For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising.
For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more.
For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more.
* More than 200,000 copies sold worldwide each year*For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising.
A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle in tech-bubble San Francisco.
* A Financial Times Book of the Year * A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
College 101: A Girl's Guide to Freshman Year is a comprehensive and authentic guide for girls to everything college from girls who just went through it!
This collection of Mark Twain quotes presents the best of the curmudgeonly writer's thoughts on diet, exercise, medicine, smoking, drinking, romance, parenting, old age, fashion, finances, politics, and stress management.
The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature, especially when it involves our icons, celebrities and musicians.
College 101: A Girl's Guide to Freshman Year is a comprehensive and authentic guide for girls to everything college from girls who just went through it!
Purposeful Museum Programming Using Visitor Response Pedagogies offers museums of all sizes and genres practical, accessible, and inclusive programming ideas.
Great Wines and Great Writers are a Wonderful Blend“Guides to the wide world of wine are many but this is the first book on the market to pair books with wine by an author who is a preeminent expert on both.
After the American Revolution, land speculators in the United States desired the bottom portion of the current state of Ohio, with the full Northwest Territory being the ultimate prize.
It has been well over a century since the death of George Muller (1805-1898) and sadly, fewer and fewer of each ensuing generation have been acquainted with the remarkable story of the man who believed unreservedly in the power of prayer.
The 2016 edition of the Global eBook report, with more than 50 data driven original charts and tables, is the international industry reference on the evolution of ebook markets focuses on relevant key angles for an understanding of the current transformation of book publishing in a global perspective: Market close ups (print and digital) for the US, UK, Europe (notably France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands Spain, Sweden, and a detailed overview on Central and Eastern Europe),Plus analysis of selected emerging markets, notably Brazil, China, India and Russia;Summaries of key debates and driving forces (global players such as Amazon, statistical close ups on pricing, performance by genre, piracy, patterns of consumer habits, DRM, self publishing, et al.
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you.
The Global eBook Report 2017 is highlighting, and measuring the relevant international trends:- Tracking main market developments and the diversity of relevant drivers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia;- The segmentation of book markets in print and digital;- European ebook markets in great and previously unavailable detail, based on in depth data provided by leading distributors;- Ebooks in the context of the overall transformation in international publishing;- Global players, and their impact on re-shaping the international business of books.
Lorsque les dernières voies diplomatiques sont rompues, que la violence est exacerbée par la haine, que les combats font rage, il est difficile d’imaginer que cette mécanique guerrière puisse s’arrêter.
Esta obra presenta una serie de investigaciones acerca de las prácticas y métodos de documentación sobre ocho lenguas fuegopatagónicas: selk'nam, haush, alakaluf / kawesqar, yagan, aonekko 'a'ien, teushen, günün a yajüch y mapuzungun realizadas en la región en el último tercio del siglo xix y hasta mediados del xx en un contexto de expropiación territorial y genocidio de los pueblos preexistentes.
On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley.
The completely revised and updated guide to solar energy - everything you need to power your home or small business Written for the individual or business layman, this is the fully revised and updated guide for generating solar electricity.
The ultimate joke book with over 3,000 side-splitting jokes for every occasion, ranging from one-liners and observations, to classic stories that will provide hours of fun.
