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In a world driven by data and interconnectedness, the realms of cloud computing and distributed systems have emerged as the pillars upon which our digital future is built. “Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems” is your comprehensive guide to understanding and harnessing the full potential of these transformative technologies.
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Distributed Systems Deconstructed: Explore the fascinating world of distributed systems, where computing resources are spread across networks and collaborate to perform tasks. You’ll delve into concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency, all while discovering the architecture of distributed systems that underpin services like social networks, e-commerce platforms, and more.
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Practical Applications: This book goes beyond theory to provide practical insights into designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based and distributed systems. Real-world case studies and examples demonstrate how these technologies are used in fields as diverse as healthcare, finance, entertainment, and IoT (Internet of Things).
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Security and Challenges: Understand the security considerations and challenges that come with cloud computing and distributed systems. Learn how to mitigate risks and safeguard your data in an increasingly interconnected world.
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Cloud computing is no longer just a clever new toy in the world of IT infrastructure. Despite the nebulous name, it’s become a real and important part of our information architecture―and tech professionals who ignore it or try to skim their way through risk falling behind rapidly. The new edition of Cloud Computing For Dummies gets you up to speed fast, clarifying your Cloud options, showing you where can save you time and money, giving you ways to frame your decisions, and helping you avoid weeks of research.
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A recent industry report from Gartner points out that choices related to cloud computing at enterprises have changed from “if” to “how” to build, deploy, consume, manage, secure and integrate cloud services into their operations. The cloud solutions architect is the person who defines the enterprise cloud strategy from a technical point of view and must take responsibility for rolling out these cloud services.
Cloud computing is a transformative paradigm that enables scalable, convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing and networking resources, for efficiently delivering applications and services over the Internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading provider of cloud platforms and services, defines a cloud solutions architect as one who can provide solution plans for the best architectural practices for cloud applications, can design and deploy highly scalable and fault-tolerant services, can assist in lifting legacy applications and shifting them to the cloud, and can identify and plan for data entry and exit from the cloud platform, choose suitable cloud services based on data, compute, and security requirements. Further, the cloud solutions architect also ensures that enterprise offerings conform to sound principles, such as AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) for cloud applications and services.
We have written this textbook, as part of our expanding “A Hands-On Approach”™ series, to meet this need at colleges and universities. This book is written as a textbook for training the next generation of cloud solutions architects for educational programs at colleges and universities, and also accompanying cloud certification programs where students would be interested in obtaining valuable hands-on skills on actual cloud platforms to further develop their knowledge and competency base.
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Cloud Computing, revised and updated edition (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
An updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution.In this Essential Knowledge volume, Nayan B. Ruparelia provides an updated and revised version of Cloud Computing, first published in 2016, to address not only the fact that cloud computing has become a ubiquitous part of mainstream computing since then but also has made strides in other key aspects of the technology’s development, including:
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Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies
Comprehensive and timely, Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and technologies, along with guidance on the best ways to understand and implement them. It covers the multi-core architectures, distributed and parallel computing models, virtualization, cloud developments, workload and Service-Level-Agreements (SLA) in cloud, workload management. Further, resource management issues in cloud with regard to resource provisioning, resource allocation, resource mapping and resource adaptation, ethical, non-ethical and security issues in cloud are followed by discussion of open challenges and future directions.
This book gives students a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies and guidance on cloud computing, and is ideal for those studying the subject in specific modules or advanced courses. It is designed in twelve chapters followed by laboratory setups and experiments. Each chapter has multiple choice questions with answers, as well as review questions and critical thinking questions. The chapters are practically-focused, meaning that the information will also be relevant and useful for professionals wanting an overview of the topic.
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Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security, and Architecture (The Pearson Digital Enterprise Series from Thomas Erl)
Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security & Architecture
Cloud computing has become an integral and foundational part of information technology. The majority of digital business activity and technology innovation occurs with the involvement of contemporary cloud environments that provide highly sophisticated automated technology infrastructure and a vast range of technology resources. To successfully build upon, interact with, or create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, models, and security controls. It also requires an understanding of the business and economic factors that justify the adoption and real-world use of clouds and cloud-based products and services.
