If only everything in the countryside came with helpful name tags and instructions attached, knowing stuff about nature would be child's play. Until that day, "The Armchair Naturalist" is at hand to guide even the most urban of settlers in the ways of Britain's flora and fauna. Teeming with illustrations, The Armchair Naturalist will transform you overnight into an expert on an...(展开全部)

If only everything in the countryside came with helpful name tags and instructions attached, knowing stuff about nature would be child's play. Until that day, "The Armchair Naturalist" is at hand to guide even the most urban of settlers in the ways of Britain's flora and fauna. Teeming with illustrations, The Armchair Naturalist will transform you overnight into an expert on an...(展开全部)

Sarah Cooper has appeared smart in virtually every meeting she's ever attended, even the virtual ones. During her time at Yahoo! and Google, Sarah began jotting down these tricks while pretending to pay attention. Soon after, she created the satirical blog, TheCooperReview.com, read by hundreds of thousands around the world. Sarah lives with her husband Jeff in San Francisco an...(展开全部)

Modern academia is increasingly competitive yet the writing style of social scientists is routinely poor and continues to deteriorate. Are social science postgraduates being taught to write poorly? What conditions adversely affect the way they write? And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig’s witty and entertaining book analyses these qu...(展开全部)

Michael Billig has been Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University for more than twenty-five years and has written books on a variety of different subjects. Among his books are Freudian Repression (Cambridge, 2009) and Arguing and Thinking (Cambridge, 1987 and 1996).

Modern academia is increasingly competitive yet the writing style of social scientists is routinely poor and continues to deteriorate. Are social science postgraduates being taught to write poorly? What conditions adversely affect the way they write? And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig’s witty and entertaining book analyses these qu...(展开全部)

A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with...(展开全部)

A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with...(展开全部)

The only strategy book you'll ever need If strategy is about creating a competitive advantage that allows a firm to win, then pinpointing your strategy to a few critically important choices will dramatically increase your chances of success. This is especially true in the volatile and complex environment that has become the norm for all of us. Yet the authors of Playing to Win,...(展开全部)

The only strategy book you'll ever need If strategy is about creating a competitive advantage that allows a firm to win, then pinpointing your strategy to a few critically important choices will dramatically increase your chances of success. This is especially true in the volatile and complex environment that has become the norm for all of us. Yet the authors of Playing to Win,...(展开全部)