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Little Nelly's Big Book
Автор: Goodhart Pippa Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152014-10-13
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When Nelly reads a description of herself in a book, she is convinced that she is a mouse after all she is grey, has big ears and a thin tail. When she meets some mice, the confusion only grows in this delightfully funny tale of mixed messages and taking everything you read in books just a little too literally.
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Film Tie-in Edition
Автор: Defoe Gideon Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20172013-12-30
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It is 1837, and for the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain and his rag-tag pirate crew, life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. With nothing to do but twiddle their hooks and lounge aimlessly on tropical beaches, the Captain decides it's time they had an adventure. A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles Darwin, in desperate need of their help. And so the pirates set forth for London in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of a diabolical Bishop. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, the Elephant Man — and have an exciting trip to the zoo.
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Pirates! Photographic Story Book
Автор: Defoe Gideon Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152014-10-13
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encompassing Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria and a villainous secret society. A photographic retelling of the original uproarious story by acclaimed author Gideon Defoe. 'I HATE pirates!' declares Queen Victoria. Nevertheless, deterined to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, the Pirate Captain takes his life in his hands and enters the city of London. With the help of Darwin, a manpanzee and a crew of motley misfits, the Pirate Captain struggles to seize booty and restore his pirate honour. Having written the script for the film, Gideon Defoe has brilliantly revisited his story for younger readers. This hilarious book will delight a new generation of fans.
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Pirates! Sticker Scene Book
Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 12 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20142017-08-17
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Using the full-color stickers, children will love creating new adventures for the Pirate Captain and his band of misfits. Fans can play out scenes from the film or imagine fresh dangers for all their favorite characters. The possibilities are as varied as their imaginations!
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Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
Автор: Defoe Gideon Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20152015-09-10
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London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. And the Pirate Captain — his disguise proving something of a letdown — finds himself incarcerated in Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity. Discovering that his doppelganger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his crew are unwittingly caught up in a sinister plot to discredit the communists. From the gloomy streets of Soho to the leafy boulevards of Paris, The pirates! In an Adventure with Communists is a story of intellectual giants, enormous beards, volcanoes and valkyries, doubloons and dancing girls, and a quest to discover whether ham really might be the opium of the people.
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The Selfish Crocodile
Автор: Charles Faustin Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 1999 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092000-12-13
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Every morning a very large and very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: 'Stay away from my river! It's MY river! If you come in my river, I'll eat you all!' The animals in the forest don't know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish, tadpoles, frogs, crabs and crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day, the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which turns out to be the selfish crocodile in a lot of pain, and the smallest of them all, a little mouse, finds a way to solve their snappy dilemma! Astoundingly bright, bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours. The Author: Faustin Charles is a renowned poet and story-teller. His collection of Afro-Caribbean rhymes was published to great success by Puffin. This is his first picture book text. Bloomsbury Children's Books are also publishing his first poetry collection in October 1998, establishing Faustin as a Bloomsbury author across the board. Faustin spends much time in schools and libraries story-telling, and is also Library Buyer for Enfield. He lives in North London. The Illustrator: Mike Terry is most well-known for his wonderful cover illustrations for Dick King-Smith, including The Hodgeheg and The Sheep-Pig (the basis for the successful film Babe ). This is his first picture book. Mike lives in Hythe, Kent.
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The Selfish Crocodile Book of Nursery Rhymes (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Charles Faustin Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20112012-04-17
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Faustin Charles has specially created for this collection over 40 new rhymes inspired by traditional nursery rhymes and all featuring animal characters. The rhymes are illustrated throughout by Michael Terry, illustrator of the bestselling The Selfish Crocodile, and whose animal portrayals have become legendary. Combined with a fantastic audio CD that has Faustin Charles narrating the poems with lots of amazing animal sounds and noises, this will make a much-loved and much-listened to collection for younger readers.
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When the Killing's Done
Автор: Boyle T.Coraghessan Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132014-10-27
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'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done'. The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company might explain some of her zeal. With days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma's plan is in danger of sabotage. Dave LaJoy and Anise Reed, a pair of notorious environmental activists, are recognisable from a distance by his knotted dreadlocks and her flame-red cyclone of hair. Dave is an electronics salesman with barely-controlled rages, for whom the plight of the rats is yet another of life's many injustices, along with lazy tramps and second-rate wine. Anise is a struggling folk singer with her own, terrible reasons for getting involved in 'the cause'. From the outset, Alma, Dave and Anise are at ideological loggerheads. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on Santa Cruz — where Anise was brought up by her single mother and a clan of ranchers — the stakes are raised, and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real... When the Killing's Done is T.C. Boyle's blistering new novel, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life — no matter what the fallout.
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Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black
Автор: Gordimer Nadine Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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»You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you... But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters... The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it». In this collection of new stories Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. “Dreaming of the Dead” conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in “History” is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. “Alternative Endings” considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.
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The Year of the Flood
Автор: Atwood M. Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 431 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20112014-08-03
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An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world. Adam One is the leader of the God's Gardeners, a religious group devoted to living under the command of the natural world. They wear beige cloth-sacks, cultivate mushrooms, harvest honey and curse each other by shouting: Pig-Eater! Their community is only tolerated by the CorpSeCorps, the ruling power, because they are not perceived as threatening. But, this is a world where gene-splicing is the norm; where lions and lambs have become Liobams and pigs have human DNA. The times, and species, are changing at a rapid rate, and with loyalites as thin as environmental stability, the future is a dangerous place. And, if the Waterless Flood does indeed arrive, as predicted by the Gardeners, will there even be a future to contemplate? Ren is a trapeze dancer at Scales and Tails, and can work a plank just as well. After a rip in her biofilm she is placed in solitary confinement until they can guarantee she is without disease. Her story is one part of our gateway into this uniquely constructed world. The other is Toby, an ex-counter-girl at SecretBurger ('Because we all love a Secret'), a natural cynic and source of extensive homeopathic knowledge; she knows her aminatas from her puffballs. Their stories weave beneath the holy teachings and saintly-songs of Adam One to create a truly apocalyptic vision, a world that harnesses Atwood's wit, dystopic imagination and sharp insight. The result is a collective blast of a novel and one that will remain with you until the Waterless Flood comes.
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Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved
Автор: Summers Judith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 365 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20132013-09-12
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Told from the perspective of his innumerable sexual conquests, Casanova's Women renders a vivid flesh-and-blood portrait of the famed philanderer, clearing away the myth while illuminating the lives of the women who have too long languished in the shadows. The eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova used his magnetic personality to talk his way into the beds of more than two hundred women. Charming, brilliant, and devastatingly attractive, he claimed to like women and to understand their emotional and sexual needs. To those he truly loved, he was the perfect lover--thoughtful, generous, and imaginative. To others he could be ruthless, selfish, and dishonest. Judith Summers's exuberant and candidly erotic biography reveals how Giacomo Casanova, a sickly son of Venetian actors, went on to transcend the rigid social boundaries of the eighteenth century to keep company with kings and beguile beautiful women. With original research culled from period diaries, wills, correspondence, and memoirs, this unique look at the legendary lady-killer gives voice to the many women on whose naked backs Casanova's reputation was built.
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Rover
Автор: Rosen Michael Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2000 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092001-12-13
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Layton's wildly exuberant illustrations provide the perfect accompaniment to the four legged narrator's refreshing brand of humour — The Guardian. This is a completely topsy-turvey view of a world seen from a dog's eye point of view — a very funny story which turns to real drama when the little girl gets lost on the beach and the search is on to find her.
