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"A very funny performance, littered with wonderful lines and memorable images" (Literary Review)"This is a seriously funny book" (Sunday Times)"Not only hilarious but also insightful and informative" (Independent on Sunday)

David Suchet shares his many memories of creating this iconic television series and reflects on what the detective has meant to him over the years.

“Imagine a hybrid of Scooby Doo and The Catcher in the Rye and you get a little of this novel's flavour” (The Financial Times)“Genuine – and genuinely funny – dialogue, a satisfyingly tangled but not unbelievable mystery and delightful secondary characters” (Kirkus Reviews)

" Am fost fermecat de cantecele, dansul si costumele care erau diferite pe fiecare curs de rau, precum si de ceremoniile lor nuptiale, funerare, de riturile de trecere etc. Apoi am scris carti, iar albumele mele foto au fost publicate in Europa." (Miya Kosei)

Presented in a visually engaging format, this book is packed with case study examples from contemporary product designers, as well as screen shots, CAD models and images of rapid prototypes highlighting the design process. This book shows how CAD and RP software is used in product design and explains, in clear language, the similarities and differences between the different software packages and processes.

Over the last ten years there has been a huge growth in the area of materials for design, but most books on this subject deal with advanced, semi-formed materials (that is, materials sold as sheet, rod, tube, etc.). This book provides much-needed information on the raw materials, and the low-down on how these can be used. Organized into three sections embracing grown, oil-based, and mined materials, each entry includes information on key features, typical applications, production…

In an informed defence of innovative fashion, Marnie Fogg explains why challenging established codes of dress can be highly creative if also, at times, wildly controversial.

There is no doubt that at its best, medieval pattern design can match that of any other era, even though it has often been overlooked in favour of the styles devised after the Middle Ages. However, it was during the Romanesque and Gothic periods that two-dimensional decorative elements and structures were developed that remain popular even today. Their particularly strong qualities include bold and powerful forms and subdued colours. Medieval Patterns offers 100+ outstanding samples, carefully…

All men are Brothers features 108 leading contemporary poster artists, modern heroes and heroines who can be found relentlessly fighting the good design fight all over the world. All answered eight questions about life and design and offered a selection of their best work to date.

The aim of the book is to illustrate the different ways of understanding landscape, creating a dictionary that can convey not just the scope of the designing processes and their related actors, but to provide a first key for interpreting the various approaches to this discipline that has given rise to an entirely new dimension in designing the cityscape, turning the open space of the city into a space for art and sculpture, for garden and architecture, and into a new field for cultural…

The book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical hostility – from Cy Twombly’s scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat’s crude but spontaneous LNAPRK (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emin’s My Bed (1998) – and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are extensions of the artistic ideas of their time.

Welcome to the world of Victorian product design, and the improbable inventions that never quite made it into production during Britain’s period as the workshop of the world.These genuine domestic and professional designs, registered in the nineteenth century for the most unlikely innovations, have been boxed away – until now – deep in the vaults of The National Archives.Meticulous illustrations and descriptions accompany the boldest of claims for making daily life in a newly…

This volume features carefully selected products that showcase the innovative use of a particular material, focusing on specific categories of products – grown materials, surface fortification, advanced composites, additive manufacturing media, recycled materials and the integration of electricity. Clearly structured and illustrated with carefully selected images throughout, this book will connect material to reader and will inspire both students and professionals to pursue the optimal…

In The Secret, Debbie, a struggling leader finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance. In a desperate attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new mentoring program offered by her company. Much to her surprise, Debbie finds her mentor is the president of the company (Jeff Brown). Debbie decides that all she needs is the answer to one question: “What is the secret of great leaders?” She is convinced that if Jeff will tell her, she can apply the secret in her…

Leaders, managers, and mentors are charged with getting people to stretch their limits, but they avoid doing it because of the potential for tension and conflict - and besides, they don’t know if it’ll result in any lasting change anyway. Top executive coach Marcia Reynolds here offers a technique that enables readers to take their people through “the discomfort zone” with minimal pain and maximum gain.We can’t see our own blind spots (hence the name), so the role…

B Corps are an exciting, rapidly growing new form of business, and this is the definitive guide to becoming one - and to making the most of it once you’re certified. Author Ryan Honeyman worked closely with the cofounders of B-Lab, the organization that certifies B Corps, throughout the writing of this book.The goal of the B Corporation movement is to show how private business - one of the most powerful forces on the planet - can solve social and environmental problems while generating…

A strategic leader is essentially the leader of any organization and someone who has to steer the company in times of change, whilst motivating and inspiring their team.Strategic Leadership from the renowned leadership expert John Adair encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, transferable skills and the art of inspiring others. It then describes the role itself and broad functions of that role such as…

