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50 Success Classics Second Edition
Winning Wisdom For Work & Life From 50 Landmark Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
What makes a person successful? What makes them motivated, prosperous, a great leader? Inside 50 Success Classics, discover the all-time classic books that have helped millions of people achieve success in their work, their mission, and their personal lives.
This brand new updated edition of...
The Third Screen
The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
The ultimate guide to mobile marketing - revised and updated!
An American Express Open Forum Best Business Book
We are in the midst of a technological revolution bigger than the television or the PC. How do we, as marketers, harness mobile technology to serve our customers most effectively?
With...
Walking the Woods and the Water
In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar . The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken...
Life of a Song
The fascinating stories behind 50 of the worlds best-loved songs
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant?
These and countless other fascinating back stories...
by Élmer Mendoza
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Tormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán.
It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's...
50 Self-Help Classics 2nd Edition
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on happiness and fulfilment
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Explore the life-changing ideas and words of some of our deepest thinkers, teachers, and sages.
A brand new updated edition of the only book to distill the classic, life-chaging texts on happiness and fulfilment. New chapters include The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Brene Brown's Daring...
by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
For centuries, individuals have strived for "the good life:" the ability to provide for oneself and one's family, make meaningful contributions to society, and enjoy culture and nature, among other happy pursuits. The wisdom to achieve this great life is contained in The Literature of Possibility,...
Edith Cavell
Nurse, Martyr, Heroine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border.
Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England, Edith worked as a...
Irène
The Gripping Opening to The Paris Crime Files
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK
For Commandant Camille Verh?ven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father.
HE'S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEAD
But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When his team discovers that the killer...
by Cees Nooteboom
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification.
Nooteboom's...
by Ed O'Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.
'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash
'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . . stupendously good' Australian
'Vastly entertaining'...
by Jacques Bonnet
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings.
The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough...
Your Creative Writing Masterclass
featuring Austen, Chekhov, Dickens, Hemingway, Nabokov, Vonnegut, and more than 100 Contemporary and Classic Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chehkov
If you dream of being a writer, why not learn from the best? In Your Creative Writing Masterclass you'll find ideas, techniques and encouragement from the most admired and respected contemporary...
This is Planet Earth
Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The Earth as you've never seen it before.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.
Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing...