New Releases by John Mitchinson

Churches face management challenges comparable with those in secular organizations, but with additional dimensions that include the primacy of religious purpose and an inherent concern that excessive managerial focus may inhibit this purpose. This research examined the influential levers essentially, factors fully or partially within the control of leaders or managers at each level used in the Salvation Army''s United Kingdom operations to help achieve local outcomes in accordance with its overall mission and objectives. Adopting a primarily phenomenological approach, the research used questionnaire surveys, semi-structured interviews and secondary statistical data to examine views and results at local, divisional and territorial levels, and to assess their implications. Primary data sources consisted of 23 local leaders and managers, 13 local volunteers or employees, 13 divisional or territorial officials, and 4 divisional commanders. The research confirmed the validity and relevance of the concept and (with minor qualifications) its posited components. Leadership was of particular importance, as was an internal spiritual climate. The research is expected to be of direct value to the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom, and potentially to the Salvation Army elsewhere. The concept of influential levers may also have indicative value to churches and other charities {u2013} particularly those with locally devolved activities {u2013} and to organizations generally--from abstract.

VIVE LA REVOLUTION! Dolphins shed and replace their skin every two hours Pluto was named by an eleven-year-old schoolgirl A donkey''s personality is called its donkeyship Freud didn''t lose his virginity until the age of 30 The bastion that was QI has been stormed, elves have been put to the guillotine, the readers are in charge. After nine and a half years of cumulative reading time, readers of the QI App have selected the definitive QI collection. With a new introduction by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, and packed full of handsome images, these ten chapters form the best-of to end all best-ofs.

From the brains behind the New York Times'' bestseller, The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series. Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you''ll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it''s history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you''ll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong. For example, do you know who made the first airplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of Coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What was the first dishwasher built to do? What color are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential text for everyone who knows they don''t know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.

Nog altijd worden ons dagelijks vele feiten als de enige en absolute waarheid gepresenteerd. Wie kritisch blijft en die feiten tegen het licht houdt, merkt dat veel van onze algemene kennis onjuist is.Het grote boek van nutteloze kennis bewijst maar weer eens dat alles wat je altijd zeker dacht te weten hopeloos achterhaald is. Wist u bijvoorbeeld:Dat sinaasappels helemaal niet oranje zijn?Hoeveel water een mens per dag écht nodig heeft?Dat Napoleon helemaal niet zo klein was als iedereen denkt?Hoe groot de kans is dat een muntstuk op de ''kop''-zijde valt?Dat een vis eigenlijk helemaal geen vis is?Het grote boek van nutteloze kennis is het nieuwste boek van John Lloyd en John Mitchinson, het dynamische duo achter de populaire en hilarische quiz QI, gepresenteerd door de aartskomiek en rasintellectueel Stephen Fry. Hun QI-boeken verschijnen in 26 talen, in totaal werden er wereldwijd al meer dan 1,2 miljoen exemplaren verkocht.

Wist je dat albatrossen tien jaar aan een stuk kunnen vliegen, bloedzuigers 34 breinen hebben, cicaden kunnen tellen, muizen zingen als ze seks hebben, dooskwallen 24 ogen hebben maar geen onderkant, ganzen om hun doden rouwen, koala’s niet drinken, olifanten niet kunnen rennen, spinnen wel degelijk kunnen vliegen, termieten monogaam zijn en dat kreeften wel honderd jaar oud kunnen worden? Dan is dit boek niet voor jou. Dagelijks worden ons vele feiten als de enige en absolute waarheid gepresenteerd. Wie kritisch blijft en die feiten tegen het licht houdt, merkt dat veel van onze algemene kennis onjuist is. De BBC wijdde er een hilarische en razend populaire quiz aan: QI, gepresenteerd door aartskomiek en rasintellectueel Stephen Fry. De leukste instinkers over het dierenrijk zijn nu verzameld in Het grote boek van foute feiten over dieren.

Just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off are back. With a foreword by Stephen Fry, this parcel of unimaginable information is here to solve a few common misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings. Octopuses have six legs, oranges aren''t orange, bats aren''t blind, napoleon wasn''t short, vikings didn''t wear horned helmets, there is no such thing as a fish. QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential set text for everyone who''s proud to admit that they don''t know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do. John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are the bestselling authors of QI: The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off. Here they present a wonderful collection of astonishingly interesting facts, perfect for pub quiz lovers, trivia buffs and general knowledge experts alike.

Welcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in!QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history. Celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes and marvel at their bad taste in clothes. Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women, Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed, Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day, Catherine de Medici applied a daily face mask made of pigeon dung, Rembrandt van Rijn died penniless and Madame Mao banned cicadas, rustling noises and pianos. Carefully collected and ordered by the QI team into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as ''There''s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life'', ''Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone''. Each chapter reveals hilarious insights into the true nature of the most interesting people who ever lived, including Isaac Newton, Genghis Khan, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale and Karl Marx. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts to Knock Your Socks Off, comes a fun and inspirational biographical dictionary, with motivational stories about the famous and the obscure.

A whimsical treasury of biographical profiles of famous and lesser-known individuals now dead includes hundreds of entries that reveal embarrassing-but-true details typically omitted by official biographers. Co-authored by the award-winning producer of Blackadder and the writer of QI.

Welcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in!QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history. Celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes and marvel at their bad taste in clothes. Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women, Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed, Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day, Catherine de Medici applied a daily face mask made of pigeon dung, Rembrandt van Rijn died penniless and Madame Mao banned cicadas, rustling noises and pianos. Carefully collected and ordered by the QI team into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as ''There''s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life'', ''Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone''. Each chapter reveals hilarious insights into the true nature of the most interesting people who ever lived, including Isaac Newton, Genghis Khan, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale and Karl Marx. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts to Knock Your Socks Off, comes a fun and inspirational biographical dictionary, with motivational stories about the famous and the obscure.

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote Interesting, a lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, Lloyd and Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs like: “The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.” —Victor Lewis Smith “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.” —Henry James “I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” —Nancy Reagan “You know ‘that look’ women get when they want sex? Me neither.” —Steve Martin

So, you think George Washington was our first president? Wrong! Or that bagpipes come from Scotland? Nice try, genius. Perfect for parties, trivia buffs, and anyone who thinks the earth has just one moon, this deck offers 100 flash cards of brain-building fun! Discover the truth behind these seemingly simple questions: -What is the color of Mars -Who said, “Let them eat cake” -How many states are in the United States -Where was baseball invented And so many more!

Disfrute de un safari informativo sobre cien de los miembros más interesantes del reino animal, todo ello acompañado de la maravillosas ilustraciones y diagramas explicativos del premiado artista Ted Dewan. Conozca a los osos de agua (tardígrados para ser más exactos), capaces de vivir flotando en el líquido elemento durante años; a los parásitos que habitan en su gato y convierten a los hombres en gruñones y a las mujeres en promiscuas. Maravíllese con los elefantes que caminan de puntillas, con los cerdos que brillan en la oscuridad y con los oídos que tienen los pájaros carpinteros en la punta de lengua. Si todavía cree que un pangolín es un instrumento musical, que las hienas son cánidos o que las ovejas son tontas, El pequeño gran libro de la ignorancia... animal llega justo a tiempo.

The festive fiefdom of QI follows last year''s estimable ''E'' Annual with a farrago of ''F''-themed fabulousness. Filled with the fabrications of Fry and friends, it''s a feast of fascinating facts, from fish and frogs to ferrets and Freemasons, from the frozen fields of Finland to the fruit-fringed forests of Fiji, filled with flies, flags, flamingos, fleas, floods, flowers, fog, food, football, forests, fossils, fungi, fur and furniture . . . You get the idea. It''s the nearest you''ll get to having the phenomenal BBC show live in your front room. It''s often said that 96% of the universe is missing, composed of so-called ''dark matter''. But isn''t it interesting that the remaining 4% can be compressed into just 96 pages of fabulous, free-wheeling fun?

QI The Pocket Book of Animals is John Lloyd and John Mitchinson''s funny, eccentric and confounding handbook filled with interesting animal facts and figures. Join the QI team for an off-road safari into the wildlife, past one hundred of the most unusual members of the animal kingdom, armed with illuminating illustrations and diagrams by award-winning artist Ted Dewan. Amongst the weird, wonderful and really quite interesting animal facts, meet albatrosses that fly non-stop for ten years, leeches with 34 brains, koalas that don''t drink, geese that mourn their dead and lobsters that live for a century. marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. Collected by the writers of the hit BBC show, QI, and authors of the international bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, QI The Pocket Book of Animals is an animal encyclopedia that even David Attenborough would learn something from. And remember - everything you think you know is wrong.

The ultimate compendium of crisp one-liners, knockout jokes, droll asides and universal truths collected over the years by the creators of QI. ''You know ''that look'' women get when they want sex? Me neither.'' Steve Martin; ''You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.'' Chinese proverb; ''The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.'' Victor Lewis-Smith; ''Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.'' Mark Twain; ''Depend on the rabbit''s foot if you will, but remember: it didn''t work for the rabbit.'' R.E. Shay; ''If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would be an endless series of ''what-ho''s!'''' P. G.Wodehouse

QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is an illuminating collection of fun facts, perfect for general knowledge, trivia and pub quiz enthusiasts. This number-one bestseller is a comprehensive catalogue of all the interesting misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in ''common knowledge'' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument. Henry VIII had six wives. WRONG! Everest is the highest mountain in the world. WRONG! Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. WRONG! QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is the essential set text for everyone who''s proud to admit that they don''t know everything, and an ideal sack of interesting facts with which to beat people who think they do. Perfect for trivia, pub quiz and general knowledge enthusiasts, this is a number-one bestseller from the authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, packed with weird, wonderful and really quite interesting facts.

La vie secrète des animaux. Saviez-vous que les ânes produisent naturellement du Viagra, et qu''ils ont 62 chromosomes (16 de plus que les humains) ? Que les albatros peuvent voler sans se poser pendant 10 ans et qu''ils sont extrêmement fidèles ? Que les pigeons ont une vision 10 fois plus performante que la nôtre et qu''ils savent distinguer un Monet d''un Picasso ? Connaissez-vous le rat-taupe nu et le tardigrade ?. Ce nouveau livre de John Mitchinson et John Lloyd vous dit tout du comportement, décidément très étrange, de plus 100 animaux

Si vous croyez que les êtres humains n''ont que deux narines, que l''on écrit au tableau noir avec de la craie, que le Sahara est l''endroit le plus sec de la Terre, alors vous avez besoin de ce livre. Et de toute urgence, car tout ce que vous croyez savoir est faux ! Vous trouverez enfin les bonnes réponses aux questions qui obsèdent depuis des lustres les scientifiques et les piliers de bar. Mais attention, des réponses solidement étayées scientifiquement ! Selon Thomas Edison, l''homme qui n''a pas inventé l''ampoule électrique : " Nous ne savons pas un millionième de quoi que ce soit. "