Author: John Ma
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: wonder, world, china’s, story, extraordinary, wall
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0306817675
ISBN-13: 9780306817670

The Great Wall of China is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists take the five-mile journey from Beijing to climb its battlements. While myriad photographs have made this extraordinary landmark familiar to millions more, its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth. In this riveting account, John Man travels the entire length of the Great Wall and across two millennia to find the truth behind the legends. Along the way, he delves into the remarkable and complex history of China—from the country’s tribal past, through the war with the Mongols, righ

Author: Jackie Battenfield
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: love, doing, living, guide, artist
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-06-08
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0306816520
ISBN-13: 9780306816529

Using a “tough love approach” to pursuing a career in the visual arts, Jackie Battenfield expands on her highly successful classes and workshops to provide a comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development. Each chapter ends with a

Author: Michael J. Goldberg
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: strengths, work, effectively, natural, discover, working, enneagram, ways
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-04-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1569246882
ISBN-13: 9781569246887

The Enneagram -- a system based on nine personality types -- is a uniquely powerful approach to understanding why people behave the way they do. The 9 Ways of Working teaches how to recognize the personality types of everyone you work with -- colleagues, clients, consultants, and the boss -- and use that information to understand how those people manage, make decisions, resolve or create conflicts, and more.

Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: world, live, changed, islam, conquests, spread, arab
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0306815850
ISBN-13: 9780306815850

From a leading expert in Arabic history, an engaging history of the great Islamic expansion that carved out an empire from Spain to Asia. Today’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople, and destroyed

Author: Dianne Jaco
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: reviews, articles, memoir, fiction, restaurant, cookbooks, food, complete, guide, writing, write
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1569243778
ISBN-13: 9781569243770

Transform your food passion into words with Will Write for Food, the first-ever guide to the ins and outs of food writing, from one of today’s experts. Offering a thorough, practical program this groundbreaking book includes: -Advice from dozens of award-winning writers including Jeffrey Steingarten, Calvin Trillin, and Molly O’ Neill, plus well-known editors and literary agents -Comprehensive chapters ranging from restaurant reviewing to memoir writing to get published -Focused exercises to stimulate creativity and organize thought -Expert-author Dianne Jacob’s own tips and

Authors:Ray Oldenburg, Ray Oldenburg Ph.D.,
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: salons, hangouts, heart, community, hair, bars, cafes, coffee, shops, bookstores, place
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-08-17
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1569246815
ISBN-13: 9781569246818

The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the grassroots of democracy.

Author: Kenneth L. Higbee
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: improve, works, memory
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1569246297
ISBN-13: 9781569246290

Do you want to stop forgetting appointments, birthdays, and other important dates? Work more efficiently at your job? Study less and get better grades? Remember the names and faces of people you meet? The good news is that it’s all possible. Your Memory will help to expand your memory abilities beyond what you thought possible. Dr. Higbee reveals how simple techniques, like the Link, Loci, Peg, and Phonetic systems, can be incorporated into your everyday life and how you can also use these techniques to learn foreign languages faster than you thought possible, remember details you would