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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and American
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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and AmericanCan't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and American

Gould's combination group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism artfully places the Beatles in their time and social context while examining with great skill how they became an international phenomenon comparable only to themselves.
 
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Tags: Beatles, great, skill, examining, while, American, Britain
Lyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer - A Biography
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Lyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer - A BiographyLyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer - A Biography

Lyndall Urwick was the dominant figure in British management between the late 1920s and the early 1960s. His writings and his passion in pursuit of management as a scientific and systematic activity rather than the rule-of-thumb approach to decision-making all too prevalent in Britain exercised a huge influence on management at the time; and ultimately management as we know it today.

 

 
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Tags: management, Lyndall, Urwick, prevalent, Britain, Biography, Pioneer
Environment and Children: Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment
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Environment and Children: Passive Lessons from the Everyday EnvironmentEnvironment and Children: Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility?
Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions.

 
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Tags: their, Environment, United, Britain, groundbreaking, Lessons, Everyday, Children
Window on Britain 2 Video Guide
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Window on Britain 2 Video GuideA unique insight into British life and culture. Window On Britain 2 topics are: Work, Animals, Holidays, The Media, Leisure, The Environment, Health, and Law and Order. The reports combine factual information with some semi-dramatized scenes.

The Video Guide contains full teaching notes, answers to exercises, cultural information and a transcript.

 
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Tags: Window, Video, Guide, information, Britain
Floodgate
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FloodgateFloodgate

Amsterdam Airport - the best in Europe - had disappeared. The wall of water was the work of FFF - an Irish terrorist group who want to force Britain's hand.
 
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Tags: group, force, Britain, Floodgate, terrorist