Ever wondered what would happen if you stopped teaching in your lessons? You might be surprised. If you want your students to learn more and you to work less, then this book provides you with all the arguments and evidence you need to become a lazy, but outstanding teacher. Gathered over 10 years in[...]
Smith & Wesson outfitted some of the biggest and boldest gunfighters, both actual and fictional, including Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill and Dirty Harry, whose exploits are still legendary. Today a renewed Smith & Wesson corporation is back in the front of the pack. Standard Catalog of Smith & Wes[...]
A beautiful slipcase collection of three novelizations of Jim Henson's beloved works, finally back in print! This box set includes The Dark Crystal: The Novelization and Labyrinth: The Novelization, adapted by A.C.H. Smith and featuring never before seen illustrations by Brian Froud. It also include[...]
The Art of Snowboarding shows you everything you need to know about mastering jumps and lumber on the mountain or riding the rails and pipes of terrain parks. Writing for boarders of all ages, professional coach Jim Smith breaks it down with his "progressive snowboarding" teaching method, taking you[...]
The step-by-step companion to Ganster Films. Filmmaking has given us almost every conceivable portrait of organised crime: from dununciations of social problems to dynastic tragedy and from glorifications of a lifestyle choice to tales of loveable rogues. Gangster Films looks at more that two dozen [...]
This is the third book in this funny madcap must-read series for 7+ boys and girls. If you liked The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, you'll love this! The second book in the series, I am still not a Loser, won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013! 'My mum's embarrassing enough just being my mum, but now she's won [...]
There's a girl in Barry's class who's Getting more laughs than him! But luckily Barry immediately thinks up one of his brilliant and amazekeel plans to make sure he'll have the final chuckle. All he needs is thirty boxes of Beard Flakes...[...]
Barry can't wait to tell his friends that they've been invited on his family caravan holiday to Plonkton. But the weekend by the sea doesn't turn out to be the keelfest Barry was hoping for. It's all his best mate Bunky's fault for going and falling in love.[...]
There's a new Loser in town, and Barry's not happy about it. The only thing that's keeping him going is a superkeel new drink from Feeko's Supermarket. But then disaster strikes, and Barry has to turn detective to solve the mystery of the century: the case of the crumpled carton.[...]
This is from the bestselling and Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning author of Barry Loser comes a hilarious and brand-new series for young readers! Move over Spidey, get back in your cave Batman, and keep your glasses on Clark Kent, there's a new super hero in town. Future Ratboy. When a bolt of lightni[...]
Jag är inte en loser är den första boken i serien om Barry Loser. Här får du följa Barry när han försöker göra sig av med sin loser-stämpel, hämnas på den fruktansvärda Darren Darenofski och slutligen bli en vinnare.
Jim Smiths superroliga illustrerade böcker med genial hum[...]
Jag är faktiskt inte en loser är den andra boken i en serie anteckningsböcker som tillhör Barry Loser. Här får du följa Barry när han försöker göra sig av med sin loser-stämpel, hämnas på den fruktansvärda Darren Darenofski och slutligen bli en vinnare.
Jim Smiths superroli[...]
In this text, Smith and Nair take a new approach by examining virtual machines as a unified discipline and pulling together cross-cutting technologies. Topics include instruction set emulation, dynamic program translation and optimization, high level virtual machines (including Java and CLI), and sy[...]
A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of "The Basketball Diaries"Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, "The Petting Zoo" is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritu[...]
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano by the king of college basketball writers, #1 "New York Times" bestseller John Feinstein
On Ma[...]
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein
On Marc[...]
A guide for advanced undergraduate students to conducting Bayesian decision analyses of sometimes very complex problems.[...]