The Story of Music - From Babylon to the Beatles: How M...
Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the his...
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child...
What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdis tomb? Did ...
How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth fro...
How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the...
The Widow Clicquot - The Story of a Champagne Empire an...
The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne...
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and...
The Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling busines...
Dear Pope Francis - The Pope Answers Letters from Child...
If you could ask Pope Francis one question, what would it be...
A Monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite: Chie...
A Monograph of the Mollusca from the Great Oolite: Chiefly f...
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band ...
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Unio...
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union - U...
The Raven Tells His Side of the Story - Hey God, Can Yo...
Bonus feature included: Parent connectionP. [4] of cov...
The Beatles Lyrics - The Unseen Story Behind Their Musi...
The first-ever collection of the original handwritten Beatle...
The Story Of Music - From Babylon To The Beatles: How Music Has S
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Story of Be - A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language
Its the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: to be. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals bes multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He tells the intriguing story in 26 chapters, each linked to a particular usage. We meet circumstantial be (how are...
Crossing the Line: Australia's Secret History in the Timor Sea
For fifty years; Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.With explosive new research and access to never-before-seen documents; Kim McGrath tells the story of Australiaâs secret agenda in the Timor Sea; exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. Australia did nothing to stop Indonesiaâs devastating occupation of East Timor; when â...
The Obelisk Gate - The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2017
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 2 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request only Essun can grant. Praise for this trilogy: Amazing Ann Leckie Breaks unchar...
The Other Side of the Story
The lives of three women collide when a highflying literary agent finds herself representing two women who were once best friends . . . There are three sides to every story. Your side, their side, and the truth . . . Sharkish literary agent Jojo has just made a very bad career move shes slept with her married boss Mark . . . Lily Jojos bestselling author has just blown her ad...
The Undoing Project - A Friendship that Changed the World
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think
What a story it is Sunday Times Youll love it
full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy Tim Harford In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in eve...
Outliers - The Story of Success
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and inspiring, than we ever imagined. Malcolm Gladwell
has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure Tim Adams, Observer The b...
The Story of The Streets
WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD i> i>This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously thats something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about, and Im going to be as honest as the publishers lawyers will allow. i> With the 2001 release of The Streets debut single Has It Come To This? the landscape...
The Story of Tantrum O'Furrily
One wild and windy night a stray cat called Tantrum OFurrily and her three hungry kittens were dancing across the roof tops . . . Written by Cressida Cowell, creator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series and with beautiful illustrations by Mark Nicholas, winner of the Carmelite Prize. Tantrum OFurrilys kittens are hungry and doubt that a story can ease a stray cats rum...
A Story of Seven Summers - Life in the Nuns' House
Looking back over seven summers, I know that who I am is where I am. It might not be the secret to life, but it is the secret to this life . Ill tell you how that came to be and that will be the story of the Nuns House. On the outside, Hilary Burden was living a glamorous life she was a busy, high-flying, globetrotting magazine journalist based in London, who thought nothing of flying ...
India Hicks: A Slice of England - The Story of Four Houses
A follow-up to India Hickss New York Times bestselling book, India Hicks: Island Style, India Hicks: A Slice of England is the designers exploration of her British heritage and how she has expressed it in her newly finished English country house in Oxfordshire. The book is divided into two parts. Part one, Legacy, is the story of her familys homes, including the renowned Broadlands estate, a...
The Story Cure - An A-Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise
From tantrums to tummy aches to teenage mood swings, there are times when a book is the best medicine of all. The Story Cure is a manual for grown-ups who believe that the stories which shape childrens lives should not be left to chance. In these pages bibliotherapists Ella and Susan recommend the perfect childrens book from picture books to YA novels via the golden world of chapter books ...
In a Different Key - The Story of Autism
A magnificent opus
extraordinary, spellbinding
this book does what no other on autism has done Ann Bauer, Washington Post Pulitzer finalist 2017 The stunning history of autism as it has been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. In a Different Key tells th...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Giess own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the...
TOTAL CHAOS - The Story of the Stooges
TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pops story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legends home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a trove of unseen photos, TOTAL CHAOS shows and tells, with the help of best-selling author Jon Savage, the story of the Stooges from those tell-a...
Set Me Free - The Story of How Shakespeare Saved A Life
SasO grew up in Naples. He never went to school, and instead grew up with street violence and bloodshed, becoming the leader of a gang of boys who became Camorristi by the age of fourteen. At the age of thirty, he was in prison, his life all but mapped out. Thats when Shakespeare steps in. At SasOs most hopeless point, he is persuaded to join the prisons drama troupe. In Shakespeares Temp...
The Beatles - All These Years - Extended Special Edition - Volume One: Tune In
This extended special edition of Mark Lewisohns magisterial book Tune In is a true collectors item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra photographs. It is the complete, uncut and definitive biography of the Beatles early years, from their family backgrounds through to the moment theyre on the cusp of their immense breakthrough at the end of 196...
The "Beatles" Uncovered - 1, 000, 000 Mop-top Murders by the Fans and the Famous
Excerpt: The Best of the CoversA Hard Days NightFamous interpretations: Its a soul revue staple, as has been presented with some swaggering grace in the past by Otis Redding, and later by Dionne Warwick. Celebrity alert: Talked through by Peter Sellers in his best Richard III voice, de-crooned by Max Bygraves, and in full jazz swing with Ella Fitzgerald. Infamous covers: Would you like it un...
Culture is Everything - The story and system of a start-up that became Australia's Best Place To Work
The Story And System Of A Start-Up That Became Australias Best Place To Work Tristan Whites story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didnt find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the thirteen years since, TPC has become a remarkable healthcare success story based upon fast grow...
Blood Sisters - The #1 bestselling thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife
THREE LITTLE GIRLS SET OFF TO SCHOOL ONE SUNNY MAY MORNING. WITHIN AN HOUR, ONE OF THEM IS DEAD. From the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten and Kindle bestseller MY HUSBANDS WIFE, comes an even more addictive, page-turning and powerful novel about two women bound by a deadly secret. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Erin Kelly and BA Paris. Kitty lives in a care home. She cant speak prop...
ANZAC Sons - The Story of Five Brothers in the War to End All Wars
Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write thisletter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterdaymorning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantlyand he never spoke a word. I had just left himand gone down the trench to see the other ladswhen I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful
OhI do hope he is the last
It is April 27, 1918, Jims brother writes from the battlefields ofFrance. Of five brothers ...