In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the world’s top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing expert Eric Barceló Monroy and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures. Comprehensive coverage of containerization and cybersecurity topics is also included.
All chapters are carefully authored from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing and containerization platforms and solutions. With nearly 370 figures, 40 architectural models, and 50 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of contemporary cloud computing, containerization, and cybersecurity that will never leave your side.
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Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice
Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network-centric computing and network-centric content in Chapter One, the book is organized into four sections. Section One reviews basic concepts of concurrency and parallel and distributed systems. Section Two presents such critical components of the cloud ecosystem as cloud service providers, cloud access, cloud data storage, and cloud hardware and software. Section Three covers cloud applications and cloud security, while Section Four presents research topics in cloud computing. Specific topics covered include resource virtualization, resource management and scheduling, and advanced topics like the impact of scale on efficiency, cloud scheduling subject to deadlines, alternative cloud architectures, and vehicular clouds. An included glossary covers terms grouped in several categories, from general to services, virtualization, desirable attributes and security.Read more
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Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice
Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network-centric computing and network-centric content, the book reviews basic concepts of concurrency and parallel and distributed systems, presents critical components of the cloud ecosystem as cloud service providers, cloud access, cloud data storage, and cloud hardware and software, covers cloud applications and cloud security, and presents research topics in cloud computing.
Specific topics covered include resource virtualization, resource management and scheduling, and advanced topics like the impact of scale on efficiency, cloud scheduling subject to deadlines, alternative cloud architectures, and vehicular clouds. An included glossary covers terms grouped in several categories, from general to services, virtualization, desirable attributes and security.
- Presents updated content throughout chapters on concurrency, cloud hardware and software, challenges posed by big data, mobile applications and advanced topics
- Includes an expanded appendix that presents several cloud computing projects
- Provides more than 400 references in the text, including recent research results in several areas related to cloud computing
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: the new novel and Sunday Times bestseller from the author of All the Light We Cannot See
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
‘A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books’ Guardian
‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’
Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope.
Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.
‘Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope – all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages’ Observer
‘Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing’ Financial Times
‘This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read’ Daily Mirror
Anthony Doerr’s book ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27-09-2021.
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CMT Curriculum Level III 2022: The Integration of Technical Analysis
Get Your Copy of the Official 2022 CMT® Level III Curriculum
Building upon the concepts covered in Levels I and II, the Official CMT® Level III Curriculum is the authoritative resource for all candidates preparing for their final CMT exam in June or December of 2022. This text explores asset relationships, portfolio management, behavioral finance, volatility analysis, and more.
Published in partnership with the CMT Association, CMT Curriculum Level III 2022: The Integration of Technical Analysis covers all concepts featured on the Level III CMT® exam, and is designed to improve candidates’ understanding of key topics in the theory and analysis of markets and securities.
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Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership FULLY REVISED 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Principles and Practice of … FULLY REVISED 25TH…
Coaching for Performance is the #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. This is the definitive, updated and expanded edition.
“The proven resource for all coaches and pioneers of the future of coaching.” Magdalena N. Mook, CEO, International Coach Federation (ICF)
An international bestseller, featuring the powerful GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success.
Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand new practical exercises, corporate examples, coaching dialogues, and a glossary, strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.
“Shines a light on what it takes to create high performance.” John McFarlane, Chairman, Barclays, Chairman, TheCityUK
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COACHING HABIT: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Look for Michael’s new book, The Advice Trap, which focuses on taming your Advice Monster so you can stay curious a little longer and change the way you lead forever.In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.
Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples’ potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how―by saying less and asking more―you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
· Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question
· Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question
· Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
· Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question
· Finally ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning QuestionA fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work―and your workplace―from good to great.
