The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniqu...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind , Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. "There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the c...(展开全部)

A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction to British history.Just as much as kings and queens, battles and empire, Britain's...(展开全部)

西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama)，英国国家学术院院士、皇家文学学会会员。他1945年出生于伦敦，21岁在剑桥大学以优等生身份毕业，随后在剑桥大学和牛津大学教书。1977 年，他出版第一部专著《爱国者和解放者》，即获沃尔夫森历史奖。1980年，在哈佛大学谋得教席，后“转会”至哥伦比亚大学担任教授。在美国期间，他陆续出版了多本学术著作，获得了学界的极大关注和大批读者的认可。其中《财富的窘境》（1987）、《公民们》（1989）分别获得当年的《纽约时报书评》年度好书奖，《风景与记忆》（1995）获得W.H.史密斯文学奖。 1995年，沙玛受邀将《风景与记忆》改编为系列电视片，充分展示了其叙事功底和画面意识。之后，BBC邀请沙玛编写并主持大型纪录片《英国史》。沙玛特地迁回英国，专心投身于《英国史》的创作。这部15集的电视片于2000年开播，赢得如潮好评...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Covers every aspect of the negotiating process with practical, proven advice: from beginning steps to critical final moves.

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the ...(展开全部)

The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading historians who offer the fruits of the best modern scholarship to the ...(展开全部)

Between July 1761, when a navigable aqueduct opened on the Bridgewater Canal at Barton-upon-Irwell, and July 1963, date of the completion of the Thelwall Viaduct on the M6 near Warrington, Britain wou