A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt (star of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and the brains behind Horrible Histories) where a team of three University students take on a team of three of their professors.Every week, at a different University, it pits a team of three Students against three of their Lecturers. The rounds vary between Specialist Knowledge and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and ‘Highbrow and Lowbrow’. Which of the studen...

Discover 400 years of New England history you won't find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State.Maine wouldn't be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial mis...

Frank Skinner hosts series 3 of the panel game based on what we all sit down and do at least once a day – shop online and leave a review, as an all-star panel celebrate the good, the bad & the bafflingEveryone has an online life, and when the great British public put pen to keyboard to leave a review, they almost always write something hilarious. And our all-star panel have to work out just what they were reviewing – and maybe contribute a few reviews of t...

Comedian Glenn Moore takes another look through his almanac at major world events and what he was doing at the time. Perhaps best-known for his outrageously brilliant one-liners on Mock The Week, Glenn delivers a tale of comic mishaps and extraordinary scenes interwoven with a big event in history – and looks back through his almanac to find out other strange connections to the day as well.In episode one, a deadly spy operation causes him to suspect his innocent Russian flatmate…

The complete second collection of the quiz show where a team of three University students take on a team of three of their professors, hosted by Steve Punt (star of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and the brains behind Horrible Histories), including the complete final series 15.The show is recorded on location at a different University each week, and pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in this fresh take on an academic quiz. The...

Frank Skinner hosts the second series and a Christmas special of the show based on online reviews as he and his all-star panel celebrate the good, the bad & the bafflingEveryone has an online life, and when the great British public put pen to keyboard to leave a review, they almost always write something hilarious. And our all-star panel have to work out just what they were reviewing – and maybe contribute a few reviews of their own... and more... So if yo...

Comedian Glenn Moore takes a look back though his almanac at major world eventsPerhaps best-known for his outrageously brilliant one-liners on Mock the Week, comedian Glenn Moore delivers a tale of comic mishaps in this BBC radio comedy series.Looking back through his almanac at a big event in history, Glenn finds out what he was doing at the time and looks into other strange connections to the day in question. Sit back and listen as Glenn interwea...

Frank Skinner hosts series 4 of the panel game based on what we all sit down and do at least once a day – shop online and leave a review, as an all-star panel celebrate the good, the bad & the bafflingEveryone has an online life, and when the great British public put pen to keyboard to leave a review, they almost always write something hilarious. And our all-star panel have to work out just what they were reviewing – and maybe contribute a few reviews of t...

Written for those leading continuous improvement efforts, from senior leaders to the front lines, this book details our learnings from decades of work in this field. We explore and describe why some improvement efforts do very well while others struggle and die out. We study and analyze the vastly different results at two nearly identical sites with whom we worked – one becoming the corporate model, the other struggled with mediocre performance.Combining research and our experience...

From the dynamic creator and artist, Tyler Kirkham ( Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern ), comes a thrilling new action hero: Tommy Brazen in FINAL BOSS! Get ready for an over-the-top adventure that's a high-octane nod to classic action stories. Trying to forge a new path, Tommy uses his newfound powers for various paid enforcer gigs and street fights, only to uncover a past far more complex than he ever imagined.

"No book could have ever held such power. Except mine. No writer could have written such a story. Except me."A struggling writer obsessed by the romance novels he consumes wrestles with bad luck and mishap while trying to find the inspiration for his own book. When he becomes infatuated with an evasive woman who seems to live under several different identities, he begins to have trouble distinguishing real life from the book he's writing.

It’s Alive! The Funniest Math Book Ever! combines the best of It’s Alive! with the best of It’s Alive (and Kicking!), plus 40 all new problems, to produce what is without a doubt the funniest math book ever! Teachers will especially appreciate the new edition’s inclusion of a chart linking each problem with specific Common Core Standards, and another chart linking each standard to specific problems.Marya took the kind of gooey, slimy, weird and disgusting...