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Beginning in the 1960s, John Brookes MBE (1933-2018) revolutionized
garden design, with a new design philosophy and methodology that
was rooted in the notion that gardens are about the people who live
in them. Recognizing the demands of the contemporary lifestyle, he
broke with previous labour-intensive garden design traditions and
the emphasis on showcasing plants. Instead he promoted using
gardens as extensions of the home. He introduced this notion in his
1969 book, A Room Outside, which also contained practical advice on
materials, methodology, and planting. His approach was
unprecedented and included the then-novel idea that people of all
income levels could have designed, fashionable gardens tailored to
their needs, low-maintenance, and beautiful. John taught and
lectured around the world and, thanks to his energetic writing,
teaching and media appearances, he became regarded as the 'king'
and 'godfather' of garden and landscape design. How to Design a
Garden is an informative and ultimately practical collection of his
thoughts and advice selected from countless writings and lectures
given to students, professionals and the public around the world.
In addition to his teaching on how to design a garden, the book has
two key themes - environmental sustainability and a focus on the
local vernacular. They show how far ahead he was of his time and to
what a great extent his teaching remains relevant to garden-makers
today.
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Cairngorms 2017 (Paperback)
John Brooks, Neil Wilson, Peter D.Koch- Osborne
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R398
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The Cairngorms cover 300 sq miles, making it the most mountainous
area in Britain, with an equally wide range of wildlife. The native
pine forest, one of the final retreats of the red squirrel,
supports small, uncommon birds like crested tits, redwings and
crossbills. Loch Garten is the RSPB osprey breeding site where in
summer the birds fly over a considerable tract of country in search
of food. In scenic contrast, there is also an ascent to the summit
of Carn Daimh, part of the Speyside Way, with its splendid panorama
of the countryside surrounding Glenlivet.
"Internal Coaching: The Inside Story" provides a window into the
world of internal coaching: the challenges and rewards for the
coaches themselves and the ways in which organizations can ensure
that they can get best value for money from their investment in
them.Internal coaching is booming. A recent survey showed that
nearly four fifths of large organizations in the UK believe that
internal coaching (that is coaching delivered by one employee to
another in a different chain of command) will grow over the next
three years. Yet there has been surprisingly little written about
the unique nature of the internal coaching role. Drawing on the
stories of hundreds of internal coaches, coach sponsors, lead
coaches, supervisors of internal coaches and coach trainers,
"Internal Coaching: The Inside Story" gives internal coaches a
voice. It makes available to hard-pressed HR directors, talent
managers, and learning and development professionals the fruits of
very practical research into what is working in organizations and
how they might maximize the value for money they get from their
investment in internal coaches. The whole aim is to stimulate
thinking and be a catalyst for generating options and choices. In
the words of its author: "My dream is that, every few pages, a
reader somewhere will think: 'Now that s a good idea. We should
think about trying that.' "
Pathfinder(R) Cotswolds covering parts of the Snowshill, Buckholt
Wood and Burford. This selection offers interest, regional variety
and balance of routes in the Cotswolds providing the best walks in
the area. From an easy stroll through Castle Combe to the much more
challenging walks on Bredon Hill this volume contains something for
everyone. Covering walks through the whole of the Cotswolds both
popular and little know scenic routes including Stanway,
Bourton-on-the-Water and Blenheim Park. -See walk locations by
Looking Inside Inside: -28 great Cotswold walks from 2 to 10 miles
-Clear, large scale Ordnance Survey route maps -GPS reference for
all Cotswold waypoints -Where to park, good pubs and places of
interest en route -All routes have been fully researched and
written by expert outdoor writers -Beautiful photography of scenes
from the walks Pathfinder(R) Guides are Britain's best loved
walking guides. Made with durable covers, they are the perfect
companion for countryside walks throughout Britain. Each title
features circular walks with easy-to-follow route descriptions,
large-scale Ordnance Survey route maps and GPS waypoints.With over
70 titles in the series, they offer essential information for
walkers throughout the country.
Internal Coaching: The Inside Story provides a window into the
world of internal coaching: the challenges and rewards for the
coaches themselves and the ways in which organisations can ensure
that they can get best value for money from their investment in
them.Internal coaching is booming. A recent survey showed that
nearly four fifths of large organisations in the UK believe that
internal coaching (that is coaching delivered by one employee to
another in a different chain of command) will grow over the next
three years. Yet there has been surprisingly little written about
the unique nature of the internal coaching role. Drawing on the
stories of hundreds of internal coaches, coach sponsors, lead
coaches, supervisors of internal coaches and coach trainers,
Internal Coaching: The Inside Story gives internal coaches a voice.
