Bøger af Andrew Martin

A compendium of the world's greatest designers and their best work. Featuring almost a hundred designers from various corners of the globe, it offers a guide to the styles and trends of international design found in super yachts, hotels, restaurants, and an array of remarkable homes from five continents.

Format: 23,5 x 31,7 cm , 534 Seiten Jährlich erscheinendes Standardwerk mit 1000 Bildern außergewöhnlicher Designtrends Vorstellung des "Designer of the Year" Wertvolle Inspirationsquelle für Einsteiger, Liebhaber und Profis Von der Times zur "Bibel der Interior-Design-Welt" gekürt Dass ein Möbel mehr ist als ein Gebrauchsgegenstand und ein Wohnraum immer wieder neue Geschichten erzählen kann, das vermittelt Martin Waller mit seinem Unternehmen Andrew Martin seit gut 40 Jahren. Zum 26. Mal erscheint nun seine Interior Design Review, ein in seiner Vielfalt und Themenbreite konkurrenzloses Standardwerk. 100 Designer, mehr als 500 Seiten, 1000 Fotografien - so üppig präsentiert dieser prachtvolle Bildband die neuesten Wohntrends. Dieses Coffee Table Book ist mit seiner besonderen Ausstattung einmal mehr ein Augenschmaus für Design-Liebhaber, die ihre Kreativität beflügeln möchten.

Throughout the summer months of the twentieth century, the seaside service posters of the London & North Eastern Railway promised fresh air and frivolity to millions with the phrase: 'To the sea by train'. The British seaside holiday is both a staple of modern life and a charming pillar of history. It is also intertwined with the railways, in whose compartments holidaymakers were shunted from gloomy inner cities to the sandy beaches of Yorkshire and Sussex - some of whom had never seen the sea before. With his signature wit and ear for anecdote, Andrew Martin captures an era defined by its railways: the development of supposedly health-giving spas like Brighton and Scarborough into pleasure resorts; Bank Holidays from 1871; the 48-hour weekend in the 1930s; the Beeching cuts of the 1960s and the coming of cheap flights and the decline of the seaside. Wayward, witty and atmospheric, To the Sea by Train is a joyful history of Britain's most iconic past-time.

Meetings are widely regarded as a source of frustration and inconvenience. People say they are trapped in too many meetings, and for too long. They complain they are time-wasting events that divert us from our core tasks, leaving us feeling drained and unproductive.How about you-do you despise meetings?Andrew Martin proudly considers himself a meeting contrarian. Unlike most people, he loves meetings. However, not just any meeting, well-managed meetings that serve as a catalyst for success. Andrew's colleagues jokingly refer to him as the "meeting whisperer," because great meeting management is his passion and expertise.Andrew's easy-to-read primer on leading meetings is full of advice you wished you'd already known. But it's never too late! Inside the page of this book, you'll learn: How to get more out of people during meetings.Effective steps to navigating conflict.The importance of creating meeting agendas.Why you should define the purpose for every meeting.How to decide who to invite.Andrew Martin is the founder and CEO of Six Figure Dinners, and the co-owner of JARA Ventures, a venture capital firm in Houston, Texas, where he also owned Menchie's Frozen Yogurt restaurants throughout the city. Andrew earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

The ultimate standardwork of interior design is back with Vol. 28: The Andrew Martin InteriorDesign Review presents the latest and most creative interiors by the bestinternational designers on over 500 pages. Worldwide design trends arepresented in this illustrated book with over 1000 photographs, which serves asa source of inspiration for design beginners, fans, and professionals.

This book discusses and analyses an important chess variation that is very modern and yet highly under-represented in chess literature.

Sudoku Puzzle Book Series by Andrew Martin. This Book Contains 50 easy, 50 Medium, 50 Hard and 50 Extra-Hard difficulty Sudoku Puzzles with answers, for beginners and experienced Sudoku Puzzlers.

Sudoku Puzzle Book Series by Andrew Martin. This Book Contains 50 easy, 50 Medium, 50 Hard and 50 Extra-Hard difficulty Sudoku Puzzles with answers, for beginners and experienced Sudoku Puzzlers.

Sudoku Puzzle Book Series by Andrew Martin. This Book Contains 50 easy, 50 Medium, 50 Hard and 50 Extra-Hard difficulty Sudoku Puzzles with answers, for beginners and experienced Sudoku Puzzlers.

Sudoku Puzzle Book Series by Andrew Martin. This Book Contains 50 easy, 50 Medium, 50 Hard and 50 Extra-Hard difficulty Sudoku Puzzles with answers, for beginners and experienced Sudoku Puzzlers.

Sudoku Puzzle Book Series by Andrew Martin. This Book Contains 50 easy, 50 Medium, 50 Hard and 50 Extra-Hard difficulty Sudoku Puzzles with answers, for beginners and experienced Sudoku Puzzlers.

Life is full of precious, beautiful moments. That's what some guy who works for a greeting card distributor would have us believe. For most of us, it is also full of weird, funny, and sometimes uncomfortable experiences. This seems to especially be the case for the male of the human species. Most of us shy away from relating our embarrassing experiences. What are we hiding? We all know they happen. Quite frankly, they can be terribly funny. And, if we live to tell about them, they can be incredibly entertaining to others. Join the author as he explores some of life's less-than precious moments.

The Barry Attack is a highly aggressive system that arises after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 Bf4. This book is the ideal guide to this fascinating opening.

