Résultats de "Rex" dans Toutes les catégories

Meet Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna), the curious Persian boy who couldnt stop asking questions especially Why do people get sick? and How can we make them better? By the time he was just seventeen, he helped cure a ruler and earned the keys to a royal library!This fun, fact-filled childrens...

Meet James Clerk Maxwell, the curious Scottish boy who couldnt stop asking Whats the go of that? about everything he saw. While other children played, James was busy puzzling over colors, magnets, and the invisible forces hiding all around us!This fun, fact-filled childrens book brings one of...

When Conrad died, they uploaded him to New Albion, a digital afterlife system. It’s an adults only VRMMO game, created to indulge users' fantasies within a fully immersive, classic fantasy setting. Now he stalks the forests of Tinshire as Vandal Lionheart, adventuring barbarian. His rusty gladius may be small and his loincloth revealing, but his six-pack is pronounced, his biceps bulging, and his most treasured weapon is as mighty as his chest measurement. Vandal is level one and on his first quest, when he picks up a side quest to rescue a prisoner.

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadfully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe...

Rex Forehand, PhD, and Nicholas Long, PhD, have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child's self-esteem. Their clinically proven, five-week program gives you the tools you need to successfully manage your child's behavior, giving specific factors that cause or contribute to disruptive behavior, ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home, and strategies for managing specific behavior problems.

This audiobook is a quick listen and covers the fundamentals for anyone getting started in sales or for anyone looking to brush up on their skills. The audiobook offers bonus material including interviews with Ryan Reisert and other special guests who have used this book in to help accelerate sales over the past few years. This audiobook is a step-by-step guide for the modern sales professional. We want to give you the framework, knowledge, and skills to fill a sales pipeline with highly qualified opportunities.

Die fünfzehn besten Küchenmeister der Welt haben Nero Wolfe zu ihrer Tagung eingeladen. Als einer von ihnen sinnigerweise mit einem Tranchiermesser ermordet wird, erklärt der gewichtige Privatermittler sich bereit, den Mörder zu finden. Allerdings nur unter einer Bedingung: Er fordert als Honorar ein geheimes Würstchenrezept. Jeder weiß, dass zu viele Köche den Brei verderben, aber es muss ja nicht gleich zu Mord und Totschlag führen. Doch genau das steht auf dem Speiseplan bei einem Treffen der weltbesten Köche.

An automobile breakdown strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture—and a family feud over a prize bull. A restaurateur’s plan to buy the stud and barbecue it as a publicity stunt may be in poor taste, but it isn’t a crime . . . until Hickory Caesar Grindon, the...

It's bad enough to steal someone's idea; but it takes real guts to claim it as your own, then sue the originator. But that's just what a gang of hack writers are doing, ingeniously planting evidence to back up their claims. The frustrated authors call on Nero Wolfe for help.

There's nothing like murder to spoil a good meal. That's what Archie Goodwin, the able assistant to Nero Wolfe, discovers at a lavish dinner party hosted by a billionaire. It was a casual evening among gorgeous society girls . . . until champagne became a murder weapon. Luckily for Archie, his...

Jack Baron has a major crush on his best friend’s big sister. The 20-year-old college student spends his free time playing video games, hanging out with his lifelong friend Ryan, and pining away for Ryan’s voluptuous blonde sister, Quinn Harper. The problem is, Quinn won't give him the time of day.

Uma confraria de gourmets que não renuncia ao prazer da comida, ainda que isso possa significar sua própria morte. Um verdadeiro ensaio sobre a natureza humana, o clássico livro de Luis Fernando Verissimo é também uma insólita e bem-humorada celebração a um dos mais notórios pecados...

With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job—right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell. What's more, it's Jarrell's own missing revolver that the killer uses. Wolfe...

Jerin is a mental freak—a man capable of successfully playing a dozen simultaneous chess games against first-rate players while he himself is out of sight of any of the boards. It is while thus engaged that he is killed. A millionaire—his opponent in more realms than chess—is accused, and...

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin star in these four gems. In "The Christmas Party", Wolfe condescends to uncharacteristic theatrics, which aren't enough to clear him from suspicion of murder. The "Easter Parade" tempts Wolfe to commit larceny for an orchid. "A Fourth of July Picnic" has Wolfe scheduled for to appear as an orator. But his day in the sun is rained out by murder. The last selection, "Murder Is No Joke", is a whodunit in a couturier's salon, where a murderer is dressed to kill and kill again.

It was a broadcaster's worst nightmare: dead air, in the true sense. A radio host's on-air guest is anything but live, dropping dead after chugging a sponsor's beverage.

Unless Jack and Molly complete the trial, no one will escape the temple. The lives of those Jack loves most depend on his ability to navigate the whitewater of emotions swirling through his very active libido.

A young man’s college adventure leads down a road paved with co-ed gold… After a tumultuous fraternity party, Matt scored with beautiful Bella, the oldest Monroe sibling. Now he must deal with the fallout. Nora, the gorgeous matriarch of the Monroe clan, buys a house on campus and wants Matt to move in and become the man of the house.

Romance semiautobiográfico de Cormac McCarthy, Suttree acompanha quatro anos na vida de um homem que abandonou o conforto da classe média para viver à margem da sociedade. É um clássico cultuado da literatura norte-americana do século XX, que ganha agora sua primeira tradução brasileira...

The Great Scientists Series introduces young readers to real-life heroes of discovery and imagination.In this first story, Ada Lovelace dreams in numbers and sees the poetry in logic. Growing up in a world that doubted her, she dares to imagine a thinking machine becoming the worlds first...