Bain: 243 books

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet West Coast Australia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Swim beside whale sharks, snorkel among pristine coral, surf off seldom-visited...

The favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales – I mean Ruthenian, the language of the Cossacks.

The existence of the Russian Skazki or Marchen was first made generally known to the British Public some twenty years ago by Mr. W. R. S. Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. That excellent and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a treatise on Slavonic Folk-Lore, illustrated with admirable skill...

The Vikings and Norsemen have always had a rich tradition of storytelling. How else would they pass the long, northern, winter nights? Herein are 11 strange and wonderfully illustrated tales from Northern Seas. Tales of strange Finns, lusty women, mariner ghosts, and sea demons haunt the coastal...

Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess...

When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind control project. A programmed assassin strikes and kills the wildly...

“Fans of Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard will enjoy this bright caper novel” by the USA Today–bestselling author of the Murder She Wrote series (Publishers Weekly).   Engineer Carlton Smythe feels bored in his marriage—and once he meets a mysterious woman in a bar during a trip to Buenos...

Why did your life turn out this way? Who are the most important people in your world? What would you do differently, if you had the chance? Ever since you were a child, you have been writing your life script. You use fragments of story to weave your own personal narrative. The parts in your...

A comedy about getting away from it all - the debut play from the BAFTA Award-winning co-writer and co-creator of Peep Show, Fresh Meat and Four Lions. Luke left his high-flying City life to discover serenity in the Scottish Highlands, but he can’t escape his past. Is Tony, his brother, everything...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Greatest Russian Fairytales & Fables (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Russians very well know how to weave intriguing stories that keep readers hooked till the end. This ebook represents...

The book is structured as: An overview of the architecture of the application and database, how it all fits together, A module development tutorial, showing the essential steps for hooking your module into the SugarCRM infrastructure, A section of common customizations that can be performed against...

A fast, fun, and friendly tutorial. Full of practical, step-by-step examples and clear explanations of all of the important concepts. ou don't need to be a programmer to use this book, but you do need to be familiar with the concept of a program and how simple things like a loop might work. If all you have is a taster of simple programs from high school then you will be fine.

If you are new to the game of Blackjack this is your chance to learn a winning strategy! For the seasoned player, this book will point out the flaws in "Basic Strategy" which gives the House a bigger edge so they end up with your money most of the time. This book is filled with what the House...

This book builds on your knowledge as a PHP developer to provide a fast-paced, step-by-step tutorial in building Facebook applications. The book is packed with example code and demo applications, so that you can see techniques in action. Along the way we provide quick references to the most important...