What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Libya, Iran and more to reveal how modern-day diplomacy really works.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...

Met haar boek Magic click is het Barbara Tammes gelukt een zeer effectieve methode te ontwikkelen om creatief denken simpel en toegankelijk te maken voor iedereen. In succesvolle workshops en trainingen aan verschillende internationale doelgroepen, waaronder het onderwijs, de zorg en de creatieve sector, hebben deelnemers in minder dan een uur tijd geleerd hoe ze met een magic click hun gedachten op kleur kunnen ordenen en hoe je creatief kunt denken door te wisselen van kleur en dus van pers...

A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil.

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'When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this boo...

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