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DK Eyewitness Great Scientists is an exciting and informative guide to the fascinating lives of the world's most famous thinkers, philosophers, inventors, innovators and pioneers. Stunning photographs offer a unique...

Do you know your ashiwaza from your elbow strike? Find out with The Way of the Warrior , which features every major style of martial art in existence, bringing ancient...

This is the completely revised edition of Robin Barker's popular and practical guide to feeding babies and toddlers, Baby and Toddler Meals. This up-to-date edition features the latest information about...

Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each...

What if WWII went the other way? In this alternative-history novel, Deighton imagines a chilling world where British Command surrendered to the Nazis in 1941, Churchill has been shot, the...

Are you living a successful life? Have you got a vision? Do you enjoy your work? Are your relationships thriving? Authentic Success (previously released in the US under the title...

Within the pages of transformational book,Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change theself-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and...

Here's what one woman had to say about Marcus Buckingham's Find Your Strongest Life : If I ever see Marcus Buckingham in person, I'm going to shake his hand and...

Adventure turned nightmare: how did Alexander Dulaine's search for a lost plane become a struggle between life and death? Highly intelligent, independent, strong-willed, yet vulnerable, Alexander Dulaine is a woman...

A Beer Lover's must have companion to buying beer in Australia & New Zealand, including beer history, the brewing process, ingredients, sensory analysis in tasting beer, judging beer, buying beer,...

When PayPal launched its online payment service and set out to overhaul global currency markets it successfully weathered the dot-com bust and a fierce competitive struggle with the auction giant...

The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White chronicles the meteoric rise of Informix Software, how it became a billion-dollar software giant, and the scandal that ultimately led to...

How to assemble a collection of first-edition fiction.

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland...

The novel's about a bloke called Bloke but it's the women who explain manhood and his identity. A disappointed man always heads bush but never knows what to expect. The...

Known for his ability to find provocative answers to the most puzzling questions, Tom DeMarco explores a wide range of issues in twenty-four masterful essays.The offerings range from the wise...

In pre-1990s Las Vegas, casino marketing executives were all cut from the same cloth; sharply-dressed and smooth-talking with street-savvy. They rose through the ranks of operations - dealer, floor-man, pit...

Believe it or not, this is probably the first book to attempt to identify the original sources of some of the English language's most common expressions. We might think we...

A business novel focusing on project management. The novel aims to provoke readers to examine and reassess their business practices and transform the thinking and actions of managers.

Starting with an interview at the Cauldron of Peace Health Food Restaurant, continuing through her early apprenticeship at the J&W Exotic Food Emporium (for every bite you take, you need...

Lay down, spin your eyeballs back into your brain and get ready for Flock of Dreamers, 20 tales from the subconscious by an international cast of comics creators. Experience the...

Runner-up for the Montana Book Awards 2000 Deutz Medal for Fiction, Golden Deeds is a novel about the human desire to connect things up. Warm, compassionate, beautifully written, Golden Deeds...

Thirtysomething Australian humorist, writer, and advertising hack Condon moved to the Netherlands in 1998 with his half-Dutch wife. Their subsequent trials and tribulations are vividly recounted in this witty prose.

Why do stars twinkle? Why can't we remember names? Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean? Why does hair go grey? Why don't penguins get frozen feet? Why do...

Profiles celebrities from Jean Harlow and Douglas Fairbanks to Elvis Presley and Robert Mapplethorpe by looking at their wills, which reveal a surprising amount of information about their lives.

During his 20 year film career many things have changed for Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, but two have remained constant - his taste for quirky, edgy roles...

"I don't think I've ever met anyone who hasn't struggled with the desire to know God's will. The problem is, this struggle often involved a great deal of confusion and...

Michael Grecco is one of the best-known celebrity photographers in the world. His beautiful, insightful work is all around us--on movie posters, in advertising, on magazine covers, "everywhere." I delight...

What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that...

Before Father Patrick Bergquist moved to Alaska, he imagined himself spending his free evenings wrapped in a warm quilt, reading novel after novel during the long arctic winters. Those idealized...