Most Popular Books by Nick Robinson

Provides instructions to make origami animals, including turtles, starfish, and pecking birds.

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English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. Through universal topics and activities, and a focus on intercultural competence as a ''fifth skill'', this international coursebook helps learners become more sensitive, more effective communicators. Teaching natural, dependable language, and with CEFR goals at its core, it brings real life into the classroom and gives learners the skills and strategies to communicate confidently outside it. The ''Explore'' sections provide the extra ingredients for enhancing communicative ability, from further development of speaking skills to independent learning strategies. The English Unlimited Pre-intermediate B Combo with DVD-ROMs includes Coursebook Units 8 to 14 as well as the e-Portfolio and Self-Study DVD-ROM.

English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. Through universal topics and activities, and a focus on intercultural competence as a ''fifth skill'', this international coursebook helps learners become more sensitive, more effective communicators. Teaching natural, dependable language, and with CEFR goals at its core, it brings real life into the classroom and gives learners the skills and strategies to communicate confidently outside it. The ''Explore'' sections provide the extra ingredients for enhancing communicative ability, from further development of speaking skills to independent learning strategies. The English Unlimited Pre-intermediate A Combo with DVD-ROMs includes Coursebook Units Intro to 7 as well as the e-Portfolio and Self-Study DVD-ROM.

This title was first published in 2000. A timely look at the politics of agenda setting in relation to the car, under both the Conservative and Labour governments since the late 1980s.

"English unlimited is a goals-based course for adults, which prepares them to use English independently for global communication"--Back cover.

Family businesses are the most common business form in the world, ranging from the millions of small local businesses to giants such as Walmart. This book showcases the crucial contribution that family businesses make to the world economy and informs students of the existing and potential research in this area. Drawing upon global academic research and case studies, theories of family businesses are explained and prevailing myths and assumptions are tested. Features including exercises linked to case studies develop skills in applying theories in practice. This concise textbook is essential reading for students of family business and useful additional reading for those interested in entrepreneurship more broadly.

A guide to selling business ideas in public, this book tackles such issues as overcoming fears of public speaking, interpreting the body language of an audience, presenting oneself, writing a script, conducting oneself on a stage, using audio-visual aids and coping with untoward occurrences.

''The Origami Bible'' is packed with familiar favourites such as CD cases, envelopes, and hats, combined with brand new designs - elephants, tadpoles, and unique modular forms that can be used as home accents or decorative display pieces. From choosing the right paper to understanding the symbols, from building 12-fold designs to 24-fold models, this book will make an invaluable reference work for all folders, whether complete beginners, or intermediate and advanced artists. Author Nick Robinson focuses on mastery of technique and creativity - showing how designs are forged, what creative processes are involved, and how existing works can be adapted. Fully illustrated in colour, ''The Origami Bible'' will enable readers, whatever their level of skill, to fold almost any design, traditional or contemporary. The emphasis is on creativity, encouraging the reader to combine and extend existing techniques to produce new origami works.

This book reaches the parts that other origami books don''t, plumbing previously uncharted depths, uniting the yin and yang bedfellows of an ancient Japanese artform and 21st century toilet humour. Readers who hitherto have only been able to make a humble paper aeroplane, will soon be able to impress their mates down the pub with a jaw-dropping ability to take a scrap of chaste, virgin paper and fashion something that is both artistic and crude. Working through a total of 16 projects, the cultural importance of each subject and the inspiration behind it is discussed, while the origami side of things is explained in simple, step-by-step Anglo-Saxon, with evocative line drawings. Adult Origami will soon have readers making giant sperm, novelty paper boobies or a fully moving schwanstucker, impressing friends and shocking polite family members everywhere.

During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world’s rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbread racehorses.

Includes basic folding techniques, advice on how to choose paper, and how to create original designs. Instructions included for: cat''s head, bat, pocket heart, curvy dish, pencil, church, tree, tarumpty tum tum, bowl, mammoth, bench, modular ring, hummingbird, beaky, "pureland" fish, frog, dinosaur, chickens, rose bowl, and modular cube.

This kit contains instructions and paper for making 14 origami animals--a giraffe, a frog, a butterfly, and more. Consumable.

Videogames matter and they matter for world politics. The aim of this book is to demonstrate the way in which games contribute to the evolution of global politics and to show how global politics contributes to the development of games. Robinson seeks to achieve this in two ways. First, he offers a ¿macro-approach¿ which explores the political economy of videogames, their role in the militarisation of society and politics, and their soft power role as a source of both cultural attraction and repulsion. Second he offers a ¿micro-approach¿ which applies theory to the reading of key games so demonstrating both the politics within videogames but also the impact of politics on the very understanding which we have of the games we play. This book makes a compelling case that videogames matter for politics and that politics matters for videogames. Given the global reach and value of the videogame industry this is highly important. More specifically, this book departs from the existing literature in two ways. First, it argues that in order to understand the implications of videogames for popular culture and world politics we need a clear sense of the importance of the way in which games resonate around the world. At present too many accounts of cultural globalisation and/or soft power overemphasise the centrality of North American-centric pressures (frequently termed ¿Hollywoodisation¿). This study of games makes it clear that flows from East to West are potentially just as important as those from the West and that such flows are very different in character. Second, in terms of the literature on understanding the messages within games, the book contends that such literature plays insufficient account to the need for a clear understanding of the link between macro-level developments (e.g. militarisation, the political economy of games and cultural flow), and how those developments are mediated by the player within individual games. Seeking to develop a new understanding of gaming and global politics, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, military and security studies, videogame studies and popular culture.

Discover how to identify the nine types of difficult people, what they do, and how to deal effectively with them.

face2face is a six level general English course for adults and young adults. It goes from Starter level through to Advanced. The Teacher''s Book offers comprehensive support including teaching notes, answer keys, photocopiable activities, extra teaching ideas plus useful classroom techniques and activities for advanced classes. The photocopiable activities include 10 Vocabulary Plus worksheets to teach additional lexis, 10 Progress Tests, 10 Help with Listening worksheets and over 30 Class Activities for extra communicative language practice. The Teacher''s Book also contains a description of the face2face methodology and an easy-to-use reference showing how face2face Advanced relates to the requirements of level C1 of the CEF. It also includes photocopiable instructions for the Student''s Book CD-ROM/Audio CD.

With individual thoroughbred racehorses costing millions of pounds each, the explosion in the bloodstock industry in the 1980s was the ultimate gamble of the decade - symbol of the business euphoria of the times. Tracing the events of how Sangster and his elite Irish racing experts took the world''s most prestigious bloodstock auction, the Keeneland Sales in Kentucky, by storm and written with the co-operation of Sangster himself, this book is the inside track on a breathtaking bid to corner the thoroughbred market.

With more then 1000 tested marketing ideas to improve business success, this practical book illustrates a wealth of igenious ways for an organization to create profitable sales. It details advertising approaches, including displays, classified and loose inserts, directory, product cards and local radio. It reveals direct marketing methods including ways to boost direct mail and direct response advertising. It gives specific step-by-step guidance in planning, budgeting and executing effective sales lead generation programmes. All organizations can profit from these ready-to-go plans, regardless of the type of market or size of budget.

Create fun and adorable origami projects in a few minutes with the origami papers and instructions in this easy origami kit! Learning the Japanese art of paper folding enables you to make enchanting 3D origami objects from simple pieces of paper. World-renowned origami artist and author Nick Robinson''s goal is to make this art available to everyone! His philosophy is that each fold has to be carefully executed and the finished model must be elegant, thoughtful and clean. This kit presents 20 of Robinson''s original designs along with easy step-by-step instructions for beginners. Join the millions of people around the globe who enjoy folding origami and learn how to make the following delightful objects: A tiny reptilian dinosaur that is actually cute! A serene and stately Buddhas Head sculpture Two charming Snails in Love who snuggle An decorative paper box ideal for tiny gifts and much more! The detailed 64-page origami book in this kit explains everything and free video instructions are also includes along with 72 colorful sheets of double-sided folding papers.

