Phil Carroll takes us on his global odyssey of voyages as a deck cadet in the early-1980s. It was the cusp of change in the merchant navy as containerisation began to dominate world shipping. Heady weeks 'on the coast' in traditional cargo ships in old ports, giving way to fleeting visits by 'box boats' to swanky new concrete container wharves, miles from town. He vividly describes his worldwide adventures at sea and in port in a male-dominated environment of British officers and Chinese, ...

Why are so many business owners and CEOs frustrated with sales even when they're happy with other parts of their business? For some CEOs, sales is a blind spot-they don't know what they don't know, and one thing they don't know is why they have a problem. And one of the things they really don't know is what a good sales team looks like.Mike Carroll knows - he has looked at the data, and he has coached hundreds of companies to transform their sales teams to attain higher margins, sh...

The best essays by one of the leading experts on the Spanish Civil WarThe Spanish Civil War, a military rebellion supported by Hitler and Mussolini, attracted the greatest writers of the age. Among them were Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Langston Hughes, and Martha Gellhorn. They returned to their homelands to warn the world about a war of fascist aggression looming on the horizon.Spain’s cause drew 35,000 volunteers from ...

A Tangled Tale is a delightful collection of ten mathematical stories written by Lewis Carroll, the celebrated author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. First published serially between 1880 and 1885 and later compiled into a single volume, the book presents a series of whimsical yet intellectually stimulating tales, each centered around a perplexing mathematical problem or “knot.” Carroll’s unique blend of wit, logic, and playful narrative style invites readers into a world where logic ...

An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literatureIn this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. This “gender impersonation” significantly shaped the authorial voice and complicated the use of these texts as examples of historical writing and as women’s literature. C...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTransform your life using the Bullet Journal Method, the revolutionary organisational system and worldwide phenomenon.The Bullet Journal Method will undoubtedly transform your life, in more ways than you can imagine’ Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle MorningIn his long-awaited first book, Ryder Carroll, the creator of the enormously popular Bullet Journal organi...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 1st volume contains the following 50 works...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTransform your life using the Bullet Journal Method, the revolutionary organisational system and worldwide phenomenon.The Bullet Journal Method will undoubtedly transform your life, in more ways than you can imagine’ Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle MorningIn his long-awaited first book, Ryder Carroll, the creator of the enormously popular Bullet Journal organi...

“Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”One warm summer day, Alice follows a White Rabbit (who is very late, by the way) down a rabbit hole and into a wacky and whimsical world. She meets a cast of characters as curious as she is — the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Growing, shrinking, eating, drinking, Alice never seems to quite fit with her environment. Will Alice’s adventures lead h...

An original, funny and poignant story about those things in life that you just can’t plan for…‘A very modern fairytale, full of Claudia’s trademark wit and humour’ Sheila O’FlanaganEloise Elliot is one of the youngest newspaper editors in the country. Respected and revered by her peers, she’s at the top of her game.But, on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, finding herself surrounded by some pathetic looking balloons and mangy sandw...

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 2024The Sunday Times Bestseller and Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024A Sunday Times History Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearThe Irish Times No.1 Bestseller‘As taut as a fictional thriller’ Mail on Sunday‘Gripping, detailed and r...

This is the complete Alice in Wonderland set by the orignial authoir Lewis Carroll and includes both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".This set has been reformatted for your viewing enjoyment and includes a "jump to a chapter" feature in the table of contents.You have seen the movies, now it's time to read where it all started!