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This book relates, in a charming, thoughtful and thought-provoking fashion twenty-four formative episodes in a child's life. A girl grows up into her early teens and learns, with the help of her mother and in the company of a friend, to deal with fearful, difficult and embarrassing experiences. The manner of presentation is down to earth and imaginative. The 24 'stories' dovetail and add up to a couple of years in the life of a girl with an up...

Stuart Lancaster is 21 years old and a brilliant young batting prospect on the verge of a call up to the full England side. The Australians are touring at the start of another Ashes summer and by playing in the early season county game for Sussex, Stuart knows that this could be his best opportunity to make a real impression. But life's not so straight forward and the personal tragedy he's experienced in the last six months returns to haunt hi...

Evil has prevailed over the land for many years. The people of the past are brought to life by the story tellers. A mysterious rhyme and magical necklace hold secrets and a little girl becomes a heroine when her small brother is captured by the powers of darkness.

One evening in July, in the year eighteen-hundred and sixty-four, on K***** Street in Bloomsbury, in a lodging house of the filthiest kind - " An independent-minded girl is rescued from her ogreish father by two artists. While tangled love interests develop, the father's murderous past is told, until the two stories collide when he attempts to get his daughter back.

Die Geschichte Deutschlands von 1914 bis 1989 wäre ohne die einzigartige, dramatische und spannende Vergangenheit von Berlin Mitte so gar nicht vorhanden. Das Buch ist eine Einführung in dieses so genannte »kurze«, aber dennoch bedeutendste Jahrhundert der Menschheit, erzählt, wie es drei Generationen in Relation zu Berlin und den USA erlebt haben. Es liest sich wie ein Roman, alle Tatsachen und Ereignisse sind jedoch historisch korrekt und au...

An intriguing narrative set in Melbourne, Man of God follows the life and adventures of its protagonist, Vincent Orion, who is a councillor for the fictional city of Princeton. As the story unfolds the reader perceives a critical view of local government in Victoria. Councillors are presented as corrupt, inept, or dishonest - or all three. They are interested in free meals, the hospitality, the perks of office and the petty power that being a ...

Les Grecs de l'âge classique, avec de l'Euclide et Archimède, ils ont conçu idées très prochaines à celles-là qui ont permis l'invention du Calcul Infinitésimal et Intégral. L'auteur pense que propre Euclide a effleuré l'idée de partie infinitésimale, avec son théorème relatif à l'angle "corniculaire". Puis il fut en le 1600 que Leibniz et Newton ils créèrent le Calcul Infinitésimal et l'Intégral. Mais les parties infinitésimales ont toujours ...

Lucas Fortune is left on the steps of a children's home before his first birthday. He grows up under the corrupt, watchful eye of the Home's staff, doing all the normal things a young boy does. One night he and a group of children all experience the same dream and wake up with newfound abilities and powers. They must come to terms with these changes, some revel in it, whilst others turn nasty. Old childhood rivalries develop into something sin...

A handsome modern hardback edition of Sir Walter Scott's classic novel.

A handsome new edition of Sir Walter Scott's classic.

John Ruskin's reflections on Amiens Cathedral's wonderful retelling of the Bible in sculpture. A book much loved by Proust.

A handsome modern hardback edition of Sir Walter Scott's classic.

The Inheritance is a heart-warming, beautiful story. It talks about birth and death, love and friendship, family and generosity, and above all, transcendent humanity. It is a book that touches on many essential subjects in today's life. It is for the social worker who wants a way to serve the community. It is for the entrepreneur who might want to launch a new venture. It is for the working mother and women who have taught us how to multi-task...

Jack Ramsden, Cabinetmaker for Stage Magicians, died whilst preparing his annual presentation for his wife's birthday. It was meant to be an ingenious demonstration of Magic and Illusion until it all went wrong. Jack was killed by a shot from a rifle on a stand. The puzzle was - he was alone in a locked room. Accident or suicide? Fourteen years later a cryptic letter from Laura, the daughter of the dead man, urges Giles Dawson, a historian of ...

Using facts and clues gleaned from the Bony stories by Arthur Upfield, Kees de Hoog has compiled a chronology of the personal life events and professional assignments of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. This booklet uncovers the evidence and explains how it was pieced together to reveal the dates and other details. The conclusions are presented with the findings of similar research by others into the location of each Bony novel. Woven t...

Latest version: May 2010. Careers are shortening and lives are lengthening - how can we keep our careers going as long as we do? In a global market of decreasing product and industry life cycles, and increasing competition, two powerful forces are pulling in opposite directions: the need to extend our careers to fund our growing longevity is set agaist the aspirations of a bulge of 1960s baby boomers to fill a shrinking number of management po...

The other day I ventured into the neglected and eerie vaults of my haunted chateau and came across this collection of anecdotes that I had scribbled down in an unaccustomed fit of feverish activity. They are all true, except maybe one, with which I have tinkered just a little.

The designs of the pyramids of ancient Egypt evolved over time, they had connections with the ancient myths, legends, and with the stars as they were in ancient times. When pyramid dimensions are converted to 'cubits' and 'seked, ' revealing relationships emerge that were obscured by using using modern units. All of the energy of building came from manpower, courtesy of the energy consumed in the workers' food and drink. The mathematics of ram...

BIRT promises to deliver the utopian vision of an enterprise capable, open source, easy to use, interactive, graphically rich, web based reporting tool. This book presents an overview and tutorials on all the open source tools as well as the commercial enhancements available from Actuate including Eclipse BIRT Designer, Actuate BIRT Designer, iServer Express, Interactive BIRT viewer, Actuate BIRT Studio, BIRT Spreadsheet Designer. With walkthr...

Primary Factor is a science fiction novel about an android, sent across space to seek out a planet were the dominant life form is killing the planet. His mission is to save the planet from destruction by eradicating the threat. When he crashes on a primitive Earth the question arises, can he survive until these people advance enough to enable him to leave? The discoveries he makes during his early time on Earth will change him forever, but wil...