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Complete Estonian Beginner to Intermediate Book and Audio Course
Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
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Master Basic Plumbing And Central Heating
A quick guide to plumbing and heating jobs, including basic emergency repairs
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
This guide to the basics of plumbing and central heating is designed for complete amateurs, and written by one of the most experienced plumbing tutors in the country.
Whether you are attempting projects such as installing a new bathroom or plumbing in a new dishwasher, or just need to understand...
by Glenn Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Understand Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to this sometimes challenging domain. Using contemporary examples to further your understanding, it takes a broad look at theorists in a range of disciplines. Whether you're encountering postmodernism for the first time, or you need a quick reference...
Setting the East Ablaze
Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.'
Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel...
by Peter Hopkirk
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to...
Britain by the Book
A Curious Tour of Our Literary Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?
How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?
Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales?
A multitude...
Beyoncé: Running the World
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
'Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's biggest singing star.' 5* - Best
Beyoncé: Running The World is the full story of Houston born-and-bred Beyoncé's extraordinary life, which saw her join her first pop group at the age of nine before fronting the girl band Destiny's Child...
by Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's...
by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate...
by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on...
Uncommon Sense
The popular misconceptions of business, investing and finance and how to profit by going against the tide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
How would you like to succeed in business and master investment by profiting in untapped areas that the masses know nothing about?
Uncommon Sense guides you to unique, little-known and commonly misunderstood strategies that generate lasting revenue and sustained results by going against the...
The Cook's Tale
Life Below Stairs as it Really Was
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow,...
The Maid's Tale
A Revealing Memoir of Life Below Stairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Praise for Lives of the Servants:
`Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash almost anyone?s Inner Bolshevik?!' Daily Mail
`...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.' The Age
`...captures the subtleties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.'...
Negotiation Skills In A Week
Brilliant Negotiating In Seven Simple Steps
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Effective negotiation skills just got easier
There was a time, not that long ago, when negotiation was seen, in the main, as the province of industrial relations folk and car-sales advisers. But, no longer! Repeated financial crises have squeezed profit margins and, in some markets, discouraged buyers...