Inferno is a gripping history of the world wars told through twelve battles that shaped the fate of the 20th century.From Verdun and the Somme to the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, D-Day and the fall of Berlin, this is war at full intensity: the clashes that shattered armies, toppled regimes and redrew the map of the world. Written by the team behind the hit platform Battle Guide, Inferno combines expert analysis with vivid storyt...

Collected first-hand accounts of British men and women serving their country during World War I, as discovered through the Herts At War community project.In Hertfordshire Soldiers of The First World War the authors explore a series of individual case studies of Hertfordshire men who served in various theaters during the First World War, all of which had been uncovered as part of the Herts At War community project. This unique collection of largely unknown ...

In this supplement to Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others, the focus shifts from examples involving the lives of celebrities to situations readers encounter in their daily lives. For every key facial coding emotion, Decoding Faces tells readers how the facial expressions covered in Famous Faces Decoded apply on the job, in dating, marriage, or handling one's children. Packed with advice while providing a helpful checklist of ways to practice reading others, this book steer...

In this deeply moving memoir, one of Canada’s most respected singer-songwriters traces his difficult, often tumultuous relationship with his father. From the time Dan Hill picked up a guitar at age 11, he tried to win the approval of Daniel Hill Sr., a man who has been called Canada’s father of human rights. But Hill Sr. set impossibly high standards for himself and his family, especially for his eldest son, leading to conflict and alienation even as young Dan achieved international fame a...

In this deeply moving memoir, one of Canada’s most respected singer-songwriters traces his difficult, often tumultuous relationship with his father. From the time Dan Hill picked up a guitar at age 11, he tried to win the approval of Daniel Hill Sr., a man who has been called Canada’s father of human rights. But Hill Sr. set impossibly high standards for himself and his family, especially for his eldest son, leading to conflict and alienation even as young Dan achieved international fame a...

Anyone who ever served in the military can tell a similar story. The circumstances change and the names are different, but when you deal with young soldiers anything is probable. Hill tells the reader about many of these young men and women in some very funny situations. He also details what it is like to be the commander of a unit with 200 or more of these soldiers, in peacetime and in war. In telling the story of his long and varied career, he offers some real leadership gems that carry ...

Inferno is a gripping history of the world wars told through twelve battles that shaped the fate of the 20th century.From Verdun and the Somme to the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, D-Day and the fall of Berlin, this is war at full intensity: the clashes that shattered armies, toppled regimes and redrew the map of the world. Written by the team behind the hit platform Battle Guide, Inferno combines expert analysis with vivid storyt...

Permanence as an architectural concept is no longer restricted to the Vitruvian virtue of firmitas. To think about it in this sense today produces a schism: absolutism in a world of relativism. The fourth volume of Inflection extrapolates the permanent and the temporary not as opposing forces, but as a spectrum to be navigated at each stage of architecture's unfolding narrative. Through each of the responses presented in this year's edition, Permanence provides a critical voice as architec...

For far too long, emotions have been ignored in favor of rationality and efficiency.  Breakthroughs in brain science have revealed that people are primarily emotional decision-makers.  Many companies have not yet accepted that fact, ignoring emotion in favor of rationality and efficiency.  Even fewer have acted on it. Emotionomics looks at emotions in terms of business opportunities, both in the marketplace and in the workplace.  In today's highly competitive marketplace where many products l...

From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair).A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator...

WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD FOR BEST FICTION & BEST AUTHORSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGER WRITERS' TRUST FICTION AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Historical fiction at its best' Sunday TelegraphA mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America, from a Giller...

Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you. The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the jo...