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Beauty of Maasai Mara
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Trim, travel-sized edition: clear text supported by superb photographs that effortlessly depict the magnificence of the Mara. A fascinating history of the Mara region and the founding of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
An intriguing insight into the Maasai people —their history, culture and mindset. Everything you need to know about the wildlife of the Mara — distribution, feeding habits, physical appearance, other peculiarities and distinguishing features.
ISBN:9781874041085
Author:David Round
Trading Commodities and Financial Fut...
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Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step by Step Guide to Mastering the Markets
More fortunes are made and lost more quickly in the commodity futures markets than anywhere else. It is a game of consequence where profits won by one player are lost by another. The stakes are high, but for those who know how to play well, the rewards can be immense. Trading Commodities and Financial Futures shows you how to play the game to win.
In this book, one of the world's most experienced traders introduces a new step-by-step methodology built on more than twenty-five years of success. George Kleinman begins with the basics—including a complete primer on how futures and options trading works, how traders' psychology impacts the markets, and how to avoid the pitfalls that trip up so many traders.
This edition offers updated coverage of electronic trading, the latest contracts, and state-of-the-art trading techniques you won't find in any competing book. Previous editions of Kleinman's Commodity Futures and Options became international best sellers. This one offers even more insight for winning the commodities game—and winning big.
• Winning in a zero-sum game
for every commodities winner, there's a loser: here's how to be the winner
• The trend is your friend
How to use techniques designed to generate profits in a trending market
• The fundamentals: supply and demand in every key market
mastering the markets, from crude oil to soybeans, gold to coffee, foreign exchange to stock index futures
• TMVTT: The most valuable technical tool
A unique trading methodology—how it works and how to use it
• When to get in, when to get out
How to recognize the beginning—and end—of major market moves
• Twenty-five trading secrets of the pros
A lifetime's experience, distilled into twenty-five crucial tips
ISBN:9780131476547
Author:George Kleinman
Writing and Presenting Research
Brief Summary
This accessible and wide-ranging book is an invaluable introductory guide through the choices to be made when deciding how to report research.
Writing and Presenting Research covers research written as theses and dissertations; chapters, books, reports and articles in academic, professional or general media such as newspapers; and also reviews the options for presenting research orally as lectures, keynotes, conference papers and even Tv game shows.
ISBN:9781412902939
Author:Angela Thody
Bridge Secrets Collins Little Books
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When you open this little book, the state secrets of the game of bridge lie in your hands. They cover everything you need to know to go from being a bridge beginner to an international mastermind!
The book is split into short, concise and easy-to-follow tips that will help to improve all aspects of your game and strategy. They reveal how to play a good defensive hand, how to devise a bidding system, what you can likely read from an opponent’s play, and lots more.
The beautifully decorated pages and luxury pocket style make this book something a little bit special. With it by your side you’ll always come up trumps!
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ISBN:9780007480203
Author:Julian Pottage
Chicken Soup for the Golfer’s Soul
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Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul: Stories of Insight, Inspiration and Laughter on the Links
The perfect gift for any golfing enthusiast, this inspiring collection of stories from professionals, caddies and amateur golfers shares the memorable moments of the game--when, despite the odds, an impossible shot lands in the perfect position; when a game of golf becomes a lesson in life.
Topics include sportsmanship, family, overcoming obstacles, perfecting the game and the 19th hole.
ISBN:9781558746619
Author:Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Farmyard tales games Dominoes- 2-6 Years
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This box contains four double-sided boards and two sets of matching cards which can be used to play games of varied difficulty according to the age and ability of the child.
It should be suitable for children who can't read yet and those who are becoming confident with reading their first words.
ISBN:9780746052679
Author:Usborne
The Pursuit of Wow
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The Pursuit of Wow! Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times
Organized into more than 200 thought- and action-provoking elements—from the importance of clean trucks and bathrooms to conversations with entrepreneurs creating new markets—Tom Peters, bestselling management guru offers a practical guide to impractical times.
In The Pursuit of Wow! Tom Peters offers readers the words, the tools, to survive in tumultuous business environments. In his groundbreaking book, In Search of Excellence changed the way business does business. Now it’s time to take the next leap into the cyber stage era. Getting to a place called excellence is no longer the idea. You’ve got to take that leap, then leap again—catapult their imaginations, blow their mindsets—in a word, wow! Them.
