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Do you ever stop to wonder how you got where you are? The Q&A a Day Journal shows you what was going through your head each day for five years of your life. Simply turn to today s date, answer the question at the top of the page, and when you finish the journal,[...]

Cicero Orationes. Vol. II (Pro Milone, Caesarianae, Philippicae.) von Clark, A. C.

This second editon describes C as defined by the ANSI standard. This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. The book assumes some familiarity with basic programming concepts like variables, assignment statements,[...]

Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable[...]

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive[...]

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' Independent Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'Astonishingly accomplished' The Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Gripping' New York Times 'Fabulously atmospheric' Guardian[...]

'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month' A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet led to Tony Hawks having one[...]

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin[...]

Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in[...]

The international bestselling phenomenon, this book has inspired a generation and is as popular today as it was a decade ago when first published. The bestselling self-help book of its generation - which has now sold over a million copies in the UK alone.[...]

The bestselling author of It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be Paul Arden turns logic and common sense on its head in Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite and gives you the confidence to take bigger risks[...]

Medimops (gebrauchtes) schreibt: Binding : Taschenbuch, Edition : New Ed, Label : Arrow, Publisher : Arrow, NumberOfItems : 3, PackageQuantity : 1, medium : Taschenbuch, numberOfPages : 334, publicationDate : 2004-01-16, releaseDate : 2004-01-16, authors : Tom Sharpe, languages : english,[...]

Including a previously-unpublished story 'The Bargain', Truman Capote's The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. This Penguin Classics edition[...]

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a medieval[...]

THE BLACK SWAN is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is[...]

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a travel writing tour de force from one of the masters of the genre contains a new preface by the author[...]

Anyone with a modicum of industry experience knows that there is an awful lotof bad code out there. It's not that it's just unsightly. Code that is not clean canquite easily move beyond being a functional problem to becoming an expensiveorganizational issue[...]

From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Now a major motion picture When Margo[...]

Als Clay Jensen von der Schule nach Hause kommt, findet er auf der Türschwelle ein mysteriöses Paket mit seinem Namen. Als er es öffnet, findet er eine Reihe von Kassetten, aufgenommen von Hannah Baker, seiner Klassenkameradin und heimlichen Liebe. Hannah[...]

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth[...]

The Number one, bestselling title in this new spin-off series from Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan. OLD ENEMIES AWAKEN AS CAMP HALF-BLOOD'S NEW ARRIVALS PREPARE FOR WAR When Jason, Piper and Leo crash land at Camp Half-Blood,[...]

THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG 'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent 'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt,[...]

This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English,[...]

The phenomenal international bestseller - 2 million copies sold - that will change the way you make decisions 'A lifetime's worth of wisdom' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics 'There have been many good books on human[...]

This witty, yet heart-wrenching novel debuted at no.1 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list and sold 100,000 copies in the first month as a hardback edition. Echoing David Nicholl's 'One Day' and Jenny Downham's 'Before I Die',[...]

Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a # 1 New York Times bestseller . Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model[...]

@2@@20@Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014@21@@3@@2@Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken[...]

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different[...]

The book Lifehack calls 'The Bible of business and personal productivity.' 'A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru'' — Fast Company Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago,[...]

' There is much here that might impress Pulitzer and Man Booker judges ...Ng brilliantly depicts the destruction that parents can inflict on their children and on each other' Mark Lawson, Guardian 'This intriguing tale of unhappy[...]

TOWER LORD is the second novel in the internationally bestselling Raven's Shadow series, which began with epic fantasy blockbuster BLOOD SONG. THE REALM BURNS. Vaelin Al Sorna is tired of war. He's fought countless battles in[...]

Introducing a beautifully designed collection of twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over two hundred years of history. 'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at[...]

Tech Talk gives learners the functional language they need for real-life, hands-on tasks in the technical, industrial, and scientific sectors. Tech Talk is suitable for those working in production, development, maintenance, planning,[...]

CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON'S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSIC The future is small. The future is nano . . . And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values[...]