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Professor of Leadership by the People’s Republic of China, the title that was once afforded to Confucius himself, the only non-Chinese person ever to be offered the mantle of the Master. Western and Eastern leadership philosophies at first appear different but, as Adair swiftly shows us, they are in fact delightfully complimentary, Confucian philosophy clarifying and crystallising Western concepts and ideas. Confucius’s sayings, or Analects, reveal how to improve all aspects of leadership management, analysis, appraisal, encouragement, improvement, inspiration, communication, motivation and decision-making. Whether you already lead a team or organisation or have aspirations so to do, this unique and endlessly fascinating combination of the best ancient and modern wisdom from East and West will help develop the confidence, character and skills to be the best leader possible. If your leading days are over, it is also an excellent treatise on the nature of leadership and its travails. 184pp softback. £11.99 NOW £4


75225 ON THE MONEY: The Economy in Cartoons 1925-2009


edited by Robert Mankoff Robert Mankoff is cartoon editor of The New Yorker and a gifted cartoonist in his own right. Here, he has selected over 400 of the magazine’s best cartoons on the theme of money. Whether the stock market is up or down, this hilarious book will


keep readers laughing at over 80 years of classic cartoons on banking, investments, employment, and the economy. Our favourite is the two corporate types who are placing a report on their boss’s desk, saying: ‘These projected figures are a figment of our imagination’. 260 pages 26cm x 21cm, cartoons, index of cartoonists. £16.99 NOW £7.50


75575 FEMME DIGITALE by Michael Burns


This book demonstrates how to produce images of beautiful women from scratch using software designed for the purpose and creating a female form to a precise specification. The book introduces the technology and terms used in high-end 3-D applications and professional graphics software. Adobe Photoshop offers the use of layers, allowing you to work on a single section, Poser has the advantage of over 70 ready-made poseable figures, while Maya provides highly versatile all-round modelling software. A chapter on Components and Ingredients covers lighting, texture and figure geometry, and finally there is a gallery of 50 alluring digital creations. 224pp, softback, colour photos.


$29.95 NOW £3.50


76315 OIL ROAD: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London


by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello Building on a decade of study with Platform - a London- based arts, human rights and environmental justice organisation - and embarking on a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, the authors track the concealed routes along which flow the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude oil has, for a long time, inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, to the Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region’s oil reserves has shattered environments and shaped societies. Pipelines and tanker routes tie the fraying social democracies of Italy, Austria and Germany to the repressive regimes of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. A web of financial and political institutions in London weaves together the lives of metropolis and village. Readers are guided through the previously obscured landscape of energy production and consumption, resistance and profit that, for over a century, has marked Europe. This controversial volume aims to open readers’ eyes to where the human race is heading along the Oil Road. 362 pages, maps. £16.99 NOW £5


76531 UNTANGLING THE WEB: What the


Internet Is Doing to You by Aleks Krotoski From Toronto to Timbuktu, Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, more than two billion people use the World Wide Web. Nine hundred million of us connect and share news on Facebook and over five hundred million tell friends, lovers, strangers and stalkers what we had for breakfast on Twitter. The author, a social psychologist, unpicks how the new technology affects us personally, socially and as a society. How has the web changed our concept of privacy? Will it lead to a global social revolution, or is the government already using it to control us? Tells the real story of how the network is woven into our lives and what, if anything, we should, or can, do about it. 216 paperback pages. £12.99 NOW £4


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75934 HOW TO START AND RUN A B & B


by Stewart Whyte


A Practical Guide to Setting Up and Managing a Successful Bed and Breakfast Business - Revised and Updated Third Edition. This handy volume will help you to determine who your customers are likely to be, to manage the necessary financial tools, to make ready your


house for B & B or to help you buy or build a new one, to market your property and - most importantly - to ensure that not only do you make a profit from your enterprise, but that you thoroughly enjoy your new life. 316 paperback pages, illus. £16.99 NOW £3


LITERATURE & CLASSICS The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.


- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey


76871 LADIES’ PARADISE by Emile Zola


First published in French in 1883 and first translated into English in 1957, here is the revised translation of 2008 with extra material in glamorous 2013 paperback. Set in the heart of a city, Zola’s novel, the 11th in his Rougon-Macquart series - evokes the giddy pace of Paris’s transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place during the


second half of the 19th century. Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification, the ‘Ladies’ Paradise’ depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of Denise, a young shop girl from the provinces, and Octave Mouret the dashing young director of a shopping emporium. The couple find themselves torn between the conflicting forces of love, loyalty and ambition. As seen on TV. 443pp, softback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


76934 GENIUS OF DICKENS by Michael Slater


Having studied the works of Charles Dickens for over 50 years, Michael Slater illuminates the truth of a famous tribute paid to Dickens: ‘The more you want out of the Master, the more you’ll find in him.’ Widely ranging over Dickens’s fiction, journalism, letters and speeches, the book looks at ideas and inspirations behind Britain’s greatest novelist and


his beliefs, social and artistic ideals, Dickensian ‘values’ and the ambition that shaped his prodigious output. An inspiring portrait of the man and the writer with list of abbreviations and further reading and in a beautifully designed Duckworth hardback. 184pp. £10.99 NOW £4


76940 BEOWULF


translated by John McNamara Describing the thrilling adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the 6th century, Beowulf is widely regarded as the first true masterpiece of English literature. Its lyric intensity and imaginative vitality are unparalleled, and the poem has greatly influenced many novelists and poets, most notably Tolkien. Part history and part


mythology, Beowulf opens in the court of the Danish king where a horrible demon named Grendel devours men in their sleep every might. The hero Beowulf arrives and kills the monster, but joy turns to horror when Grendel’s mother attacks the hall to avenge the death of her son. Ultimately triumphant, Beowulf becomes king himself and rules peacefully for 50 years until one dark day, a foe more powerful than any he has yet faced is aroused - an ancient dragon guarding a hoard of treasure. This time victory exacts a terrible price. 128pp in paperback with introduction and notes by John McNamara. £6.99 NOW £3


76209 THE RED & THE BLACK by Stendhal


Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe. The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great ‘realist’ novel of the 19th century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the


stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimilitude the ‘moral and morose’ France of 1830. However ‘moral and morose’ his novel is definitely not. Ironic, fast-moving, entertaining and incisive in its social criticism, it is a novel of ambition and passion, of indignation and tenderness, of polemic and poetry, which speaks to us today, as clearly as it did to the author’s contemporaries, of the heights, depths and idiocies of which our human nature is capable or culpable. 528pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


77234 PATRIOTIC POEMS: An Anthology


selected by Michael Wylie Rule Britannia, Agincourt, Henry V Act Three Scene One by Shakespeare, The Golden Vanity c1600, Lament for Flodden by Jean Elliot (1727-1805), A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth, After Blenheim, Sir Walter Scott’s Patriotism, Tennyson’s Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava and Charge of the Light Brigade, three poems by


Henry Lawson, Rupert Brooke’s The Soldier, William Blake’s Jerusalem, Browning’s Home Thoughts from Abroad and Home Thoughts from the Sea, Land of Our Birth by Kipling and Land of Hope and Glory by Arthur Benson are among this stirring collection of 47 favourites. Pocket sized bonded leather gold tooled Jarrold Poets Series collectable. ONLY £3