Once more the unconventional Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A must-read for every business person.
ISBN:9780679755555
Author:Tom Peters
The Secret Purposes
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THE SECRET PURPOSES, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British history: the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle of Man during the Second World War.
Isaac Fabian, on the run with his young family from Nazism in East Prussia, comes to Britain assuming he has found asylum, but instead finds himself drowning in the morass of ignorance, half-truth, prejudice, and suspicion that makes up government attitudes to German Jews in 1940. One woman, June Murray, a translator from the Ministry of Information, stands out - and when she comes to the island on a personal mission to uncover solid evidence of Nazi atrocities, her meeting with Isaac will have far-reaching consequences for both of them.
A haunting and beautifully written tale of love, displacement and survival, THE SECRET PURPOSES profoundly questions the way that truth - both personal and political - emerges from the tangle of history.
ISBN:9780349117461
Author:David Baddiel
The Second Curve
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The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society
Britain's leading guru looks to the future.
Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends – such as Beyond Certainty – has changed the way we view society.
In The Second Curve, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life – as students, parents, workers and voters – and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be.
Provocative and thoughtful as ever, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves – and points us in the direction of some of the answers.
ISBN:9781847941329
Author:Charles B. Handy
The Second Bounce Of The Ball
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The Second Bounce of The Ball: Turning Risk Into Opportunity
A unique insider's guide to turning risk into opportunity
In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is to take advantage of that uncertainty: for it is only in situations of uncertainty that significant gains can be made. Putting it another way, successful entrepreneurs know how to turn risk into opportunity.
The book is essential reading for entrepreneurs, wannabe entrepreneurs and all those who want to apply entrepreneurial approaches in all walks of life. It provides relevant background on the development of entrepreneurship and of the venture-capital and private-equity industry through the prism of Cohen's experience at Apax.
It provides guidance about how to take advantage of business opportunity: the right people and the right money and the roles played by personality and luck and underlines the importance of ethics.
ISBN:9780753824368
Author:Ronald Cohen
Safe House: Explorations in
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Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction.
A Ghanaian explores the increasing influence of China across the region, a Kenyan student activist writes of exile in Kampala, a Liberian scientist shares her diary of the Ebola crisis; a Nigerian journalist travels to the north to meet a community at risk, a Kenyan travels to Senegal to interview a gay rights activist and a South African writer recounts a tale of family discord and murder in a remote seaside town.
With an introductory essay by Ellah Allfrey, this anthology gathers new stories of contemporary Africa.
ISBN:9781911115168
Author:Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
S Is for Samora
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S Is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream.
Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent Mozambique's first President. He died eleven years later in a mysterious plane crash.
Drawing on stories, speeches, documents, and the memories of those who knew him, this biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called "a true African revolutionary." Machel was a trained nurse who became a consummate military strategist, a farmer's son with the diplomatic skills first to tread the tightrope between China and the Soviet Union and then to charm Margaret Thatcher, a man of the people who found himself utterly alone, a dedicated seeker of peace who never saw anything but war.
The book examines the discourse of equality, liberty and comradeship that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s in the liberation struggles of the countries of southern Africa, in the face of the dominant rhetoric of the cold war. It meditates on the different languages through which the Mozambican dream was articulated: the linguistic currencies of anti-colonialism, of anti-racism, and of Marxism-Leninism, while exploring the gaps between then and now, between Mozambicans and the western idealists who wanted to be part of their new society, and between the polyglottal Mozambicans themselves.
ISBN:9781849041942
Author:Sarah Lefanu
The Roaring Nineties
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The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States.
The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also a compelling case that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community—that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the destruction visited on the economy at the end of the decade.
This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist argues that much of what we understood about the 1990s' prosperity is wrong, that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were fundamentally outdated. Yes, jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell, and poverty was reduced. But at the same time the foundation was laid for the economic problems we face today. Trapped in a near-ideological commitment to free markets, policymakers permitted accounting standards to slip, carried deregulation further than they should have, and pandered to corporate greed. These chickens have now come home to roost.
The paperback includes a new introduction that reviews the continued failure of the Bush administration's policies, which have taken a bad situation and made it worse.
ISBN:9780393326185
Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz
Rivals How the Power Struggle
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Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade.