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State of Wonder
Автор: Patchett Ann Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate. A curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders's colleague and once a student of the mighty Dr Swenson, is their last hope. Compelled by the pleas of Anders's wife, who refuses to accept that her husband is not coming home, Marina leaves the snowy plains of Minnesota and retraces her friend's steps into the heart of the South American darkness, determined to track down Dr. Swenson and uncover the secrets being jealously guarded among the remotest tribes of the rainforest. What Marina does not yet know is that, in this ancient corner of the jungle, where the muddy waters and grasses hide countless unknown perils and temptations, she will face challenges beyond her wildest imagination. Marina is no longer the student, but only time will tell if she has learnt enough.
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
Автор: Boyd W. Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 403 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20122011-12-26
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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back. William Boyd's electrifying follow-up to the Costa Award-winning Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms is a profound and gripping novel about the fragility of social identity, the corruption at the heart of big business, and the secrets that lie hidden in the seamy underbelly of every city.
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Negotiate Successfully
Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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You negotiate every day in all types of situations and in many ways. This book will help build confidence and get better results with practical advice on the basic principles of negotiation, how to prepare, how to keep cool under pressure and how to understand and use body language to your advantage. The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of the best sources of further help.
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Assert Yourself
Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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Do you find it hard to say 'no'? Are you tongue-tied in important meetings? Assert Yourself will help you find your voice and stand up for yourself without appearing aggressive. Full of practical advice on how to change the way you work and live for the better, the book contains a self-assessment quiz, step-by-step guidance, top tips, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists of handy books and websites.
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Give Great Presentations: How to speak confidently and make your point
Автор: Russell Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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The key to giving great presentations is in creating a clear, effective message and delivering it in a style that fits your personality and communicates confidence and authority. This practical book breaks down the process into manageable segments to help you build your case! Begin with a self-assessment quiz to identify your strengths as well as your biggest fears. Step-by-step guidance takes you through the entire presentation process from how to prepare a knockout speech and plot out summaries of your key points to quick ways to manage nerves to professional tips for boosting your message, dealing with unexpected problems, even ways to use body language to win over your audience before you even utter a word! The ability to communicate effectively is a key to career advancement and opening doors of opportunity in life and, like any other skill, can be learned with expert guidance in this comprehensive professional resource.
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Manage Your Boss
Автор: Russell Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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A good working relationship with your supervisor requires planning and thoughtful strategy and this book offers effective tips on how to develop the skills you need to create a productive working environment or improve your current work situation. Fully revised and updated, Manage Your Boss will give you insight and advice on how to survive personality clashes, improve your chances of promotion, increase your influence and even build enough trust so you effectively delegate upwards! Implementing an effective boss gameplan can turn dread and avoidance of your office into a more secure and fulfilling work environment which actually makes you look forward to heading into work each morning.
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Deal With Stress: How To Improve The Way You Work
Автор: Russell Jane Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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Stress has become a “catch-all” term to identify a host of symptoms AND their triggers. This book helps break down the multi-layers of stress starting with a self-assessment quiz to understand the causes and recognize the symptoms and offers insight into ways to find the right solutions to put you back in control of runaway emotions. You’ll also learn about common stress management mistakes and how to avoid them plus find practical advice on finding a work/life balance and tips on building better relationships.
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Deal With Difficult People: How To Cope With Tricky Situations And People
Автор: Russell Jane Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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Dealing with difficult people at work has become an essential survival skill in today’s office place. Whether an impossible customer or an occasional tense situation with a coworker or the more extreme case of an office bully, this fully revised and updated edition of Tackle Office Nightmares offers clear solutions and step-by-step advice on a wide range of these interpersonal workplace issues. You’ll learn how to diffuse situations before they get out of control and separate the facts to determine the difference between an uncomfortable, awkward situation and an actionable human resource issue such as discrimination. You’ll also learn the best practices to keep your work life as peaceful as possible and when it’s appropriate to step in to help others. With a tough job market and more demands placed on employees, workplace stress is on the rise. This practical and informative book will help diffuse workplace conflicts, which directly affect office productivity, employee health, and business survival.
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