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Tom Hanks Uncommon TypeA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and ...
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Frances Frei, Anne Morriss Uncommon Service ENMost companies treat service as a low-priority business operation, keeping it out of the spotlight until a customer complains. Then service gets to make a brief appearance for as long as it takes to calm the customer down and fix whatever foul-up jeopardized the relationship. In Uncommon Service, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss show how, in a volatile economy where the old rules of strategic advantage no longer hold…
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Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense ENThis is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists. It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense - thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense - is the secret to…
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David Hepworth Uncommon People ENThe age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had.What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs.…
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Kate Alarcon Uncommon Paper FlowersThis visually magnificent book unveils the alluring world of uncommon botanicals, including a prickly cactus that played a storied role in the founding of an ancient city, a tiny pink mushroom that glows green in the dark, and a magnificent blue cactus...
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Philip Higson Uncommon Leadership ENLeaders are expected to show the way forward, especially in unpredictable circumstances or when resources are constrained. Yet frustratingly, what is common to good leadership is not often widely practised. Uncommon Leadership will help you explore the uncommon insights that can make a significant difference to your leadership. It will lead you to fresh strategic thinking by challenging conventional wisdom and…
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Mark Pendergrast Uncommon GroundsFirst published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, ...
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Jason LaPier Unclear Skies ENThe second book in Jason LaPier’s thrilling sci-fi trilogy. Justice isn’t what it used to be. Rogue cop Stanford Runstom blew open a botched murder case and was given a promotion – of sorts. But doing PR work for ModPol, the security-firm-for-hire, is not the detective position Runstom had in mind, particularly when his orders become questionable. Freedom always comes at a price. Despite being cleared of false…
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Oliver Sacks Uncle TungstenThe bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Musicophilia.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin ENOne thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to secure their freedom was one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century. Centred round…
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin ENThe first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties. This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the context of African-American writing, the issues of race and the role of women. Its introduction discusses African responses to…
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A.L. Kennedy Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure ENBadger Bill needs rescuing. He's been kidnapped by two nasty sisters who are about to make him fight a boxing match against three even nastier dogs. The four most depressed llamas in the history of llamas need rescuing too. They are about to be turned into llama pies. But never fear - Uncle Shawn is here! He loves rescuing things. He has a rescuing plan, which involves dancing, and a mole, and an electric fence.…
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Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Meerkats ENWhen Uncle Jack and the children find some homesick baby meerkats they decide to take them home to the Kalahari Desert. Getting there is easy in Uncle Jack’s balloon. But the desert is a dangerous place. Can they keep them safe?Syllabus: Vocabulary areas; Animals, nature, feelings, town; Grammar and structures; Past simple regular and irregular forms; Verb + infinitive; Verb + -ing; Could; Must for obligation;…
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Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Emperor Penguins EN‘Here are the Emperor Penguins as happy as can be. They’re off to lay their eggs in a place far from the sea. They stay here all the winter as cold as cold can be. Until their babies hatch in a place far from the sea.’ In this hilarious story you will learn something about the habits of the Emperor Penguins and follow Uncle Jack and the others in their race against time to help the penguins to the place where they…
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Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree EN‘In the deep green forest what can you see? Ants and snakes and spiders and monkeys up a tree! In the deep green forest what can you do? Take photos. Climb up and swing from trees too!’ In this Reader you will find: Games and language activities An audio recording of the story and the song A picture dictionary A nail biting adventure in the Rwandan rainforest with Uncle Jack, Jim, Daisy and May (and of course…
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Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Amazon Rainforest ENHave you ever seen a sloth? Jim and his brother and sister meet one in this adventure in the Amazon Rainforest. It is the story of how they team up, with Slowly, the sloth and his friends, helped by Uncle Jack, his daughter Dr Silver and some Amazon Indians to save their habitat. Stage 3 - 300 headwords - A1.1 Syllabus: Vocabulary areas: The world around us, family, the body Grammar and structures: Present,…
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Cullen Bunn Uncanny X-Men: Superior ENMagneto and his ruthless team enter the trenches in the Apocalypse Wars! But one original X-Man has particular history with En Sabah Nur. The first time Warren Worthington met Apocalypse, he was transformed into the homicidal Horseman of Death. Warren ultimately broke free of the villain's grasp, rejoined the X-Men as Archangel and, for a time, found love with his teammate Psylocke. Now, years later, Betsy has found…
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Matthew Rosenberg, Salvador Larroca Uncanny X-MenCyclops and Wolverine have drawn together a new team of X-Men from the ashes of 'X-Men Disassembled,' and now they turn their eyes to setting their agenda. Cyclops has a list...
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Charles Soule Uncanny Inhumans (Volume 1) ENThe Inhumans have never been so Uncanny! Medusa, Black Bolt and the royal family have welcomed the Beast and the Human Torch... and even stranger, Johnny Storm and Medusa are an item! But what could have unfolded between Inhumans and mutants that led to one of the original X-Men switching sides? Meanwhile, one of the most dangerous villains in all of history has targeted the Inhumans. Will Kang conquer New Attilan?…
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Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken ENThe incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise Zamperini had already transformed himself from child delinquent to prodigious athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics. Now he must embark on one of the Second World War’s most extraordinary odysseys. Zamperini…
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Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken ENOn a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The…
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Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken ENFrom the author of the bestselling and much-loved Seabiscuit, an unforgettable story of one man’s journey into extremity. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling…
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T.J. Murphy, Brian MacKenzie Unbreakable Runner ENIn Unbreakable Runner, CrossFit Endurance founder Brian MacKenzie and journalist T.J. Murphy examine long-held beliefs about how to train, tearing down those traditions to reveal new principles for a lifetime of healthy, powerful running. Unbreakable Runner challenges conventional training tenets such as high mileage and high-carb diets to show how reduced mileage and high-intensity training can make runners…
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Richard Askwith UnbreakableCzechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomas Masaryk. Across the border, the Third Reich is menacing - and plotting to invade... In the Cz
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