Since employees who walk out the door cost their companies up to 200 percent of their annual salaries to replace; retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. And with so many surveys reporting that employees are unhappy and not working up to their full potential, engagement is a second serious and costly issue. The latest edition of this Wall Street Journal bestseller offers twenty-six simple strategies - from A to Z - that managers can use to address their…

As a banker in Silicon Valley in the 80s, and an entrepreneur who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the 90s, Bill Fisher has seen first-hand that raising capital is the most important part of the startup process. Regardless of vision, motivation, and commitment to social responsibility, nothing will happen without capital. But most entrepreneurs continue to make rookie mistakes that stop them before they have a chance to get started.Fisher looks at six traditional steps in…

Drawing from their own ten-year partnership and from interviews with women business partners across the world, Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of shared support, balance, and a freedom to be themselves that is rarely found in other work relationships.Power Through Partnership is a call for women ready to build on their inherent strengths and to collaborate in trust-based professional relationships. Polk and Chotas…

Top trainer and coach Susan Fowler urges leaders to stop trying to motivate people! It's frustrating for everyone involved, and it just doesn’t work. You can’t motivate people - not if you want a genuine commitment to excellence from them. Applying recent, often surprising psychological discoveries, she lays out a tested process for helping people motivate themselves, in ways that not only increase productivity and engagement but that also give them a profound sense of purpose and…

Ben & Jerry’s have always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world’s best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company’s success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn’t been easy.This is the first book to tell the full, inside story of the inspiring rise, tragic mistakes, devastating fall, determined recovery, and ongoing renewal of one of the most…

More than any other practice in your career, your ability to manage time will determine your success or failure. It's a simple equation. The better you use your time, the more you will accomplish, and the greater your rewards will be. This pocket-sized guide reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day. Featuring the strategies that business expert Brian Tracy has identified as the most effective and that he himself employs,…

Cambridge Marketing Handbook: Marketing Communications looks at the contemporary integrated communications mix, in the light of the changes in digital marketing and aims to give an overview of the current tools that marketers need to have under their belts. Coverage includes: the purpose and uses of communications; the promotional mix; advertising tools; public relations and media tools; the meaning of consumer behaviour; communications plans and evaluation methods. The Handbook also…

Jahrhunderte lang wurden unsere Volksmärchen in den Kinderstuben und am Spinnrad weitererzählt, bis Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm sie niederschrieben. Hier sind die schönsten Märchen zusammengestellt: Geschichten von sanftmütigen Prinzessinnen und klugen Bauerntöchtern, von mutigen Jünglingen und hartherzigen Vätern, von gewitzten Zwergen und hilfsbereiten Tieren.

Die kleine Dorothy wird im Traum von einem Wirbelsturm in das Land des Zauberers entführt. Dank ihres Mutes, ihrer Tatkraft und Hilfsbereitschaft und mit Hilfe ihrer Freunde – eine Vogelscheuche, ein Blechholzfäller und ein Löwe – überwindet sie alle Hindernisse und kehrt nach Hause zurück.

Das fliegende Märchenbuch bringt Yoyo und Doc Croc in die Märchenwelt von Simsala. Dort treffen sie die fleißige Anna. Als Anna in einen verzauberten Brunnen fällt, springen Yoyo und Doc Croc natürlich gleich hinterher, um sie zu retten. Die drei Freunde staunen nicht schlecht, als sie sich plötzlich in der wundersamen Wolkenlandschaft von Frau Holle wiederfinden. Für Jungen und Mädchen ab 4 Jahren

Auf ihrem fliegenden Märchenbuch reisen Yoyo und Doc Croc in die geheimnisvolle Märchenwelt von Simsala, wo sie fantastische Abenteuer erleben. Diesmal helfen sie Aladin, den bösen Zauberer zu besiegen und das Herz der Prinzessin zu erobern. Mit diesem reich bebilderten Vorlesebuch zur bekannten TV-Sendung erleben Kinder von heute die beliebte Geschichte "Aladin und die Wunderlampe" auf neue, lebendige Weise.

Auf ihrem fliegenden Märchenbuch landen Yoyo und Doc Croc direkt bei dem jungen Müllersburschen Hans. Der bekommt von seinem Meister für seine Arbeit einen Klumpen Gold. Doch wie staunen Doc Croc und Yoyo, als Hans das Gold gegen ein Pferd eintauscht und das wiederum gegen eine Kuh Für die beiden ist klar: Der gutmütige Hans braucht ihre Hilfe. Für Mädchen und Jungen ab 4 Jahren

Der Aufbau dieses Buches hilft dem Kind, sich anhand von einfachsten Dingen - wie Farben, Zahlen und Buchstaben - einen Grundwortschatz anzueignen. Das geht ganz leicht durch Zeichnungen, neben denen das pasende Wort steht, von Gegenständen, Obst, Gemüse, Blumen, Spielsachen, Kleidungsstücken, Tieren usw.