Shhh...Did you know that there is a secret Language of Leadership: a timeless set of verbal, vocal and physical cues that still determines who rises to the top of politics and business today? For thousands of years, rhetoricians have tried to crack this code. It is only now, with new advances in neuroscience, that we can say for sure what works. Winning Minds is the definitive guide to the Language of Leadership. Top speechwriter, Simon Lancaster, shows how great leaders gain power by winning over people's instinctive, emotional and logical minds. With dozens of subtle but powerful practical techniques, the author shows how you can lead with language. * People are more likely to buy a product if it has three benefits, rather than four - so 'cheaper, better, faster' is better than 'cheaper, better, faster, greener'; * People are more likely to invest in a share if the metaphor of personification is used - so 'shares leapt' is better than 'shares bounced'; * People are more like to believe something is true if it rhymes - so 'we've got to seal the deal' is better than 'we've got to sign the contract'. Winning Minds will change the way you think about communication forever.
THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands. 'Brilliant.' TOM HOLLAND 'A beautiful book, truly original . . . It is a marvellous achievement.' IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England 'Well researched, beautifully written and packed with interesting detail.' CLAIRE TOMALIN 'An exquisitely written, moving and elegiac exploration.' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB 'Consistently interesting . . . Green's passion and historical vision bursts from the page, summoning up the past in surround sound and sensual prose.' CAL FLYN, THE TIMES, author of Islands of Abandonment Historian Matthew Green travels across Britain to tell the forgotten history of our lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages. Revealing the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate - and exploring how they have left their mark on our landscape and our imagination - Shadowlands is a deeply evocative and dazzlingly original account of Britain's past. 'An eloquent tour of lost communities.' PD SMITH, GUARDIAN 'A haunting, lyrical tour around the lost places of Britain.' CHARLOTTE HIGGINS, author of Under Another Sky 'A miraculous work of resurrection, stinging in a perpetual present'. IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine 'Beautifully written.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Startling.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Splendid.' THE HERALD 'Compelling.' HISTORY TODAY 'Excellent.' THE SPECTATOR 'Fascinating.' DAILY MAIL 'Accomplished.' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 'Outstanding.' MIRROR
SHORTLISTED, WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK of the YEAR, 2020. When Ian Ridley's wife, the trailblazing sports reporter Vikki Orvice, died of cancer at the age of 56, he found himself plunged deep into a sadness that he expected and a world of madness that he did not. In an attempt to make sense of it all and seek some solace from the brutality of his grief and anxiety, he embarks on a summer of watching county cricket. Reliving bitter-sweet memories in places he and Vikki had visited together, he is alternately unnerved and consoled by the ebbs and flows of his mourning. But gradually, against a backdrop of the County Championship's peace and solitude - with the sun on his back and tea, cake and crossword at his side - he finds a way to survive the rhythms and cadences of his grief. The Breath of Sadness is an unflinching account of how we carry on when we are left behind, and a poignant, tender and candid exploration of love and loss. Autorid: Ian Ridley
When Seth Burkett answers a tweet calling for overseas players to join a professional Sri Lankan football team in a new tournament, he has no idea what awaits him. The team is Trinco Titans, owned by Sri Lankan cricketing legends Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, and he will be spending the summer playing in the North Eastern Premier League. Unfortunately, he is in the dark about the quality of football, the standard of pitches, the delicate local political tensions, even the dates of the fixtures... Before long, he is fully immersed in the Titans family, experiencing everything the country has to offer him: new friendships, picture-postcard beaches, a relaxed approach to organisation and time-keeping, thousands of new Facebook followers, and a crash course in the Teardrop Isle's recent troubled history. There will be results to forget but it will be a summer to remember. Autorid: Seth Burkett
This collection features a selection of masterworks by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, presented in a simplified version for the beginner. 10 easy and fun themes to play as solos, that can be accompanied by piano or guitar (chords symbols are inclu
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 216, Publishers: Transit Books, Author: Ros Schwartz, ISBN-13: 9798893380309, Date of issue: 2025
