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Daltons Latest Recommendations
| Anglo-Saxon England Set Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes, Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge ed. |
Cambridge University Press
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A complete paperback set of Anglo-Saxon England, the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and promotes the more unusual interests - in music, medicine and education. Its international scholarly reputation is based principally on the publication and analysis of pre-Conquest primary sources, and the advantages which stem from a broadly based interdisciplinary approach. Each of the 34 volumes provides a systematic bibliography of all the works published in every branch of Anglo-Saxon studies during the preceding twelve months.
Due January 2008. 34 volume paperback set. |
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| Canberra: City in a Landscape Ken Taylor |
Halstead Press
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PROF. KEN TAYLOR AM is one of the best known and most respected authorities on Canberra and its planning. Formerly professor of landscape architecture at Canberra University, and now a visiting fellow at the ANU, he has written, taught and consulted on landscape planning in Canberra and around the world.
"A city not like any other" were Walter Burley Griffins words, as he mentioned that he had not expected a government to accept his plan for Canberra. Ken Taylor believes that many others also had a hand in the destiny that established Canberras unique character.
Nineteenth century pioneers who found in the Limestone Plains a panorama worthy of the landscape cult they brought to Australia. Men like Scrivener who were guided to the site by idealism fused with practicality. Charles Weston who crafted an urban environment with his inspired plantings. Prime Minister Menzies who insisted on a fitting capital. The NCDC planners with their open space doc-trine; and todays authorities, matching the landscape with the needs of a local population and a national government.
Although books have attempted Canberras story from one point of view or another, remarkably Ken Taylor is the first to account for it in terms of what really differentiates Canberra from every other cityits unparalleled landscape character.
CANBERRA: CITY IN A LANDSCAPE is a handsome jacketted hardback, 192 large pages illustrated in black and white and in colour. RRP $69.95 |
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| Eyes Over Africa Collector's Edition Michael Poliza |
Te Neues
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In 2006, to fulfill a long-held dream, widely acclaimed photographer Michael Poliza and friend Stefan Breuer undertook a helicopter journey across Africa. Skimming close to the ground, they flew over 19 countries. Poliza's alluringand often surprisingphotographs share this exceptional journey with the world. With a bird's-eye view, we witness the astounding beauty, scale and diversity of this imposing continent. The accompanying texts give a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the photographs, and brief background to some of the most fascinating subject matters.
To sample the exquisite photographs go to
http://www.eyes-over-africa.com/
Limited to 300 individually numbered copies each signed by Michael Poliza and accompanied by a high-quality original Ditone-print 40cmx50cm, each in a numbered edition of 300, signed by Michael Poliza and specially packaged in a handcrafted wooden box upholstered in ultra-suede. This is a pre publication price valid until 31/1/08. |
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| Flexible Work Solutions: A Guide to Preparing, Implementing and Sustaining Flexible Work Arrangements for Employees and Managers Vilma Faoro |
Wrightbooks
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The motivation to achieve flexible work arrangements for managers and employees is different -- for managers, it is a commercial decision; for employees, the decision is personal. This book provides each party with an understanding of the other party's drivers and needs so that mutually beneficial solutions can be found. A step-by-step approach is provided for all employees, irrespective of their experience, job level and background. The book also equips managers to assess and implement flexible work solutions.
Author Vilma Faoro is considered Australia's foremost flexible-working expert with extensive Australian and international experience.
Are you looking for ways to improve your work-life balance?
Would you like to be able to study, travel, take care of children or elderly parents, or pursue other personal ambitions, while maintaining a fulfilling career?
Are you a manager who understands that the needs of your employees are changing, and would like to offer different work options to attract and retain quality people?
If so, flexible work solutions could be the answer. Job sharing, compressed work weeks and home offices are fast gaining popularity in Australia, this book will set up some guidelines to assist with new ideas in this area.
Employees will discover how to:
· Select the best flexible work solution for them
· Prepare a flexible work proposal
· Become an efficient flexible worker
Managers will learn how to:
· Assess a flexible work proposal
· Sustain flexible workers for long-term success
· Create a team environment that supports flexible workers
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| Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance Marcus Buckingham |
Simon & Schuster
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In the follow-up to his bestselling book Now, Discover Your Strengths, author Marcus Buckingham shows readers how to put their strengths into action.
