n a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power – the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion. Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of...

From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Welcome to Charon’s Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she’s right, and he is in fact dead. Then...

Quinoa has been called "the gold of the Incas", and for good reason. Quinoa has immense nutritional benefit. Here are some of the benefits of quinoa, and why you should eat more of it. Primarily they are Complete Proteins. Not only is Quinoa high in protein, but it's high in complete protein. Complete protein is unlike regular protein because it has all nine of the essential amino acids....

Коли, як не на зимові свята, загадувати бажання та вірити в дива! Саме це і стається з героями «Казок під ялинку», куди увійшли твори сучасних українських авторів. На сторінках цієї зимової книжечки на дітей чекають зустрічі з домовиками, феями, святим Миколаєм та його помічниками, єнотиком Бо та іншими казковим істотами.

This fabulously innovative book shows just how much fun a seemingly boring piece of office paper can be! The 101 imaginative ideas include paper planes and boats, flowers, pleated fans, windmills, spectacles, beards, noses and party hats, pop-up and woven cards, luggage and present tags, as well as envelopes and decorations for both Halloween and Christmas, such as hanging bats, stencilled...

'Quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity. The place to start' Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe This is the ultimate practical introduction to quantum mechanics. World-renowned physicist Leonard Susskind and...

Discover the keys to a life of success, fulfilment, wholeness and plenty Many of us live in a mindset of lack and limitation, focusing on the things we don't have. Too often we allow our egos to drive our thoughts and actions, preventing us from reaching something greater: a true sense of inner peace, acceptance and fulfilment. In Abundance, international bestselling author Deepak Chopra...

Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her...

Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In 46 hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them...

Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power. Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great...

Lonely Planet’s Pocket Singapore i is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Marvel at Gardens by the Bay, savour the street food and experience vibrant nightlife; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Singapore and make the most of your trip! Inside Lonely Planet’s Pocket Singapore: Up-to-date information - all...

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD 'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times 'Angry, accusatory and extremely moving.' Caroline Moorhead, Spectator When Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander...

The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”   “Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most...

Stop waiting for the network team!If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it. Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own...

According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans,...

One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám.

A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion enables the reader to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century. Each decade ends with a 'key looks' spread showing an at-a-glance view of the important shapes, colours and looks that defined the era. The book...

Bücher zur Produktentwicklung gibt es viele. Dennoch ist die Quote an Flops immens. Mit Alexander Osterwalders »Value Proposition Design« wäre das nicht passiert! Der Erfinder von »Business Model Generation« liefert die kreative Bauanleitung für innovative Produkte. Sein Ziel: Schluss mit sinnlosen Dingen, die keiner will. Mit Osterwalders bewährtem Canvas-Konzept entsteht spielerisch die...

A noted photohistorian documents bonnets, capes, frock coats, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 through 1914. More than 200 photos depict aristocrats and the middle class as well as Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria, and others. Commentary and annotations describe and identify the costumes.