Best Selling Books by John Bartlett

From its first appearance in 1855 to its recently published sixteenth edition, Bartlett''s Familiar Quotations has set the standard for books of quotations. Now, for the first time, more than 900 of the most endearing, expressive, and impassioned sayings about love--romantic, passionate, matrimonial, familial, patriotic, spiritual--have been carefully selected from the more than 20,000 quotations in Bartlett''s.

This indispensable handbook details the practical steps that can lead to success in programme management. Accelerating change has demanded that companies and organisations use programme management methods and techniques to effect it. John Bartlett provides the benefit of his deep involvement in managing large-scale change, where his advice and guidance has proved successful for both the private and public sectors of commerce and industry.

Framework for governance -- Summary -- Note -- 10. Communication management -- Understanding stakeholder communication needs -- Summary -- 11. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This series explores key issues in world history since 1945, in volumes focused on nations, regions, themes and processes.

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The causes of war have tended to attract more attention than the causes of peace, yet the two are intimately related. Indeed there was much talk of war during the unprecedentedly long periods of peace between the European great powers in the years 1815-1854 and again in 1871-1914, the Near Eastern crises of 1878 and 1887-8 being only two of the more notable examples. In the case of the latter, there occurred a spell of fatalistic and belligerent talk in both Berlin and Vienna which in many ways anticipated that which gripped those capitals by 1914. This valuable book will be welcomed by anyone wishing to understand the nature of European state relations in the nineteenth century. Professor Bartlett examines why major wars did happen and did not happen, with particular attention being paid to the events of 1914.