Organisations routinely claim that 'Our People Are Our Greatest Asset', but research data shows that in practice most people do not actually use their assets much at work. This books aims to change that. When employees learn how to truly apply their greatest strengths at work, they turbo-charge their career potential and everybody wins. Organisations find that their employees are more productive, their teams are more effective, they are more innovative and, accordingly, their customers are more engaged. In First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham proved the link between engaged employees and more profitable bottom lines and highlighted great managers as the catalyst. In Now, Discover Your Strengths he explained how to sort through your patterns of wishes, abilities, thoughts and feelings and, with the help of a web-based profile, identify your five most dominant talents. In Go Put Your Stengths to Work he shows you how to take the crucial next step. How to seize control of your time at work and, in the face of a world that doesn't much care whether you are playing to your strengths, how to rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss.
Take the strengths engagement track for you and your team.
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| Harvard Business School Press Books |
Harvard Business School
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Daltons Books is pleased to have been appointed the official Canberra stockist of Harvard Business School Press titles.
Some of the most important thinkers in business today are published by Harvard. Robert Kaplan, Howard Gardner and John Kotter, to name a few.
New titles are published every month which offer the latest in business thinking.
All titles can be viewed on their website www.HBSPress.org.
Daltons will happily order any title if it is not currently on our shelves. |
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| LaChapelle Artists and Prostitutes LaChapelle |
Taschen
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| The Fellini of photography Limited edition of 2,500 copies worldwide, numbered and signed by David LaChapelle! Who's the greatest star of star photography? It's the inimitable David LaChapelle, the photographer whose singular style is perfectly unmistakable. He has photographed personalities as diverse as Tupac Shakur, Madonna, Amanda Lepore, Eminem, Philip Johnson, Lance Armstrong, Pamela Anderson, Li'l Kim, Uma Thurman, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Paris Hilton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, and Britney Spears, to name just a few. Once called the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for the most prestigious international publications and has been the subject of exhibitions in both commercial galleries and leading public institutions around the world. Celebrating the visionary LaChapelle's truly extraordinary photography, this 698-page, XL-sized book is packed cover-to-cover with vibrant full-bleed images; the best of his entire career to date. Bursting at the seams with spectacle and drama, and saturated with colors that only LaChapelle can realize, this limited edition pays tribute to the most daring and ambitious photographer in the history of portraiture. Not yet out of high school, LaChapelle was offered his first professional job by Andy Warhol to shoot for Interview magazine. His photography has been showcased in numerous galleries and museums, including Staley-Wise; Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Deitch Projects in New York; the Fahey-Klein Gallery in California; Goss Gallery in Dallas; and internationally at Artmosphere in Vienna; Camerawork in Germany; Reflex Amsterdam; Maruani & Noirhomme in Belgium; Sozzani and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Italy; and at the Barbican Museum in London, to this day the most attended show in the museum's history. His unfettered images of celebrity and contemporary pop culture have appeared on and between the covers of magazines such as Italian Vogue, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and i-D. In recent years LaChapelle has expanded his work to include music videos, live theatrical events and documentary film-making. His directing credits include music videos for artists such as Christina Aguilera, Moby, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, The Vines and No Doubt. It's My Life with Gwen Stefani won the award for Best Pop Video at the MTV Music Video Awards and LaChapelle himself garnered the MPVA's Director of the Year award in 2004. His stage work includes Elton John's The Red Piano, the Caesar's Palace spectacular he designed and directed, and which was the top-selling show in Las Vegas for 2004. His burgeoning interest in film saw him make the short documentary Krumped, an award-winner at Sundance from which he developed RIZE, the feature film acquired for worldwide distribution by Lions Gate Films. The film was released in the U.S. and internationally in the Summer of 2005 to huge critical acclaim, and was chosen to open the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Ranked among the top ten most important people in photography by American Photo magazine, LaChapelle's work continues to be inspired by everything from art history to pornography, creating both a record and mirror of all facets of popular culture today. All colour illustrations are colour-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and colour range. |
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| Let Me In Mario Testino |
Taschen
