Angus Freathy
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IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it's the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it's the job of the writer to produce a manuscript that immediately stands out among the vast competition. And...
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As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building and heightened suspense and conflict. Writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable guide---a veritable fiction-writing workshop---without...
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These fun stories for children aged 5 - 7 years are about the adventures of different buses in the Little Bus Company, and are set in rural England during the last twenty years.
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Eric Turns Super Yellow
Michael Discovers a Postbus
Geoffrey Loses His Top
A Day at the Seaside
Rachel to the Rescue
Buses on Parade
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You need this book if you want to be an entrepreneur. This book will give you all the tools you need to become a successful entrepreneur. It's packed with practical information gained over thirty-five years in building businesses, which can be applied to any business.
50 Skills The Entrepreneurs' Handbook will teach you how to:
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This book is to teach young people how to use money wisely to become financially free.
The skills I share with you in this book are what has given me the lifestyle I want, free time and passive income to enable me to enjoy life, free from money worries. These skills are now doing the same for my sons.
My 23-year old Luke has planned to be financially free by the time he is 35. My 19-year-old Alex even earlier; and I have written here exactly how they...
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Born to a poor Lutheran pastor in what is today the Federal Republic of Germany, Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a child math prodigy who began studying for a degree in theology before formally committing to mathematics in 1846, at the age of 20. Though he would live for only another 20 years (he died of pleurisy during a trip to Italy), his seminal work in a number of key areas-several of which now bear his name-had a decisive impact on the shape...
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Born in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was largely raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents after his father died when he was two. He attended the renowned École Normale Supérieure, where he studied psychology, philosophy, ethics, sociology, and physics. In 1929, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who went on to become a celebrated feminist writer and philosopher, with whom he had a lifelong intellectual and romantic relationship. After serving...
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Companies emerge from smart people with clever ideas. However, vision alone is not enough, as only one out of three companies lasts ten years. It takes a systematic approach to make a company sustainably successful. In Your Company Is Your Castle, Sandeep Chennakeshu, a business transformation veteran, compares building a company to that of a medieval castle that has withstood the test of time, having weathered nature's elements and hordes of invaders....
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Born in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) showed musical talent from an early age and was first taught by his musician father, Johann, an alcoholic who often beat his son. At the age of 21, Beethoven moved to Vienna, where he studied with composer Joseph Haydn, and quickly became renowned as a pianist and conductor, as well as a composer. He continued to perform until 1811 when increasing deafness made it impossible, but until his death...
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About empty thrones, a lot can be said. Throughout history, both ancient and near modern, a lack of an heir and the sudden death of a beloved monarch always meant trouble. When the position of a king is up for grabs, a lot of eager hands come forward. Pretenders and would-be heirs, cousins and nephews, bastard sons and daughters - they all came forward staking their claim to the throne. In the history of Medieval England, such episodes were many....
11) Happísland
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Un avant-goût d'Islande avec un arrière-goût de requin fermenté. Une petite introduction sans prétention à la psyché islandaise, centrée sur Reykjavík. L'espion helvétique Hans-Ueli Stauffacher est envoyé un an en Islande pour comprendre pourquoi les Islandais sont plus heureux que les Suisses.
12) Simply Hegel
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Born in Stuttgart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) attended the Gymnasium Illustre and, at the age of 18, entered the Tübingen Seminary, from which he received his theological certificate in 1793. His early writings, composed while he was serving as a family tutor in Bern and Frankfurt, dealt with religious subjects. From 1801 until his untimely death thirty years later, Hegel held professorships at several prestigious universities and...
13) Fantasviss
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Un guide alternatif de la Suisse, avec un brin d'ironie et un soupçon de soude caustique. Un condensé d'Helvétie, un voyage initiatique dans la psyché helvétique.
L'espion islandais Sigmundur Sig parcourt les 26 chefs-lieux des 26 cantons en un mois pour comprendre pourquoi les Islandais sont moins heureux que les Suisses.
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An alternative guide to Switzerland, with a pint of irony and a drop of causticity. A condensed introduction to the 26 cantons of the Confederation. Superspy Sigmundur Sig Sigmundsson is sent for one month to Switzerland to understand why Swiss people are happier than Icelandic people.
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It is Swiss nomadic writer, serial traveller, web content producer, chocoholic, vexillologist, Strauss and Dvořák aficionado, aspie, and avid stargazer Cédric H. Roserens' 6th book.
A crucial journey to Macaronesia.
Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in his mid-forties, Cédric H. Roserens used writing as a therapy. The result: an aspie trilogy, an autistic triptych composed of the short dystopia The Last Autist, the miniguide Ich bin ein Asperger,...
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It is Swiss nomadic writer, serial traveller, web content producer, chocoholic, vexillologist, Strauss and Dvořák aficionado, aspie, and avid stargazer Cédric H. Roserens' 5th book.
A journey to the centre of an aspie brain.
Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in his mid-forties, Cédric H. Roserens used writing as a therapy. The result: an aspie trilogy, an autistic triptych composed of the short dystopia The Last Autist, the miniguide Planet...
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Nessie the Loch Ness monster needs a holiday!
She takes a secret tunnel to the ocean, where everything is very different from Loch Ness.
The water is salty, the waves are big and the fish are strange.
But the biggest surprise is yet to come... there are rumours that a unicorn has been spotted. Can Nessie find the mysterious visitor?
An illustrated picture book about friendship, tolerance and climate change.
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Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) divided his time between law studies and music until 1906, when, under the tutelage of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he dedicated himself exclusively to composition. Five years later, he achieved international fame with his ballet scores The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring, the last of which caused a riot at its Paris premiere in 1913. For the next 50 years, both...
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Nessie the Loch Ness monster isn't as scary as you might think! She's friendly and curious and likes to play with her friends. She's never celebrated Christmas though...because she doesn't know what that is!
With the help of her friend the otter, she finds out why humans have trees full of candles and give each other presents. That gives her an idea... If humans can do it, monsters can too, right? Are you ready to find out how Nessie celebrates...