will live to tell the truth?
Julie of the wolves
Alone and lost—on the North Slope of Alaska
Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were her brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father’s training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she is forced to rethink her past, and to define for herself the traditional riches of Eskimo life: intelligence, fearlessness, and love.
Trust me
On the new digital battlefront in the war on terror, one man will learn to negotiate the extremely thin line between unconditional trust and unspeakable betrayal.
Luke Dantry tells people he has a job on the cutting edge of the war on terror-only he knows it’s nowhere near as adrenaline-filled as he makes it sound. Luke’s nightly task working for his stepfather’s Washington think tank: Go undercover from the anonymous safety of his computer and infiltrate Web-based, home-grown terrorist networks, cataloging the screen names and details of a motley collection of rage-filled, mentally suspect, and mostly impotent loners he comes to call the Black Road. Now and then he encounters someone who may have the capability to make good on his threats, but Luke figures that the vast majority of his targets are simply frustrated malcontents using the Internet as an empty soapbox.
When Luke is kidnapped at gunpoint, without warning, and left for dead in an isolated cabin deep in the woods, he realizes it must be related to his work, and that the Black Road is far more organized than he thought-and much closer to home than he could have ever imagined. After a daring escape, with both the terrorist group and their enemies on his heels, he must quickly assemble a complex puzzle of convoluted histories and motives, where the final pieces extend deep into his own past-and where Luke himself may hold the key to stopping the Black Road before their spectacular plans come to horrible fruition.
Just take my heart
After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when a career criminal suddenly claims Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill her. The case is a plum assignment for attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace. She spends long hours preparing for the trial, and unaware of a seemingly well-meaning neighbor’s violent past, gives him a key to her home to care for her dog.
Livre en anglais – Burkina Faso’s religious landscape, where traditional, Islamic and Christian religions intersect, is part of a social and historical context spread over several centuries marked by a diversity that has been studied by researchers for a long time. As the security situation deteriorates in recent years in the Sahel region, the religious question is increasingly being redefined and placed at the forefront of the Burkinabe socio-political scene. This collective work offers readers a synthesis of the knowledge accumulated by researchers over the past decades on the different religions and the social dynamics associated with them to shed light on the management of the country’s religious diversity and coexistence without masking the new tensions and conflicts being experienced.
The first part of the book thoroughly explores the religious movements and currents present in the country to underline the centrality of religion in understanding social change in its polity. In the second part, the interactions between religions are analyzed across current transversal themes and questions, such as education, demography, politics, the role of faith-based NGOs, the historicity of the notion of jihad or the use of new information and communication technologies to show the connections within the construction of knowledge and political contexts. The contributions acutely show that recent socio-political dynamics in Burkina Faso are undoubtedly redefining religious boundaries and exposing the limitations of a historically and socially rooted contexts of diversity, yet the question remains on how to draw on this diversity and religious coexistence to confront new emerging tensions and conflicts.
Livre en anglais – “Rich-veined, sensual, and probing, this rewarding collection bears the imprint of a keen, world-wise poet. Tade Aina is a well-traveled man who weaves the lore, legends and histories of hearth and far-flung places with equal self-assurance.” – Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods, Inc.
Tales from the Saudi Arabia
publishing Tales from Saudi Arabia. This series includes a selection of short stories that document the variety of local literary output and the centrality of the short story genre in Saudi Arabia, as well as to reignite the spark of this important…
Lot de 4 catalogues des Biennales de l’Art Africain Contemporain
Dak’Art est la toute première biennale d’art contemporain du continent africain. Elle est consacrée aux artistes africains et issus de la diaspora. Elle reste aujourd’hui la principale manifestation africaine dédiée à la création contemporaine. Initiée par le ministère de la culture et de la communication du Sénégal, la première manifestation organisée en 1990 était consacrée à la littérature. Dès 1992, la deuxième édition et les suivantes sont dédiées aux arts visuels.