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| As one of the 21st century's most travelled, acclaimed, and influential fashion photographers, Mario Testino has unsurpassed access to the most magnetic stars of popular culture. For some time now, he has been collecting a personal archive of off-screen moments, often snatched spontaneously before, during, and after more official sittings for "Vanity Fair", "Vogue", and Testino's many clients in the world of fashion. The result is a portrait not just of a generation of the most wanted and talked-about, but an invitation to be part of the backstage parties and unstaged moments of Testino's life. Sometimes offbeat, but always on the pulse, let me in!, with Testino's eye for a modern kind of elegance liberated from conventional polish, is a new chapter from the photographer who has already made his mark with the books "Any Objections", "Front Row Backstage", "Alive, "Portraits", "Kids", "Diana Princess of Wales", and numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide. |
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| Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work David Rock |
Harper Collins
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| Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn't it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?" Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction. |
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| The Australian Merino Charles Massy |
Random House Australia
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Merino sheep have been one of the main supports of the Australian economy for over 140 years and their history is inextricably bound up with that of the nation. These magnificent animals, bred from the domesticated sheep of North Africa, have indeed proved to be the Golden Fleece for Australia.
The first edition of THE AUSTRALIAN MERINO, published in 1990, was the most complete and detailed accound of the evolution, history and present state of the Merino sheep.
In this second edition, Charles has uncovered more information about this remarkable animal, revealing that the Australian Merino industry was very much born of the 'age of science' and the European Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteeenth centuries. Fibre-testing analysis of recently discovered old wool samples has also yielded a treasure-trove of valuable genetic information, which allows for a quantitative overlay of Merino evolution since early times.
Thoroughly updated, this book remains the definitive history of the golden fleece of Australia. Over 1200 pages.
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| The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything Tim Harford |
Little Brown
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A dazzling application of new economic theories to the world around us - by the author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST.
THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket.
THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office, and the injustices of working life are rational. Economics explains why your boss is overpaid, whether we should build more prisons, and whether a city like New Orleans can recover from disaster. THE LOGIC OF LIFE introduces you to engaging stories and characters linked together in a bold narrative sweep. The book starts with the most intimate decisions - to have sex, to take drugs, to lead an honest life - then zooms out to discuss the logic of the family, of neighbourhoods, large corporations, cities themselves. This is the new economics of everything you never thought was economics, and it will help you see the world in a new way.
The author's web-site is at www.timharford.com if you would like to know more about this fascinating writer.
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| The Personal Efficiency Programme: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time Kerry Gleeson |
John Wiley
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How to be more organized and productive at work and have more fun doing it!
While those New Year resolutions are still fresh in your mind&..
In the decade since the publication of first edition of this international bestseller, Kerry Gleeson's famed Personal Efficiency Program (PEP) has revolutionized the work lives of more than a half-million people worldwide. With increasing pressure to produce with far less support than at any time in the recent past, the techniques herein are more timely than ever. The program helps readers conquer the daily stream of interruptions and paperwork to manage tasks and time effectively. This edition features expanded coverage of how to get more done in teams, including tips on managing multiple schedules, and running more efficient meetings. It also incorporates ways to effectively use technology, helping readers make the most of the Internet, PDA's, and email to get the job done more quickly and with less effort.
Cope with information overload, make technology work for you, establish work schedules and stick to them, end procrastination and its repercussions, spend more of the time on the really important work that you do, and then enjoy your spare time elsewhere.
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| Thiagi's 100 Favourite Games Sivasailam Thiagarajan |
Pfeiffer
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| Thiagi's 100 Favorite Games is an exciting new resource from Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, who is acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on interactive learning. This is a first-of-its-kind collection that represents game play at its very best. He offers the how-to and the lowdown on his all-time favourite games. With this resource, you'll never be stuck for a fun, innovative, and effective activity. The book can be used to: illustrate concepts, aid learning transfer, improve team work, build critical skills in any training event, energize meetings, or as icebreakers, used as openers and closers to formal training sessions, and target specific objectives or outcomes. |
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