Carti 2009

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Great Crash 1929

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse. Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work. It was Galbraith's belief that a good knowledge of what happened in 1929 was the best safeguard against its recurrence. Atlantic Monthly wrote, "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community."

Robert C. Martin, Michael C. Feathers, Timothy R. Ottinger

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Editura: Prentice Hall PTR

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer--but only if you work at it. What kind of work will you be doing? You'll be reading code--lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what's right about that code, and what's wrong with it. More importantly, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft. Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code--of transforming a code ...

Peter Reinhart

Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day: Fast and Easy Recipes for World-Class Breads

Editura: Ten Speed Press

Anul aparitiei: 2009

The renowned baking instructor distills professional techniques down to the basics, delivering artisan bread recipes that anyone with flour and a fridge can bake with ease. Reinhart begins with the simplest French bread, then moves on to familiar classics such as ciabatta, pizza dough, and soft sandwich loaves, and concludes with fresh specialty items like pretzels, crackers, croissants, and bagels. Each recipe is broken into "Do Ahead" and "On Baking Day" sections, making every step--from preparation through pulling pans from the oven--a breeze, whether you bought your loaf pan yesterday or decades ago. These doughs are engineered to work flawlessly for busy home bakers: most require only a straightforward mixing and overnight fermentation. The result is reliably superior flavor and texture on par with loaves from world-class artisan bakeries, all with little hands-on time. America's favorite baking instructor and innovator Peter Reinhart offers time-saving techniques accompanied by full-color, step-by-step photos throughout so that in no time you'll be producing fresh batches of Sourdough Baguettes, 50% and 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaves, Soft and Crusty Cheese Bread, English ...

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter Boxed Set

Editura: Arthur A. Levine Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Now for the first time ever, J.K. Rowling\u2019s seven bestselling Harry Potter books are available in a stunning paperback boxed set! The Harry Potter series has been hailed as \u201cone for the ages\u201d by Stephen King and \u201ca spellbinding saga\u2019 by USA Today. And most recently, The New York Times called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the \u201cfastest selling book in history.\u201d This is the ultimate Harry Potter collection for Harry Potter fans of all ages!;Now for the first time ever, J.K. Rowling"s seven bestselling Harry Potter books are available in a stunning paperback boxed set! The Harry Potter series has been hailed as "one for the ages" by Stephen King and "a spellbinding saga" by USA Today. And most recently, The New York Times called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the "fastest selling book in history." This is the ultimate Harry Potter collection for Harry Potter fans of all ages!

O'Connell Mark LCSW

Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan

Editura: Splendid Books Limited

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan is a wonderfully funny and touching memoir by author and Bond fan Mark O'Connell whose grandfather Jimmy was a chauffeur for Eon Productions. So while Jimmy was driving around the likes of Cubby Broccoli, Roger Moore and Sean Connery, young Mark also hitched a ride and so his infatuation with all things Bond took hold.Set against a backdrop of the Thatcher era, Duran Duran songs and his own closeted adolescence, O'Connell takes the reader on a humorous, filmic journey where Bond films fire like Bullets.Barbara Broccoli, co-Producer of the Bond movies, calls his memoir 'a completely unique...perspective on the franchise' '...a wholly original take on a subject that has been written about so many times with most authors covering the same topics over and over again. O'Connell's book offers a totally fresh take and is a really enjoyable read, not just for Bond fans but for anyone looking for a nostalgic romp through the pop culture of the last fifty years.' O'Connell writes from the heart on a subject he loves passionately, starting back from his childhood when he would bolt down his tea to watch Roger Moore leaping out of a plane without a ...

Laurens Stephanie

Temptation And Surrender Number 17 in series

Editura: Little, Brown Book Group

Anul aparitiei: 2009

When Emily Beauregard applies for the position of innkeeper on Jonas Tallent's Devonshire estate, nothing can prepare Jonas for the trouble that follows. Little does he realise that Emily has an agenda of her own: to discover her family's treasure, guided by a cryptic rhyme.

Jackson Graham

4th ed Heart Health Answers at Your Fingertips

Editura: Class Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Answers over 420 real questions on all aspects of heart health - from coronary heart disease to angina, from palpitations to vascular disease. Heart Health also includes advice on healthy living, giving up smoking, HRT, sex & relationships and much more. Page dim. 212 x 143 x 26 Series: answers at your fingertips Weight: 462 grams

Vaze Prashant

The Economical Environmentalist My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Cost

Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more. Tough economic times need not relegate concerns for the planet to the back burner. The author is an environmental economist trying to live a low-carbon life in London. He worked for 15 years in the UK's Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and the Department of the Environment. So far so good. But he has kids. A family to visit in India. A hectic job. In distilling and building on his own experience of trying to live a low carbon life, he helps us navigate the choices that confront us all - families, singletons, pensioners - when making decisions about what to eat, what to buy, how to travel and how to keep warm in the era of climate change and economic turmoil. He works out the sums and lets us know which choices will make the biggest difference, and which are false savings. His book is an irreverent but seriously rigorous reference guide to low-cost, low-carbon living for everyone - in any location - in tough times. It's brimming with up-to-date information on current and future technologies, tips and ideas for every budget on ...

