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Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition, Softcover. The book takes us from Diana's troubled childhood, through her rushed and ultimately unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, her uneasy relationship with the Royal Family, and into her later years of failed flings and untimely death. It also highlights the depths of her care and compassion, her unshakeable love of family, her groundbreaking campaigns on AIDS and land mines and her cheeky, sometimes risque, sense of humour. Beautiful and vulnerable, and one of the most popular and most photographed public figures, she lived the whole of her adult life in the glare of an intense media spotlight yet managed to retain her dignity and identity. In this first ever comprehensive collection of Diana's most memorable quotes, veteran royal reporter, Phil Dampier, reveals the heart and soul of an incredible woman who is missed by millions around the world. Her powerful legacy lives on through her sons, Princes William and Harry, and a new generation is becoming aware her extraordinary life for the first time.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The English may say, 'Where there's a will there's a way,' and the Japanese, 'A concentrated mind pierces even a rock', but the meaning is clearly the same; 'Too many boatmen sail the boat up the hill' may be the same as the English, 'Too many cooks spoil the broth', but the Japanese version has a delightful absurdity about it which is illustrated in Kathryn Lamb's witty cartoon. These and many more proverbs and sayings feature in Where There's a Will There's a Way, which joins the family of six other bilingual illustrated proverb books, devised in 1985 by Primrose Arnander and the late Ashkhain Skipwith: three in Arabic, and one each in Italian, French and Chinese. Each title in the series gives the proverb in its original (and where the scripts are different, provides the original script and its transliteration), the literal translation and the English equivalent. They are not intended as weighty works of scholarship, but rather as a source of entertainment. They make the perfect gift, as well as being useful to language students, whatever their native tongue. The cartoonist Kathryn Lamb has brought her skills to all seven titles.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The English may say, 'Where there's a will there's a way,' and the Japanese, 'A concentrated mind pierces even a rock', but the meaning is clearly the same; 'Too many boatmen sail the boat up the hill' may be the same as the English, 'Too many cooks spoil the broth', but the Japanese version has a delightful absurdity about it which is illustrated in Kathryn Lamb's witty cartoon. These and many more proverbs and sayings feature in Where There's a Will There's a Way, which joins the family of six other bilingual illustrated proverb books, devised in 1985 by Primrose Arnander and the late Ashkhain Skipwith: three in Arabic, and one each in Italian, French and Chinese. Each title in the series gives the proverb in its original (and where the scripts are different, provides the original script and its transliteration), the literal translation and the English equivalent. They are not intended as weighty works of scholarship, but rather as a source of entertainment. They make the perfect gift, as well as being useful to language students, whatever their native tongue. The cartoonist Kathryn Lamb has brought her skills to all seven titles.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This delight-ful children's tale tells of a man's love for his horse, the jealousy of his servant and the theft by bandits of his precious Arabian.Will Sharifa find her way back to him and can the Sheikh find for-give-ness in his heart for those who stole her away.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Royally Suited, Prince Harry tells of the effect of his parents' divorce and the devastating loss of his mother, Princess Diana, and Meghan Markle talks of the racial difficulties she faced growing up as the daughter of a white Caucasian father and an African American mother. The book also reveals the story of how they fell in love; from a blind date to the abuse Meghan received which led to Prince Harry publically defending her. Both Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have won the nation's hearts and the much-anticipated announcement of their engagement on 27 November 2017 caused a cheer in the Twitter-sphere. This comprehensive collection of quotes by the couple themselves gives a real insight into this modern day fairytale.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition, Softcover. The book takes us from Diana's troubled childhood, through her rushed and ultimately unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, her uneasy relationship with the Royal Family, and into her later years of failed flings and untimely death. It also highlights the depths of her care and compassion, her unshakeable love of family, her groundbreaking campaigns on AIDS and land mines and her cheeky, sometimes risque, sense of humour. Beautiful and vulnerable, and one of the most popular and most photographed public figures, she lived the whole of her adult life in the glare of an intense media spotlight yet managed to retain her dignity and identity. In this first ever comprehensive collection of Diana's most memorable quotes, veteran royal reporter, Phil Dampier, reveals the heart and soul of an incredible woman who is missed by millions around the world. Her powerful legacy lives on through her sons, Princes William and Harry, and a new generation is becoming aware her extraordinary life for the first time.