In hardcover for the first time, this tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller features a new foreword, discussion guides, and a creative journal. For over a decade, Bren Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth,

National Geographic\'s Road Atlas: Adventure Edition, is the ideal companion for the next time you hit the road. Includes up-to-date road maps for all 50 U.S. States, plus Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Major cities and metropolitan areas are shown in detail with inset maps that include popular attractions, infrastructure and points-of-interest.Setting this atlas apart from all other road atlases

A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists\' Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty and insightful correspondence from great artists. Arranged thematically, it includes writings and musings on love, work, daily life, money, travel

Regardless of industry, most major companies are becoming technology companies. The successful management of information has become so critical to a company\'s goals, that in many ways, now is the age of the CIO. Yet IT executives are besieged by a host of contradictions: bad technology can bring a company to its knees, but corporate boards rarely employ CIOs; CIOs must keep costs down at the very

V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the \'very voice of international conscience\', he is now a largely forgotten figure. This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers a diplomatic biography of his years as India\'s roving ambassador in the 1920s. It examines his involvement in key conferences and agreements, as well

Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America\'s greatest chroniclers. In the middle of the night on March 11, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed\'s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to her alma mater, the Madeira School. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had just shot Dr. Herman

Two parables that have become firmly lodged in popular consciousness and affection are the parable of the Good Samaritan and the parable of the Prodigal Son. These simple but subversive tales have had a significant impact historically on shaping the spiritual, aesthetic, moral, and legal traditions of Western civilization, and their capacity to inform debate on a wide range of moral and social issues

At this high school, instead of jocks and nerds, the students are divided into predators and prey. At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, it\'s personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastar--an academic and social role model destined to become a leader in a society naturally rife with mistrust? Dwarf rabbit Haru\'s odd

Karl Lagerfeld\'s world-famous cat dispenses essential advice on lifestyle, diet, fashion, beauty and international

\"\'Unstageable\' was the first reaction of the National Theatre\'s artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, to the idea of dramatizing His Dark Materials. But last night\'s opening night has triumphantly proved him wrong.\"--The Sunday TimesNicholas Wright has revisited his adaptation of Philip Pullman\'s best-selling fantasy trilogy, tightening and improving it, and this revised version is to be published

Bestselling author Isabel Losada brings her unique blend of humour, curiosity and honesty to the still-taboo subject of sexuality. This is a brave, funny and often vulnerable quest to find out how we can make our sex life blissful. On behalf of all women, slightly terrified, she begins with a woman\'s workshop where she has to get naked. From here, Isabel journeys through the first international conference

This practical handbook is an essential course companion for business and management students at degree level. It contains case studies, exercises, tips and self-assessment tools that will help students with their personal and professional development. The book covers key areas, such as: Learning and teaching methods Study strategies Time management Research methods Assessment activities Exam techniques

An American actress arrives in London to find herself the target of a ruthless assassin in this compelling standalone thriller. Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note that she was off to Paris for a few days and would be back in time for Addy\'s arrival. But when Addy reaches Rose\'s Knightsbridge address,

Study the science of all of us Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to view homo sapiens as a species and ask questions like: Given our common characteristics, why aren\'t all of us exactly the same? Why do people across the world have variable skin and hair color and so many inventive ways to say hello? And how can knowing the reasons behind

The trip of a

Geneticists/people of metal at the University of Nairobi conduct a centuries-long genetic engineering initiative that transforms biological Africans into an entirely new, immeasurably smarter human species. Meanwhile, the people of metal who led the Human Rescue Initiative in Africa have built human colonies on two distant planets to assure that humans survive somewhere.Colonists find strange mosaic-like

A fascinating exploration of the worlds worst mass extinction and how it shaped all subsequent life on our