At 15, James Sinclair set up a little children's entertainment business called Jimbo the Partyman. By the age of 18 he was turning over £1000 a week. By the time he was in his twenties, he owned two houses. But that was just the beginning. Todaythe Partyman Group puts on 7000 parties a year and owns a string of business supplying everything from fun days and family days out to magicians and childcare. And James is still only 29. Learn some of the secrets of James' amazing success in...

Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada.In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the...

A great read and an excellent teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!Learn about the history of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Canada from Confederation to the Oka Crisis and beyond in this Indigenous graphic novel anthology for young adults.Explore 150 years of history through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and ...

Four women. One mountain town. Four different routes to the same discovery.Tough LoveMia has spent five years as a divorce lawyer at her father's firm, watching people who once promised each other forever fight over everything. Then her parents pull her off her first vacation in eight years to look after her grandmother's cabin up the mountain. Gran turns out to be nowhere near as frail as advertised, and remarkably resour...

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Fra...

90% of startups fail because founders build products nobody wants.Not you. If you are actually considering learning what it takes to win instead of falling for the "if we build it they will come" myth, you are already ahead of the game. Startup success boils down to one truth. Fastest team to learn, wins. Not the smartest, not the cleverest, not the richest. Just the team that learns, iterates, and executes faster than everyone else. Starting a StartUp isn...

"I can give you exactly what you're asking for, Janie, and I can give it to you all night long."Their first kiss is impulsive, fun, a little wicked—everything Jane Elliot isn't looking for in a man—but desperately needs. Their second kiss is slow, deliberate, an instant connection—everything Austin Sinclair never had with a woman—and doesn't want.Jane isn't the easy conquest Austin's used to. She's a stubborn-as-hell bookworm who's more interested in studying than ...

Getting CustomersEasier, faster and for less money than you ever thought possible.Winning customers is the lifeblood of any business, yet so many people fail dismally at it. James Sinclair knows how it's done - In 15 years he has built a one-man business as a children's clown into a multi-million-pound enterprise with a network of companies and over 400 employees. In the book he lets eager business owners into his secrets for getting the ri...

90% of startups fail because founders build products nobody wants.Not you. If you are actually considering learning what it takes to win instead of falling for the "if we build it they will come" myth, you are already ahead of the game. Startup success boils down to one truth. Fastest team to learn, wins. Not the smartest, not the cleverest, not the richest. Just the team that learns, iterates, and executes faster than everyone else. Starting a Startup isn...

How is it that some companies seem to be able to charge sky-high prices and 'get away with it' while their competitors struggle to get customers at any price and often end up discounting their way out of profitability and business?The answer lies in The Experience Business.When you read this book you'll understand: The KEY DIFFERENCES between experience businesses and price-led businesses Why businesses need a set of rules to consistently deliver GREAT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES How to craft a s...

What if the team hates my functional code? Learning functional programming can be intoxicating. Your code becomes more elegant, more expressive—solid. But what if the people you work with don’t get it? Some of their concerns are legitimate. Others are plain ignorant. But how do you tell the difference? And either way, how do you have a rational conversation when there’s so much angst? It seems like an impossible situation. But it doesn’t have to be. What if you knew what to expect, ahead o...

At 15, James Sinclair set up a little children’s entertainment business called Jimbo the Partyman. By the age of 18 he was turning over £1000 a week. By the time he was in his twenties, he owned two houses. But that was just the beginning. Today the Partyman Group puts on 7000 parties a year and owns a string of business supplying everything from fun days and family days out to magicians and childcare. And James is still only 29. Learn some of the secrets of James’ amazing success in this ...