Chaque catalogue inventorie tous les artistes présents (présentations et illustrations en couleur)
DAKAR 1992 : 65 pages, rare. 10.000 F CFA
DAK’ART 2004 (6ème édition) : 179 pages, en anglais et en français. 7.000 F CFA
DAK’ART 2012 (10ème édition) : 192 pages, en anglais et en français. 7.000 F CFA
DAK’ART 2014 (11ème édition) : Très grand format. 375 pages, en anglais et en français. 20.000 F CFA
The bridges of Madison county
En Anglais – The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
Tokyo : Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu
The catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Moriyama – Tomatsu: Tokyo scheduled to be held at Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, June 2020. The exhibition has been repeatedly postponed due to the spread of Covid-19 in France.
For this reason Akio Nagasawa Publishing will start selling at its online shop the photo-book exceptionally prior to the opening of the Paris exhibition.
The catalogue is a set of 3 books including Daido Moriyama’s works, Shomei Tomatsu’s works and a textbook of written by both authors.
Catalogue publié à l’occasion de l’exposition « Moriyama – Tomatsu : Tokyo » prévue à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie à Paris en juin 2020. L’exposition a été reportée à plusieurs reprises en raison de la propagation du Covid-19 en France.
C’est pourquoi les éditions Akio Nagasawa ont proposé exceptionnellement ce livre photo sur leur boutique en ligne avant l’ouverture de l’exposition parisienne.
Le catalogue est un ensemble de trois ouvrages comprenant les œuvres de Daido Moriyama, celles de Shomei Tomatsu et un manuel écrit par les deux auteurs.
The black book
Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago’s chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy’s tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there’s nothing he wouldn’t sacrifice for his job. Enter Amy Lentini, a hard-charging assistant state’s attorney hell-bent on making a name for herself-who suspects Billy isn’t the cop he claims to be. They’re about to be linked by more than their careers. One missing black book. A horrifying murder leads investigators to an unexpected address-an exclusive brothel that caters to Chicago’s most powerful citizens. There’s plenty of incriminating evidence on the scene-but what matters most is what’s missing: the madam’s black book. Now with shock waves rippling through the city’s elite, everyone’s desperate to find it. Chicago has never been more dangerous. As everyone who’s anyone in Chicago scrambles to get their hands on the elusive black book, no one’s motives can be trusted. An ingenious, inventive thriller about power, corruption, and the power of secrets to scandalize a city-and possibly destroy a family-The Black Book is James Patterson at his page-turning best.
To Jerusalem and Back
In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints – from Prime Minister Rabin, novelist Amos Oz and the editor of an Arab-language newspaper to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and the barber at Bellow’s hotel. Through meditations steeped in history and literature he adds his own reflections on being Jewish in the twentieth century. Bellow’s exploration of a beautiful and troubled city is a powerful testament to the unique spirit and challenges of Israel, its history and its future.
Offering detailed, up-to-date, and original research into power-sector reform and regulation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Namibia, and Ghana, this study is derived from a three-year peer review and learning process that involved senior executives at the electricity regulatory agencies in each of the countries. Among the individuals and institutions interviewed are energy ministers, utility chief executives, IPP chief executives, financiers, media organizations, and industry and consumer groups. The book contains an analysis of the knowledge and shared experiences gathered in Africa by African scholars. For each of the six countries highlighted, absorbing, lucid, and concise chapters discuss the historical evolution of the power sector, the development of power-sector reform policy and its implementation, the entry of IPPs and emergency electric suppliers, the performance of state-owned utilities, and independent regulation of the power sector.