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the thrilling new adventure of Mokee Joe, the frightening villain is back and more determined than ever! Hudson, our brave hero, must fight for his life against Mokee Joe's wicked plans. In an exciting battle of strength and courage, Hudson needs all the help he can get to save the day! Get ready to dive into book two, packed with twists, turns, and lots of action.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the explosive third instalment of Mokee Joe, Molly and Hudson land back on Earth with a bump, facing a deadlier foe than before! With time ticking away, they must stop Mokee Joe's vengeful rampage before it's too late.Will they succeed or will the world fall under his wrath.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Princess Pi is still alive and has been called upon by The Queen. Drawn to the lively city of New Orleans, Hudson, Molly, and Ash unexpectedly step into a world cloaked in shadows, where ancient magic whispers throughout the streets. With danger all around them, they must work together to defeat the malevolent forces of old magic that threaten to engulf the world, including a legion of zombie swamp warriors, led by the fearsome Mokee Joe himself.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the explosive third instalment of Mokee Joe, Molly and Hudson land back on Earth with a bump, facing a deadlier foe than before! With time ticking away, they must stop Mokee Joe's vengeful rampage before it's too late.Will they succeed or will the world fall under his wrath.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Princess Pi is still alive and has been called upon by The Queen. Drawn to the lively city of New Orleans, Hudson, Molly, and Ash unexpectedly step into a world cloaked in shadows, where ancient magic whispers throughout the streets. With danger all around them, they must work together to defeat the malevolent forces of old magic that threaten to engulf the world, including a legion of zombie swamp warriors, led by the fearsome Mokee Joe himself.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Southern coast of Cornwall is a very special place, with magic in the seaweed and a smile on every face. Each pebble is a wish, and covered cleverly by the tide, there are caves in secret places, where the smugglers used to hide.Meet Megan the singing Cornish Sea Piskie, star of A Plan to Hatch who lives at Polpeor Cove, right at the very tip of The Lizard Point as she and her friends hatch a plan to protect three rare chough eggs from some meanies.The rare Cornish chough has returned to the lush fields, the craggy cliffs and the vivid vistas of Cornwall. Whilst the rest of Cornwall celebrates, two awful villains don't care about the wonder of their return.These two horrible men want to steal the eggs from their nest and sell them for their own profit. Rotters! Luckily Megan hatches a cunning plan to save the day with a whole host of colourful characters - elegant fox, fierce badger, squawky seagull and a battalion of rabbits.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Welcome to Yellowberry Hill.a place where an owl in a onesie, a snake in a cape and a mole with a conspicuous wig are best friends; where a cat has a pet dog, a frog is permanently in a mug and the local moose is never without a slice of pie; where an undersized panda regularly tests the patience of a duck in a woolly hat, while a little blue fish tries to make sense of it all and a distant yak looks on. Once you've accepted that all this is normal, you'll be right at home.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the thrilling new adventure of Mokee Joe, the frightening villain is back and more determined than ever! Hudson, our brave hero, must fight for his life against Mokee Joe's wicked plans. In an exciting battle of strength and courage, Hudson needs all the help he can get to save the day! Get ready to dive into book two, packed with twists, turns, and lots of action.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. To that which we give the name of Love, be it of the flesh or of God, is it ever less than divine?In a space of mere hours, a life and faith in their entirety are to be re-lived by Simon Chance. One-time missionary and bishop, Chance had withdrawn in mid-life to research - and teach - his enduring mentor Dante, creator of The Divine Comedy. He is recently widowed, after the prolonged descent into dementia of his devoted wife Marigold, violinist and composer.To recuperate, he is invited by a life-long confidante, Clare, to her son's villa in the hills behind St Tropez in southern France, to join a house party of old friends from their university days, each now reaping the rewards of their worldly careers. The reunion coincides with the collapse of global banking confidence - and the playing-out of Clare's own loss of love. Such is one weave of this narrative.On a walk in the forest of the Massif des Maures surrounding the remote villa, in search of a church abandoned centuries ago, Chance loses his way - in a `dark wood', as once experienced by Dante. The night turns wild. Such is a second weave.Marigold has not been the only love of Simon Chance. The passionate liaison of his earlier life, pre-ordination, was with a student botanist. This very Evie, with her Parliamentarian spouse, is about to join the house party of Clare, her greatest friend.A vital element in that searing, abandoned youthful liaison is yet to be reconciled with this scholar-cleric Chance had come to be. Now it rises to confront him. Here is the binding and defining weave of this night, unraveling in dark and storm and dawn.The working-through of the nature of love, physical and spiritual, in love's innocence and purity, will redeem Simon Chance or destroy him. Or both.