76878 ONE FOR THE BOOKS by Joe Queenan


Books have never been more under threat than they are now, but with defenders like the veteran columnist Joe Queenan they surely still have a glorious future. Queenan outlaws books about businessmen or politicians, and always waits for the dust to settle on This Year’s Book before deigning to open it. On his shelves the books are elegantly


arranged in height order, but he acknowledges that they are no longer an element in fashionable decor: ‘Inuit knickknacks make a bolder statement’. Queenan has always had an aversion to book clubs, and has scoured the internet looking for the more absurd questions they mysteriously discuss. “Would divorce and remarriage have helped Anna Karenina?” Possibly, but would it have been good for book clubs? Based on his researches, Queenan formulates some alternative questions. “If Heathcliff were alive today, would he mention Cathy’s death on his Facebook page and say that he was no longer in a relationship?” This collection of book-related journalism includes bizarre bookstores Queenan has known, and also bad books, on which he is something of an expert, dividing them into “the stupid, the mega- stupid, and the ones written by O. J. Simpson”. In Paris he visits key sites associated with writers, although in England he would not bother with “the pub where A. S. Byatt’s cribbage league dukes it out every Thursday night”. A delight for every bibliophile. 244pp. $24.95 NOW £6


77196 POETRY OF THE WORLD WARS


edited by Michael Foss Encompassing a wide range of work from the poets of both world wars, as well as ‘the years between’, this sensitive collection covers not only some of the best poems from such luminaries as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke but also lesser- known, but equally compelling


verse by ordinary soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians. The advent of ‘total war’ in 1914 shocked the young poets in uniform into a new voice, as they desperately tried to re-define war and thus exorcise it. In the social and political malaise of the inter-war years, when quietism and appeasement reigned, war became ‘unthinkable’. When the unthinkable happened again in 1939 and the realisation dawned that ‘the war to end all wars’ had been no such thing, the language of 1918 no longer seemed appropriate. Whilst rage, pity and disgust predominated in the earlier world war, the poems of World War II revealed a private grief and a great emptiness - the bleakness of despair, of humans faced with the utter devastation of the atomic bomb. Here are works that will move you deeply - a portrait of a nation and its allies engaged in two of the greatest catastrophes in human history. 192 pages with line drawings and index of first lines. £14.99 NOW £6


76171 SIGNATURE SHAKESPEARE ROMEO


AND JULIET by William Shakespeare edited by Mario Digangi


A striking and heavyweight hardback with purple and red decorated with borders and capital initials in intricate, laser-cut paper art, tipped in illustration, which is repeated to beautiful design effect between acts of the play. Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s incomparable story of ill-fated love and class conflict which has captivated audiences for more than 400 years. Now this elegant edition, beautifully illustrated as never before the entire text is presented complete with scholarship, commentary, notes and essays about Shakespeare’s language and significant performances of the play. 390 quality pages measuring 7" x 10". £25 NOW £6


76322 TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE by Charles and Mary Lamb


Shakespeare’s favourite plays are all here starting with The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and ending with Pericles Prince of Tyre among the 20 chosen and abridged in this Charles and Mary Lamb text from the first US edition published in 1907. Beautiful woodcuts are by Frank Papé and 50 colour illustrations by various artists like W. Heath Robinson, Charles Folkard, Edmund Dulac, Norman Price and Arthur Rackham appear in full page colour plates. These abridgements are universally popular. Unjacketed hardback, 7" x 10" on heavy premium 150gsm paper, 360pp with Folkard endpapers. £37.99 NOW £12.50


76349 SELECTED LETTERS


OF CHARLES DICKENS edited by Jenny Hartley The 450 letters included here have been cherry-picked from a vast 14,000, to give readers the best essence of the ‘Sparkler of Albion’. Reading and writing letters punctuated the rhythms of his day, and he threw himself into creating epistles as energetically as he did into everything else. ‘I walk about brimful of letters’, he told a friend,


and claimed to write ‘at the least a dozen a day’. This eagerly awaited selection takes us straight to the heart of his life - the nearest we can get to an autobiography containing close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. Here he is writing out of the heat of the moment, not only as a novelist, journalist, magazine editor, social campaigner and traveller in Europe and America, but also as friend, lover, husband and father. Just sometimes it was a bit of a chore, but more often a delight, an outlet for high spirits, sparkling wit and caustic commentary. This selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company. 458 pages with a chronology of Charles Dickens and a list of abbreviations and symbols. £20 NOW £11


