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“Don’t Wear Shorts on Stage…” is not only a complete guide to the previously unwritten rules of stand-up, but also a quick reference for the hundreds of questions that most comics don’t even think to ask. Durham points out mistakes most comics make before they even take the stage and continues...

Proven techniques for building self-confidence, making personal connections, and developing a professional presence that’s powerful, authentic, and effective. Increase your poise, presence, and influence for more dynamic leadership Are you showing up as the best version of yourself?...

Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in...

Know if you'll hit your targets before pulling the trigger on any marketing plan More than sixty five percent of new products are commercial failures, and if you compound this with a recession, now more than ever you can't afford to be wrong. In If You Build It Will They Come, business professor...

Since he first appeared on the scene in Detective Comics No. 27 in May 1939, Batman has been a massive influence on popular culture. He has inspired comics, blockbuster films and television series and was second only to Superman in the top comic book heroes of all time. Alongside all of these, he...

This book covers the whole range of collectables from the Gerry Anderson shows, from the 1960s to the present day. Ranging from Four Feather Falls (1959–60), Supercar (1961–62), Fireball XL5 (1962) to the iconic Thunderbirds (mid-1960s) and Captain Scarlet, Rob Burman provides a detailed analysis...

Le minacce di nuovi e vecchi nemici aleggiano sui Nuovi Mutanti, i più giovani studenti del Professor Xavier. Il loro nuovo leader, il misterioso guerriero futuristico Cable, è deciso a trasformare quel pugno di giovani eroi in una task force micidiale ed efficiente: X-Force. Nelle spettacolari...

ZERO-G is the nonstop sequel to Rob Boffard's Tracer, a brutal, gripping thrill-ride, where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly. The clock is ticking down again for Riley Hale. She may be the newest member of Outer Earth's law enforcement team, but...

What’s better than a story about a sexy gay cowboy? How about a whole posse of them? Editor Drew Hunt has rounded up some of the finest authors in the M/M western genre to bring you this collection celebrating gay cowpokes! Meet real men who ride the trail or ride the rodeo, join a wild west...

Un valeroso libro cuyos ensayos nos recuerda que la cultura no puede florecer sin libertad, la libertad sin cultura no vale la pena. Rob Riemen, fundador y director del prestigioso Nexus Institute de Tilburgo, nos recuerda que, para que la democracia sea digna, no bastan la prosperidad económica...

A Super State, a bureaucratic monster that has swallowed its citizens' individual rights, and become a totalitarian society, a dystopia. When Stephen inadvertently says the wrong thing to a friend in private, he is marked out as a traitor. He and his family will undoubtedly end up in a concentration...

Mars needs a hero, and fast. For Harry Watt, simply doing what he's told was never an option. When the best hydrologist on Earth high-tails it to Mars after first helping himself to some company funds, Judge Headlock, Harry's employer and nemesis, instructs him to bring back the runaway to...

Jupiter balloon beings willing to war with living spaceships, sentient computer minds, hive intelligences--an incredible array of aliens? No, just all new forms of humans. Most of these have one thing in common; the elimination of standard people by whatever means necessary. For Dinty and Jane, Earth's...

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the...