“Coaching is an art and it’s far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide and answer, or unleash a solution. giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part―how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice.
―Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly.Read more
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Coaching Junior Football Teams For Dummies
Packed with drills and tips for training and game daysThe fun and easy way to master the art of football coaching
Volunteering as a youth football coach can be a great experience, both for you and your squad. But what if you’ve never coached before, or want to improve? Don’t worry! This friendly guide explains football rules, shows you how to approach coaching, and gives you practical pointers on improving team skills and encouraging good sportsmanship.
* Understand football rules
*Develop a coaching philosophy
*Teach football fundamentals
*Run great training sessions
*Lead your team during a game
*Communicate effectively with parents
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Coaching Rugby: Including More Than 100 Drills and Games for Coaching All the Basics
Foreword by Sir Clive Woodward. Anxious about coaching rugby to children? Maybe you’re already coaching, but sometimes struggle to get your points across to your players? Perhaps you find yourself frequently running out of preparation time or think your sessions are becoming dull? Coaching Rugby is Dan Cottrell’s best-selling manual created for new and aspiring coaches of junior players. It is designed to help you build your players’ techniques, skills and understanding of the whole game from ages 8 to 16, to give them the best start possible to their rugby playing career. Divided into two parts, part one focuses on the basics of working with young players in a safe and rewarding environment. Part two contains more than 100 training sessions, games and developments to coach and enhance all the basic skills of rugby union.Read more
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Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions: A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives
Sales training doesn’t develop sales champions. Managers do.
The secret to developing a team of high performers isn’t more training but better coaching. When managers effectively coach their people around best practices, core competencies and the inner game of coaching that develops the champion attitude, it makes your training stick. With Keith Rosen’s coaching methodology and proven L.E.A.D.S. Coaching Framework™ used by the world’s top organizations, you’ll get your sales and management teams to perform better – fast.
Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions is your playbook to creating a thriving coaching culture and building a team of top producers. This book is packed with case studies, a 30 Day Turnaround Strategy for underperformers, a library of coaching templates and scripts, as well as hundreds of powerful coaching questions you can use immediately to coach anyone in any situation.
You will learn how to confidently facilitate powerful, engaging coaching conversations so that your team can resolve their own problems and take ownership of the solution. You’ll also discover how to leverage the true power of observation and deliver feedback that results in positive behavioral changes, so that you can successfully motivate and develop your team and each individual to reach business objectives faster.
Winner of Five International Best Book Awards, Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions is your tactical, step-by-step playbook for any people manager looking to:
- Boost sales, productivity and personal accountability, while reducing your workload
- Conduct customer/pipeline reviews that improve forecast accuracy, customer retention and uncover new selling opportunities
- Achieve a long term ROI from coaching by ensuring it’s woven into your daily rhythm of business
- Design, launch and sustain a successful internal coaching program
- Turn-around underperformers in 30 days or less
- Build deeper trust and handle difficult conversations by creating alignment around each person’s goals and your objectives
- Coach and retain your top performers
- Collaborate more powerfully and communicate like a world-class leader
Training develops salespeople. Coaching develops sales champions. Your new competitive edge.
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Coaching Stock 2024: Including HST Formations and Network Rail Service Stock (British Railways Pocket Books)
The 2024 edition of the definitive Platform 5 guide to all locomotive-hauled carriages which operate on Britain’s national railway network. British Railways Pocket Book 2: Coaching Stock contains a complete list of all coaching stock in service with the following details provided for every coach: Owner, Operator, Livery, Depot Allocation. The book also includes technical data for every class of coach and an overview of the structure of Britain’s railways today. Further details of coaching stock formations, Network Rail service stock and coaching stock awaiting disposal are also provided. The book has been completely updated to incorporate all the latest rolling stock changes. 112 pages including 16 pages of colour illustrations.Read more
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Coca Wine: Angelo Mariani’s Miraculous Elixir and the Birth of Modern Advertising
A lavishly illustrated history of coca wine and the revolutionary advertising methods that made it a world-wide successOne of the oldest and most potent natural stimulants, the leaves of the coca plant are the organic source from which cocaine is synthesized. Fresh coca leaves and products made from them have verified medicinal and healing properties–and not the same addictive qualities or negative side effects as cocaine. In the late 19th century coca products became hugely successful in Europe and the United States. The most famous was Vin Mariani, a coca-based tonic wine developed by Corsican pharmacist Angelo Mariani (1838-1914). Many celebrities sang its praises, including Pope Benedict XV, Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Edison, H. G. Wells, and the doctors of Ulysses S Grant, who credited Vin Mariani with giving him the strength to finish his memoirs before his death.