This 4th edition makes the coaching process between colleagues even more powerful. The elements of the Roadmap are enhanced to ensure they are easier to grasp and apply. More and more leaders and their organizations are becoming convinced in the business case for creating a « coaching culture ». This book provides the tools for leaders and teams to develop a common language and shared protocol and a learning and development orientation towards people. These critical dynamics support the entire culture becoming a « feedback-rich, high-performance » organization. For this to occur, a common coaching approach driven by coaching UP, DOWN, and SIDEWAYS is necessary. Coaching flows in all directions to managers, peers, and direct reports. Coaching becomes the normal « way we do things around here. » The premise of « The Heart of Coaching » was never more true. « As coaching becomes a predominant cultural practice…it will create a performance-focused, feedback-rich organization capable of creating and sustaining a competitive advantage. » This « Fourth Edition » (available now) makes the use of the enhanced coaching model easier to use than ever, since it now includes a colorized snapout reference card. Additionally, several powerful enhancements of the Transformational Coaching methodology make it one of the most comprehensive, and systematic approaches to coaching you will find today. It guides leaders, managers, and entire teams who want to enhance or master their coaching skills through 2 critical aspects of coaching: 1. establishing authentic, healthy and respectful coaching relationships, and 2. organizing and conducting the actual coaching conversations that lead to commitments for positive results that both the coach and the coachee are willing to support.
The most effective tools and techniques for managers who need to drive innovation across cultural, organizational, and geographic boundaries. Boundaries exist, whether among cultures or across physical distances. What matters most is how you work to bridge these divides to leverage their team’s wide-ranging talents and abilities to deliver value. Powered by data from the Leadership Across Differences project, a global research initiative of The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Boundary Spanning Leadership provides a world of vital guidance, tools, and knowledge that lets you resolve conflicts, eliminate miscommunication, and foster collaboration among diverse teams. Built around Six Key Practices: Buffering: Creating Safety. Reflecting: Fostering Respect. Connecting: Building Trust. Mobilizing: Developing Community. Weaving: Advancing Interdependence. Transforming: Catalyzing Reinvention . . . Boundary Spanning Leadership will help you transform borders from flashpoints for conflict and limitation into the frontiers of break-through ideas and solutions, and ways to reinvent your organization. Inside: The Shifting Leadership Landscape: Don’t Look Now • Identity Groups: Work in a World of Us and Them • Boundary Mapping and Boundary-Setting Tactics: Drawing the Line • The Leader’s Role: Fostering Collaboration • Toward a Creative, Collaborative Future.
Now substantially updated with a groundbreaking new introduction on telomeres, bioidentical hormones, and more, Drs. Oz and Roizen—the bestselling coauthors of the blockbuster YOU series—present a new edition of their #1 New York Times bestselling indispensable guide to maintaining vibrant health, improving longevity, and aging gracefully. Most people think that by age forty-five, every aspect of our bodies is bound to decline. But the wear and tear associated with aging is not inevitable. In fact, the biological processes that age you can be reprogrammed to work the same way they did when you were younger. In this revised edition of the bestselling classic, Drs. Oz and Roizen show you how to beat the seemingly inevitable aging process. With their entertaining style and signature insight, Dr. Oz and Roizen share a new introduction on telomeres, the nucleotide sequences that cap your chromosomes and may the hold the key to determining your lifespan. There are steps we can take to protect and lengthen these sequences, and YOU: Staying Young explains what to do. Grounded in the latest scientific research and filled with illustrations, Dr. Oz and Roizen’s fourteen-day plan for staying young will help readers boost vitality, increase energy, and improve vitality…and age beautifully. Because living longer isn’t about dodging disease, but about sustaining a high quality of life for years to come.
Essentials of supply chain management
Fully revised and expanded, the Second Edition contains valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices. This handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in supply chain management. « Michael Hugos presents the core concepts and techniques of supply chain management in a clear, concise, and easily readable style for those desiring an introduction to the subject or for those wanting to refine their understanding and application of supply chain issues. The case studies and executive insights are very useful in illustrating how to effectively employ supply chains to enable companies to accomplish their business goals. » -Perry J. Gaid, Vice President of Purchasing, OneSource Facility Services, Inc. « My company is involved in both manufacturing and distribution. Mr. Hugos’s book provides a valuable framework of concepts and techniques that people at all levels of the company can use to organize and improve our supply chain management capabilities and tie them to our business strategy. » -Grant Watkinson, Ph.D., President, Coastwide Laboratories, Inc. Praise for the First Edition « An excellent introduction into supply chain management …a book you should own and loan out to others frequently. » -Supply Management « In clear and concise prose, this lean book outlines the most crucial tenets and concepts of supply chain management. » -Supply Chain Management Review The Wiley Essentials Series-because the business world is always changing…and so should you.
