An intimate look at one of rock's brightest stars and his legendary backing band
Before he was the swaggering, stadium-packing megastar, Bruce Springsteen was a brooding introvert, desperate to strike a balance between his nuanced songwriting and the heft of his backing band. Clinton Heylin's r[...]
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its initial publication, and with a new Introduction by the author, here is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired and bestselling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.[...]
This credit-card size street map with a z-fold pattern is a detailed easy-to-read map of the city centre that clearly features: NCP car parks and one-way streets; public toilets; pubs, hotels and petrol station; and public buildings. An index of all streets and places of interests is included.[...]
This is a new edition in the AA's groundbreaking series of "Street by Street" titles, covering Aberdeen, fully revised and updated for 2007. Presented in a handy glovebox size, the maps clearly show AA recommended restaurants, pubs, hotels, one-way streets and car parks, 24-hour petrol stations and [...]
This is a new edition pocket sheet map in the AA's ground breaking series of "Street-by-Street" atlases. Britain's clearest mapping comes in a handy, pocket-sized format. Conveniently sized to carry with you on your journey, the map includes NCP car parks and one-way streets, public toilets, pubs, h[...]
This is a new edition pocket sheet map in the AA's ground breaking series of "Street-by-Street" atlases. Britain's clearest mapping comes in a handy, pocket-sized format. Conveniently sized to carry with you on your journey, the map includes NCP car parks and one-way streets, public toilets, pubs, h[...]
Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street. Are these firms white knights that ride in to save failing businesses or are they predatory intermediaries that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The first c[...]
This long-awaited sequel to Handgun Stopping Power gives the very latest results of hundreds of actual shootings involving every major handgun caliber, including the hot new .40 S&W. Also covers exotic ammo street results, the controversial Strasbourg Tests on live goats, the Fuller Index for predic[...]
Welcome to America Street, where every story is as vital and unique as the friends, neighbors, and relatives we encounter every day. Here are fourteen stories about young people told by some of America's best storytellers: Duane Big Eagle, Toni Cade Bambara, Robert Cormier, Langston Hughes, Gish Jen[...]
Welcome to Baker Street Academy, where there's always a mystery to be solved! Luckily Sherlock Holmes is on the case, with his friends John Watson and Martha Hudson. Told through Watson's diary, with energetic comic-strip illustrations, this introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's classic characters wi[...]
The 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe and triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer funded bailouts, Canada's banking system withstood the crisis relatively well and maintained its liquidity and profitab[...]
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable insider indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Barofsky gave up his j[...]
There's nowhere better to spend the holidays than with New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery in the town of Fool's Gold, where love is always waiting to be unwrapped...Noelle Perkins just got a second chance at life, and she intends to make the most of every minute. That's why she ditched [...]
When he's recruited by Walker & Company, the most distinguished investment bank on Wall Street, starry-eyed MBA Richard Blum can't believe his luck. Sadly, his fantasy world comes to a crashing end when he learns that some crooks have a taste for Gucci loafers and Saville Row suits. CEO Jack Grass a[...]
Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century -- Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald -- but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon, Edinburgh is in disarray.[...]
Hypnotism is a SKILL not a gift. YOU can learn to be a confident stage or street hypnotist by reading this book. If you want to learn comedy hypnosis, i.e. methods to hypnotise family, friends and strangers for fun (and yes, it is a lot of fun ) then act now and snatch up this[...]