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Ultimate Classical Music Quiz Book
Ultimate Classical Music Quiz Book
Dugdale, Mike
¥19.52
The 'The Ultimate Classical Music Quiz Book' is a fun selection of original questions (and answers!), comprehensively covering all facets of classical music between 1730 and 1820! As a quiz game it will separate the Mozart's from the Salineri, the Beethoven's from the Luchesi's and is a fantastic way to enjoy classical music even more.
Explaining Nazi Germany
Explaining Nazi Germany
Shepley, Nick
¥29.33
From the Explaining History series, this is a new ebook for students of Germany history designed to dispel the six most pervasive myths about the Third Reich and help students get to grips with the most common problems. Also check out the link for additional bonus material and a free six part modern history course.
101 Amazing Facts about Avril Lavigne
101 Amazing Facts about Avril Lavigne
Goldstein, Jack
¥19.52
Are you the world's biggest Avril Lavigne fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about the Canadian singer and fashion icon?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are 101 amazing facts about everything, from how Avril got started in the music business to her love life, awards she has won plus many more. The book is easily organised into sections so you can find the information you want fast and is perfect for all ages!
101 Amazing Beyonce Facts
101 Amazing Beyonce Facts
Goldstein, Jack
¥19.52
Are you the world's biggest Beyonce fan? Or do you want to find out everything there is to know about the ex Destiny's Child singer and global superstar?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are 101 amazing facts about how Beyonce got started in the music industry, the numerous awards she has won, her family life with husband Jay-Z and daughter Blue Ivy plus many more. The book is easily organised into sections so you can find the information you want fast and is perfect for all ages!
Entanglement
Entanglement
Mason, Stan
¥39.14
I'm a film scriptwriter in Hollywood, with a partner called Ellie who's eight months pregnant and a film director, Harry Badella, who's rude, irascible and always applying pressure on actors and writers to get the best out of them,. However I am beleaguered by a quest I had put off for a long time. Some fifty years ago, I was evacuated to Cornwall during World War Two and fostered by a couple called the Laitys. They had a son, Patrick, and for years I wanted to go back to meet him but there was never a suitable time. Suddenly, I decided to take the bull by the horns and fly to England only to discover that Patrick had died many years earlier, Then, by accident, I learned that he was still alive and there were reasons why he wanted people to think that he was dead. I began to undertake some research which proved to have many ramifications. After delving deeply into Patrick's past, I became the target for three attempts on my life while dead bodies seem to accumulate around me, each one appearing to be an accidental death. I found myself in the company of many people who professed to have known my foster brother and then the situation accelerated to a higher level. I discovered that papers from a Roger Blake, a well-respected scientist, related to the Star Wars programme... by which nations are able to park nuclear missiles in outer space to protect themselves from attack, I soon learned that everyone was searching for Blake's papers and I embarked on a smuggling escapade to find Patrick in a whirlpool of intrigue with many twists and turns before coming across a woman with whom I fell in love. Following that, there were some nightmare situations, such as the visit from a man with an iron hand who threatened my life, and my body hanging over Hell's Mouth, where many people go to commit suicide...
101 Amazing Robbie Williams Facts
101 Amazing Robbie Williams Facts
Goldstein, Jack
¥19.52
Are you the world's biggest Robbie Williams fan? Or do you want to find out everything there is to know about the ex Take That singer and global superstar? If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are 101 amazing facts about Robbie's time with Take That, his solo career, the many awards he has won and much more. The book is easily organised into sections so you can find the information you want fast and is perfect for all ages!
101 Amazing Facts about Wimbledon
101 Amazing Facts about Wimbledon
Goldstein, Jack
¥19.52
Are you a fan of Tennis? Would you like to know over one hundred facts about the world's greatest tournament? If so, then this is the book for you. Separated into sections including the championship's history, memorable moments, statistics about the event and much more, this handy eBook will give you the facts you want, fast! Sit back and 'serve' yourself a refreshing glass of 'deuce' and 'net' yourself some strawberries and cream - it'll be your 'fault' if you don't 'set' aside some time to read this 'ace' book!
