Achieving Balance - A simple book that will change your life.'I strongly recommend that you have this book on your bedside table as a reference point for life'Would you like your life to feel more enjoyable and fulfilling?Is it time to empower yourself and take control of your emotions?Learn how to improve your relationship with yourself and others.Balance affects everyone, without exception.Achieving Balance is not the sole preserve of spirit...

Historically employed to estimate and measure the likely material requirements for any building project, the role of the modern quantity surveyor is diverse, with a wide range of employers and geographical locations to match. Change continues to be a feature in quantity surveying practice, with the New Rules of Measurement, the RICS Black Book and Building Information Modelling (BIM) all adding to the already dynamic environment in which the Quantity Surveyor operates. This new edition of ...

WILLIS’S PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR THE QUANTITY SURVEYORThe most up-to-date edition of the gold standard in introductory quantity surveying textbooksIn the newly revised Fourteenth Edition of Willis’s Practice and Procedure for the Quantity Surveyor, the authors provide a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the core skills required by quantity surveyors. This latest edition is thoroughly updated to emphasize the use of...

THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to signify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional verse, from the "Haunted Palace"

The collection of tales by the Grimm Brothers deal with some very murky human passions, and they hold the possibility of a productive way of being, on the other side of difficulty.

The ancient fable of two antagonistic spirits imprisoned in one body, equally powerful and having the complete mastery by turns-of one man, that is to say, inhabited by both a devil and an angel seems to have been realized, if all we hear is true, in the character of the extraordinary man whose name we have written above. Our own impression of the nature of Edgar A. Poe, differs in some important degree, however, from that which has been generally conveyed in the notices of his death.

Never before have the facts of life been presented in such an accessible—or novel—way. Our hero is Willy, a little sperm who lives inside Mr. Browne with 300 million friends. Every day Willy practices for the Great Swimming Race. And when the day arrives, he swims faster than his 300 million friends to win the prize—a marvelous egg. Then something wonderful happens, and eventually Mr. and Mrs. Browne have a baby girl who has the same winning smile as Willy and who grows up to be a great sw...

Bounding out of a violent past comes SAND . . . So begins SAND’S WAR about the toughest guy around, Sand. Just Sand. Written in 1963 by the enigmatic Ennis Willie, he thrust Sand on an innocent and cruel world and God help the world. Max Allan Collins, who knows his way around a violent novel or two, introduces SAND'S WAR and gives you ample warning about what you are in for, but it's doubtful you'll heed him. Sand is just too compelling, and by the time you have a toe dipped into the ragi...