It makes available to hard-pressed HR directors, talent managers,
and learning and development professionals the fruits of very
practical research into what is working in organisations and how
they might maximise the value for money they get from their
investment in internal coaches.
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control,
and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought
era. With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in
1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the
Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that,
consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that,
despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's, was inferior: and
that the Dreyer Tables were a contributory cause in the sinking of
Indefatigable and Queen Mary at Jutland. This book provides new and
revisionist accounts of the Dreyer/Pollen controversy, and of
gunnery at Jutland. In fire control, as with other technologies,
the Royal Navy had been open, though not uncritically, to
innovations. The Dreyer Tables were better suited to action
conditions (particularly those at Jutland). Beatty's losses were
the result mainly of deficient tactics and training: and his
battlecruisers would have been even more disadvantaged had they
been equipped by Argo. It follows the development of the Pollen and
Dreyer systems, refutes the charges of plagiarism and explains
Argo's rejection. It outlines the German fire control system: and
uses contemporary sources in a critical reassessment of Beatty's
tactics throughout the Battle of Jutland.
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control,
and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought
era. With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in
1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the
Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that,
consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that,
despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's, was inferior: and
that the Dreyer Tables were a contributory cause in the sinking of
Indefatigable and Queen Mary at Jutland. This book provides new and
revisionist accounts of the Dreyer/Pollen controversy, and of
gunnery at Jutland. In fire control, as with other technologies,
the Royal Navy had been open, though not uncritically, to
innovations. The Dreyer Tables were better suited to action
conditions (particularly those at Jutland). Beatty's losses were
the result mainly of deficient tactics and training: and his
battlecruisers would have been even more disadvantaged had they
been equipped by Argo. It follows the development of the Pollen and
Dreyer systems, refutes the charges of plagiarism and explains
Argo's rejection. It outlines the German fire control system: and
uses contemporary sources in a critical reassessment of Beatty's
tactics throughout the Battle of Jutland.
The works of African American authors and artists are too often
interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized
for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and
Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black
identity or the "Black experience." However, many contemporary
Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such
categories. Their art resists interpretation in terms of
conventional racial discourse; instead, they embrace opacity,
uncertainty, and illegibility. John Brooks examines a range of
abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black
writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and
imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed
the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend
received ideas about race and difference. Considering photography
by Roy DeCarava, installation art by Kara Walker, novels by
Percival Everett and Paul Beatty, drama by Suzan-Lori Parks, and
poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, Brooks pinpoints a shared aesthetic
sensibility. In their works, the devices that typically make race
feel familiar are instead used to estrange cultural assumptions
about race. Brooks contends that when artists confound expectations
about racial representation, the resulting disorientation reveals
the incoherence of racial ideologies. By showing how contemporary
literature and art ask audiences to question what they think they
know about race, The Racial Unfamiliar offers a new way to
understand African American cultural production.
This book, originally published in 1978, makes use of and extends
first-year macroeconomic theory to examine how governments attempt
to use the instruments of macroeconomic policy in order to acheive
their objectives. It begins with a discussion of the meaning and
desirability of policy objectives, moves on to examine the workings
of the main policy instruments and concludes with a chapter which
outlines Tinbergen's 'fixed' targets' and Theil's 'flexible
targets' approaches to policy. A chapter on debt management
considers the main theories of the term strcutyure of interet rates
and their implications for debt management as an instrument of
policy.
This book, originally published in 1978, makes use of and extends
first-year macroeconomic theory to examine how governments attempt
to use the instruments of macroeconomic policy in order to acheive
their objectives. It begins with a discussion of the meaning and
desirability of policy objectives, moves on to examine the workings
of the main policy instruments and concludes with a chapter which
outlines Tinbergen's 'fixed' targets' and Theil's 'flexible
targets' approaches to policy. A chapter on debt management
considers the main theories of the term strcutyure of interet rates
and their implications for debt management as an instrument of
policy.
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Walking With Dinosaurs (DVD)
Charlie Rowe, Angourie Rice; Contributions by John Collee, Mike Devlin, Amanda Hill, …
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Discovery Miles 450
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Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook direct this adventure feature,
based on the 1999 BBC documentary series, which projects
computer-animated dinosaurs into live action settings to tell the
story of a young Pachyrhinosaurus. Patchi and his siblings Scowler
and Juniper are born into the dangerous world of the Cretaceous
period, where predators such as Gorgon the Gorgosaurus would be
only too happy to make a meal of them. Can Patchi make it to
adulthood and overcome the many hurdles required to become herd
leader? The voice cast includes Charlie Rowe and Angourie Rice.
