Education & Learning

Is the Greek alphabet all Greek to you? Is geometry your Achilles heel and does your knowledge of Homer have more to do with The Simpsons than the Sirens? From engineering and architecture to drama and democracy, the world around us is founded on the principles and discoveries of the Ancient World, yet our understanding of it is episodic at best. But it's never too late to learn....

How to Negotiate Effectively provides tips, tools, and techniques for getting it right. It explores and advises on every aspect of the negotiation process, including: tactics and counter-measures, handling deadlock, making concessions, enhancing your authority, and getting the best deal.

In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them. Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and firsthand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic but persistent class structure.

Can you remember how photosynthesis works? Well, what about quadratic equations? Or the names of all the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice? How about Henry VIII’s wives, conjunctions, inertia, the continents of the world and the Seven Deadly Sins? And what on earth is the point of pi? Let’s face it, there are an awful lot of half-remembered things floating around in our heads.

La testa degli italiani resta l'ultima regione inesplorata del Paese, e vale un viaggio. Un viaggio attraverso l'Italia con amici stranieri, ai quali viene "tradotto" sistematicamente il Paese: le regole imperscrutabili della strada e l'anarchia ordinata di un ufficio, la loquacità dei treni e la saggezza di un albergo, la rassicurazione di una chiesa e l'affollamento in camera da letto, l'importanza di una spiaggia e la democrazia del soggiorno (anzi: del tinello). Dieci giorni, trenta luoghi. Da nord a sud, dal cibo allo sport, dalla morale alla politica.

The corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality.

Seventy years have passed since the Partition, and a momentous event now recedes in memory. Generations have grown up outside the shadow of the communal killings and mass displacement that shaped the contemporary history of the subcontinent. Despite being born into a family affected by the Divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra too had thought little about the Partition until she encountered objects that had once belonged to her ancestors in an Undivided India. 

Vous en avez assez du métro-boulot-dodo, ou de ces études interminables dans lesquelles vous apprenez surtout des choses qui ne vous serviront pas ? Brisez la routine et réussissez en dehors du système en suivant cette méthode étape par étape basée sur l'expérience de centaines d'entrepreneurs et appuyée par plus de 400 références scientifiques.

La capacité qui revêt le plus de valeur dans notre économie se fait de plus en plus rare. Celui qui la développe se donne les moyens d'accomplir de grandes choses. Le travail en profondeur, ou deep work, désigne une activité professionnelle menée dans un état de concentration absolue qui pousse nos capacités cognitives jusqu'à leurs limites. Ces efforts créent de la valeur, affinent nos compétences et sont difficiles à reproduire. En d'autres termes, le travail en profondeur est comme un superpouvoir dans notre économie toujours plus concurrentielle.

It is important to understand what marketing is and how it can be integrated into your business, in order to improve its competitive advantage. With busy, fast paced lives, professionals often find that they don’t have time to get to grips with the basics. Develop Your Marketing Skills is a user-friendly guide appropriate for business people for whom implementation is the key issue.

What were the beginnings of the English language? Why has American culture spread so successfully and will it continue to do so even as the country’s power apparently wanes? Why are the West Indies no longer any good at cricket? What difference did slavery make to the way we speak English today?

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution - a number one international best seller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”.

月間200万ページビューの社会派ブロガーちきりん氏と、世界一のプロゲーマー梅原大吾氏の異色人生対談。

立ち位置も考え方もまったく違う二人が、足かけ４年、100時間にもわたって語り合い、考え抜いた人生談義。

学校で真面目に勉強してきたのに競争社会で行き詰まっている人、やりたいことが見つからなくて悩んでいる人必読！　

今日から人生が変わります！

For the average Indian, Japan is the land of the bullet train, zippy cars, and geishas, and also hard to understand. However, what appears to be opaque and insular to the world outside turns out to be a society that is friendly, intimate and closely knit when you get to know it better.

L'œuvre de Frédéric Laloux se situe dans une perspective intégrale et s'appuie sur une analyse fine de l'évolution de la conscience humaine. Après des recherches approfondies, il met en évidence l'émergence de nouveaux modèles où la seule hiérarchie existante est celle basée sur le niveau des expertises et le talent de chacun.Ce livre audio donne les clefs pour faire évoluer son organisation, ou en construire une nouvelle où il fait bon vivre et travailler ensemble.

Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don't? The secret to their success can be summed up in one word: gravitas....

Veteran journalist Jon Snow gives us unique, untold stories and fresh insight into some of the most poignant news moments in history. Using original news tapes from the ITN archive, Jon takes us behind the scenes of some of the most significant news events of his reporting career....

National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....

Kick-start your Spanish speaking skills in this easy audio guide.... 

This course covers European and Latin American Spanish. No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently....

National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....

National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....

No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently....

In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures....

Whether you’re an aspiring manager, team leader, or a business professional, attaining the PMP qualification is a powerful step in improving your career and expanding your skill sets....

National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....

No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently....

National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....

National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....

On Writing is part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Coddling of the America Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, read by Jonathan Haidt....

Montessori Toddler is a fascinating parent guide explains the Montessori method as an integrated curriculum that allows children to investigate and explore in a personal and independent way....

In this abridged audiobook version of his best-selling title, Paul Dix talks you through the book’s hugely influential behavior management approach - an approach whereby expectations and boundaries are exemplified by people, not by a thousand rules that nobody can recall....

Improve your Spanish the easy way at home, now is the time to take your Spanish to the next level! No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure.... 

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled....   

In this scalpel-sharp, thought-provoking audiobook, Will Storr demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, leading us on a journey from the Hebrew scriptures to Mr Men, from Booker Prize-winning literature to box set TV.... 

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

As anchor for the BBC's key political news programme, Newsnight, Emily Maitlis has interviewed some of the most powerful and controversial figures on the political scene....

From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politics....

This guide offers a step-by-step plan that helps parents cultivate daily routines so that they can turn life with toddlers into a mutually rich time of curiosity and learning....

No Calculator,? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator....