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Susan Osborne Bloomsbury essential guide for reading groups
""A book club gives the opportunity to meet up with friends and wake the brain up a bit with lively and often quite aggressivediscussion" Dawn FrenchHow do you keep your reading groups discussions lively andfocussed? If you want to gain new insight into literature and shareyour passion with friends this book offers readers guides for 75 of thevery best reads - guaranteed to provoke spirited debate!Each of the readers guides includes a summary of the book, a briefauthor biography, discussion points...
Engels | 272 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Academic and Professional, [London] | 2014
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Sally Brampton Shoot the damn dog
"A journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted by depression, as well as offering help and understanding to those whose loved ones suffer from this terrifying condition."
Engels | 336 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Brian Fagan Beyond the blue horizon
"Enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans changed the course of human history. What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the stars they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling detail, Fagan reveals how seafaring evolved so that...
Engels | 336 pagina's (9,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Dava Sobel A more perfect heaven
"During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory, in which he placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of our universe, with the planets, including the Earth, revolving about it. Titled his Commentariolus,...
Engels | 288 pagina's (4,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Keith Devlin The man of numbers
"In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it but had failed to see its potential. The young Italian, Leonardo of Pisa (better known today...
Engels | 192 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Dirk Moelants Improvising Early Music
The history of musical improvisation from the late Middle Ages to the early Baroque.Studying improvised music is always a challenge, due to its volatility and unpredictability. But what about studying musical improvisation from before the age of sound recordings? In this book three experts give their view on aspects of musical improvisation in the late medieval, renaissance, and early baroque periods. Historical sources show us how improvisation was an integral part of music education and how closely...
Engels | 136 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014
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Hannah Evans MOB rule
"You know you've joined the MOB when you hear... 'My, are they all yours?' 'Bless you!' (Occasionally) 'Poor you!' (Frequently) 'Lucky you!' (Once) And of course, the ultimate: 'So ... are you going for a girl?' Hannah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than phonics, dam-building trumps damsels in distress any day and, astonishingly, she now instinctively knows the difference between a Frontloader and a JCB. It's a world of mud and just occasionally blood...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamin Mohammadi The cypress tree
"Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history.The Cypress Tree...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Jim Bailey The sky suspended
"In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died and survived, is related with candour and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of his companions, and he captures the atmosphere of everyday life on the ground in wartime Britain, as well as the air battles."
Engels | 192 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Katherine Swift The Morville hours
"In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's...
Engels | 384 pagina's (5,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Mike Carson The manager
"Whats the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether youre managing a Premier League football team or a FTSE 100 company. Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be"
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Babette Cole The unicorn princess
"Penny Simms is pony-mad and is thrilled when she wins a scholarship to Fetlocks Hall, an equestrian boarding school. But Fetlocks Hall is no ordinary school - besides schoolwork and riding lessons, Penny has the opportunity to acquire secret knowledge about horses as well as find out about the magical unicorn world of Equitopia. Soon she is caught up in a desperate struggle to help the unicorns combat a terrible plot by the evil Devlipeds, who are plotting to overthrow them. Is Penny the Unicorn...
Engels | 160 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Babette Cole The ghostly blinkers
"Fetlocks Hall is in trouble! The school is desperately short of funds and, unless some money can be found, it may have to close! The Headmistress is not sure what to do. Penny is determined to help and draws on her magical powers in a nail-biting bid to solve the problem. Soon Penny and the ghosts, as well as many of the school's ponies, are involved in an exciting race to the finish!"
Engels | 128 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Karen Wallace The honourable Ratts
"The Honourable Ratts are a distinguished family whose ancestorsappeared at a time when witches were commonplace and giants roamed theland. They built their ancestral home, Clawfoot Hall, and they begancollecting the Great Ratt Hoard - that is, any and every item of goldthey could lay their hands on.At the time of this story, the Ratts are diminished in size and statureand now live under the floorboards of Clawfoot Hall. Then one day,everything changes. The ancient enemies of the Ratts have tracked...
Engels | 96 pagina's (3,1 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Karen Wallace King Cudgel's challenge
"Pity King Cudgel! His twin children - Prince Marvin the Meek and Princess Gusty Ox - fight all the time. And ever since his wife, Queen Carrion, disappeared after going out dragon hunting, no one has been able to stop them. As a last resort he devises a challenge for them with the help of Cackle the court magician. If the twins fail, King Cudgel will hand over the kingdom to their soppy cousin, Godric, the Geek - an unbearable thought! King Cudgel's Challenge follows the painful and hilarious process...
Engels | 64 pagina's (4,9 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Karen Wallace Princess Gusty Ox's strange change
"Gusty Ox is not your typical princess. She's more interested in wrestling crocodiles and hunting dragons than in tiaras and princes. That is, until she looks into Crackel's magic mirror and decides things have got to change. But it isn't easy being a proper princess and things only get worse when her rival, Princess Lulu the Luscious, comes to stay. This is the third riotous romp in The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles."
Engels | 64 pagina's (4,4 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Karen Wallace Spike Carbuncle and the truly enormous egg
"Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure,The Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a noble familywith a difference.Spike Carbuncle is sick of being second in command to his weedybrother. So, when Spike's wife, Fangtrude, comes across a dragon's egg,together they formulate a plan to get rid of Whiff Erik, once and forall. There's just one hitch - dragon training isn't as easy as itsounds. What do you do when your dragon is terrible at breathing fireand prefers...
Engels | 64 pagina's (4,6 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Karen Wallace Whiff Erik and the great green thing
"Set in the Viking world of long boats, looting and grand adventure, The Goose Pimple Bay Sagas relate the hilarious tales of a ruling familywith a difference.In book two, Whiff Erik, now ruler of Goose Pimple Bay discovers hisbrother, Spike Carbuncle at sea. He's escaped from his wife's islandand he's taken a rare seed with him. Back at home, Whiff Erik plantsthe seed, but it's not long before a gigantic plan blots out the skyand a great green thing appears in the leaves. Oh dear, Whiff Erikknows...
Engels | 64 pagina's (4 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Roger Boyes Meltdown Iceland
"It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The subprime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world. All European countries were affected, and the developing world also felt a chill. However it was Iceland, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the North Atlantic whose population of 300,000 had the highest GDP and counted itself the happiest in the world, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them....
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Manage projects successfully
"Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task, but Manage Projects Successfully will help you do just that. Practical,easy to read and jargon-free, the book contains a quiz to assessstrengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, toptips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on howto avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sourcesof further help."
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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