Stephen Book is a top Hollywood acting coach and teacher and a theatre director. His students have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies, and Grammys. Thirteen of his present or former students are featured in either starring roles or as cast regulars in the current primetime television schedule. This boo[...]

Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. This book intends to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. It features 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa[...]

"A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating." -Pico Iyer
The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu's "Tao Te Ching," or "Book of the Way," is the classic manual on the[...]

The most student-friendly and engaging resource for the OCR A2 Health and Social Care specification. Endorsed by OCR, this student book motivates your students with accessible, interesting content and real-world case studies, while retaining exam-driven rigour.[...]

Brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in orthopedics, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. In this title, topics covered include trauma and amputation surgery, hip and knee replacement, sports medicine, and orthopedic oncology.[...]

The Year Book of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery presents Abstracts of the most influential and important articles of the year relevant to plastic surgeons. Articles summaries from journals worldwide are accompanied by Commentaries from expert plastic surgeons related to Congential defects; Repair and[...]

At the dawn of his reign, a young king must prove his greatness . . . or forfeit a realmArthur is King--but darkest evil has descended upon Britain's shores in many guises. In this black time of plague and pestilence, Arthur's most trusted counselor Myrddin--the warrior, bard, and kingmaker whom leg[...]

Superior visuals and up-to-date research help students to see the world like a geologist. The Fourth Edition offers a streamlined, engaging approach to geologic processes, presented through visuals, photographs, and text, as well as discussions of modern science phenomena.[...]

Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. An international relief organization sends Jonas to America, where he struggles to assimilate--adapting to his foster family, high school, a first love. Jonas meets Rose Henderso[...]

This colorful book takes kids on a journey that introduces numbers and counting. In a style reminiscent of the works of Peter Max, the visual adventure portrays numbers in action, starting with one ship and advancing to ten jugglers. Along the way, the flamboyant graphics in this mathematical puzzle[...]