For those of "advanced" tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. Massed housing of the 1920s and 30s was as untutored as the products of light industry and both operated far from the enlightened thinking coming out of Central Europe that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress.Robert Best, the only British industrialist to have trained at art school, shared the goal of better mass education but was ...

From Bedales to the Boche charts the history of two brothers, born into late Victorian England, who were sent by their idealistic, Germanophile father to Britain's most progressive secondary school, where the ideas of its pioneering headteacher and founder fostered their ambitions to become music-hall entertainers and then to master the challenges of the First World War.

How can you maximize your brain's true potential?Groundbreaking neuroscience studies are revolutionizing our understanding of "genius" and how it works. Brain Apps is the first book to consolidate the research into a unifying theory for radically boosting your achievement.Discover concrete steps anyone can take to create useful automatic habits, or "brain apps." Gain Real-world insights for better attitudes, better habits, and better performance-an...

Do you want to dramatically improve your selling performance? Do you want to uncover the tips and tricks that set the sales geniuses apart from the rest?In this book, multi-award-winning sales expert and Brain Apps author Robert Best will show you how to leverage the latest in neuroscience research to sell directly to your target: your customer's brain.•Learn why and how you should always appeal to yourcustomer's emotions.•Discover ...

**Good-Bye to All That** is the powerful autobiography of poet, novelist, and classicist Robert Graves, offering an unfiltered account of his life—from his early years in England to the harrowing realities of World War I. This memoir is renowned for its stark honesty and vivid depiction of the trauma and disillusionment wrought by war. Graves brings the horrors of trench warfare to life, recounting the brutality, camaraderie, and absurdity he witnessed on the Western Front. His detailed ob...

Have better ideas, faster, without the stress and burnout.It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us-even the accountants-have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand.Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular podcast, Henry has created a practical method for discovering y...

A social history of British women's brave yet forgotten service during WWI from a historian of female wartime experiences—includes photos.At the outbreak of World War I, women looking to contribute to the Allied effort were told by the war office to "go home and sit still." Thankfully, hundreds of thousands of women from all corners of society ignored that advice and lent their collective strength to the cause. In We Also Served, Vivien Newman digs beneath...

Practical techniques for applying neuroscience and behavior research to attract new customersBrainfluence explains how to practically apply neuroscience and behavior research to better market to consumers by understanding their decision patterns. This application, called neuromarketing, studies the way the brain responds to various cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli. Analysts use this to measure a consumer's preference, what a customer reacts to, and ...

A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot drink. That was what England was like in the early eighteenth century. Yet by the close ...

Volume 3 contains novels seven to nine of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.In this volume, containing books seven to nine of the sequence, Powell follows Nicholas Jenkins and a host of familar and ...

A revolutionary approach to unlocking****your innate ability to achieve success in business and in life.Why do we constantly feel overwhelmed by stress, dissatisfied in our careers and relationships, and lacking in real purpose? Why do we seem to sabotage ourselves, hampering our productivity and success? The answer lies in our instincts . . .In every area of life, from business to relationships to health, we act on outdated instincts that ...

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House in Chichester. It’s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver, ultimately a synagogue. It’s also the story of – among others – a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth, a block of flats in London’s East End, and what Ideal Home’s magazine described in 1926 as Britain’s ‘first modern house’ – in Northampton.Together these buildings reveal the ways in which E...