New Releases by Jonathan Miller

Featured on MSNBC''s "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and HuffPost Live. Columbia University Prof. Marc Lamont Hill declared: "Make sure you check out this book. It''s an awesome book, and a great contribution to the national conversation." In The Recovering Politician''s Twelve Step Program to Survive Crisis, more than a dozen "recovering politicians" share their twelve step program on how to survive crises - from highly publicized and politicized scandals, to smaller, more intimate interpersonal struggles. They outline deliberate, focused and vigorous courses of action and reaction, gleaned from their own experiences - often dramatic, sometimes painful - under the piercing lights of the political arena. Crisis management, of course, has captured the zeitgiest: Scandal''s Olivia Pope and The Good Wife''s Eli Gold have brought the crisis manager to the mainstream; PR firms are racing to rebrand themselves as crisis advisers; and it seems like every Clinton and Bush era senior official is offering his or her wares or writing a book on the subject. Moreover, many of the most widely-read news stories of the past few decades have involved politicians, athletes, and celebrities struggling through crises that involve sex, lies, audiotape, drugs, criminal activity, and/or unethical behavior. Just recently, consider the cases of Lance Armstrong, Manti Te''o, Anthony Weiner, Mark Sanford, David Petraeus, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Penn State football, even Beyonce''s lip synching at the presidential inauguration. Most Americans probably view scandal through the prism of ideology, partisanship, or even conspiracy. At the heart, however, are flawed human beings making mistakes, acting emotionally, and desperately trying to preserve their reputations and careers. In The Recovering Politician''s Twelve Step Program to Survive Crisis, a diverse, bi-partisan collection of former politicians, draw lessons from their own scandals - ranging from allegations of ethical and sexual impropriety, to suffering through alcoholism and depression, to being censured and forced out of office, to serving time in federal prison - and share their guidance on how everyday readers can transcend crisis, recover, and launch their own second acts.

Preschoolers go through a learning adventure through different animal habitats to find and identify the animals in the scenes.

Learn words for various things that are commonly seen durng the four seasons.

Take pre-schoolers on a learning adventure through familiar settings, introducing them to basic words along the way.

Die elektrisierende Biographie über 4 junge Burschen aus Essex, die sich zu Superstars und den Meistern des Synthie-Pop entwickelten. Jonathan Millers bahnbrechendes Buch bringt ausführliche Interviews mit dem Gründungsmitglied Vince Clarke und dem Produzenten Gareth Jones und beinhaltet nie zuvor veröffentlichte Interviews mit den Bandmitgliedern.Mit zusätzlichen Eindrücken von Gary Numan, Howard Jones und Thomas Dolby ist dieses Werk ein einzigartiges Portrait einer Band, die fast schon die Kontrolle verloren hatte, als ihr Leben weit neben der Spur verlief und der Lead-Sänger Dave Gahan sich mit seiner Heroinsucht beinahe umbrachte. Doch am Ende überlebten Depeche Mode nicht nur, sondern sie triumphierten regelrecht, indem sie auf ihrem langen und oft mühevollen Weg atemberaubende 40 Millionen Alben verkauften. Dies ist ihre sensationelle Geschichte, hier zum ersten Mal vollständig erzählt.

This book explains the essential elements of Argentine constitutionalism - its federal system of government, its long tradition of judicial review, its hyper-presidentialism and weak legislatures, and its striking respect for international human rights instruments and tribunals - but in the context of Argentina''s political and economic rollercoaster since 1930. That rollercoaster has allowed few elected governments to complete their terms of office, and has wreaked havoc with security of property and contract as desperate governments default on obligations and control prices. Yet Argentine constitutionalism also establishes some limits that governments cannot violate without a loss of legitimacy.The book analyses Argentina''s constitutional structures in light of recurring tendencies in Argentine constitutionalism, such as a preference for aspirational constitutionalism, adoption of foreign models, competition between sectors organised into highly vertical structures, and protection of certain spheres of power from political competition. It also describes how the formal Constitution interacts with a political system that often ignores representational politics. Thus the book analyses Argentine federalism in light of the need of Governors to placate the President to obtain funding for their provinces, studies separation of powers in terms of Presidential emergency powers and the use of those powers to political advantage, and considers judicial review in terms both of the ability of the judiciary to act as a check on a strong President and of the judiciary as a corporate structure with demands that it places on its members. The resulting system, which offers some real protection for civil liberties such as free speech and freedom from arbitrary arrest, shares traits with many developing countries that value popularly elected government but whose institutions fail to adequately ensure checks on the exercise of power and government responsiveness to social needs.

An updated edition of the biography about Depeche Mode, four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars and champions of synth pop/rock.

In this guide, Jonathan Miller unravels Darwin''s life and contribution to biology, and traces the path from his scientific predecessors to the later modifications that his own evolutionary theories required.

Des techniques de base de contrôle de la balle à la manière de former la meilleure équipe, L''école du foot est un guide passionnant et accessible qui permet d''améliorer à la fois tes propres capacités et celles de ton équipe. Couvrant tous les aspects du jeu en détail, cet ouvrage est composé de photos saisissantes, de schémas utiles du terrain et de suggestions de jeux et d''exercices. Apprends à feinter ton adversaire, à contre-attaquer en défense et à développer une tactique d''attaque et de mise au but. Découvre comment devenir gardien de but, rester en forme toute l''année et marquer ce crucial penalty.

Explores snakes and describes how they move, hunt, eat and mate. Includes fact boxes with information about snake life.

Does an opera producer do anything besides tell the singers where to stand? Can a single note be played more or less beautifully on the piano? In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts. Tom Stoppard considers ways of controlling how an audience gets information while watching a play, and Charles Rosen reflects on the very physical relationship between the musician and the instrument. Jonathan Miller describes ways of restoring dramatic motivation to some of our best-loved operas. Garry Wills argues that the collaborative and commercial pressures of filmmaking have produced some of our greatest cinematic achievements, and Geoffrey O''Brien looks at how hip audiences in the Nineties have rediscovered Sixties pop music icon Burt Bacharach. Witty, trenchant, often surprising, and always insightful, this collection is essential reading for all devotees of theatrical, musical, and film performance.

Covers everything you need to know to be a successful goalie, from correct handling techniques to good positional sense.

In this marvelous & engaging book, Jonathan Miller investigates the pictorial representation of sheen, shine, glimmer an gleam through a wonderfully varied selection of paintings & photographs drawn from the National Gallery, London.

Covers soccer training essentials, including stretching, ball skills, and strength work.