Superbly engaging guide to all kinds of music, from Hildegard of Bingen and Herry Purcell to Aretha Franklin and Fela Kuti. This is a truly global history of the great performers and composers who have enriched the cultural life of countless generations.
Setting goals is easy. Finishing them is the challenge.
For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forg…
Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how a powerful goal-setting system has helped tech giant such as Google and Intel exceeded all expectations- and how it can help any organization thrive
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to di…
Ray Dalio shares the unconventional principles of life and work turned his ordinary middle-class kid from Long Island into one of the most successful people of our time and that can be used by anyone to achieve their own goals.
Imagine if an octopus came to stay... Join octopus as she goes to the doctor, buys new shoes and climb a skyscraper. Along the way, discover just how bendy, brainy and brilliant she really is...
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun...A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet.