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Tea Tips is not a book "about" teas but a guide to help you enjoy as wide a range of them as you feel it's worth your knowing about, and to get best value in your purchases. There's far more to choose from than you'll find on the shelves of supermarkets and the typical tea bag is as representative of the 3,000 teas on the market as instant coffee is of mochas, lattes and cappuccinos, or as hot dogs are of steak. At the same time, there's no reason to fall for the hype and snobbery about tea and end up paying a premium for the packaging and Royal names. Even the best is relatively inexpensive:...

Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display and do so in a way which avoids jargon and overly technical language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony...

The only measure of innovation is the value it creates. The challenge is to generate value today and be able to sustain it when you can't predict change. The starting point is to take a fresh look at "value." It isn't fixed but a moving target that is a function of an expanding choice space for customers and providers. "Innovate or Die" is the mantra of our times. But can your firm be sure that it will not innovate and die? Why do companies like Amazon, Li & Fung, Google, Bharti Airtel, Apple and Tesco thrive in a changing environment while others like Dell, Nokia, Sony and Gap, once as much...