With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jan
Ron Burgundy is known to all as the lead anchorman of San Diego's award-winning Action 4 News Team and anchor of the first 24-hour news channel, GNN (Global News Network), but few know the real man be
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 Manchester. Birthplace of industry, the Stone Roses, the Class of 92 and, in 1979, a small brown man called Noz. This is the story of how, and why, he came to be a strictly halal Stretford Ender. 'For every Manc a religion' Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 -- the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons. Also that year, a local football club lost the Cup Final to Arsenal courtesy of a man named Sunderland. That club would become an all-consuming obsession for young Nooruddean, who would one day become a small brown man and, vitally, also a Red. Inshallah United is the story of the first British-born son of a Pakistani family living in England's second city. And geography is important, because if it wasn't for his mum and dad settling in Manchester rather than anywhere else in
From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two--"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come." "Nimitz at War is the greatest biography yet written about the greatest admiral in American history." - Ian Toll Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the precarious early months of the war after December 7th, 1941 to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay nearly four years later, Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powe
They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds...whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. Get ready to laugh up your lunch with the baddest bunch of do-gooders in town! Watch the fur fly in the first five hilarious installments in this bestselling series, now in one bad-to-the-bone boxed set: The Bad Guys, The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable, The Bad Guys in the Furball Strikes Back, The Bad Guys in Attack of the Zittens, and The Bad Guys in Interstellar Gas.The four titles are:The Bad GuysMission UnpluckableThe Bad Guys in the Furball Strikes BackAttack of the Zittens
The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-fe
Harold Arlen and His Songs is the first comprehensive book about the music of one of the great song composers of the twentieth century. Arlen wrote many standards of the American Songbook-including "Get Happy," "Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "The Man That Got Away" - that today rank among the best known and loved. Author Walter Frisch places these and other songs in the context of a long career that took Arlen from Buffalo, New York; to Harlem's Cotton Club; to Broadway stages; and to the film studios of Hollywood. Even with their complex melodies, harmonies, and formal structures, Arlen's tunes remain accessible and memorable. As Frisch shows, he blended influences from his father's Jewish cantorial tradition, his experience as a jazz arranger and performer, and peers like Gershwin, Kern, and Berlin. Arlen always emphasized the collaborative nature of songwriting, and he worked with the top lyricists of his day, including Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg,
Stanley Lieber was just seventeen when he got his first job at Timely Comics in 1939. Since then, the man now known as Stan Lee has launched a comic book empire, made Marvel Comics a household name, a
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the American Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly chan
★ 加州大學最熱門課程「愛情社會學」＋十年研究＋百次專訪＝化敗為勝的愛情！★ 出版者週刊好評推薦！★ 美國亞馬遜４顆星好評推薦！無論是平凡的普通人也好、高度敏感纖細的人也好，我們大多會一頭栽進某個特定的愛情模式裡，藉以在潛意識中回溯過往，重演某個事件，然後期望一切的一切最後都會如我們所願；但因為我們一直沒能從中找到解決的竅門，所以說，同樣的愛情模式會一再重複是相當稀鬆平常的。由於竭盡所能地想重新和童年往事面對面，在我們心底，那個重塑理想過往的渴望就一直難以平息，尤其，我們暗地裡總想藉機「撥亂反正」、彌補過失、重建從前所失去的操控權。愛情，正巧提供了回到從前最有效的途徑；我們之所以會執迷於某種典型的愛情，正因為它讓我們想起一些未解的難題，所以我們才會一再淪陷其中。我們通常都以為「溝通不良」或者「缺乏自我」是愛情問題中的主要癥結，但本書作者瑪莎‧彌爾門表示，女性的愛情永遠都不脫以下七種主要的愛情模式，以及背後所分別揭示的早年生活經歷和背景，這可以協助你發覺及了解你是屬於那些不自覺的愛情模式，知悉它的起源和潛藏意義： • 初戀：遠走高飛與歸巢（First Love: Escape and Recapture） • 師生戀式的愛情（Pygmalion: The Mentor and the Protegee） • 全蝕狂愛（Obsessive Love） • 麻雀變鳳凰式的愛情（The Downstairs Woman and the Upstairs Man） • 犧牲奉獻式的愛情（Sacrifice: Guilt Overwhelms Desire） • 羅賓漢式的愛情：達到母親辦不到的目標（Rescue: Doing What Your Mother Could Not） • 不畏時間、不懼艱險式的愛情（The Courage to Love: Overcoming Postponement and Avoidance）本書是她根據她在加州大學聖塔˙克魯斯分校開設的「愛情社會學」及十多年的資料蒐集，擷取自像是《北非諜影》、《致命的吸引力》、《麻雀變鳳凰》等電影，以及諸如夏綠蒂‧勃朗特的《簡愛》、《傲慢與偏見》等小說的例證，證明這七種愛情模式只不過是反映人生早年的經驗，解釋其中潛藏的需求與情感，同時也指出潛意識的選擇如何左右愛情的成敗，藉由發現我們正在重演的故事有助於我
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system
Perfect for fans of Dog Man! This goofy graphic novel series follows the super spy alligator duo the InvestiGators as they travel through the sewers and fight the forces of evil.Meet the InvestiGators
InvestiGators #1-7 套書 (精裝本)Perfect for fans of Dog Man! This goofy graphic novel series follows the super spy alligator duo the InvestiGators as they travel through the sewers and fight the forces of evil.Meet the InvestiGators. With their gadgets, know-how, and super-fast transportation system (they flush themselves down toilets to speed through the sewers!), Mango and Brash are the scourge of the super-villain landscape! As vest-wearing employees of the Special Undercover Investigation Teams, they solve all kinds of mysteries and frequently butt heads with their archnemesis: a former agent known as Crackerdile.Riddled with puns, potty humor, absurdism, and hilarious twists, InvestiGators is the perfect series for Dog Man fans looking for their next great read! It's kid-friendly comics at their best.
