\'If you liked Bridget Jones\'s Diary, try this\' BBC News\'So funny and sharp, yet tender and emotional too. I loved it \' Jill Mansell\'I adored The Last Romeo . . . funny, clever and warm\' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt\'A savagely funny and poignant journey\' Red Magazine\'A frothy and insightful debut . . . an all-too-recognisable tale of the horrors and joys of attempting to find

As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart must confront and adapt to diverse policies and practices pertaining to regulation, economy, history,

The precocious Sophia and her pet giraffe Noodle learn how to look at life, love, and art in this latest installment of the series that Kirkus Reviews calls \"fun, clever, and empowering.\" Sophia loves her family and her wonderful pet giraffe Noodle, so when she gets an assignment to draw something she loves, she wants to make it extra special. Taking her teacher\'s advice, Sophia uses a little perspective

The most gratifying, and terrifying, story in Chip Reid\'s career as a journalist was the six weeks he spent with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as a correspondent for NBC News. Traveling in one of the unit\'s Amtracs, he had unparalleled access to the young Marines, witnessing them in combat, and interviewing as many as he could persuade his bosses to put on air, allowing

Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: enter the world of Autumn Alley. Here you\'ll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts

Power Quality in Power Systems, Electrical Machines, and Power-Electronic Drives uses current research and engineering practices, guidelines, standards, and regulations for engineering professionals and students interested in solving power quality problems in a cost effective, reliable, and safe manner within the context of renewable energy systems. The book contains chapters that address power quality

Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy is an innovative book that details how clinicians can engage children, families and their networks in creative and collaborative relationships to elicit change within the context of trauma and violence. Combining systemic, narrative and dialogical theoretical frameworks with clinical examples, this volume focuses on therapeutic

Hodgson and Carter present a volume that contributes to the ongoing debate in Knowledge Management. They develop themes explored in Roy Jacques\' influential text, Manufacturing the Employee, as a starting point the authors consider the status of contemporary management

Social Stories(TM) are a widely used and highly effective intervention for supporting children on the autism spectrum, but it can feel overwhelming to follow all the rules put in place to create personalised stories. Developed with the input of parents and professionals, and informed by new Social Stories research, this is a comprehensive, clear, easy step-by-step guide to writing effective personalised

Links acting traditions with cultural milieu. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography

Batman: Road to No Man\'s Land Omnibus is a gripping and heartwrenching collection masterfully brought together by Chuck Dixon. Azrael is back in Gotham, but he\'s not the only one. Bringing back Bane with him in an attempt to get him in custody, Azrael\'s plan is halted when an earthquake provides the perfect escape for Bane. Catwoman\'s world begins to unravel as the Angle Man is back in Gotham--his

This book provides an insight into Liverpool FC during the 1980s, one of the most successful periods for one the most famous football clubs in the world. Liverpool Football Club was the team that dominated English and European Football throughout the 1980\'s. The book charts the highlights of being European, League, FA and League Cup Winners through to the devastation of the Heysel and Hillsborough

This work goes back to 9500 BC, when the Grand Magicians came forth, on to 500 BC, when the Great Ones appeared, and continues to trace the life-changing Principles of New Thought right up to the 21st century. It reveals the Secret of the Ages and the ministering

A distinctive Christian heresy? A competitor of burgeoning Christianity? A pre-Christian folk religion traceable to \"Oriental syncretism\"? How do we account for the disparate ideas, writings, and practices that have been placed under the Gnostic rubric? To do so, Karen King says, we must first disentangle modern historiography from the Christian discourse of orthodoxy and heresy that has pervaded--and

What determines the overall organization of visual form in the works of painting, sculpture, and architecture? Artists have sometimes ventured practical rules of thumb, and mathematicians have looked for formulas that would prescribe ideal spatial relations between shapes. This companion to Rudolf Arnheim\'s classic, Art and Visual Perception, shows how compositional form makes sense only when it utilizes

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they were merely talented mimics--that they were, after all, \"birdbrains.\" Experiments performed primarily on pigeons in Skinner boxes demonstrated capacities

The first book in Cynthia Harrod Eagles\' bestselling Bill Slider crime

Let Laura Strange, a coeliac foodie with 25 years\' experience, show you how to make gluten-free life easy and delicious with her debut cookbook, Eat and Enjoy Gluten Free. Featuring 100 gluten-free recipes, and split into two sections - Meals for Everyone and Baking Up a Storm - the book will take you from speedy midweek meals to easy feasts and perfect pasta, as well as dishing up delicious desserts

This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of shipwrecks, great discoveries, mysteries, and disappearances still thrilling adventure seekers. From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, from the Baltic Sea to the Caribbean, the Antarctic, and the Indian Ocean; from ancient history to the present day, these short tales cover all aspects of high-seas adventure and feature prominent human