Mehr als nur Papiertiger Wollten Sie schon immer die uralte Kunst des Origami meistern? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie. Verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen, bestehend aus Abbildungen und begleitendem Text, helfen Ihnen dabei, ein langweiliges Stück Papier in die verschiedensten Origami-Modelle zu verwandeln. Egal ob Anfänger oder Fortgeschrittener - für jeden ist das richtige dabei. Dabei gibt der Autor auch allgemeine Tipps zur perfekten Faltung, zum Erstellen eigener Modelle und verrät, was zu tun ist, wenn Sie mal nicht weiterwissen. So werden auch Sie zum Origami-Meister. Sie erfahren Wie Sie Grundformen falten und Papier einteilen Wie Sie neue Origami-Modelle entwerfen Wie Sie auch knifflige Modelle meistern Wie Sie mithilfe von Origami Spinnen lebend aus Ihrer Wohnung entfernen

Of course origami is popular, it''s irresistible, it''s ingenious, it''s... so infuriatingly tricky! And the reason for this is that it''s so damn small, what with those miniature scraps of paper that you have to fold and fiddle to create something that''s barely big enough to be noticed. Until now... THE BIGGEST EVER BOOK OF ORIGAMI changes all that. It''s the giant dragon of the paperfolding world, holding at its heart twelve beautiful pull-out templates in intricate designs for instant enormous models. Designed to supersize your origami obsession, this book contains everything you could possibly need to create the mammoths and monsters of the origami oeuvre. There is a manual of full folding instructions, with step-by-step illustrations that suddenly all make sense because they can all fit on the same page. What could be more user friendly? And we haven''t even mentioned the giant poster photographs of Japanese art. So, stop fiddling and start folding. If you think the book looks impressive, wait till you see the models!

L''art japonais du papier plié fascine aujourd''hui toutes les générations. Vous aussi, vous souhaitez dépasser le simple avion de papier et la cocotte que vous confectionnez depuis toujours ? N''attendez plus, et lancez-vous ! Cet ouvrage vous éclaire avec précision sur les différentes techniques de confection des origami. Guidé par une centaine d''illustrations pas à pas, découvrez comment transformer de simples feuilles de papier en une multitude de créations originales : 75 modèles à réaliser vous-même de différents niveaux de difficulté vous sont proposés. D''étoiles en fleurs, d''oiseaux en libellules, laissez parler votre imagination ! Pour commencer sans attendre, utilisez les 25 feuilles de papier en couleurs fournies avec le livre.

Aprende los pliegues y las bases fundamentales, desde el nivel de principiante hasta el de experto. Pon en práctica tu arte y elige entre más de treinta modelos, proyectos que se explican con diagramas muy sencillos y desarrollados paso a paso. Encontrarás Cubos - Figuras - Formas geométricas - Animales salvajes - Estrellas - Formas orgánicas - Animales domésticos - Combinaciones de colores - Diseños florales - Proyectos clásicos - Modelos elegantes - Plieques avanzados.

Un beau chat, un superbe papillon, une drôle de chenille et d''autres splendides sujets animent Origami - Animaux Après le succès remporté par les deux premiers volumes de cette série, voici un nouveau ouvrage incontournable, proposant 8 modèles conçus ou réinterprétés par de grands maîtres, accompagnés de diagrammes, d''instructions et d''un code QR pour accéder au tutoriel vidéo de chacun des origamis. Un beau chat, un superbe papillon, une drôle de chenille et d''autres splendides sujets animent le livre. Chaque livre comporte 200 feuilles de papier origami de grande qualité à détacher, dans une vaste gamme de coloris et de motifs à combiner en toute liberté pour découvrir les joies de l''origami !