冒險圖像小說新篇章。鱷魚特務們又要再次出擊啦！但這次特務Brash卻陷入神秘的昏迷之中，總部便設計出替代品機器人特務來跟Mango 搭檔，他們是否能一起阻止在城市裡肆虐的巨大螞蟻呢？Will InvestiGators Mango and RoboBrash be able to solve this latest mystery in the hilarious adventure series perfect for fans of Dog Man?!This new mission has our sewer-loving secret agents bugging out in InvestiGators: Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S, the latest chapter in the hilarious adventure series from John Patrick Green.With agent Brash trapped in a mysterious coma, the technicians at S.U.I.T. have designed the ultimate replacement: RoboBrash! This high-tech replica has been programmed with all of the original Brash’s crime-fighting skills and knowhow—but it seems he’s got a few bugs in his system! Will Mango and his new partner be enough to stop the giant ants that are on a rampage in the city? Orchestrated by the spaced-out villain, Maestronaut, and Houdino, the dinosaur escape artist, it seems criminals are certainly upping the ANT-y!
Sewer-loving secret agents Mango and Brash are plunged into a new mystery—and a BIG mess—in this hilarious adventure perfect for fans of Dog Man!S.U.I.T. headquarters is under attack, and Mango and Br
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?How about everything.This spectacular can’t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption.You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy.Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The O
The 26-Storey Treehouse: Colour Edition is the second book in the bestselling Treehouse series by Andy Griffith's and Terry Denton! This laugh-out-loud story is packed with and told through fantastic comic book style illustrations – perfect for fans of Dog Man and Bunny vs. Monkey. 'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' – Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger Gang.Andy and Terry have expanded their treehouse! There are now thirteen brand-new storeys, including a dodgem-car rink, a skate ramp, a mud-fighting arena, an antigravity chamber, an ice-cream parlour with seventy-eight flavours run by an ice-cream-serving robot called Edward Scooperhands, and the Maze of Doom – a maze so complicated that nobody who has gone in has ever come out again . . .Well, not yet anyway. This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about: the story of how he and Terry first met. But life is NEVER boring in the treehouse, and emergency s
Seduction's Shift A.C. Arthur They hide their true nature from the world—part man and part animal—sworn to defend the human race against the untamed beasts among them… She was his first love
A special World Book Day adventure in the wildly funny new series from award-winning Nadia Shireen.Perfect for readers age 7 to 107, fans of Dog Man, Roald Dahl, Mr Gum, Loki and David Walliams, and anyone who loves to laugh.Welcome to Grimwood! Join the residents of the woods where anything can happen, as they tell stories around the campfire. You’ll hear weird and wonderful tales from Titus the stag, mayor of Grimwood, Nancy the fox with attitude, Willow the excitable rabbit, Frank the no-nonsense owl, and Ingrid the movie-star duck. Expect the unexpected, and be warned: you may laugh your head off . . .For another freakishly funny tale with the same cast of cracking animal characters, check out Grimwood, the first book in Nadia Shireen's bestselling, outrageously comical, fully illustrated series for humans (both young and old at heart).
Young children love to ask all sorts of embarrassing questions (usually at the wrong times). This lift-the-flap book boldly approaches the topic of poo, answering all those 'plopping' questions so man