10 Practical Guidelines to Motivate Yourself
10 Practical Guidelines to Motivate Yourself
Amir, Dr Irfan
¥29.33
Practical tips and unique insights on self motivation. The ten-factor listing is based entirely on author's own thoughts. The guidelines will help increase level of motivation enabling one to be more productive. The content also has the potential for making readers reassess their worldview. Another key benefit could be achieving higher levels of motivation while at the same time gaining peace of mind and solace which, in turn, could increase one's ability to achieve yet greater levels of motivation, serving as a valuable self-reinforcing mechanism. Each of the ten factors is dealt with in a three-step process. First, the factor is defined. Second, its link with motivation is explained. Third, detailed practical tips are given to help reader adopt the required skill.
African Waterhole
African Waterhole
Wright, Cavin
¥29.33
A charming tale of the animals living around an African waterhole. The intrigues, anxieties and relationships between such diverse characters as Walter, the warthog, Larry the evil leopard, Percival, the African Grey parrot and Michael the meercat will both amuse young readers and widen their appreciation of the natural world.
Hitler, Ribbentrop and Britain
Hitler, Ribbentrop and Britain
Shepley, Nick
¥29.33
A fraudulent chancer, fantasist and con artist, Joachim Von Ribbentrop charmed Hitler and dominates the Fuhrer's inner circle for much of the 1930s. Hitler was totally taken in by the version of the world Ribbentrop presented to him, so much so that he became the Nazi leader's unofficial, then official ambassador, causing discord and diplomatic havoc wherever he went.This edition of Explaining History focuses on Hitler's first attempts to reshape the European order, by undermining the Treaty of Versailles, and attempting to build an alliance with Britain. It was an attempt doomed to failure, and fated to shape the nature of the coming war.
Dragon's Flame
Dragon's Flame
Beaumont, Alix J
¥39.14
Its a mythical romance about three shape-shifting dragons in search of their pre-ordained mates, three teenage girls and timing is everything. Missed, and the dragon is doomed for all eternity. However, whenever they take on human form, they put themselves at risk of being captured and destroyed by a band of hunters known as the crusaders, descendants of a bygone age. Can the three dragons claim the maidens and escape before they are discovered and put to death.
Santa and the Cyberspace Plot
Santa and the Cyberspace Plot
Scott, Eric
¥19.52
It is close to Christmas and Natalie has discovered that her big brother Jake claims he has proof that Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are not real. he intend to launch this proof worldwide on the web on Christmas Eve and ruin Christmas for ever. Oberon Moody, a man who makes Halloween masks dreams of making Halloween the only holiday on the calendar and, with his strange helper, the pointy-eared Dobbin, promises to help Jake in his task. Santa calls in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny to help foil Jake's plot with some pretty funny tricks.
101 Amazing Facts about Eminem
101 Amazing Facts about Eminem
Goldstein, Jack
¥19.52
Are you the world's biggest Eminem fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about the rapper and best-selling artist of the last decade?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are 101 amazing facts about everything, from his upbringing as Marshal Mathers III, how he got started in the music industry, his rocky relationship with Kim and much more. The book is easily organised into sections so you can find the information you want fast and is a great addition to any bookshelf.
Hitler, Chamberlain and Munich
Hitler, Chamberlain and Munich
Shepley, Nick
¥29.33
In the mid 1930s, Hitler's determination to wage a European war and destroy the Treaty of Versailles seemed to be an unstoppable force in international affairs. The weak and divided British and French, crippled by multiple crises over the Rhineland, Spain Abyssinia and Austria were poorly prepared for the ordeal to come. This ebook explains how Hitler schemed and manipulated them in order to guarantee the destruction of Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Windsong
Windsong
Scott, Eric
¥19.52
Windsong is a novel of the supernatural and suspense, with well-drawn characters, deep emotion and heart-stopping action. When final year school student Kirsty's young sister Karen, dies in an accident, she blames herself and is inconsolable. She falls into depression after a suicides attempt and is under psychiatric care. But then she discovers that the ghost of her sister is hovering around the place she met her death. Kirsty find a precarious kind of peace and makes regular visits to her sister and is determined to join her. Another girl, Erika, who is on a visit the town to see her boyfriend Josh, makes a psychic connection with Kirsty and Karen. Through the physical and mental links Erika has a week to battle Kirsty's demons and her nemesis, a boy she once rejected, against the backdrop of a small university town.
