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Kevin Duncan Business Greatest Hits ENPart of the Greatest Hits series, this is an essential business resource that utilizes an effective and time-efficient approach to mastering the best ideas of modern business and staying up-to-date on topics most widely discussed by upper management. The first ten chapters of the book give in-depth examination of critical topics in business. That is followed by quick summaries of the most talked-about and thought…
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Rawdon Wyatt Check Your English Vocabulary for TOEFL ENThis workbook provides a resource for students studying towards the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam, which is a requirement for entry for non-native speakers of English at over 8,000 universities in 130 countries worldwide. Fully updated for this fourth edition, it includes a range of fun activities to help students build and improve their English vocabulary at TOEFL level, and is suitable for…
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William Shakespeare HamletA & C Black Publishers Ltd: Stanley Wells, The Observer Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play
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Hubert Van Den Bergh How to Sound Clever ENHow to Sound Clever explains the etymology of 600 key words you really ought to know, but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as useful example phrases so that readers can quickly see the correct context for each word. Anecdotes and witty illustrations appear throughout to make a book that is entertaining and will help the reader to boost their…
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Philip Gooden, Peter Lewis Idiomantics ENIdiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. The very etymology of the word 'idiom' reveals what's so endlessly fascinating about the wide range of colourful phrases we use in everyday speech: their peculiarity. They're peculiar both in the sense of being particular or unique to the culture from which they originate, and in the sense of being downright odd. To cite three random examples -…
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Kevin Duncan Marketing Greatest Hits ENPart of the Greatest Hits series, this is an essential resource which utilizes a effective dual approach to mastering the best ideas of modern marketing: the first ten chapters give in-depth examination of critical topics, followed by quick summaries of the most talked about and thought-provoking work from the best business books published, including The Long Tail, Meatball Sundae, Buzz, Affluenza and Blink.The book…
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Kevin Duncan Marketing Greatest Hits 2 ENHard on the heels of the popular Marketing Greatest Hits comes volume II, a must-have compendium of everything you need to know from the best minds in modern marketing - abridged, condensed, and ready for immediate action. As well as saving hundreds of hours of reading time, the reader is able to grasp ideas with pithy accuracy, explain them authoritatively to colleagues and, crucially, avoid being hoodwinked by…
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Desmond Nethersole-Thompson Pine Crossbills ENFrom mid-January to mid-April 1935 I was off on my dilapidated bicycle, but how different Speyside was from Breckland. In late February many crossbills were still in flocks; I had to walk and cycle for many miles before finding my first nest in the last week of March, when I located a small breeding group in a plantation of old pines close to a keeper's cottage. Thenceforward, until 1942, I followed the crossbills…
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Judy DiFiore The Complete Guide to Postnatal Fitness ENThe third edition of this Complete Guide. A guide for new mums, fitness leaders and physios on how to regain fitness following the birth of a baby, including lots of exercises, advice, and all relevant anatomy and physiology. Clearly explained, fully updated and packed with exercises.Includes new guidance and up to date references, and all illustrations replaced with new photographs.
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Tim Birkhead The Magpies ENThe last decade or so has seen a number of field studies, in Europe and the States, into the intricacies of the magpie way of life. The author has studied both species of magpie in Europe and the United States, and provides, in this text, an account of their ecology and behaviour. He covers all aspects of their lives - from marital relationships, food hoarding behaviour, longevity and survival, to nesting behaviour,…
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Arne Lundberg, Rauno V. Alatalo The Pied Flycatcher ENThe Pied Flycatcher is one of Europe's best-studied species. The first detailed work on it was begun in the 1930s by German ornithologists, but it was Lars von Haartman's Finnish study that both established long-term research on the species and founded many of the central themes of modern ornithology. Soon after, in the late 1940s, Bruce Campbell set up an intensive project in southwest England, which also still…
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Total RugbyA & C Black Publishers Ltd: Total rugby is the antithesis of play-safe rugby - an open, ebullient game in which every player is encouraged to show what he can do as an attacker, defender and supporting player. Total Rugby has become one of the game's most seminal coaching manuals - it highlights Jim Greenwood's radical examination of every facet of the game and his ability to clearly convey the wealth of knowledge…
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Richard Moore Tour de France 100 ENFirst staged in 1903, the Tour de France lasts three weeks every July and takes its c.200 competitors through over 3600km of varied terrain, including testing mountain stages. The race is broken into one-day 'stages', with the overall leader wearing the fabled yellow jersey. Tour de France 100 celebrates 110 years of the Tour and publishes in the run up to the 100th race. It captures key visual moments in its…
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Johnny Ball Wonders Beyond Numbers ENJohnny Ball is by some margin Britain's most famous mathematician. Wonders Beyond Numbers is his magnum opus, and his first book for more than ten years. It is nothing less than the history of mathematics; he describes it as 'a summation of my career as an enthusiast for mathematics'. It will help spark (or re-spark) the reader's love of maths in its many facets. The scope of the book is breathtaking. Running in…