Virginia is an actor; she does not want this ordinary mess: she wants things formed in rehearsal, choreographed, with all the rough contingency of the everyday made good, no nagging doubt that we, our performance, could have been better. It is, in the end, performance: the love affair, the joke in the pub, the final, cutting, remark in an argument.Dan upends it by dying inconveniently. She wants Dan to be dead and she wants him back. What should I do, she thinks, and she goes to th...

With "Believe It. Own It. Do It." Jeffrey Alan Smith is sharing his journey of business success in the real estate industry so that new and interested real estate agents and professionals can learn valuable lessons and insider tips to enable them to reach their own personal best. In this book, readers who are seeking a career as real estate agents will learn practical and actionable ways to hit the ground running. From learning inventive marketing techniques, to strategies for closing a sa...

Three local experts reveal their favorite places to watch birds in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.In Best Places to Bird in the Prairies, three of Canada’s top birders reveal their favorite destinations for spotting local birds in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. They highlight thirty-six highly recommended sites, each of which has been expertly selected for the unique species that reside there. With exclusive lists of specialty birds, splendid color phot...

'Alan's book is like his game: incisive, thoughtful, intelligent and consistently hits the target' Gary Lineker'A brilliant, articulate, thoughtful man with a wonderful sense of humour: Smudge encapsulates all he is and knows in this fantastic book that will capture the hearts of every football fan' Tony Adams'It was different back then, at least through Arsenal eyes. This was a young, exciting team full of hope and desire, led by a man...

This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744. This is not the Victory of Trafalgar fame, however, but the First Rate built some thirty years earlier, the last Royal Navy three-decker to carry bronze cannons, and a ship whose poor design may well have contributed...

She doesn't care for the success of her older brother - now a best-selling novelist and confirmed bachelor. She has come to terms with the tragedy of losing both parents in her teens and she thought she could be content living alone in the village where she grew up.But Rose is finding it increasingly more difficult to control her life. Her upbringing had been far from 'rosey'.Increasingly, everyday occurrences and conversations resu...

An introduction to critical pedagogy for all those working within higher education.Critical Pedagogy is an approach that is fundamentally democratic, informal, non-hierarchical, determined by participants, privileges the oppressed and their perspectives and is committed to action. Higher education (HE), conversely, is often un-democratic, formal, hierarchical, determined by tutors and national bodies, re-inscribes existing privileges and is distant from lived exper...

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “confession”? Is confession a dreary command to be slavishly followed or a liberating grace to cherish? How much do you know about your faith and why you believe what you believe? Consider this your invitation to examine your faith and experience the spiritual discipline of confession. Study guide included.

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resistValue Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell.Using the same stunning v...

The branch of psychology that studies how physical objects are perceived by subjects is known as psychophysics. A feature of the experimental design is that the experimenter presents objectively measurable objects that are imperfectly perceived by subjects. The responses are stochastic in that a subject might respond differently in otherwise identical situations. These stochastic choices can be compared to the objectively measurable properties. This Element offers a brief introduction to t...

these are the diaries of a scottish rubber planter who joined the volunteers in malayasia and then the indian army as an officer. this book relates his experiences fighting the japanese when they invaded malaysia, then his capture in singapore and incarceration as a prisoner of war, followed by his travels in various camps in siam (thailand) and working on the death railway along the river kwai. the diaries were written in excercise books and hidden throughout his imprisonment. had they be...

How Charts Work brings the secrets of effective data visualisation in a way that will help you bring data alive.Charts, graphs and tables are essential devices in business, but all too often they present information poorly. This book will help you:Feel confident understanding different types of charts, graphs and tables – and how to read themRecognise the true story behind the data presented and what the information really showsKno...