101 Amazing Rita Ora Facts
101 Amazing Rita Ora Facts
Goldstein, Jack
¥19.52
Are you the world's biggest Rita Ora fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about one of the hottest singers today?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are 101 amazing facts about everything, from how Rita got started as a singer to her love life, awards she has won and much more. The book is easily organised into sections so you can find the information you want fast and is perfect for all ages!
Where The Bee Sucks
Where The Bee Sucks
Stafford, William
¥44.05
Controversial television historian Hank Brownlow comes to England to research his latest outlandish theory about Shakespeare but finds he is not alone in his quest. Someone else is following the same trail and people are ending up dead. Meaniwhile, in Stratford upon Avon, disgruntled tour guide Harry is visited by a stranger who claims to be a character from 'The Tempest'. Author of Leporello On The Lam and the Brough & Miller series, William Stafford has created a satirical contemporary fantasy with a lively sense of humour.
One-On-One
One-On-One
Spires, Philip
¥44.05
In her trademark series, One-On-One, Christine Gardner, freelance journalist and television presenter, puts powerful people into the limelight. Her latest subject is Salleh Abdullah, once known as Trevor Cartwright, a British expatriate mathematician and convert to Islam. He has amassed a fortune and now international notoriety via his deft trading on financial markets using methods that thus far have defied all analysis. In just two years his fortune in equities has grown so great that his holdings in multinational companies are causing concern. To date, he has resisted all contact with the media, but Christine and he share a past, a past that both of them keenly recall. Cartwright finds her request to record episodes of One-On-One impossible to refuse. This will be Salleh Abdullah's first media exposure. But who is Christine working for? Is she freelance? Or does she appear in someone else's script? Perhaps her husband, Anthony Green, who watches his wife's encounter with Salleh Abdullah from his office desk, can answer. Set on a private island in the South China Sea where Cartwright regularly retires to work, One-On-One follows the progress of Christine Gardiner's project as allegiances begin to shift.
Orsinni Contracts
Orsinni Contracts
Cariad, Bill
¥48.95
In the U.K... A top secret government project must beat the Russians in a race which will give the winner control of men's minds. Meanwhile the police hunt is on for a gruesome paedophile who mutilates his kills, and the death toll is rising! In Italy...Six children are abducted from Rome's streets on the same day. The carabiniere hunt for them uncovers a paedophile ring with unexpected connections. In America...The Hip Sing and Burning Hand tongs vie for supremacy of New York's Chinatown. In Italy... Maria Orsinni begins a journey towards her new life. It is a journey which will develop her martial arts talent and life-skills. It will also bring her into conflict with America's Mafia and its CIA, Chinese Triads, and killer paedophiles.
Cartographer's Apprentice
Cartographer's Apprentice
Webster, Jim
¥9.71
Four short stories from the Land of the Three Seas casting a light on the early career of Benor Dorfinngil. The trials and tribulations of a young cartographer; this book features duels, savage halfmen, gassy beer, blood feuds and most dangerous of all, beautiful women.
Russia's Struggle With Modernity 1815-1929
Russia's Struggle With Modernity 1815-1929
Shepley, Nick
¥29.33
In 1917 Czarist Russia collapsed during the catastrophe of the First World War, but the tensions that had accumulated inside the empire for a century due to the challenges that modernisation presented were the real seeds of her undoing. The 19th Century was a battle for the soul of Russia, and it decided whether she would embrace liberal democracy and industrialisation like her contemporaries in Europe, or whether she would retreat into the past. In fact, she did both, and the human legacy of the disasters that followed is still being barely comprehended.