• Owen Matthews Glorious Misadventures

  The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russias furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine...

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• Renata Calverley Let Me Tell You a Story

  Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rages around them. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her beautiful Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university...

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• Hugh Barker Hedge Britannia

  creations. Fromformal garden features to emphatically rustic barriers, Hugh exploresour hedges in all their diversity. Hedge Britannia offers a wittyinsight into the history of hedges and the way they relate to ourculture as well as our landscape. Hugh travels the breadth of Britainmeeting fellow enthusiasts who range from horticultural experts to theBrixton man who lovingly cultivated a whale-shaped hedge and ran intotrouble with the local council.

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• Aaltje Vincent, Jacco Valkenburg Career management via LinkedIn

  Networking is the way for finding new work. And this is done more and more online. LinkedIn has become an enormously popular network for maintaining business contacts, making it the perfect tool if you want to be found. How does LinkedIn work exactly? How can you use your online network to find a new job and new assignments? How do recruiters work and how can you use that knowledge to your advantage? All these questions are answered in this book. But it also offers a practical step-by-step...

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• Jan Schouten, Anke Baak, Wiebe Kamminga Improving teams

  There are many reasons why things go wrong in the way teams work together. With this book you learn to what degree certain factors can influence the way your team operates. The starting point for a lot of the questions and assignments is always your team. You will be confronted with questions such as How does that work in my team? What do I want to improve? and How can I go about that?. The book closes with a procedure that your team can use for setting up a work programme for team improvement. ...

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• Manage projects successfully

  Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task, but Manage Projects Successfully will help you do just that. Practical, easy to read and jargon-free, the book contains a quiz to assessstrengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, toptips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on howto avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sourcesof further help.

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• Willem Elders Josquin des Prez and his musical legacy

  A comprehensive guide for early music lovers and performers Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy is the most up-to-date contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16th-century and modern reception, a survey of the sources of his music, and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders, one of the most distinguished scholars...

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• Gender and Migration

  The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed...

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• Kees Klomp, Shinta Oosterwaal Thrive

  This book provides insights into alternative approaches to economics that are sustainable and just for both society and the planet in the long term. In twenty-four essays, internationally renowned economic thinkers like Kate Raworth, Charles Eisenstein, Clair Brown, Helena Norberg-Hodge and Daniel C. Wahl share the alternatives that are available to us such as doughnut economics, wellbeing economics, common good economics, regenerative economics, buddhist economics, commons economics, local economics,...

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• Aberrant Nuptials

  Unique focus on the relation between artistic research and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Aberrant Nuptials explores the diversity and richness of the interactions between artistic research and Deleuze studies. "Aberrant nuptials" is the expression Gilles Deleuze uses to refer to productive encounters between systems characterised by fundamental difference. More than imitation, representation, or reproduction, these encounters foster creative flows of energy, generating new material configurations...

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