Patrick M. Wright Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post- war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.

This delightfully eclectic book, part comedy, part travelogue, and part cultural history, uncovers the story of the British delegations that were invited to China in 1954 - a full eighteen years before President Nixon's more famous 1972 mission.

The Ninth Edition of Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage was developed to teach students how to face and meet a variety of challenges within their organizations and how to gain a competitive advantage for their companies.

This text takes a contemporary and comprehensive approach to managing organizations - it covers the major issues while paying particular attention to the people side of management. The book addresses the environment, strategy, structure, change, diversity, technology and operations, while paying particular attention to their effects on people and their organizations. It provides coverage of both theories of group dynamics and exploration of how teams are being implemented in modern organizations. Using real companies, cases illustrate modern management practice. Also included are examples of individual managers and organizations that have distinguished themselves either positively or negatively.

Atlante delle Invenzioni e delle Scoperte. Una panoramica cronologica delle conquiste della scienza dalla preistoria ad oggi. Le forme di vita sono comparse per la prima volta sulla superficie della terra 2.625 milioni di anni fa. Invece la specie homo sapiens, cioè gli esseri umani più vicini a noi, è presente solo da 50.000 anni circa. Se fosse possibile ridurre l'intera durata della vita della Terra in 24 ore, l'umanità sarebbe presente solo nell'ultimo secondo. Ma l'homo sapiens era in grado di fare anche altre cose che gli altri animali non sapevano fare: poteva pensare ed era curioso. L'Atlante delle invenzioni e delle scoperte descrive i tentativi umani per migliorare le condizioni di vita. Ora l'umanità possiede le conoscenze per distruggere o salvare il pianeta. Noi tutti speriamo che gli scienziati si adoperino per un futuro migliore, e che pertanto non si debba giungere alla fine di questa meravigliosa avventura durata quattro miliardi e mezzo di anni.

A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years. This reissue includes a new introduction revisiting the book's East End starting point in Dalston Lane, four additional chapters, and an insert of photographs taken in and around Dalston in the year of the book's first appearance.

In 1940 the familiar British landscape was under attack, not only from the imminent threat of German bombers but also from rapid urban development. The Ministry of Labour, in association with the Pilgrim Trust, commissioned many of Britain's foremost artists to paint a record of the changing face of the country. This record of more than 1500 watercolours was given into the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum and this book presents more than 100 of these paintings. Artists featured include John Piper, Kenneth Rowntree, Barbara Jones, Rowland Hilder and Sir William Russell Flint.