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Whether overcoming geographical obstacles, winning decisive battles or meeting sales targets, history shows that oblique approaches are the most successful, especially in difficult terrain. This title applies the author's universal theory to topics ranging from international business to town planning and from football to managing forest fires.

A passionate history of the war on heresy which dominated medieval Europe.

A collection of stories featuring Modesty Blaise.

The Romans regarded Cleopatra as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was Cleopatra, really? This biography discusses about Cleopatra.

Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks which can waste millions of pounds.

Helps you meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has hired to operate in international war zones and on American oil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops.

Modesty's latest adventure takes place in the jungles of South America, where she and her loyal henchman, Willie Garvin, take on the evil Mistress of Limbo. The Mistress has enslaved the people of Limbo, including Modesty's friend Danny.

Modesty Blaise is about to retire from her criminal empire, the Network. But there is one final, astounding mission before she can leave.Years later, she faces the consequences of this final mission when she is drawn into conflict with a mysterious group called 'The Watchmen'. Is the plan to destroy the Western world being orchestrated by the Watchmen?There have been few other female action heroines like Modesty Blaisea tough orphan who became the leader of the Network, a crime syndicate specializing in art theft and industrial espionage. This 10th book of her adventures begins with a flashback to the last days of the Network, when Modesty was about to retire, and describes the organization s final, astonishing operation before it disbanded. This operation is echoed several years later when Modesty, with her peerless lieutenant Willie Garvin, finds herself drawn into conflict with the mysterious group known as the Watchmen, who have plans to kill Modesty in London and then destroy San Francisco s Golden Gate bridge. Modesty and Willie find themselves prisoners on a drillship off the Ilhas Desertas and must use their resourcefulness to escape."

Charting the final adventures of Modesty Blaise, Cobra Trap is a selection of stories from Modesty's life running her criminal empire, the Network, to working for British Intelligence.

The rugged team of Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin take on impossible odds, pitted against Simon Delicta, the man with a taste for death, and Swordmaster Wenczel in a duel to the death. As the adventure unfolds, travelling from London to Panama before reaching the depths of the Sahara desert, the pair will need their killing skills to survive.

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power is derived from the family bank. This book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank.

Towering across time as the painter of the "Mona Lisa", forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. This title includes a selection of sketches, diagrams and writings from his notebooks.

Over twenty years Wilhelm Reich, a psychologist and doctor of medicine, studied the relationship between the emotional, physiological and physical functions of biological energy. He saw the orgasm as the key to the body's energy metabolism, discovering that the biological emotions governing the psychic processes are themselves the immediate expression of strictly physical energy - which he named the cosmic orgone. Initially derided, Reich's theories are now seen as crucial to our understanding of ourselves and our fellow men. In appreciating why the orgasm brings a feeling of physical and emotional well-being, we can also gain insight into the physical and emotional ills that result from a thwarting of this bioenergetic function. Many researches into psychic energy believe that the aura recorded by Kirlian photography is nothing less than the manifestation of Reich's orgone energy.

From psychotherapy to Logotherapy. Is there any meaning to life? In this internationally acclaimed book Dr Frankl draws on his experience in Nazi concentration camps and argues that the most important need of the individual is to find meaning to life.

Devised in the early part of this century, the Hay diet became known as food combining. It is based on the idea that separating protein meals from carbohydrate meals helps the body digest food more easily. This book explains simply the principles behind this diet.

Modesty Blaise's loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, is kidnapped and brainwashed into believing that Modesty is dead and that he must kill her murderer - a woman who looks exactly like Modesty herself. Pawns in a deadly game, Modesty and Willie must fight against the diabolical ingenuity of Pilgrim's plan.

In this classic return we see Modesty both at her most feminine and at her toughest.

The only authorised edition, translated from the original German.

A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle by a Nobel Laureate, this tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century.

The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. This book examines its history.

Now updated and revised, this title is your passport to renewed vitality as it attacks the effects of junk food and pollution with a prescription of food combinations and natural wholefoods.

Offers information on how to motivate and inspire others - and yourself. This book provides tools, tips and techniques. It examines what it takes to motivate yourself, at work and at home, as the basis for inspiring and motivating those around you.

G. T. Karber brings you the first Murdle novel for young readers, based in the fiendishly mysterious world of the bestselling series. Join Jake as she investigates the sinister disappearance of one of her teachers with the help of her trusted friend, as well as the inscrutable school bully, uncovering clues, suspects and more than one secret along the way.

On a hot May night, three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Decades later, none of the participants can remember what transpired; but their clouded memories bind them together. Unable to move on, Pam Stuyvesant is an epileptic haunted by strange sensual visions. Her husband Lucas believes that a dwarfish creature is stalking him, and invents histories to soothe Pam's fears. Self-styled Sorcerer Yaxley becomes obsessed with a terrifyingly transcendent reality. The narrator is seemingly the least effected participant in the ritual: he is haunted by the smell of roses, and his guilt as he attempts to help his friends escape the torment that has engulfed their lives. Strange, dreamlike and moving, The Course of the Heart is an examination of the edges of humanity, where we lie, hide, hurt and heal.

An Economist Edge series guideWith workplace stress and burnout at record levels, everyone needs to understand the mental health challenges we face at work. But these challenges can be hard to anticipate and manage, whether we're tackling our own sense of overwhelm or trying to help a colleague. And that matters, not just for individuals, but for team and organisational wellbeing too. Poor mental health is miserable for the people affected; it's also bad news for performance and success more widely. That's why we need to work on our Wellbeing Intelligence (WBQ), a first-aid kit of tried and tested tools and techniques to help us assess and manage mental wellbeing as individuals, in teams and as part of wider organisational cultures. From self-care and self-assessment to how to help others and the right kinds of policies and support, Wellbeing Intelligence offers a practical guide to better mental wellbeing for everyone at work.