Founding member of Megadeth and former Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine tells a never-before-heard story of the lifetime he has spent in rock 'n' roll. But this extraordinary tale, riddled with his own personal ups and downs, is also the inside account of two of the most influential heavy metal ban[...]
Collins Key Stage 3 History is an exciting, accessible new series focussed on ensuring that all pupils make clear, measurable progression at Key Stage 3 - whether it is a 2 or a 3 year course.[...]
"This Is a Call," the first in-depth, definitive biography of Dave Grohl, tells the epic story of a singular career that includes Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures. Based on ten years of original, exclusive interviews with the man himself and conversations wit[...]
This student book provides material to teach and prepare students for OCR 21st Century 2011 Additional Science GCSE with complete coverage of the specification modules B4, B5, B6, C4, C5, C6, and P4, P5, P6 which make up the Additional Science GCSE and the middle parts of the three separate science [...]
It's a young boy's last day at primary school, and he excitedly lists off all the points he won't miss when he goes to "Big School". But is there anything he will miss? This thought-provoking story was written by Dave Cousins.[...]
A young boy's best friend Jamie has just moved away, and he feels no-one could replace him, not even the new boy Daniel. But then he finds his school football team is missing one person. Will he finally be forced to accept someone new into his life? This sweet story of friends new and old was writte[...]
The official, illustrated, insider story of how the 2012 Tour de France was won, from Team Sky. With stunning photos from Scott Mitchell and exclusive interviews with the main players this is a must-have for all cycling fans. '21 Days to Glory' tells the story of the victorious 2012 Tour de France c[...]
A glorious, fully illustrated insider account from Team Sky of the greatest summer in British road cycling history, as Chris Froome became the second Britain to win the Tour de France[...]
The classic story of an aimless teenager, a demanding father, and aspirited horse -- now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century FoxA daydreamer and a time waster, young Ken McLaughlin spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds, surrounded by endless blue skies, [...]
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.There are dangers and adventures in the gr[...]
It takes a graveyard to raise a child.Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an [...]
Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Bro[...]
The realm's most feared swordsman, Sir Wolf has earned his name, the "King's Killer," well. Unlike many of his brother Blades, however, Wolf detests his sworn duty to do the bloody bidding of a liege he can never respect. But when an impregnable fortress is breached and a former royal mistress is ab[...]
When Coraline attempts to leave her family's new flat, she discovers that she and her family are trapped by a dangerous presence, thus a battle between good and evil must take place in order to break out and set her loved ones free. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reissue.[...]
"In my hair Gorillas leap, Tigers stalk, And ground sloths sleep.Prides of lions Make their lairSomewhere in my crazy hair."[...]
Crazy Hair is a fantastically fun tale written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by the astoundingly talented Dave McKean, the award-winning team behind The Wolves in the Walls.In Crazy Hair, Bonnie makes a friend who has hair so wild there's even a jungle inside of it[...]
"I'll swap you my dad," I said. "Oh-oh," said my little sister. What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father?What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done?The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is a hilarious adventur[...]
After trading his father for his best friend's goldfish, a young boy is happy with the swap until his mother finds out and demands that the young boy get him back--despite the fact that his father has been continuously traded by other kids all over town! Reprint.[...]
One day, Dave Navarro decided to open the doors of his house in the Hollywood hills to the chaos of the valley below. The only rule was, "You come in the house, you get in the photo booth." The result is a diary, a sociology experiment, a documentary of Hollywood, and an exercise in exhibitionism: s[...]
In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.Only different.The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. A[...]
It's a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people "tribe." Every company, indeed every organization, is a tribe, or if it's large enough, a network of tribes--groups of 20 to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams[...]
In "Tribal Leadership", management consultants Dave Logan and John King show corporate leaders how they can use tribes - the groups that naturally form within any company - to maximize productivity and profit within their own firms. Based on a rigorous eight-year study that covered more than two doz[...]
This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements--startling and strange, beautiful and funny--that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century.New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads f[...]
When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own . . . except that it's different. It's a marvelous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them and be t[...]
The fall and rise of a heavy metal icon Dave Mustaine is the first to admit that he's bottomed out a few times in his dark and twisted speed metal version of a Dickensian life.Impoverished, transient childhood? Check.Abusive, alcoholic parent? Check.Mind-fucking religious weirdness (in his case the [...]