In this full-color illustrated history of coca wine, author Aymon de Lestrange follows Mariani’s interest in coca from its medicinal applications as an anesthetic to the creation of the tonic wine. The author explores the botany of coca, how it differs from cocaine, its traditional use in pre-Columbian America, and scientific studies on coca from the 17th through 19th centuries, including from Sigmund Freud, who was a known user.
Looking to the future of coca, the author shows how it has gained renewed interest in the scientific community for its therapeutic and nutritional properties and in the spiritual community, which is seeking to rehabilitate the reputation of coca, the sacred plant of the Incas.Read more
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COCK : COLORING BOOK FOR ADUTS.: Penis Coloring Book For Adults Containing 50 Stress Reliving Funny Dick Coloring Pages In A Paisley.Funny Cock … For Stress Relief,…
50 Shades OF Glorious DICKS ! The Most Funny Penis Coloring Book
This Funny Cock Coloring Book For Adults includes 50 Pages with different levels of difficulty. It is suitable for beginners as well as for advanced. Each page is a unique with abstract flowers, Mandalas… and different collections of dicks Coloring pages.This Dick colouring book will provide hours of relaxation For Stress and Depression Release. Every dirty page will help you clear your mind.
it’s a perfect gift for Bachelorette Party.
Here is what is inside:
- Quality Paper: The Paper is designed in a special way so you can easily color it.
- Large Print: 8.5×11 (21.59 x 27.94 cm)The black page on the back of each coloring page prevents bleed-through.
- This means that these coloring pages can be used with:
- Colored pencils
- Crayons
- Markers
- Pens Etc.
- Designs are printed only on one side of each sheet of paper to prevent bleed through.
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Cocking With Semen 100 Delicious Recipes: Funny Inappropriate Novelty Notebook Disguised As A Real Paperback | Adult Naughty Joke Prank Gag Gift for Him or Her, Men or Women.
This is a lined notebook with a fake cover made to make one chuckle. It is a Hilariously funny prank gift idea for everyone – friends and family, male or female, him or her.- Size 6×9 inches. Compact and handy.
- 109 lined pages
- It can be used as a journal, notebook, diary or composition book
- Makes a perfect joke gift for Christmas, birthdays, white elephant party, retirement party, valentines day, coworker, boss, employee, friends… Also great as a stocking stuffer or a cheap but quality secret santa present for under 10 dollars.
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Cocky Jock Wolf: A Curvy Girl and Wolf Shifter College Sports Romance (Big Wolf on Campus Book 1)
Nerdy, chubby girls don’t date quarterbacks… or werewolves.
Eli:
I just want one night off of being the all-star golden boy that the whole world, including my pack, expects great
things from. Is it too much to ask to go watch my favorite horror movies and eat popcorn?
Apparently it is.
I just might get my chance if this cute AF nerdy book girl at the bar plays defense for me. As long as I don’t let my wolf get a whiff of her ripe delicious scent. The last thing I need to add onto my plate is a fated mate.Charlize:
Go on a date or get fired – that’s the ultimatum from my boss at the Moon Bean coffee shop. But I picked a real jerk and now I’m stuck at the bar with him.
