Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. He first came to international renown in the 1960s as a founder of the radical, experimental group Archigram, winners of the 2002 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He is also former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Suffused with Peter’s infectious energy, enthusiasm and charm...

Drawing upon cutting edge research from academia but expressed clearly and concisely for the busy person seeking practical inspiration, Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise will feature numerous case examples from companies such as Virgin, Pfizer, Roche and Fuji Film.The book deals with questions such as:What are the roots of creativity and imagination? · How can we create the physiological and mental states under which creativity happens naturally rather th...

Tell me:Do you worry a lot?Are you having trouble falling asleep?Have you recently snapped at someone over something small, like not doing the dishes?Did you answer one or more of these questions with yes?Then it is likely that you have been under too much stress for too long.I have good news for you though: You can take back control of your life!I should know.I have ...

Sleep is weird, don't you think?For about one-third of every day, you just lie there. Yet, without sufficient sleep, we wouldn't be able to perform, remember anything or even feel healthy.Sleep really is the cornerstone of life.BUY: 'Insomnia'Unfortunately, many people are sleep deprived. Sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea can have a detrimental impact on the quality of your life....

A guide for modern organisations about optimising productivity, creating a culture of innovation, and building high-performing teamsIt's time to stop managing and start implementing. The New Rules of Management is about creating and implementing projects that truly matter, because even the best ideas, projects and objectives mean nothing until they are executed. In truth, most organisations aren't designed to successfully implement long-term projects, but ...

I tried dying and it didn't work … I might as well try living.Struggling actor David can't get enough—of anything. Alcohol, drugs, women, gambling—whatever it takes to escape the bark of the black dog. Bouncing from audition to audition as he battles his debilitating mental health issues and descends into a world of addiction, David is consumed by an overwhelming feeling of never belonging anywhere. Days and nights are lived through a thick haze of drugs and alcohol. This ...

Brain Based Enterprises offers a unique synthesis of intelligent thought fused with pragmatic and pithy insights on the art and discipline of leading enterprises, where intelligence, ideas and innovation are the currencies of Sustainable Coopetive Advantage (SCA).From the first signs of intelligence through making axes and fire, we now have access to unprecedented powers of creation through the convergence of humanity and technology. Rapid and dramatic advances in our unde...

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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, Peter Cook investigates how Dickens utilizes Romantic tropes to...

For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no sign of shrinking. Despite his reputation for idleness, Peter Cook was a great comedy writer, who created countless outrageous sketches and articles and was famed for his prolific role in the satire boom of the 1960s. The very best, the most famous and some of the most unusual of his comic mas...

One good turn deserves another - fate doesn't agree!Jacob Bell, the Tudor Queen's Glassmaker, helps Admiral John Hawkins in a battle against Catholic Plotters led by CVount Ridolfi. Drawing on all their resources of boldness, courage and cunning, they carry throuygh an audacioud plan to free Hawkins's men from the clutches of the dreasded Spanish Inquisition.Jacob and his powerfulk new ship, The Crystal designed by Admiral Hawkins, are sent on a se...

There are those who say - and Peter Cook himself was among them - that most of his humour was autobiographical. Others - and Peter Cook himself was among them -contend that this simply isn't the case. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle.Peter Cook made President Kennedy wait in line to see him and visited Elizabeth Taylor in her dressing room. He befriended tramps and fundraised for CND. He was capable of extraordinary kindnesses and occasional cruelties. He helped d...