The ability to engage and entertain your companions always stands you in good stead--but many people feel nervous with strangers or fear that they lack the skills to put others at ease. Fortunately, Her Ladyship is on hand to help you become a conversationalist par excellence! Embracing all sorts of situations from formal parties and business receptions to chance encounters and...(展开全部)

This completely reconceived and rewritten guide to the Metropolitan Museum's encyclopaedic holdings - the first new edition of the guidebook in nearly thirty years - provides the ideal introduction to almost 600 essential masterpieces from one of the world's most popular and beloved museums. It features a compelling and accessible design, beautiful colour reproductions, and up-...(展开全部)

巅峰表现教练D.C.冈萨雷斯是少数几位有幸跟随世界著名运动与巅峰表现权威彼得·西格尔学习的人之一。 自1988年以来，作者一直在帮助顶尖运动员、高管、演员、职业拳击手、音乐家、士兵、医生以及其他来自各行各业的来访者将自身的成就和表现提升到新的层级。

Communication within many organisations has been reduced to e-mail, electronic file transfer, and hasty sound bytes at hurried meetings. More and more, people appear to have forgotten the value of wisdom gained by ordinary conversations. This book convincingly restores this most human of attributes to prime place within businesses and organisations, and demonstrates what can be...(展开全部)

Reading the book, I had no trouble understanding how negative visualization could be an effective antidote against "hedonic adaptation." By imagining ourselves to be homeless, for instance, we can reset our desire for a more luxurious home and once again appreciate the roof over our head that we started taking for granted shortly after moving in.

This is a fully illustrated guide to the glorious riches of London's museums and galleries, drawing on the cream of the city's collections to create an easily navigable, narrative history of art. The guides unique approach allows you to locate your favourite artist or style of art in any museum and follow this throughout the museums of London. Do you like, say, the pre-Raphaeli...(展开全部)

The best guidebook for those who want to experience the finest art in New York. The first fully illustrated guide to the collections of New York's Museums and Galleries that actually works the way people like to see art. Rather than taking the old fashioned approach of listing the city's various museums and then describing highlights, this book focuses on the art. Arranged ch...(展开全部)

"This [is a] staggeringly impressive, wonderfully well-designed book...it's a near-perfect overview of art history." --Sunday Times (Culture Magazine), 30th November 2008 The ultimate visual guide to paintings and sculpture from around the world From the earliest cave paintings to Damien Hirst bring a gallery of the world’s finest art into your home and learn everything you nee...(展开全部)

China covers about 7% of the earth's land surface and encompasses a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result, it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. Building on the enormous popularity and reputation of the original A Field Guide to the Birds of China (2000), John MacKinnon's fu...(展开全部)

Why don't kids learn? Why can't students do higher order thinking? Why do educators have endless staff meetings with few results? How can parents and teachers communicate better? The pressure upon educators to teach more, to a wider range and number of students, with decreasing resources and supports makes it urgent to find tools to answer such questions. The Art of Focused Con...(展开全部)