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Captivating radio dramatisations of seven of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this first digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes seven of his most popular novels. This collection includes the episodic...

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of...

The Four Winds meets Bonnie and Clyde in this exhilarating historical thriller in which an unforgettable mother races to find the gangster she once loved—before the law gets to him first. "The best gangster novel I’ve ever read." —Stephen King “This story accomplishes the near-impossible...

Harlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time.

This box set includes FIVE full length novels and one novella, all part of the Single in Seattle universe! The Secret - Olivia & Vaughn The Scandal - Stella & Grayson The Score - Sophie & Ike The Setup - Sydney & Keaton The Stand-In - London & Drew Also featuring the novella, The Surprise -...

A powerful technology for producing change.When we first encountered NLP more than a dozen years ago, we realized it represented a paradigm shift - a completely new way of thinking that makes heightened achievement levels and personal transformation possible.Here's the great reality about NLP: If one person can do something, anyone else can learn how to do it! Now, human excellence can be systematically studied, then reproduced.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALT Dubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards...

Anthony Trollope was one of Victorian England’s most popular and prolific authors. He worked for the Post Office while establishing himself as a writer, and is credited with introducing the pillar box to Britain. Best known for his ‘Barsetshire’ and ‘Palliser’ novels, he wrote over 50 works in total, including short stories, travel books, biographies and a posthumously published autobiography. Collected here are a selection of superb adaptations of his much-loved novels, as well as a fascinating documentary and an original radio play by Patricia Cumper.

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization's products or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

Adventurers are once again gathering in Fang to participate in Baron Sukumvit’s ‘Trial of Champions’ and undertake ‘The Walk’ through Deathtrap Dungeon…but this year the prize has changed…and the stakes have never been higher! “...exactly what you’d want a drama based on the...

Man bekommt, was man verdient Leo und Sophie bekommen ein altes Aufnahmegerät in die Hände, aber wie benutzt man so etwas eigentlich? Doch eins wissen sie mit Sicherheit: Sie müssen Bilko und Nüessli überführen und dem gefährlichen Treiben im „Adventure Club of Europe" ein Ende bereiten. Und sie haben da auch schon eine Idee.

Hölzerne, lebensechte Abbildungen von Besuchern machen in der Puppenpagode von Mr. Xang von sich reden. Massive Touristenschwärme besuchen das exotische Haus. Doch diese Puppen sind schwarzmagisch, was blutige Morde zufolge hat. Faith versucht, dem auf den Grund zu gehen, und macht sich auf die Reise, nichts ahnend, welches Grauen sie in San Francisco erwarten wird. Als sie merkt, dass sie ihren Gegner unterschätzt hat, ist es beinahe schon zu spät.

I’ve been in love with him for years, despite knowing he could never be mine. Now his charming new boyfriend is determined to include me in all their plans.

This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. The childlike simplicity and trust of these artless verses are unique. Blake’s poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its...

Provocative and controversial, socially conscious and politically charged, wildly imaginative yet deeply grounded, the thirty-two never-before-published stories, essays, and poems in The Last Dangerous Visions stand as a testament to Ellison’s lifelong pursuit of art, uniting a diverse range of science fiction writers both famous and newly minted, including Max Brooks, Edward Bryant, Cecil Castellucci, James S. A. Corey, Howard Fast, Patricia Hodgell, Dan Simmons, Robert Sheckley, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Cory Doctorow, among others.

Im Wald von Gutt's Hill treibt seit Wochen der Wilderer Liam Stanley sein Unwesen, sehr zum Missfallen des Jägers Carl Grimes. Immer wieder geraten die beiden in Streit darüber. Doch so sehr der Jäger es auch versucht, es gelingt ihm nicht, Liam Stanley auf frischer Tat zu ertappen. Eines Tages wird der Wilderer tot im Wald aufgefunden. Natürlich fällt der Verdacht sofort auf Carl Grimes. Doch ist er auch tatsächlich der Täter? Mimi Rutherfurt geht der Sache nach und stellt schnell fest, dass sich Liam Stanley nicht nur den Jäger zum Feind gemacht hat.

This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. As the author explains in the introduction: “We have been nearly...

Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can’t help being a little disappointed that Louis isn’t returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he’s setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock—a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy’s first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated dispute between two riled-up ranchers over water rights. If Louis can’t settle them down, the whole thing could blow up into a bloody range war.

In Londons berühmtem Hyde Park geht ein Bogenschütze um, der die Erholungsoase mit seinen Morden in ein Zentrum des Schreckens verwandelt. Blitzschnell und erbarmungslos schlägt er zu. Zwischen den Opfern scheint es keinerlei Verbindungen zu geben. Scotland Yard hat es also offensichtlich mit einem geistig Verwirrten zu tun. Doch wie stellt man einen derartigen Psychopathen? Inspector Kenneth Stafford kommt hinter das unglaubliche Geheimnis.

Sins of the past infringe on the events of the present. A young woman unwittingly becomes the center of an immortal struggle, one born of obsession, love, and vengeance. With innocent lives on the line, reality itself may well fracture. And it all comes down to the decisions of a girl hundreds of years in her grave…and her modern incarnation caught up in the Tragedy of Lorna.