You know that well-connected friend who only exists in the movies? The one who throws the best parties and can set up any introduction you need? Everyone wants to know someone magical like this who brings people together. The secret is: you can be that person. You should be that person. The 2-Hour Cocktail Party will show you how. Discover a simple formula with step-by-step instructions to host parties that help you meet new people, strengthen your existing relationships, and make you the ...

"A must read for anyone who wants to host a great event. Practical, actionable, and useful."— James Clear, Atomic Habits“An encouraging, upbeat, and useful call to host parties and make friends. Gray provides innumerable helpful hints and tips for prospective hosts and a new strategy for meeting people and networking. "—Kirkus Reviews, Best New Books of 2022You know that well-connected ...

Nick cache un sombre secret.Depuis son enfance, le jeune journaliste vit dans l’ombre de son frère aîné et de sa jumelle. Espérant alors trouver le bonheur qu’il souhaite avec celle qu’il aime, il fuit Denver. Or, tout ne se passe pas comme prévu.De retour chez lui, quelques années plus tard, il tente de reprendre tant bien que mal le cours de sa vie. Jusqu’au jour où son passé refait surface.Un corps est retrouvé près du Sloan Lake. Nick est le principal suspect.

In 1968 a group of young people took over a derelict trouser factory in a rundown part of Leeds and set about producing programmes that were to define the British television world of the late 20th Century.These included the investigative documentary series First Tuesday, Darling Buds of May, Whickers World, Do'nt Ask Me and Heartbeat.At the same time they attracted, indeed often created, stars of international fame such as James Mason, Catherine Zeta Jones, Alan Whicker, Da...

Thomas Prescott returns in a smoldering thriller of murder, treachery, and revenge. His love life in shambles, retired homicide detective Thomas Prescott returns to Seattle, the very place he fled from after his parents’ deaths nearly a decade earlier. Just as Prescott is getting settled in, he sees a body floating in the private cove behind his boyhood home. It’s a woman. But not just any woman. It’s Ellen Gray—the governor of Washington—who has been missing for ...

Nick Simmons was getting pissed at how someone was trying to kill him, and he didn't know who. They destroyed his business with a bomb, and they tried to shoot his head off his shoulders. Now he had to put up with a police captain telling him what to do.Lawrence Temple wasn't impressed when someone decided to use his city as a bombing and shooting ground to try and kill Nick. He might have been tempted to wrap his hands around the cute guy's neck, just as much as he wanted to kiss ...

Retail has never existed in a vacuum.This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on the rise of modern business and the decline of the high street, class and cred...

This is not a conspiracy course. It's an engineering course — applied to organizations that were designed never to be visible.Shadowcraft tells one story across 24 lectures: how shadow power actually works. Not shadowy masterminds in smoky rooms. The real thing — shell company registrations, fake end-user certificates, sequential passport numbers that blew an assassination unit's cover, and an auditor who signed off on books he knew were fraudulent because...

Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyday things.Theodore Gray has become a household name among fans, both young and old, of popular science and mechanics. He's an incorrigible...

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Daisy is SO excited! She's been picked to look after the class hamsters, Pickle and Pops, over the Easter holidays - AND her mum's taking her to Chocolate Land!!!Trouble is, the two things probably shouldn't mix...The totally troublesome and laugh-out-loud funny tale from the bestselling Daisy series.

To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book, thirteen of their classmates who lost their lives fighting the Global War on Terror are profiled to help the reader gain an understanding of the bond forged between classmates during time at West...