Much of central Dartmoor is an uninhabited wilderness almost free
of villages, farms, trees and roads making it outstanding
environmental value. From this mass rise Dartmoor's rivers,
including the Lyd, Tavy, East and West Dart, Bovey, Teign, Taw and
Okement, nearly all of which flow southwards to the English
Channel. The large numbers of tors that dominate Dartmoor are the
remnants of hard masses of granite, drastically reduced in size and
moulded into their present shapes by millions of years of
weatherings. Bowerman's Nose, Hound Tor and Haytor Rocks are famous
examples included on these walks.
You live in York UK, you're thinking of paying a visit, or you just
like buildings? Then this new work from John Brooke Fieldhouse is a
must have! It's a guide book. But it's completely different, it's
not what you'd expect from the city of Vikings, Romans, the
medieval, the Civil War, the Georgians, and the Victorians. It's
about the twentieth century and later - right up to 2018. Its
buildings - public and private - how they're designed, engineered,
lit, heated, ventilated...and not just buildings, there are 130
plus items, including bridges, a flood barrier, details like
windows, seating, handrails, landscaping, paving, all the things we
touch when we move through a city, the things that make us feel
good or bad. It's 260 pages, 360 colour photographs, fifteen pages
of indexes and an introduction, consisting of unsentimental and
unvarnished answers by the author to over 30 questions on the book
and York. Answering questions and always asking more. It's not just
the past, it's all about the present and the future. We spend most
of our lives in buildings, they are art, science, psychology and
politics so it's essential we all have our own view about them.
The works of African American authors and artists are too often
interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized
for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and
Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black
identity or the "Black experience." However, many contemporary
Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such
categories. Their art resists interpretation in terms of
conventional racial discourse; instead, they embrace opacity,
uncertainty, and illegibility. John Brooks examines a range of
abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black
writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and
imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed
the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend
received ideas about race and difference. Considering photography
by Roy DeCarava, installation art by Kara Walker, novels by
Percival Everett and Paul Beatty, drama by Suzan-Lori Parks, and
poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, Brooks pinpoints a shared aesthetic
sensibility. In their works, the devices that typically make race
feel familiar are instead used to estrange cultural assumptions
about race. Brooks contends that when artists confound expectations
about racial representation, the resulting disorientation reveals
the incoherence of racial ideologies. By showing how contemporary
literature and art ask audiences to question what they think they
know about race, The Racial Unfamiliar offers a new way to
understand African American cultural production.
When you finish reading this book, you?ll understand just what you
need to do to build a terrific boat. A boat that is lightweight,
forever appealing to the eye, a boat that doesn?t leak and doesn?t
require much in the way of upkeep. And, because the book is clearly
written and heavily illustrated with hundreds of drawings and
hundreds of photographs, this lovely boat will look as though your
stock in trade is indeed that of ?boatbuilder?. How is this truly
possible? The devil is in the details. Boat carpenter John Brooks
is a picky guy--a trait you want in your teacher: he's a builder
who abhors bits of epoxy messing-up a nice long clean planking
line. He's going to show you so many techniques for ?getting it
right? your head will almost spin. From his unique building jig and
clamping system to his masking techniques, you?re on your way to
the land of craftsmanship. Several years from now when your out for
your thousandth row and you lean forward on the oars pausing to
just look at the boat, we?ll bet you?ll still smile at the sight.
John knows your attention to detail in the building stage will
pay-off in spades for years and years to come, and that line-up of
planks, the way it all fits makes the difference. Read the book,
use the index to quickly find all those bits of information, and
sharpen your tools because you?ve just sharpened your mind. John
Brooks spends his summers teaching boatbuilding, and his winters
building boats. Co-authoring the book is John's wife Ruth Ann Hill,
who when not helping to build boats, is plying her writer trade.
You'll benefit from her ability to clearly and concisely convert
the physical building processes into words.
