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A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC. It was 2, 500 years ago that East and West first went to war. In the early 5th century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta. The story of how their citizens took on the most powerful ma...

The Coaching Organization provides an organizational perspective on how coaching can become part of an organization's culture. The book offers "best practices" that will help organizations deploy developmental coaching on a large scale to drive leadership and employee effectiveness. The popularity of coaching in organizations is enormous. However, coaching initiatives are often deployed on an ad hoc and unmanaged basis and as such often yield ...

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach was the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is then made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his ea...

The first substantial, authoritative biography of Charles and Camilla and their relationship. This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one "non-negotiable" love of his life, Camilla Shand, now Duchess of Cornwall. What are Charles and Camilla really like?...

Explores how leading political figures in Great Britain and the US contributed to profound changes.

Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a "racial democracy, " with a ternary system of classifying people into whites

This book of essays by the a leading figure in the new generation of American IR theorists explores the theoretical, historical, and foreign policy implications of American power and postwar order. The first part of the book focuses on the origins and foundational logic of America's post-war order-building project - advancing ideas about 'liberal hegemony' and 'constitutional order'. The second part reflects on its evolving character and fate ...

The effect of feminsim on the field of mass communication is more important now than ever. The Third Edition of Women in Mass Communication has been greatly expanded and updated to cover the most urgent issues of today. New to this edition are chapters on women's opportunities and obstacles in online journalism, the role of women in health communication fields, and the growth of the number of women in the field of sports journalism. With a par...

On the larger of two islands in the southern Atlantic seas, a baby girl is born. But Gulai's mother dies soon after giving birth and her father, Dr Orion Prosper blames himself. Thus begins Gulai's life on Ergo Island. This novel evokes a strong sense of foreboding yet catches the reader by surprise when hidden truths come to light.

Splicing of primary RNA transcript, i.e. removal of introns and joining of exons to produce mature mRNAs competent for translation into proteins, is a quasi-systematic step of gene expression in higher organisms. However, this process is not unequivocal but can follow alternate pathways. Alternative splicing of a given transcript can therefore yield several distinct mRNAs encoding as many different proteins. Its full biological significance ha...

Mike Dürst (Marco Rima) ist Produzent bei einem internationalen Musiklabel. Nach einem hektischen Arbeitstag mit Pleiten, Pech und Pannen trennt sich seine Freundin von ihm. Sie ist von ihrem Ex schwanger. In seiner Verzweiflung wendet sich Mike an den Psychologen Gregor Frank (Oliver Korittke), der in seiner Radiosendung behauptet, alles über Frauen zu wissen. Gregor selbst lebt seit Jahren in einer kriselnden Beziehung mit der attraktiven Pi...