Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 256, Publishers: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, Author: Cedric Delves, ISBN-13: 9781787383425, Date of issue: 2020
Across the Board is not simply about chess but the chessboard itself and the fascinating mathematics behind it. John Watkins surveys all the well-known problems in this surprisingly fertile area of recreational mathematics. Many beautiful solutions have emerged for basic chessboard problems since mathematicians first began working on them in earnest over three centuries ago. But now such problems have been extended to three-dimensional chessboards and even chessboards on unusual surfaces such as toruses (the equivalent of playing chess on a doughnut) and cylinders. Across the Board will captivate students and instructors, mathematicians, chess enthusiasts, and puzzle devotees.
Leon has a secret. He was once an angel - a winged warrior sworn to protect Paya, a realm where people live on discs that float in space. He failed. Now Leon's a broken man, trying to forget the past. He thinks
The international bestseller - a journey of revenge and treachery, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion, which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe.
The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has 'a profile that could break your or anyone else's heart'. Cantrell is embittered, war-scarred and old enough to be Renata's father, but he is overwhelmed by the selflessness and freshness of the love she is offering. But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some, the longed-for peace has come too late. A lesser known classic by one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, Across the River And Into The Trees is still vintage Hemingway.
Tootekood: 04353635GTIN: 9780141333663Interest age: from c 12 years
Amy has left the life she loves for a world 300 years away Trapped in space and frozen in time, Amy is bound for a new planet. But fifty years before she's due to arrive, she is violently woken, the victim of an attempted murder. Now Amy's lost on board and nothing makes sense - she's never felt so alone. Yet someone is waiting for her. He wants to protect her; and more if she'll let him. But who can she trust amidst the secrets and lies? A killer is out there - and Amy has nowhere to hide...
Tootekood: 01373898GTIN: 9780060747152Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy & magical realism
From New York Times best-selling fantasy author Garth Nix comes a collection of short stories-and a never-before-published novella, set in the world of Abhorsen.
Tootekood: 17634358GTIN: 9781530821808Yoga for exercise
THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL MANUAL FOR ACROYOGA BEGINNERS Achieve a new kind of yoga practice and connection with your baby with ACROYOGA: Baby Edition Suitable for Parents and Baby's ages 0-3 START HAVING FUN Learning ACROYOGA TODAY Connect with your baby- a
Tootekood: 17634367GTIN: 9781530822058Yoga for exercise
THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL MANUAL FOR ACROYOGA BEGINNERS Achieve a new kind of yoga practice and connection with your child with ACROYOGA: Mommy & Me Edition Suitable for parents with children ages 3-12 START HAVING FUN Learning ACROYOGA TODAY Connect with y
The second book in the popular "Do More Art" series explores the myriad creative possibilities of working with acrylic. Fans of this artistic powerhouse will discover everything from basic painting techniques to more creative applications, such as pouring,
Tootekood: 02915876GTIN: 9781782213956Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
Learn to use and enjoy this wonderful painting medium with this comprehensive manual by Marilyn Scott. There are over 100 step-by-step demonstrations showing how to tackle tricky subjects, accompanied by full-colour photography.
Each technique starts with an illustrated demonstration, then continues with other suggested projects.Highlights include:how to obtain interesting sheens like an encaustic looktips on applying gold leaf and shifting metal leaf hues with glazesexploration of an array of new specialty paintsusing real metal paints for grounds and surfacing techniques to create drawing surfacesand more
Features eight cleverly-constructed projects that can each be completed in just one weekend. This title helps you discover the unique versatility and accessibility of acrylics - they can be used as watercolours on paper and as oil on canvas. It also includes an insight into artist's materials, hot tips and gallery exercises to take things further.
Tootekood: 16754653GTIN: 9781580934930The arts: general issues
This new, sophisticated, comprehensive reference book will inspire and instruct painters on how to handle today's acrylics in innovative and individualistic ways. Acrylics have grown into the most adaptable art material for the modern age. Devel
Beginners and accomplished artists alike are attracted to the beauty and versatility of acrylic painting. In this comprehensive book, you will find all the instruction and inspiration you need to master the medium or improve your painting skills. Accomplished artist Tom Swimm guides you step by step through 12 stunning acrylic projects, offering easy-to-follow instructions along with his personal artistic insights. Acrylic Painting Step by Step covers dozens of beginning and advanced acrylic techniques, from underpainting and glazing to impasto and texturizing. You will learn to paint a variety of subjects, including a lively floral, a striking still life, an eye-catching street scene, and a gorgeous seascape.
This is a practical and inspiring guide for all acrylics enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced artist. There is helpful general advice on which materials to choose, and then three high profile artists share their expertise, tips and techniques.
Adrian Burrows is an enthusiastic and accomplished artist and teacher who explains the fundamentals of painting with acrylics in a helpful and accessible manner.
