SCAMS! Scams, scams and more scams, don't you just get sick of the wicked perpetrators of these crimes, constantly attempting to defraud innocent unsuspecting people of their hard earned savings. It constitutes a real threat to society and many people have suffered as a result. This book which is based on true events,highlights the intrinsic dangers of social networking on internet web sites. The internet can conceal a minefield of hazards, designed to entrap the unwary, especially those in purs...
Over 80 stunning, ingenious and absorbing infographics all about literature, featuring your favourite books and authors! Literature Made Beautiful presents unique, witty and surprising facts about literature, from Shakespeare and Austen to Nabokov and Orwell, to George R. R. Martin and E. L. James. Fascinating stats and all the facts on your favourite writers, poets and playwrights, it features infamous tales from behind the scenes of the literary world. This book provides a unique overview...
Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically i...
Vergessene Hinterlassenschaften Des Dritten Reichs in Deutschland Und Polen
by Richard Von Waltersheim
The young girl with the Bohemian style was on the floor where she'd fallen, between Parker's computer case and her file cabinet. She wore a long, flowing skirt-lavender, the color of calm-and camel-colored Uggs. She lay on her back, her long, wavy blonde hair matted with blood. For struggling singer/songwriter Parker James, the music business has just turned deadly. Her desk in the reception area of a busy recording studio has become a crime scene, and Parker finds herself drawn into a mystery w...
Re-issue to tie-in with publication of paperback. Sharpe's Havoc brings Sharpe to Portugal, and reunites him with Harper. It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal, is sent to look for Kate Savage, the daughter of an English wine shipper. But before he can discover the missing girl, the French onslaught on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto falls. Sharpe is stranded behind enemy lines, but he...
El Viajero de Los dos Mundos (Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve)
by Juan Tafur
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his death up to 2105. The Shape of Things to Come provides this 'history of the future', an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural chang...