A judgement in stone
On Valentine’s Day, four members of the Coverdale family–George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles–were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine’s Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell’s finest psychological thrillers.
Coaching for Performance
Coaching for Performance is the institution of the coaching profession. This landmark text has now undergone the largest revision yet in its history to bring it fully up to date for today’s professionals. With a focus on coaching as a way of being rather than a temporary process, this new edition explains how coaching can have a profound effect on the culture of an organisation. No longer an activity conducted in isolation by a select few managers, coaching impacts the growth of the whole company as well as the personal growth of the individual.
This new edition includes a Foreword by John McFarlane, Chairman of Barclays and TheCityUK. New chapters on culture change demonstrate how to build a high performance culture in any type of organisation and measure the results. Extensive illustrative material has been added; the visuals are those used in coaching training programmes by Performance Consultants International, one of the pioneering global firms in coaching, leadership development and performance improvement. Terminology has been revised throughout to align with that used by the International Coach Federation and a new full glossary of terms serves to make this the definitive book on the topic.
The influential GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) featured in the book is supported by new international studies and examples which are included throughout, ensuring that this edition will stay at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.
The Dark Tower – 6 – Song of Susannah
The Wolves have been defeated, but our tet faces yet another catastrophe. Susannah Dean’s body has been usurped by a demon named Mia who wants to use Susannah’s mortal form to bear a demon child. Stealing Black Thirteen, Mia has traveled through the Unfound Door to 1999 New York where she plans to give birth to her chap, a child born of two mothers and two fathers who will grow up to be Roland’s nemesis. With the help of the time-traveling Manni, Roland and Eddie plan to follow Susannah while Father Callahan and Jake will find Calvin Tower, owner of the vacant lot where a magical rose grows: a rose that must be saved at all costs. But despite our ka-tet’s intentions, ka has its own plans. Jake, Callahan, and Jake’s bumbler companion are transported to New York to follow Susannah, while Eddie and Roland are tumbled into East Stoneham, Maine, where they are greeted by Eddie’s old enemy, the gangster Balazar. But it isn’t just bullets that Roland and Eddie must brave. Soon they will meet their maker, in the form of a young author named Stephen King.
The Dark Tower – 7 – The Dark Tower
All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain’s relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a little longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best.
Roland’s ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room—really a chamber of horrors—in Thunderclap’s Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where ‘walk-ins’ have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters.
Thus the book opens, like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King’s imagination. You’ve come this far. Come a little farther. Come all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark Tower.
The Dark Tower – 5 – Wolves of the Calla
Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland’s aid, Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New York so that they can save our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation.
Negotiation
Gavin Kennedy was a Scottish economist and founder of Negotiate. He was a leading figure in the world of negotiation and was involved in many high profile consultancy cases for governments and businesses. He was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. Kennedy studied economics at Strathclyde University, graduating with a BA in 1965 and then studying for an MSc. After taking a Ph.D. at Brunel University in London, he returned to Strathclyde as a senior lecturer in 1973. In 1980 he left Strathclyde for a professorial chair at Heriot-Watt University, and in 1986 he founded a company, Negotiate, to commercialise what he was teaching. He trained thousands of managers in the techniques he had developed.- Businesspeople, consultants, trainers. – The sixth book in The Economist’s popular Essentials series. – Very attractive paperback format with flaps and distinctive red endpapers.
Mark D. Alleyne analyzes the key role of the UN’s public information department in the organization’s pursuit of its objectives. The prominence of concepts such as human rights and national self-determination in the international arena is due to the activity of this UN department. Alleyne explores the UN’s use of propaganda to shape the agenda of international relations.