An insidious invasion force of extraterrestrials penetrates our government in Washington DC and elsewhere to the point of saturation. Smart engineers at NASA identify the threat and seek to disarm it by any means available.The adventure unfolds and results in a powerful political statement with ramifications beyond the original intent of the patriotic engineers at the Stennis Space Center.

Introduce kids ages 6 to 9 to a century of baseball's biggest stars From legendary sluggers to civil rights heroes, the game of baseball has seen a lot of amazing players—and this book features 10 of the very best. Perfect for new fans or those who already know a thing or two about baseball, this kid-friendly guide is packed full of fun facts and essential stats that will teach them all about the incredible careers of these sports superstars.What sets this collection of baseball biographies apart:10 decades, 10 players—Starting in the 1920s, this book shows the ways players like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and Mike Trout have made history.Runners up—Each decade also includes a brief look at some of the other greats, including Bob Gibson, Ken Griffey Jr., and Ichiro Suzuki.A helpful glossary—All of the terms kids need to know are highlighted and defined in the back of the book.Super stats—Kids will see exactly how outstanding each player was with a quick breakdown of their career stats.Delight young fans and get them interested in the history of the game with this standout among baseball books.

"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I've read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn't always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving." -Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and The Fun PartsFor young writers of a certain temperament-if they haven't had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet-the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the "foul rag and bone shop of the heart." That's where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel-that is, when he isn't teaching at the local women's prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it's time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend, a medical student whose night shifts have become a standing rebuke to his own lack of direction. When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fiancé, he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Her rag-and-bone shop may be as squalid as his own, but at least she knows her way around the shelves. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition.With a keen irony reminiscent of Sam Lipsyte or Lorrie Moore, and a romantic streak as wide as Roberto Bolaño's, Andrew Martin's Early Work marks the debut of a writer as funny and attentive as any novelist of his generation."Beautifully executed and very funny, Early Work is a sharp-eyed, sharp-voiced debut that I didn't want to put down." -Julia Pierpont, author of Among the Ten Thousand Things and The Little Book of Feminist Saints

This book analyses a dynamic opening system that can be used to counter 1 e4.

This book provides a thorough investigation of an unusual but sound defence to the very common opening move 1 d4. The Budapest Gambit is an opening that is under represented in chess literature.

From the author of The Necropolis Railway, The Blackpool Highflyer, and The Lost Luggage Porter comes another thrilling mystery featuring railway detective Jim Stringer. It is winter 1909, and Jim desperately needs his anticipated New Year's promotion in order to pay for a nurse for his ailing son.Jumping at any opportunity to impress his supervisor, Jim agrees to investigate a standard assault in a nearby town. But when his train home hits a snowdrift and a body is discovered buried in the snow, Jim finds himself tracking another dangerous killer. Soon he is on a mad chase to find the suspect, trailing him to the furnaces of Ironopolis and across the country on a dangerous ride to the Highlands. As pursuer becomes pursued, Jim begins to doubt he will ever get his promotion? or that he will survive this case at all.

From the author of The Necropolis Railway and The Blackpool Highflyer comes another ingenious thriller featuring Jim Stringer. It is winter 1906 and Jim has been promoted from sleuth to official railway detective for York station. His first day on the job, the mysterious Lost Luggage Porter, "a human directory to everything in York," tips him off to a group of railway thieves. Jim is instructed by his Inspector to infiltrate their gang and is drawn along into their plot to carry out a robbery and make their getaway across the Channel. Soon Jim finds himself swept off to Paris with the thieves, his plight made even worse when threats are made against his wife. Can Jim get to get to her before the villains do? UK Praise for The Lost Luggage Porter:"Page-turning, confidently written..." ? Guardian"The atmosphere of neglected streets...dingy saloon bars, supper of boiled bacon and pickles, and dismal, unceasing rain are splendidly evoked." ? Telegraph

For potters, mold making is invaluable because it allows them to slip-cast identical multiples of their work--and this newly revised, now in color edition of Andrew Martin's classic is "the "definitive guide to the craft. No other volume has shown the processes in such how-to detail. It's overflowing with hundreds of photos, key techniques, projects, master artist profiles, and troubleshooting tips. A thorough introduction addresses materials and tools, and presents Martin's simple, unique template method for making clay prototypes. Create easy one-piece molds to make tiles, bowls, and platters, or multi-piece molds for more complex forms. An extensive overview covers slip formulation, while offering highly desired slip recipes for low-, mid-, and high-fire clay bodies. This will be the standard reference in every ceramist's library.

It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther down the tracks; it lies directly in their path. Full stop of the engine; full steam ahead with the mystery. As he did in The Necropolis Railway, Stringer doffs his railway hat and dons his detective's derby, assisted once more by "the wife" and her brilliant detecting skills. Capturing the world of railway stations and locomotives during the Edwardian Age, The Blackpool Highflyer carries readers to a place where dark shadows lurk behind innocence and the solution to the mystery waits at the end of the line.

Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally-a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city's outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions-assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls- he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.

Desire Paths, the latest poetry collection from Andrew Martin, invites readers on an emotional journey through the natural world and the human experience. This is writing that is inspired by the works of John Clare and Edward Thomas, and his unique approach to imagery and minimalist precision capture the beauty and vulnerability of the world around us. Through delicate metaphors and unwavering honesty, it explores themes of loss, longing, sorrow, and pain, but also celebrates the joy and wonder of the natural world. Each poem in this collection is a love song to the world and the individual, full of lyricism that is both heartwarming and thought-provoking. It takes you on a captivating journey, where the beauty of the environment creates an intoxicating and immersive mood, and each re-reading will draw you further into a world that is impossible to ignore.