The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple's iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months. These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston's Big Dig? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In ... |
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Pocket editions. A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons. A glance at any web-site, discussion forum or social network shared by teachers of English suggests that teachers are constantly asking each other questions related to pedagogical grammar. These may simply be questions about terminology or categorisation (What's a clause?; Is like a preposition?), or they may seek to unravel subtle grammatical distinctions (What's the difference between for and ... |
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След като изнася цикъл от лекции, посветени на превода, Умберто Еко доразвива записките си в респектираща по своята оригиналност монография. В нея широкоспектърната академична култура на Еко като философ и семиотик се съчетава с диалогичния тон на университетския преподавател и атрактивността на прочутия писател. Безброй конкретни примери от собствените му произведения се редуват с казуси от световната литература, съпоставки между малки и големи езици, диалози на високата и масовата култура, коментари на кинематографични, музикални и живописни интерпретации. Резултатът е един забележителен труд, който разглежда най- ... |
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This book is a special edition of "Quick Reads" series. ... Have you ever been in the wrong place, at the wrong time? You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can't speak English. She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends' lives - and your own - in terrible danger? About the series "Quick Reads" are bite-sized books by bestselling writers and well-known personalities for the people who want a short, fast-paced read. They are designed ... |
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Румяна Вълчева-Еврова е изтъкната камерна певица, с богат и разнообразен репертоар от различни музикални периоди, стилове и жанрове. Изкуството ѝ е познато в Европа, Азия и Австралия. Често на сцената и в студиото ѝ партнира нейният съпруг Николай Евров. Той е професор в Националната музикална академия в София от 1985 г. и в Консерваторията в Сидни от 1986 г. ... |
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A counterintuitive approach to living a good life. In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be positive all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. F**k positivity Mark Manson says. Let's be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it. In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is-a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James's classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE. A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children - but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. ... |
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Illustrated by Elissa Elwick. ... A girl. A dog. A detective agency. Sally Stick and her fellow detective (and best friend) Fetch are surprisingly good at solving unusual cases. The cases may only exist inside their heads, and the clues may not exactly be clues, but that doesn`t stop them!"One of the greatest crime-fighting teams on our road." Mrs Harris at Number 45 ... |
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Adaptation and activities by Janet Borsbey and Ruth Swan. ... "After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home." Through the book A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she suspects ... |
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Has the proverbially "a(nti)-historical" analytic philosophy taken a "historical turn" as some analytic "insiders" have heralded recently? In this densely argued and extensively referenced book, Blagovest Mollov argues that it has not, mainly because the only relatively determinate meaning the term can be given derives from a dubious and equally vague "historicist" perspective. Outside, and even within, the latter, the author holds, what has come to be discussed as "the historical turn (of analytic philosophy)" is neither historical nor a turn, in the sense other " ... |
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Наръчник по финансова грамотност за деца. ... Искаш да станеш милионер? Ще те изненадаме ли ако ти кажем, че най-важна за успеха ти е финансовата грамотност? Разбирането на основни понятия и концепции за парите е задължително условие по пътя към първия милион. Изкарай пари. Ще научиш как да направиш пари - като се започне от петте прости начина да заработиш 100$ до плюсовите и минусите на първата работа или дори първият собствен бизнес. Спести пари. Точно така, милионерите са хора, които имат милион долара, а не тези които са похарчили милион долара. Това е най-голямата разлика. Умножи ги. Това е и тайната, която всеки ... |
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Превърнете пречките в предимства! ... Има много неща, които не са във вашата власт, но можете да контролирате онези, които всъщност имат най-голямо значение: своя ум и отношението си към света. Външните сили могат да повлияят съвсем малко на нашия успех. Онези, които се самопрограмират за успех, вървят неизменно и постоянно по пътя към него дори и при най-трудните обстоятелства. Решенията на повечето проблеми извират главно от един-единствен източник - самите вие. Да живееш живота си на пълни обороти е като да управляваш сред бързеите гумена лодка за рафтинг. След като сте стигнали дотам, трудно можете да обърнете ... |