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In this electrifying sequel to the beloved adventure series, Mokee Joe makes a roaring return from the far reaches of space, now even more monstrous and mischievous! With courage in his heart and determination in his step, out young hero, Hudson, sets off for the bustling streets of New York city, ready to face his old foe again. But there's more! Alongside battling Mokee Joe, Hudson must unravel the mystery of a sneaky villain who's pulling the strings behind the scenes. Who could be plotting such wickedness? It's up to Hudson and his friends to crack the case before it's too late! Get ready for an action packed adventure full of twists and turns as Hudson races against time to save the day.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Royally Suited, Prince Harry tells of the effect of his parents' divorce and the devastating loss of his mother, Princess Diana, and Meghan Markle talks of the racial difficulties she faced growing up as the daughter of a white Caucasian father and an African American mother. The book also reveals the story of how they fell in love; from a blind date to the abuse Meghan received which led to Prince Harry publically defending her. Both Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have won the nation's hearts and the much-anticipated announcement of their engagement on 27 November 2017 caused a cheer in the Twitter-sphere. This comprehensive collection of quotes by the couple themselves gives a real insight into this modern day fairytale.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In this electrifying sequel to the beloved adventure series, Mokee Joe makes a roaring return from the far reaches of space, now even more monstrous and mischievous! With courage in his heart and determination in his step, out young hero, Hudson, sets off for the bustling streets of New York city, ready to face his old foe again. But there's more! Alongside battling Mokee Joe, Hudson must unravel the mystery of a sneaky villain who's pulling the strings behind the scenes. Who could be plotting such wickedness? It's up to Hudson and his friends to crack the case before it's too late! Get ready for an action packed adventure full of twists and turns as Hudson races against time to save the day.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. To that which we give the name of Love, be it of the flesh or of God, is it ever less than divine?In a space of mere hours, a life and faith in their entirety are to be re-lived by Simon Chance. One-time missionary and bishop, Chance had withdrawn in mid-life to research - and teach - his enduring mentor Dante, creator of The Divine Comedy. He is recently widowed, after the prolonged descent into dementia of his devoted wife Marigold, violinist and composer.To recuperate, he is invited by a life-long confidante, Clare, to her son's villa in the hills behind St Tropez in southern France, to join a house party of old friends from their university days, each now reaping the rewards of their worldly careers. The reunion coincides with the collapse of global banking confidence - and the playing-out of Clare's own loss of love. Such is one weave of this narrative.On a walk in the forest of the Massif des Maures surrounding the remote villa, in search of a church abandoned centuries ago, Chance loses his way - in a `dark wood', as once experienced by Dante. The night turns wild. Such is a second weave.Marigold has not been the only love of Simon Chance. The passionate liaison of his earlier life, pre-ordination, was with a student botanist. This very Evie, with her Parliamentarian spouse, is about to join the house party of Clare, her greatest friend.A vital element in that searing, abandoned youthful liaison is yet to be reconciled with this scholar-cleric Chance had come to be. Now it rises to confront him. Here is the binding and defining weave of this night, unraveling in dark and storm and dawn.The working-through of the nature of love, physical and spiritual, in love's innocence and purity, will redeem Simon Chance or destroy him. Or both.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition, Softcover. No self-respecting dog owner should be without a copy of this book of quotations about man's best friend. Compiled by dog lover Aubrey Malone, 'The Little Book of Dog Quotes' brings together hundreds of quips and quotes about canines. Actors, writers, politicians - even Sigmund Freud - all famously share an appreciation for those faithful friends who have left a lasting impression not just on our lives, but on our language and laughter levels too. This collection of quotes is humorously illustrated by the cartoonist Richard Jolley. If you and your best friend want a good laugh, this irresistible little book is just what you need. "A dog wags its tail with its heart." - Martin Buxbaum. "A Canadian psychologist, is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works. If you spend $12 on the video, your dog is smarter than you are." - Jay Leno. "What's the difference between a dog and a cat? Dogs have owners. Cats have staff." - Fay Weldon. "If a film of mine wasn't going well I always put a dog into it. It worked every time." - Walt Disney. Jolley, Richard (illustratore). …