76513 MERCHANT’S TALE by Geoffrey Chaucer


A dual-language edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s timeless tale of adultery and deception, presenting a brand new modern English translation by scholar Lyn Richmond. Combining a high rhetoric style with typical Chaucerian carnality, The Merchant’s Tale is a love story with a darker side. Faced with conflicting advice from his friends, age-withered January selects a radiant young wife. His beloved, innocence embodied to the untrained eye, wastes little time acquainting herself with his staff. Chaucer’s genius is to elevate her transgressions to the level of gender politics. The full significance of January and May’s relationship is revealed. 84 page paperback. £6.99 NOW £2.50


76521 SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS by Charles Dickens


At Watts’ Charity, a sparse yet cosy almshouse, seven travellers share stories following a hearty Christmas Eve dinner. Full of turkey, beef and hot wassail, they recount tales of brave soldiers, scheming blackmailers, naïve lovers and charming children. This was the fifth Christmas edition of Dickens’ hugely popular periodical ‘Household Words’. Originally published in 1854, the collection also includes stories by contemporaries including Adelaide Anne Proctor, George A. Sala and Wilkie Collins, whose exciting tale is regarded as the first British detective story (The Fourth Poor Traveller). 136pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


76524 THE SPELL by Charlotte Brontë When the infant Marquis of Almeida is pronounced dead, the kingdoms of Wellingtonsland and Angria are deprived of their heir. Anxious to secure the nations’ future security, King Zamorna’s advisors entreat him to name his successor. When Zamorna himself succumbs to a mysterious and life-threatening sickness, the need becomes more crucial. Confusion turns to political intrigue as those closest to Zamorna wonder exactly what it is he knows and who precisely are the mysterious characters that surround him. A remarkable tale of love and jealousy, rivalry and thwarted ambition. 136pp, paperback. £6.99 NOW £2.50


76532 MEMOIRS OF A NOVELIST


by Virginia Woolf


From Victorian England to 15th century Norfolk, and pre-war London to Mount Pentelicus, Virginia Woolf offers a series of fictional impressions of women finding their place in the world around them. This collection of five early stories explores the role of women in society. These snapshots are a remarkable


testament to the powers of her writing and an insight into her perennial interests, namely her fascination with the role of the biographer, the literature of Greece, and the loneliness of early 20th century London. 96 page paperback.


£7.99 NOW £2.50


76534 WINTRY PEACOCK by D. H. Lawrence


Wounded while fighting in WW1, Alfred returns to his wife and family in their rural England home. Yet days before his arrival, his wife opens a letter that betrays his elicit relationship with a young Belgian girl. So begins the first of a series of stories in which men and women struggle to reconcile the demands of family and freedom in the midst of the injuries and deaths, infidelities and absences bought on by the war. Including England, My England, The Blind Man and You Touched Me, this is a collectable early selection of stories. 110pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.75


76538 A PEAK DISTRICT ANTHOLOGY: A Literary Companion to Britain’s First National Park by Roly Smith


The flowering of guidebook writing in the 20th century added to the Peak’s outdoor literature and many books covertly encouraged what was known as ‘the gentle art of trespass’. Ruskin extolled its beauties, while novelists Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot used closely observed Peakland settings for some of their most vivid narratives. Topographical writers including Edward Bradbury, Thomas Tudor and James Croston enthusiastically described the delights of the Derbyshire scenery to the ever-increasing stream of Victorian visitors. This charming anthology brings together the finest writing about the Peak District through the ages. 208 pages illus in colour and b/w. £16.99 NOW £6


100682 OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens


Dickens had already achieved renown with ‘The Pickwick Papers’. With ‘Oliver Twist’ his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. ‘Oliver Twist’ features some of the author’s most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and ‘the Artful Dodger’. 400pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


23783 COMPLETE FATHER BROWN by G.K. Chesterton


Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton’s kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner. The Complete compenduim is 800pp. Paperback. ONLY £2


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