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A Landscape Legacy (Hardcover)
John Brookes MBE; Preface by Andrew Duff; Foreword by Cleve West
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R1,296
R952
Discovery Miles 9 520
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Hailed as ‘the man who made the modern garden’, John Brookes
transformed twentieth-century garden design, not only in his native
Britain but throughout the world. In his first – groundbreaking
– book, Room Outside, in 1969, he wrote ‘A garden is
essentially a place for use by people . . . not a static picture
created by plants . . . plants provide the props, the colour and
texture, but the garden is the stage and its design should be
determined by the uses it is intended to fulfil.’ For nearly
fifty years he has designed gardens, and taught garden design –
in the United States, Canada and South America, in Russian and
Japan, in Iran and all over Europe – and he continues to
emphasize ‘the importance of reconciling nature and the character
of a landscape with the needs and visions of the people living in
it’. Now, in A Landscape Legacy, John Brookes tells the story of
his life and work and reflects on how his thinking about design has
developed.  ‘John Brookes’s work has helped gardeners
worldwide move beyond the tradition of pure horticulture towards a
recognition of space, mass, volume and texture as crucial elements
in design; towards functional considerations – how people live in
gardens, even small ones created with modest means; and an emphasis
on setting and spirit of place, making gardens more than mere
fashionable and interchangeable decors. By treating garden design
as an art form, yet recognizing its raw materials as living,
evolving and infinitely diverse, he bridges the opposition of art
and nature, conceptual and environmental design.’ - Louisa
Jones, garden writer, Provence
"Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever
read." --Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350
million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast
and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at
General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an
example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment
of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as
relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life
as they were when the events happened. Stories about Wall Street
are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations
and volatile nature of the world of finance. Longtime New Yorker
contributor John Brooks's insightful reportage is so full of
personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the
astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known
brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the
British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself. Five
additional stories on equally fascinating subjects round out this
wonderful collection that will both entertain and inform readers .
. . Business Adventures is truly financial journalism at its
liveliest and best.
Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks—who was one of the most elegant of all business writers—perfectly catches the flavor of one of history’s best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It’s packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." —From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era’s most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the ’20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of ’29, and the bitterness of the years that followed. Praise for Once in Golconda "A fast-moving, sophisticated account…embracing the stock-market boom of the twenties, the crash of 1929, the Depression, and the coming of the New Deal. Its leitmotif is the truly tragic personal history of Richard Whitney, the aristocrat Morgan broker and head of the Stock Exchange, who ended up in Sing Sing." —Edmund Wilson, writing in the New Yorker "As Mr. Brooks tells this tale of dishonor, desperation, and the fall of the mighty, it takes on overtones of Greek tragedy, a king brought down by pride. Whitney’s sordid history has been told before….But in Mr. Brooks’s hands, the drama becomes freshly shocking." —Wall Street Journal "It’s all there in Once in Golconda—the avarice of an era that favored the rich; and the later anguish of myriads of speculators doomed by a bloated market, easy credit, and their own cupidity and stupidity." —Saturday Review
If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile
services market, you need a quick-loading app that won't churn
through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and
other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is
tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression
algorithms work-in theory and practice-so you can choose the best
solution among all the available compression tools. With tables,
diagrams, games, and as little math as possible, authors Colt
McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how
compressed files are better, cheaper, and faster to distribute and
consume, and how they'll give you a competitive edge. Learn why
compression has become crucial as data production continues to
skyrocket Know your data, circumstances, and algorithm options when
choosing compression tools Explore variable-length codes,
statistical compression, arithmetic numerical coding, dictionary
encodings, and context modeling Examine tradeoffs between file size
and quality when choosing image compressors Learn ways to compress
client- and server-generated data objects Meet the inventors and
visionaries who created data compression algorithms
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New & Selected Poems, brings
together the best of Brookes from four books and booklets,
published from the early 90s: 43 Poems, The Dresden Cantata, Book,
and More Last Poems and some new editions. Brookes handles with
confidence and purpose poems both as neat and revealing as a
mathematical equation, and poems that trip down the page on their
rhymes. His subjects are as various as the world, often funny, in
all the senses of the word, always unsentimental, each carefully
observed and valued, whether a noisy cafe, model boats on a lake,
or a neighbour dying in a hospital bed.
'The best business book I've ever read.' Bill Gates, Wall Street
Journal'The Michael Lewis of his day.' New York TimesWhat do the
$350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the
fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at
General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an
example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment
of fame or notoriety. These notable and fascinating accounts are as
relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life
as they were when the events happened.Stories about Wall Street are
infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and
volatile nature of the world of finance. John Brooks's insightful
reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that
whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the
collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by
American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that
history really does repeat itself.This business classic written by
longtime New Yorker contributor John Brooks is an insightful and
engaging look into corporate and financial life in America.
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