I don’t need anyone to save me, but a smart girl recognizes a good escape plan when she kisses one.
It’s not like I’m going to fall for a jock with more notches on his belt than books on his shelf. But Eli is more than that and I’m developing some crazy feelings for him.
That is until he turns into a werewolf straight out of a horror movie.Cocky Jock Wolf is a fated mates New Adult paranormal romance with a nerdy, dirty, cute, and curvy girl and the captain of the football team (who is secretly a wolf shifter!)
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Coco Chanel Special Edition: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon
A special enlarged edition of the international bestseller Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon celebrating 50 years since Coco’s death, 100 years of Chanel No.5 and five years since the original release of this beautiful illustrated biography from globally renowned illustrator Megan Hess. Discover the story of Coco’s amazing early life, the iconic fashion empire that she built, and the legacy that the left behind, brought to life with Megan’s stylish and whimsical illustrations. This special edition features a larger format, beautiful new cover and a ribbon.Read more
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Coco Chanel: Little People, Big Dreams: 1
In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the inspiring story of this international style icon. Following the death of her mother, Coco spent her early life in an orphanage, where she was taught how to use a needle and thread. From there, she became a cabaret singer, seamstress, hat maker and, eventually, the world’s most famous fashion designer. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the designer’s life.Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. This empowering series offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardback versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games, and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children. Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!Read more
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL.
Justine Picardie’s definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden beneath the shimmering surface of a fabled fashion icon. Unveiling remarkable details about Coco Chanel’s traumatic childhood and her flight into unconventional adulthood, this beautifully constructed portrait reveals her passionate and painful past, her turbulent loves and losses, her quest for fame and fortune, and how she transformed herself into her own most powerful creation.
Feared and revered by her contemporaries, Chanel died in 1971, but her legacy lives on as an enduring global brand. Drawing on interviews with her last surviving friends and relatives, and unprecedented archival research, Justine Picardie brings Chanel out of hiding, unpicking the seams between reality and myth, and telling a timeless story that uncovers the true art and heart of fashion.
This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the greatest designer in the world. Adding fresh insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives.
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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. With a new foreword and previously unseen images, this new edition delves even deeper into the life and legacy of this eternally alluring woman.
Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor – she conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, best-selling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time – but she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture.
While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation.
Justine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding, to celebrate her great achievements. She examines Chanel’s enduring afterlife, as well as her remarkable life, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and legend, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past.
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Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It
THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct, lying. Is this the worst parliament in history?
Leading MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of misconduct in parliament, and outlines how we can help solve it.‘Takes a bulldozer to the crumbling edifice of parliamentary standards’ JAMES O’BRIEN
‘Absolutely riveting. I read, I blink, I gasp’ REVEREND RICHARD COLES
‘Vital. It should serve as a wake-up call to all of us’ ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
‘A lively, forensic, engrossing, sometimes entertaining, often disturbing and always unflinching interrogation of what’s gone wrong with our legislature’ ANDREW RAWNSLEY, OBSERVERThe extraordinary turmoil we have seen in British politics in the last few years has set records. We have had the fastest turnover of ministers in our history and more MPs suspended from the House than ever. Rules have been flouted repeatedly, sometimes in plain sight. The government seems unable to escape the brush of sleaze. And just when we think it’s all going to calm down a bit, another scandal breaks.
Having spent years as Chair of the Committees on Standards and Privileges, Chris Bryant has had a front-row seat for the battle over standards in parliament. Cronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct and lying: politicians are engaging in these activities more frequently and more publicly than ever before. The result? The work of honest and accountable MPs is tarnished. Public trust is worn thin. And when nearly two thirds of voters think that MPs are out for themselves, democracy is in trouble.
It is time for a better brand of politics. Taking us inside the Pugin-carpeted corridors of Westminster, from the prime minister’s office to the Strangers’ Bar, Code of Conduct examines how parliament has got into this mess and suggests how it might – at last – get its house in order.
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