La célèbre parodie du Seigneur des Anneaux« Ce livre est inlisable. » Un lecteur mécontent (authentique)Une quête, une guerre, un anneau… Un petit gars aux pieds poilus nommé Fripon est embarqué par le magicien Grandpaf dans un truc de malade : sauver les Paires du Milieu du maléfique Salkon, le Seigneur Ténébreux, et de Saroulmal, le magicien renégat.Si vous êtes fans du chef-d’œuvre de J.R.R. Tolkien, ou si vous voulez jus...

How to Know When to Let Go is more than a motivational read-it's a strategic guide for mastering the art of timely transitions. Whether you're facing a career change, relationship shift, or a personal crossroads, this book equips you with the clarity and confidence to make empowered decisions.We often hold on too long-out of fear, comfort, or uncertainty. But letting go doesn't mean giving up. It means stepping into your next chapter with purpose. This book dives d...

From cocktail party chitchat, to bumper stickers, to personal ads--everything you'll ever need to say in perfect Latin! A backlistius bestsellerus.

Spinglish—the devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctors—is all around us. And the fact is, until you’ve mastered it, politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you, and generally getting the better of you, every minute of every day—without your even knowing it.However, once you perfect the art of terminological inexactitude, you’ll be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And...

From the minds that brought you The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, comes a wickedly funny send-up of the most dangerous trend ever to strike love, romance, and relationships— sexual correctness. In the be-sensitive-or- else era, everyone needs a guide to the essential don'ts and don'ts of sexual behavior and courtship. If a man compliments his date on her dress, should she go to the police? If a businesswoman licks her lips during a meeting, should ...

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and e...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.From Viking-smashing legends to backstabbing brothers, this is bingeable British history like you’ve never heard it before.Covering every one of England’s monarchs from Alfred the Great to Henry I, this audiobook blends fast-paced royal bios with wild-but-true trivia, revealing the power plays, weird deaths, terrible fashion choices, and dynastic disasters that shaped the crow...

In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand.Beard's gift is his ability to make fun of popular culture and the current zeitgeist. In X-Treme Latin he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the sec...

Listen to an unnamed narrator read a manuscript by a former governess and learn how she may have been haunted by ghosts while she being tasked to care for two children.One of the greatest and most analyzed gothic horror novellas ever written, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is a must read ghost story.The Turn of the Screw has been recreated dozens of times and continues to scare the world as James' would had wanted.The perfect tale to read on Halloween or Christm...

Experience the True Story of Black Wall Street and the Devastating Tulsa Race MassacreIn 1921, one of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Burning (Young Readers Edition) recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its Black residents...

This classic book, now in its second edition, is an authoritative source about the restructuring of troubled companies. It provides an insider's view on the methods and complexities of this highly specialized area of investment banking. Owsley and Kaufman are widely acknowledged leaders in this field and are the senior partners at Gordian Group, a top-tier boutique investment banking firm headquartered in New York. Gordian Group advises mid-sized companies in financial distress. They provi...

This penetrating biography of George Westinghouse is a testimony to one of the greatest inventors of the last half of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century. He was a prolific inventor, filing for 400 patents in 48 years. What is most significant is that he was primarily interested in fundamental things that would advance civilization, particularly the evolution of transportation and the manufacture of power. His contributions to the field of transportation incl...