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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 your customer's emotions. Discover the weird quirks of the human memory that keep you from making an impact on your customer—and how to overcome them. Whether you’re a novice or a sales veteran, understanding how the brain works will make your j...

This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility by providing examples from around the world. The chapters use the latest findings from the natural and social sciences to id...

Some have begun to wonder if the Church is relevant anymore? "The Holy Spirit" has revealed to Pastor and author Robert M. Best Jr. that the enemy's last attack, before Christ returns is to discredit the need for the Church in peoples individual lives. His plans are to seperate us from the streghts of assembly with our brothers and sisters. There is streght in numbers and Satan knows this! Your true deliverance is hidden in someone eles testimony!

For years, most of us believed that remarkably talented people were born different, and that exceptional performance lay beyond our grasp. Now, groundbreaking neuroscience studies are revolutionizing our understanding of “genius” and how it works. Brain Apps is the first book to consolidate that research into a unifying theory for radically boosting your achievement.Robert G. Best combines years of study with one-on-one interviews featuring renowned scientists like Karl Anders Eric...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Walt Whitman's "Hush'd Be the Camps Today" captures the poignant silence that descends upon the battlefields. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, Whitman paints a somber portrait of the aftermath, where the once-roaring cannons are now silent and the soldiers' voices have been stilled. This powerful and moving poem offers a profound meditation on the horrors of war and the fragility of human life.

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation, Jane Austen introduces us to the handsome, clever and very flawed Emma Wodehouse.While she is perfectly content with her life and has no interest in love or marriage for herself, she enjoys nothing more than matchmaking those around her. Mr Knightly tries to talk Emma Woodhouse out of this but when she pushes on anyway, her life, and the lives of the friends around her, are irreversibly changed...Published over 200 years ago, E...

Defense forces have always invested a great deal of their resources in training. In recent times, changes in the complexity and intensity of operations have reaffirmed the importance of ensuring that warfighters are adequately prepared for the environments in which they are required to work. The emergence of new operational drivers such as asymmetric threats, urban operations, joint and coalition operations and the widespread use of military communications and information technology networ...

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...