"After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return-with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality, and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American poetry. "I'm coming to you live," Jonah Mixon-Webster announces early on in Promise/Threat, "from the corner of Shit Blvd. and Out O' Luck St. / with my monkey paws." So begins a three-part journey of a troubled rebirth, one that ushers the reader through all the torment of a Dantean comedy as it climbs unsteadily from darkness to light, navigating an internalized landscape that evokes the Flint, Michigan of the poet's youth. In the long central sequence, "Territory,"Mixon-Webster sets the reader in a mirror hall of dreams, where one's nemesis (or one's self) is always lurking around the corner. Violences of the waking life-"the real and various guns pulled on me"-trickle into the narrator's sleep, as he flees from vision to vision, "picking the fruit in one dream and eating it in the next." And though the poet begins to wake in the book's third and final section, he's still running from the "body snatchers / in uniform." Mixon-Webster's musings turn to love, and theoften destructive desires it provokes in us, as he grapples with how to carry the burden of a past that threatens to sabotage your future. These are seeking, supple poems, whose forms adapt to contain their transfigured images. What emerges in this daring second collection is a surreal and haunting portrait of life in modern America, where pitfalls hide in every promise"-- Provided by publisher. After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Awardwinning poet makes his highly anticipated returnwith a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American poetry.Im coming to you live, Jonah Mixon-Webster announces early on in Promise/Threat, from the corner of Shit Blvd. and Out o Luck St. / with my monkey paws. So begins a three-part journey of a troubled rebirth, one that ushers the reader through all the torment of a Dantean comedy as it climbs unsteadily from darkness to light, navigating an internalized landscape that evokes the Flint, Michigan, of the poets youth.In the long central sequence, Territory, Mixon-Webster sets the reader in a mirror hall of dreams, where ones nemesis (or ones self) is always lurking around the corner. Violences of the waking life trickle into the narrators sleep as he flees from vision to vision, picking fruit in one dream and eating it in the next. In the books third and final section, as the poet begins to wake, he finds that the real poem is the life Im writing. Mixon-Websters musings turn to love and the often-destructive desires it provokes in us as he grapples with how to carry the burden of a past that threatens to sabotage the future.These are seeking, supple poems whose forms adapt to contain their transfigured images. What emerges in this daring second collection is a surreal and haunting portrait of life in modern America, where pitfalls hide in every promise. Autorid: Jonah Mixon-Webster
In diesem Standardwerk der Schmiedekunst geht es um das Handwerkszeug des Kunstschmieds: Amboss, Hämmer, Feuerzangen und Schmiedeherd. Dazu werden die vielfältigen Arbeitsvorgänge in über 600 Einzeldarstellungen beschrieben. Anfänger und Laien sollen angesprochen werden, aber auch der geübte Kunstschmied findet hier viele Dinge, die er in dieser Form noch nicht gesehen hat.
Homosexuality still is a taboo subject in architectural history. When historical architectural personalities have lived outside the heterosexual norm, their private lives are readily shrouded in mysterious obscurity. As long as penal laws endured, social existence was constantly threatened and hiding was a necessity. Defensive strategies were needed to protect themselves. To track down these outsiders of the past, historical sources must be read queerly. Wolfgang Voigt, until 2015 deputy director at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt/Main, and architectural historian Uwe Bresan set out on their search and present the results of their research in this book. It brings together 41 portraits from the 18th to the 20th century in North America, Europe and Palestine. The book reveals architects from the Baroque era to the modern age, surprising biographies, admirable houses and, not infrequently, intelligently designed refuges with which the protagonists protected their private lives.
Beaten, abused and abandoned as a child, Daniel J. O'Connor struggles daily as an adult searching for a normal existence. His one burning desire is to find a woman to love that he can call his wife. But Daniel finds out there is a price he has to pay for love-a very high price indeed. Thus the stage is set for this page-turner of a book. John S. Meade has created an unforgettable story that not only shows the beauty of love but also the crippling pain of misplaced love. A tale of action and romance, "Nobody's Investment"is a book that once you have started you won't be able to put down until its surprise and poignant ending.
Architect Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer admits that he needs to rethink his stance in light of the escalating climate crisis - or at least really develop it! Just like the vast majority of architects. But he has his doubts. On the one hand, everyone says the same thing; on the other, there are contradictions at every turn. Before Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer can find his stance, he has to go through the labyrinth following a guiding thread. Der Nachhalt is the title of a series of publications that doc- uments and underpins the transformation of the architecture office of caspar. into a spe- cialist in sustainable construction. The Prologue is dedicated to the prerequisites for this task. This volume presents numerous facts and positions relating to sustainability in an in- formative, graphic manner, with just the right sense of irony and provocation
