This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Charisma is something that we know when we see it. When a charismatic person walks into a room, everybody knows it.It's that one quality that makes us attracted to this person. To want to be with this person. To listen to everything this person says. Luckily, charisma is not genetic or random. It is based on scientific interpersonal principles that you can learn, and you can exhibit. Communication skills, readin...

Students of the arts are empowered to explore new concepts, communicate confidently and grow into creative, critical thinkers. Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood and Primary Education emphasises the fundamental nature of the arts in learning and development. Arranged in three parts and focusing on the key areas of dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts, this book encourages educators to connect to the 'why', 'what' and 'how' of arts education. This fourth edition continues to prov...

In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form--not only from a specifically Chi...

This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the d...

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese ...

Charisma is something that we know when we see it. When a charismatic person walks into a room, everybody knows it. It's that one quality that makes us attracted to this person. To want to be with this person. To listen to everything this person says. Luckily, charisma is not genetic or random. It is based on scientific interpersonal principles that you can learn, and you can exhibit. Communication skills, reading and projecting body language, and the inner ideas and beliefs you ca...

Sam Beattie returns to Soviet-occupied Britain on a spying mission. What he inadvertantly discovers could change the entire course of the war....

David arrives on the Western Front in 1918 and wonders how he can ever survive life in the Army. This is a short story written in the centenary year of the outbreak of World War 1. The proceeds of this book will go to SSAFA.

To find yourself on a black list is bad enough but to find yourself on the Grey List and being pursued by Ted Dexter is worse. Much worse. Ted is Churchill's personal agent and he never gives up until the job is done....

Ex-soldier Sam Painter is a security consultant - whatever that means.  It just about pays the bills.  His humdrum life takes a seriously disturbing turn when he is given the job of protecting a foreign climate scientist on a brief visit to Belfast.  Sam is soon caught up in a world of intrigue he could never have throught possible....

In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but ...

As the war in France enters its final phase, with the British withdrawing from the beaches at Dunkirk, one man finds himself cast adrift.  In company with two other stragglers he reaches the evacuation beach too late to escape.  He becomes the Lost Man but his battle with Germany is just beginning....