The former editor in chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his best-selling book The Sun Also Sets to lay out an entirely fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan and what it will mean for America, the global economy, and the twenty-first-century world.
Though books such as The World Is Flat and China Shakes the World consider them only as individual actors, Emmott argues that these three political and economic giants are closely intertwined by their fierce competition for influence, markets, resources, and strategic advantage.
Rivals explains and explores the ways in which this sometimes bitter rivalry will play out over the next decade—in business, global politics, military competition, and the environment—and reveals the efforts of the United States to manipulate and benefit from this rivalry. Identifying the biggest risks born of these struggles, Rivals also outlines the ways these risks can and should be managed by all of us.
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ISBN:9780151015030
Author:Bill Emmott
Spontaneous Healing By Andrew Weil
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Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself.
In this revolutionary book, Dr Andrew Weil shows how the concept of spontaneous healing can change all our lifes for the better.
Drawing on his training as a doctor and his in-depth first-hand knowledge of alternative treatments, he describes in clear, accessible language the operation of the body's healing system and the various methods with which we can support its natural ability to maintain and heal itself - not only in our everyday lifes, but also in the face of devastating illness.
Dr Andrew Weil suggests practical ways in which all of us can get healthy and fit, providing specific and detailed information: on food, drink and diet; on environmental factors and how to avoid toxins; on exercise and stress reduction; and on vitamins, supplements, herbs and tonics. Numerous case histories provide evidence of the remarkable success of spontaneous healing in dealing with serious medical conditions.
SPONTANEOUS HEALING is an essential book for everyone who wishes to lead a healthy life.
ISBN:9780751540819
Author:Dr. Andrew Weil MD
Songs of the Humpback Whale
Brief Summary
Sometimes finding your own voice
is a matter of listening to the heart....
Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment....For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones.
But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca, for a cross-country odyssey charted by letters from her brother Joley, guiding them to his Massachusetts apple farm, where surprising self-discoveries await.
Now Oliver, an expert at tracking humpback whales across vast oceans, will search for his wife across a continent -- and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.
ISBN:9780743431019
Author:Jodi Picoult
Shah Of Shahs
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In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight.
From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanaticism, and revolution.
ISBN:9780679738015
Author:Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
The Shield of Achilles
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History.
For five centuries, the State has evolved according to epoch-making cycles of war and peace. But now our world has changed irrevocably.
What faces us in this era of fear and uncertainty? How do we protect ourselves against war machines that can penetrate the defenses of any state? Visionary and prophetic, The Shield of Achilles looks back at history, at the "Long War” of 1914-1990, and at the future: the death of the nation-state and the birth of a new kind of conflict without precedent.
ISBN:9780385721387
Author:Philip Bobbitt
Serious Sweet
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A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. A man of conscience.
Meg Williams is ‘a bankrupt accountant — two words you don’t want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV’. She’s 45 and shakily sober, living on Telegraph Hill, where she can see London unfurl below her. Somewhere out there is safety.
Somewhere out there is Jon, pinballing around the city with a mobile phone and a letter-writing habit he can’t break. He’s a man on the brink, leaking government secrets and affection as he runs for his life.
Set in 2014, this is a novel of our times. Poignant, deeply funny, and beautifully written, Serious Sweet is about two decent, damaged people trying to make moral choices in an immoral world: ready to sacrifice what’s left of themselves for honesty, and for a chance at tenderness. As Jon and Meg navigate the sweet and serious heart of London — passing through 24 hours that will change them both for ever — they tell a very unusual, unbearably moving love story.
ISBN:9780224098441
Author:A.L. Kennedy
The Selfless Gene
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The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin.
In THE SELFLESS GENE, Charles Foster assesses the claims of Neo-Darwinists and Young Earth Creationists, demonstrating that orthodox Christianity is not incompatible with what evolutionary biology says about our world.
The real issue, he argues, centers around the ethical implications of natural selection, and what such a system - based on selfishness, waste and death - might say about the loving creator God of the Christian faith. Intelligent, provocative and accessible, THE SELFLESS GENE offers the prospect of a reasoned dialogue between faith and scientific study, and a reconciliation of what are popularly seen as two opposing worldviews.
ISBN:9780340964415
Author:Charles Foster