In his exhilarating one-man show, Simon Callow brings Charles Dickens to life, as well as some of his best-loved characters.
The play was written by Peter Ackroyd, author of the definitive Charles Dickens biography. As well as recreating scenes from Dickens' novels, Ackroyd also explores the writer's famous reading tours of Britain and America and provides a fascinating social history of 19th century London.
In the more than fifteen years since its publication, the classic The 7
Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international
phenomenon with over fifteen million copies sold. Tens of millions of
people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most
important, as individuals have dramatically improved their lives and
organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic
book.
The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges and
complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional
lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude.
Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an
option -- survival in today's world requires it. But in order to
thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge
Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of
this new era in human history is for greatness; it's for fulfillment,
passionate execution, and significant contribution.
Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's
new reality requires a sea change in thinking: a new mind-set, a new
skill-set, a new tool-set -- in short, a whole new habit. The crucial
challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire
others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit.
So many people feel frustrated, discouraged, unappreciated, and
undervalued -- with little or no sense of voice or unique contribution.
The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul's yearning for greatness, the
organization's imperative for significance and superior results, and
humanity's search for its "voice." Profound, compelling, and stunningly
timely, this groundbreaking new book of next-level thinking gives a
clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the
Knowledge Worker Age.
Covey's new book will transform the way we think about ourselves and
our purpose in life, about our organizations, and about humankind. Just
as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on
effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness.
Spymaster secrets of learning foreign language
Whether learning in a class or on your own,
A Spymaster's Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language will be your guide
to success, allowing you to discover the joy of communicating within a
different culture. His humorous anecdotes and cultural insights will
enrich your experience.
This work contains 3 CDs and Listening Guide PLUS
Bonus CD! This is an essential guide for any language learning
adventure! It features all the tips and techniques which Fuller
discovered during his overseas career: organised, simplified, and
presented here to facilitate your language acquisition.
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
This engaging, accessible book of essays from Pulitzer Prize-winning philosopher and historian Durant, author of the authoritative 11-volume Story of Civilization, should be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of thought. Little, the founder and director of The Will Durant Foundation, includes in his slim compendium such works as "The One Hundred 'Best' Books For an Education" and "Twelve Vital Dates in World History." Durant's "The Ten 'Greatest' Thinkers" details minds as enlightening as Confucius and as influential as Darwin, whom Durant says "reduced man to an animal fighting for his transient mastery of the globe." "The Ten 'Greatest' Poets," charts a course from Homer's brilliance to Dante's haunted heart to Whitman's "frank and lusty" originality, in prose peppered with biographical bon mots and excerpts of the world's loveliest poems. Lay folks especially will find this a delightful introduction to Durant's irrepressible style. What else would one expect from Durant, an intellect who, when asked, "Whom in all of history would you most like to have known?" drolly replied, "Madame de Pompadour."
Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, Vittorio, is truly a new beginning--a more controlled story and probably the best of her last half-dozen books.
Rice has called Vittorio her vampire version of Romeo and Juliet. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire.
