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Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hun... read more

In the seventh stunning thriller of the series, Pete Decker realises that there is no safe haven from evil ...

At eighteen Liz was separated from her first true love. Across the miles she dreamt of the day he would return to marry her, but fate had other plans and love was lost. Thirty-seven years later, she picks up the telephone to hear a voice from the past that still has the power to stop her in her tracks. This is an extraordinary, true story of love lost, and love found. Crossing continents and decades, it is testament to the power of passion and the triumph of the heart.

Whether presenting a product or principle, service or idea, we all engage in sales. Zig Ziglar presents winning techniques for getting a positive response and establishing dynamic relationships. Readers discover how to: o project warmth, enthusiasm, and integrity o effectively use 100 creative closes o increase productivity and professionalism o overcome the five basic reasons people will not buy o deal respectfully with challenging prospects

She's just the first. How many more will die? It's summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying! It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks -- the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan McRae it's a bad start to another bad day. Rosie won't be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outs... read more

By February 1942 the Japanese had invaded the Dutch East Indies as part of their push south. All that stood in the way of their moving significant resources to take part in the main fighting in Papua New Guinea was a force of 700 Australian commandos and a few hundred Dutch soldiers. After months of skirmishes and attacks on Japanese forces, the Australians faced a major offensive and despite the best efforts of the individual soldiers, Australian forces were withdrawn at the end of 1942. But by then an entire Japanese division had... read more

Eve knows what she wants. After nine good years and two kids together, it's about time Liam made an honest woman of her. Eve's sister Sam knows more than she should. Sam's always thought Eve was too good for Liam. Then she learns the truth about his business trips to Australia, and her suspicions are confirmed. And Brooke, safe on the other side of the world; knows nothing. Until a mysterious delivery arrives for her and promises to change her life forever. It seems someone doesn't want Brooke to be the last to know ...

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Reissue of this board book about everyone's favourite family cat, Mog. With new cover design. Mog and the little boy like the garden. They like the grass and the sun. There are things to eat in the garden and things to climb and even things to smell. They play all day until it starts to get dark. Mog can see in the dark and so she can keep playing but the little boy has to go back into the warm house. Small children will delight in spotting familiar objects and activities in this simple story.

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This uniquely visual "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Umbria" is your indispensable guide to this delightful region. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of Umbria's must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all its cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions this diverse region has to offer. "DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide Umbria" divides Umbria into Northern and Southern provinces, and features such fa... read more

This behind-the-scenes look at life in a brothel is a wonderfully funny tale, told with a lively sense of the absurd and a rare and forgiving understanding of human frailty. "I have several young busty blondes, Derek,' Ruth sang like the weathergirl. 'One is a very sexy Danish girl, just back from a skiing trip, five-foot-five, long wavy blonde hair, blue eyes, twenty-five years old. A fantastic figure: thirty-six, twenty-five, thirty-five. Or I have a more demure, very pretty, young strawberry blonde Australian, Derek. She's n... read more

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A comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand the rules of layout and see them applied to real-world projects. First published 2002.

Pairing charming, sometimes edgy, and often downright silly color photographs of dogs with the Yiddish terms they signify, this hilarious yet helpful book teaches even as it tickles.

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Offering a panoramic view of history and a description of firsthand diplomatic encounters, the former Secretary of State describes his ideas about diplomacy and power balances, showing how national negotiating styles influence outcomes.

After her castle and clothes are destroyed by the dragon, Princess Elizabeth, dressed only in a paper bag, sets out to rescue Prince Ronald, who was taken captive by the dragon. 25th Anniversary edition.

Sherry Argov's fresh and witty Why Men Love Bitches gives no-nonsense advice guaranteed to help the woman who feels she is "too nice" become unpredictable, exciting, and ever so cool! The bitch not only gets her man, she knows how to hold her own in the relationship, keeping him guessing, dazzle him at every turn - and gain his respect with far less effort.

Scott, Shackleton and Mawson were the three great explorers of the Edwardian age. Now Beau Riffenburgh tells the forgotten story of Douglas Mawson and his death-defying expedition of 1911-14. A key member of Ernest Shackleton's famous Nimrod Expedition, Mawson led his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition. However, following the tragic deaths of the other members of his sledging party, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base alone, only to find that the relief ship had sailed away, leaving him to face another yea... read more