Hardback. Condizione: New. MANY OF US FEEL ANGRY about banks and bankers. But why publish a book when there are so many learned papers on bank reform freely available on the web? Answer: To combat white noise and cut to the chase.This little guide is intended as a short and easy companion for experts and laymen alike- in fact anyone who reckons that bank reform hasn't gone nearly far enough.It explains what went wrong and what needs to change to rebuild the reputation of banks, bankers and, even more importantly, their regulators. Seven years since the start of the latest financial crisis, there is little sign that rule-makers have found the right tools to make banks serve society and their customers better.While some bankers are guilty of bad and even criminal behaviour, regulators are at least as responsible for failing to tackle the curse of modern banking: the culture of entitlement that has skewed many banks towards rewarding their directors and employees first, while putting their customers and shareholders second.Surely capitalism can do better.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The team behind Bye-Bye Germs! and A Germ's Journey presents this brilliant new graphic novel. A Germ's Journey - A Fight Against Resistance offers the chance to be part of the Anti-Bio Squad, a team combatting antibiotic resistance. When a boy comes down with some mysterious symptoms, it's up to you to find the clues, catch the right criminal, fend off the bacteria, and prevent them from becoming resistant to all of your weapons (antibiotics). Along the way you will be helped by friends: Agent Max, his dynamic dog, team-mate Georgie, and The Doc However, it's you who decides what path this investigation follows. Do you have what it takes to succeed in the Fight Against Resistance and become a member of the Anti-Bio Squad?Dive into the microscopic world of germs and join Max and Georgie in the Anti-Bio Squad to help them take down the evil bacteria making people sick. In this pathfinder graphic novel, you control the story, you choose how to solve the case, and you help the team fight off the germs and save the day.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the thrilling final part of The SeaBEAN Trilogy, Alice and her five classmates are - for reasons they have yet to discover - abducted to 2118 in the C-Bean, their time-travel device, only to find the world is a difficult and alienating place. How will they survive their terrifying ordeal? Who can help them figure out a way to get back to their own time? Will they escape before their captor Commander Hadron catches up with them? Who is he anyway and what's his connection to the mysterious Dr Foster? Unsettled by the devastation they find everywhere in the future and armed with new knowledge about the C-Bean's ultimate purpose, Alice and Co scour the planet, confronting many challenges in pursuit of answers to their questions. But can they figure out a way to restore the Earth's delicate ecological balance for good.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The mysterious black C-Bean is a remarkable device which, as Alice and her classmates discovered in SeaBEAN (the first book in The SeaBEAN Trilogy), knows just about everything and can take them anywhere in the world. But now it's broken and stranded on the rocks on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. When Karla Ingermann, the C-Bean's designer, turns up from Germany to try to fix it, they perform a factory reset, which accidentally sends it back in time, and Alice's world is thrown into disarray. Chased by Victorian police, attacked by an enemy submarine, imprisoned with a madwoman, summoned to rescue a dying pilot and fired at by government agents, Alice, together with her parrot, her dog and her new wartime companions, embarks on a journey through time, uncovering dark secrets from St Kilda's past and safeguarding the future before it's too late.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Macedonians. Ptolemy started the dynasty and in thirty years completed the first lighthouse, and the grand library and museum, which functioned as a university with an emphasis on science, known as "The Alexandrian School". Scholars attended as "the birthplace of science" from all over the ancient world. Two of the most eminent were Euclid, the father of geometry, and Claudios Ptolemy, writer of The Almagest, a book on astronomy. These are the oldest surviving science textbooks. Herein there are stories about scientists, poets and religious philosophers, responsible for influencing the western mind with their writings.Modern Alexandria was rebuilt in 1805 by multi-ethnic communities who created a successful commercial city and port with an enviable life-style for its inhabitants for 150 years. In 1952 the Free Officers of the Egyptian Army masterminded a coup to free the country from the monarchy and British domination. In 1956 the socialist regime under Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Suez Canal, resulting in the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion.This outburst of Egyptian nationalism and military revolution by this understandably anti-Western regime included the confiscation of property belonging to foreigners and the subsequent mass exodus of business and artisan classes that hitherto had made the city so successful. The author was an eye-witness to these events and he sets out the political errors and failures of both Egyptian and Western leaders. The legacy of the resulting political and social confusions is deeply apparent in the continuing unrest in the Middle East, and in particular in Egypt. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. What is luck? The chances are you don't really know, but you probably believe in it, and I bet that you invoke the word every day of your life .'Bad luck!' 'That was lucky!' 'You should be so lucky!' 'What a lucky escape!' - said with varying degrees of intensity, sincerity, sarcasm, amusement, incredulity or disgust. But what is luck? This book tries to determine what luck is, how it operates in our lives, and how far the individual is at its mercy - favoured by good luck or cursed by bad? Is there any justice or fair play in life, or are these merely human concepts that don't exist in the laws governing the universe? Whatever you think you believe, by the time you have read this book, the odds are that you will have changed your mind. James M Kileen's analysis ranges from Astrology to Zoroastrianism and everything in between: the big bang and the butterfly effect, destiny and determinism, fortune-telling and feng shui, gambling and game theory, miracles and Murphy's Law, oracles and ordeals, philosophy and religion, precognition and the placebo effect, serendipity and synchronicity.A Matter of Luck is a highly readable yet thought-provoking work, interspersed with illuminating and amusing examples to illlustrate each facet of this fascinating subject: for example, the true stories of the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, King Umberto and the chef, James Dean's car, and the woman who simultaneously chose the winning numbers for both the Massachusetts and Rhode Island lotteries (although the numbers she chose for the Rhode Island lottery were the winning numbers for the Massachusetts lottery, and vice versa). Lucky or unlucky - you decide, if you can. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Emirates Diaries tells the story of how Peter Clark came to love the Emirates and its people. He got to know Abu Dhabi sheikhs and Dubai merchants and people at every level of society. The country was on the cusp of enormous economic expansion and this book is an affectionate picture of the Emirates when it was still like a chain of large informal villages. The people of the UAE were aware of their good fortune and were, he found, open, generous and innovative. Clark arranged for the explorer Wilfred Thesiger to return to the country he had celebrated before it became oil-rich. Thanks to Peter, Thesiger met up with his old companions who had accompanied him in crossing the Empty Quarter 40 years earlier. Peter embedded himself in the local cultural scene and translated stories by Dubai's best known writer, Muhammad al-Murr. Emirates Diaries tells of opera in Ras Al Khaimah, how Shakespeare was brought to large audiences of young people, how to organize a royal visit, an outbreak of foot and mouth disease among the oryx in the Al Ain zoo, the culture of camel racing and an unpaid bill left by Margaret Thatcher. The diaries sparkle with mischievous humor and acute observation.This book is a prequel to Peter Clark's Damascus Diaries: Life under the Assads, described by The Economist as 'quirky, digressive and indiscreet'.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Whether fashionable or unfashionable, which of us doesn't use proverbs all the time? They are an indispensable vehicle of popular wisdom and a lively contributor to educated speech. Proverbs are forever evolving. This collection of Italian proverbs is intended to bring a smile of recognition to its readers. Kathryn Lamb (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: New. When Bechtel offered Sean Cuddihy a transfer to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1976, his wife Kathy agreed to go on one condition: that it would be for just two years. That reluctant commitment became the beginning of a 24-year love affair with Saudi Arabia and its people.Through a series of humorous anecdotes, adventures and misadventures, Kathy recounts her life in the Kingdom during a period of remarkable change. As a journalist and businesswoman, her work took her into places few expatriates experienced, offering rare insight into the country's people, culture and daily life. From royal palaces to prisons, and from traditional homes to private jets, her experiences are as varied as they are unforgettable.Told with the wit and warmth for which she is well known, Anywhere But Saudi Arabia! is a captivating memoir for those who know and love the Kingdom, and an engaging introduction for readers curious about life in Saudi Arabia through the eyes of a long-term resident. At times hilarious, at times moving, and always honest, Kathy's story is above all a tribute to the friendships, generosity and experiences that transformed an intended two-year stay into a lifetime of affection for her adopted home.…