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Wie tanzt man als Pinguin "Die Eroberung des Nordpols" im Volksballett-Kollektiv? Warum sehen die Mitglieder der Popband "Der kuschelige Mai" alle aus wie junge Gorbatschows? Und wieso funktioniert der Kassettenrekorder Romantiker 306, ein Wunderwerk sowjetischer Technologie gebaut aus Abfällen der Raketenindustrie, nur auf heimischem Territorium? Von diesen Mysterien und anderen Begegnungen mit der Welt der usik erzählt Wladimir Kaminer in se...

It's not good enough to want it. You've got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set-how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the expert, everything from dealing with brokers to renovating to assessing the value of property, buying and selling, and securing a mortgage. Trump will sh...

The story of a girl who needs to slow down. To find herself. To fall in love. And to discover what an iron is for...Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day...she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, it'll wreck her career. She walks right out of the office, gets on the first train she sees, and finds h...

Paperback edition of Leon's latest thriller set in Venice, featuring her detective Commissario Brunetti. It's sold over 22, 000 copies in hardback. With a fresh new jacket look to help increase Leon's readership. 'Leon never fails to impress with her carefully wrought plots and believable characters.' "Daily Mail

Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon took care of eliminating the threat. But now they may have come up against something that they can't handle - the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in, sending them the message that a 'no' is unacceptable. SAVAGES is an in...

Subtitled, "Reflections On Life's Journey". In this poignant, deeply moving book, Muhammad Ali shares the beliefs he has come to live by and which he has passed on to his children. Some of his wisdom is his own, some from teachings, and others from people he has met in the course of his extraordinary life. *Also appeared in September Buyer's Notes*

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...... and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.It's a tough decision.But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be ni...

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem, the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

A re-jacketed version of the bestselling collection of short stories by the Man Booker International-winning author of short story collections and novels, expertly conveying the pain and desolation beneath the surface.

Never more relevant than now, this national bestseller will challenge all who believe that "it can't happen here." "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened." - The New York Times Book Review In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential electio...

The book all women have been waiting for, unlocking the simple secrets of 'the French paradox' how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Classy, chic, convincing, funny, wise, well-written and very timely. It's the ultimate non-diet book, which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance, control and above all pleasure. Full of irresistible and healthy recipes.

We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful new book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour. Illustrating ...

The epic new legal thriller from international number one bestselling author John Grisham. Donte Drumm, a local young black athelete in the small East Texas city of Sloann is sitting on death row. His execution date is set for less than a week's time - and Robbie Flak, the lawyer who's been fighting to prove Donte's innocence for nine years, has spent every penny he ever had trying to get justice for his client. But now he's out of options - u...

61 HOURS ended with maverick loner Jack Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. But Reacher has done the impossible before. Now there's deadly trouble in the wilds of Nebraska...and Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl, already decades-old, ...

The engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel from Ian McEwan, finally out in paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world fr...

The new psychological thriller from the reigning Queen of British Crime. When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a t...

From an elite Special Operations physical trainer, an ingeniously simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere program for getting into amazing shape For men and women of all athletic abilities! As the demand for Special Operations military forces has grown over the last decade, elite trainer Mark Lauren has been at the front lines of preparing nearly one thousand soldiers, getting them lean and strong in record time. Now, for regular Joes and Janes, he...

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What exactly is a slope? What's the difference between a tile and a plate? Why is it bad to simply stack bricks in columns to make a wall? The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide is here to answer your questions. Focusing on building actual models with real bricks, The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide comes with complete instructions to build several cool models but also encourages you to use your imagination to create your own fantastic creations...

Join author Jonathan Zdziarski for a look inside the brilliant minds that have conceived clever new ways to fight spam in all its nefarious forms. This landmark title describes, in-depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next-generation spam filters to identify and filter unwanted messages, how spam filtering works, and how language classification and machine learning combine to produce remarkably accurate spam filters After reading...