Tootekood: 33341572GTIN: 9781975153205Biomechanics, human kinetics
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 650, Publishers: Wolters Kluwer Health, Author: Trent Hargens,American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), ISBN-13: 9781975153205, Date of issue: 2021
Tootekood: 42333316GTIN: 9781648481239Coping with illness & specific conditions
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 54, Publishers: New Harbinger Publications, Author: Debbie Sorensen,Diana Hill, ISBN-13: 9781648481239, Date of issue: 2023
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 248, Publishers: New Harbinger Publications, Author: Debbie Sorensen, ISBN-13: 9781684037377, Date of issue: 2021
This is the first book to present a roadmap for tailoring acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the serious, complex challenges of anorexia nervosa (AN). Leading authorities describe interventions grounded in ACT core processes--Defusion, Accep
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 212, Publishers: Dark River, Author: Hegarty James Hegarty,Huelsmann Christoph Huelsmann, ISBN-13: 9781911121381, Date of issue: 2020
Tootekood: 04489434GTIN: 9780062351562Dating, relationships, living together & marriage: advice
An International Bestseller--Over 3 Million Copies Sold!With translations in more than thirty languages, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is the definitive relationship guide for women.Steve Harvey can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years--the many incredible women who can run a business, have three kids, maintain a household in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. So, when it comes to relationships, why can't these same women figure out what makes men commit? According to Steve, it's because they're asking other women for advice when they should be going directly to the source. In this expanded edition, Steve includes an added section of all new advice, with tips on dealing with your partner's exes, spicing up your relationship, ensuring you're ready for that walk down the aisle, and much more.Sometimes funny, often unflinchingly direct, but always truthful, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a book you must read if you want to understand how men think when it comes to relationships, intimacy, and love.
Tootekood: 04489440GTIN: 9780062359971Self-help & personal development
The #1 New York Times bestseller in a newly revised, expanded edition. With over two million copies sold, ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN has become a bestseller around the world. In this this exciting expanded edition, Steve shares even more relationship wisdom for any problem you might face. Is your guy a mummy's boy who prefers spending time with her over you? What should you know about being a wife, before you say I DO? Steve provides the answers for all these questions, and more. New material also includes: How to maintain spice in your relationship; 8 sure-fire ways to keep your cool when his ex shows up; A test for you and your partner, to determine if you are actually ready for marriage; A 90-day abstinence calendar, along with advice for making it through this important trial period. Harvey's advice is always spot-on and more often than not very funny. But behind the humour is a sincere desire to help women understand men.With liberal use of his own adventures in love and courtship, ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN is an honest, compelling, and realistic examination of how men think about love and sex and what women need to know so that they can set realistic expectations of the men in their life.
Today's breakneck pace of change has an immense impact on leaders--and as a result, on the organizations they run. All too often, people remain stuck in outdated mindsets and modes of operating, even after others recognize the need for change. Leaders need to learn to pivot even when there are no obvious signals guiding their way. Leadership expert Herminia Ibarra (INSEAD) upends traditional, introspective advice and says act first--and "then" change your way of thinking. In this unconventional book, Ibarra, one of the world's foremost experts on leadership transitions, provides the first practical guide on how to change when you also need to lead. Defying standard leadership development guidance, which encourages deep self-reflection into strengths and weaknesses, this book shows that the most effective way to change is through action, not analysis, and by learning from experience, not introspection. In short, it will teach you to change from the outside in by first acting like a leader and then thinking like one. Based on Ibarra's flagship executive education program at INSEAD, this book is for new and seasoned leaders alike who need to understand the new rules for success in their own organization, and in the global business environment at large. It's the essential guidebook for anyone who wants to upgrade their role or be the leader their organization needs them to be.
A new edition of the bestseller that has helped aspiring leaders worldwide advance their careers and step up to larger leadership roles.You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your "day job" to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mindsets get in the way.Herminia Ibarra-one of the world's foremost experts on leadership-shows how individuals at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Ibarra offers advice to:Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributionsDiversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a wider range of stakeholdersBecome more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar-and possibly outdated-leadership style to evolveIbarra turns the usual leadership advice-generate insight about yourself through reflection and analysis of your strengths and weaknesses-on its head by arguing that you must first act and experiment your way into trying new things. The valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation-which Ibarra calls outsight-provides new and critical information on what kind of work is important to you, how you should invest your time, why and which relationships matter, and, ultimately, who you want to become.Updated with new examples and self-assessments, this book gives you the tools to start acting like a leader and advancing your career to the next level.
Now fully-revised and updated, this second edition of ACT Made Simple includes new information and chapters on self-compassion, flexible perspective taking, working with trauma, and more. Why is it so hard to be happy? Why is life s
Rated #6 in Book Authority's Best Consciousness Books of All Time Life is an act. We act like humans and therefore we experience like humans with a litany of limitations, shortcomings and drama that mask our underlying angelic c
Tootekood: 12513450GTIN: 9781939438980The arts: general issues
The Act of Creation begins where this view ceases to be true. Koestler affirms that all creatures have the capacity for creative activity, frequently suppressed by the automatic routines of thought and behavior that dominate their lives. The study of psychology has offered little in the way of an explanation of the creative process, and Koestler suggests that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended - for example in dreams and trance-like states. Then the mind is capable of receiving inspiration and insight.Taking humor as his starting point, Koestler examines what he terms 'bisociative' thinking - the creative leap made by the mind that gives rise to new and startling perceptions and glimpses of reality. From here he assesses the workings of the mind of the scientific or artistic genius. The general reader as well as the reader with a deeper knowledge of the topics covered will find this richly documented study of creativity both illuminating and compelling.
This updated and expanded edition expands some of the subjects that were discreetly touched on in the earlier edition, explores how the latest discoveries in the field of medicine and social practice confirm the principles taught in the book.
A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES 'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER 'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the m
'From what is it they flee?'He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason.In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of £100 hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.ACT OF OBLIVION is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.
Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.
This is Dr. Roberto Assagioli's second book on the psychological system he formulated known as Psychosynthesis. It continues where his first book left off and delves into the important process of willing as a psychological function based on a higher self rather on guilt or determination as in the Victorian concept of the will.
Conquer your self-defeating beliefs and create a more fulfilling life Do you feel like you're broken? Are you depressed because you believe that you're somehow defective, unwanted, or inferior? Do you feel self-conscious and insecure, cons
