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This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Most small businesses fail within the first few years through lack of planning, logical control mechanisms, and basic discipline. This text is a simple guide through those processes, ensuring some measure of success.

Leaders and Managers want quick answers, quick ways to reach solutions, ways and means to access knowledge that won’t eat into their precious time and quick ideas that deliver a big result.  The Little Book of Big Coaching Models cuts through all the noise and gives managers access to the very...

Transdiagnostic Group Therapy Training and Implementation provides clinicians with a user-friendly roadmap for delivering a brief, transdiagnostic group therapy that can be used for patients suffering from stress, depression, anxiety, and a range of other related mental health problems. This...

Take a tour of the burgeoning world of toy cameras and low-tech photography with Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity. Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity chock full of tantalizing tips, fun facts and, of course, absolutely...

A compilation of state of the art papers on key topics in bryology from invited speakers at the Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 57 August 1996.

Complementing Book 1of the same title, this text takes the student up to the City and Guilds full Craft Certificate level. All aspects of the course are dealt with, along with the associated scientific background, mathematical calculations and drawings required. Although prior knowledge of the subject...

Takes A Fresh Look At Transformers. There has never been a Transformers Guide like this. It contains 352 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast!...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE PLANET OF DREAD by R. F. STARZL THE LORD OF SPACE by VICTOR ROUSSEAU THE SECOND SATELLITE by EDMOND HAMILTON SILVER DOME by HARL VINCENT EARTH, THE MARAUDER by ARTHUR J. BURKS MURDER MADNESS by MURRAY LEINSTER THE FLYING CITY by H. THOMPSON RICH

It's 1994, and veteran homicide detective John Bowers teams up with his partner Minola Raye to solve another grisly murder in Babylon-Portland, Oregon's fringe district of losers and forgotten victims. Like hungry sharks, Babylon's riffraff feed on the innocent and vulnerable, and only case-hardened...

Once, there were two interesting women who led separate lives until fate decided it had other plans for them. Marie, who is single, lives in an apartment in the city and is a social worker. Jane is divorced and a mother of two; she lives in a home in the suburbs and works in real estate. When...

Three different views about human reactions when the end of the human race is near. Or at least the end of your own life.  Seventh Sleeve of Tombaugh—Even the aliens left Pluto alone.  Master Judd’s Match—Overachieving can get you killed. Nine More—Would you give your life to save humanity?

Three Short Stories Walking the River—Delivering a gift from the future to save the distant past. Going Tidal—A homeless man’s treasure can save the world. Running Down on a Thousand—Do time jumps help or hurt the future? Prelude to Proxima—Chapter One of Rebecca’s latest book.

They're coming and they are not friendly. Undecipherable messages from Alpha Centari alternate with energy bursts that annihilate scientific outposts.   Only shamans in primitive religions can decode the messages.  They die for their effort. An emergency space exploration will stop the energy bursts.  Or make them worse.