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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.

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.

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.

"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

Want to run your Kubernetes workloads safely and securely? This practical book provides a threat-based guide to Kubernetes security. Each chapter examines a particular component's architecture and potential default settings and then reviews existing high-profile attacks and historical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Authors Andrew Martin and Michael Hausenblas share best-practice configuration to help you harden clusters from possible angles of attack.This book begins with a vanilla Kubernetes installation with built-in defaults. You'll examine an abstract threat model of a distributed system running arbitrary workloads, and then progress to a detailed assessment of each component of a secure Kubernetes system.Understand where your Kubernetes system is vulnerable with threat modelling techniquesFocus on pods, from configurations to attacks and defensesSecure your cluster and workload trafficDefine and enforce policy with RBAC, OPA, and KyvernoDive deep into sandboxing and isolation techniquesLearn how to detect and mitigate supply chain attacksExplore filesystems, volumes, and sensitive information at restDiscover what can go wrong when running multitenant workloads in a clusterLearn what you can do if someone breaks in despite you having controls in place

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.

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.

A delightfully warm exploration of a very British obsession.

The follow-up to his classic-in-the-making debut Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for America is a collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement.

Founded by Al O'Connor in 1973, the steelband program at Northern Illinois University was the first of its kind in the United States. Thanks to the talent and dedication of O'Connor, Cliff Alexis, Liam Teague, Yuko Asada, and a plethora of NIU students and staff members, the program has flourished into one of the most important in the world...

From 'a master of historical crime fiction' (The Guardian), The Winker is a gripping thriller that won't let you look away.

She can read your mind . . . Brilliantly conceived, Andrew Martin takes us into the thrilling underworld of present-day London, as Jean tracks down the mystery of a Victorian mind reader who will not leave her thoughts.

A literary thriller, set mainly in late 18th-century York. Highly atmospheric and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, it brings to life 18th-century England with its villains and heroes.

This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect knowledge, twin ideals free from the impurities and imperfections of discourse.

Detective Superintendent George Quinn - Mayfair resident and dandy with a razor-sharp brain - has set up a new police unit, dedicated to investigating the super-rich. When he is shot in mysterious circumstances, DI Blake Reynolds is charged with taking over. But Reynolds hadn't bargained for Quinn's personal assistant - the flinty Victoria Clifford - who knows more than she's prepared to reveal...The trail left by Quinn leads to a jewellery theft, a murderous conspiracy among some of the most glamorous (and richest) Russians in London - and the beautiful Anna, who challenges Reynolds' professional integrity. Reynolds and Clifford must learn to work together fast - or risk Quinn's fate.Set in the heart of twenty-first-century Mayfair, a world of champagne, Lamborghinis and Savile Row suits, The Yellow Diamond is a brilliant new venture from one of our best loved crime authors - meticulously plotted, wonderfully humane and hugely enjoyable.

North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working holiday he had hoped for. The country seethes with political and racial tension. Aside from the Jamalpur shooting, someone is placing venomous snakes - including giant king cobras - in the first class compartments of the railway. Jim also has worries on the home front: his daughter has formed a connection with a Maharajah's son, who may in turn have a connection to Jim's incredibly rude colleague, the bristling Major Fisher. Jim must do everything he can to keep his family safe from harm, as he unravels the intrigues that surround him...

Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes. As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city. The recently ejected Turks are still a danger - and many of the local Arabs are none too friendly either.For Jim, who is not particularly good in warm weather, the situation grows pricklier by the day. Aside from his investigation, he is working on the railways around the city. His boss is the charming, enigmatic Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd, who presides over the gracious dining society called The Baghdad Railway Club - and who may or may not be a Turkish agent. Jim's search for the truth brings him up against murderous violence in a heat-dazed, labyrinthine city where an enemy awaits around every corner.