Drayton Joanne

Ngaio Marsh Her Life in Crime

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2009

The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story - revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography. While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings and remove incriminating evidence than a crime fiction writer... This fascinating biography of Ngaio Marsh pieces together both the public and private Marsh in a way that is as riveting as a crime novel. Through her writing and her theatre work, Joanne Drayton assembles the pieces to the puzzle that is Marsh, proving that life can be as thrilling as fiction. Marsh wrote her first detective novel in a London flat in the depths of the 1930s Depression, bringing life to Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn in her first book, A Man Lay Dead. Through 32 novels he would establish himself as one of the great super-sleuths, and Marsh as one of the four Queens of Golden Age detective fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. In 1932, a family tragedy brought Marsh home to New Zealand, to a life divided - between hemispheres, between passionate relationships at home ...

Westwater Judy

Nowhere to Run Where Do You Go When There's Nowhere Left to Hide?

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2009

How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you? Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hope turned to fear and she knew she'd have to run again. Judy was only 11 years old when she was forced to live on the streets. Beaten, half-starved and horrifically abused, she finally escaped to a life in the circus and fell in love with one of the circus hands. But the charming man who seemed so perfect had a dark and sinister side. If she wanted to survive she had to get away. Judy fled to South Africa, taking with her her two young children. But the streets of South Africa were just as cruel. One day a man took her five-year-old daughter and her violent past was replayed in front of her eyes. Judy's incredible story of courage and determination will inspire as it will amaze.

Meek James

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

Editura: Canongate Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2009

At the dawn of the twenty-first century Adam Kellas finds himself hurled on a journey between continents and cultures. In his quest from the war-torn mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London and then the marshlands of the American South, only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid offers the possibility of hope. With all the explosive drama of The People's Act of Love , this is a spellbinding tale of folly and the pursuit of love from one of today's most talented and visionary writers.

Sanchez Pinol Albert

Pandora In The Congo

Editura: Canongate Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2009

It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died, and all of the party's African porters have fled. With him, he carries two huge diamonds. From his prison cell in London, Garvey recounts his horrific and thrilling ordeal. Young Tommy Thomson is assigned to transcribe Garvey's story and only he can untangle the extraordinary mysteries of the Garvey case.

Figes Eva

Journey To Nowhere One Woman Looks For The Promised Land

Editura: Granta Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Politically controversial and deeply moving, this powerful memoir follows the life of one ordinary woman caught up in extraordinary historical events, and explores the hidden forces that motivated the founding of a nation. Page dim. 197 x 130 x 13 Weight: 150 grams

Galloway Janice

This Is Not About Me

Editura: Granta Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

'My mother thought I was the menopause' - one of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the 1950s and '60s. Page dim. 196 x 130 x 23 Weight: 262 grams

Davies Tom Kevill

The Hungry Cyclist Pedalling the Americas in Search of the Perfect Meal

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Over 100,000 miles to cover, one man, one bike and one hungry stomach. Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on one of the most ambitious gastronomic adventures ever undertaken. A ballsy travel memoir The Hungry Cyclist follows Tom's adventure into the hearts and minds of the people he meets. Revealing the diverse cultures of the Americas, Tom's journey from over the Rockies to Baja California, through Central America down all the way to Brazil via Colombia, gives the real flavour of this truly extraordinary landmass. This is a tale of death-battles with squadrons of mosquitoes, malodorous public toilets, of galloping dysentery one day, to drowning your sorrows with cowboys and dining with beauty queens the next. But above all it is an ambitious story of getting to where you want to be - even if you have to endure cactus-induced punctures, unforgiving desert heat, uphill struggles through never-ending cocaine plantations, or artfully dodge hungry bears, neurotic RV-driving Americans, angry rabid dogs and run-ins with local law authorities in the process. An amazing tale ...

Williams Julia

Last Christmas

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2009

It's the most wonderful time of year. Isn't it?Discover the true spirit of Christmas with this seasonal treat for fans of Love, Actually and The Holiday. Discover the true spirit of Christmas... Catherine Tinsall is dreading Christmas. As the 'Happy Homemaker' she is an online sensation, but the reality couldn't be more different. With Catherine's marriage in tatters, her children running wild and her mother increasingly forgetful, seasonal cheer is running low. Husband Noel also hides a secret: he's facing the axe at work. Until he chances upon the village of Hope Christmas, deep in the Shropshire countryside, which could be the second chance he's searching for. If he can save it from the developers... In Hope Christmas itself, schoolteacher Marianne Moore is trying to heal her battered heart. But Christmas is a time for families, and memories of what she's lost haunt her at every turn. Meanwhile, Gabriel North faces a lonely Christmas but hides his sadness for the sake of his son. Will his wife ever come home? Or does love lie elsewhere? All four need a Christmas miracle. And it might just happen - courtesy of a mysterious guardian angel ... Forced to reassess their lives, will ...

Aird Alistair

Ally McCoist Portrait of a Hero

Editura: John Blake Publishing Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2009

A schoolboy prodigy, it was always clear that McCoist was destined for top flight football. At just 16 he signed his first professional contract with St Johnstone, shooting to prominence in the 1980/81 season, scoring 22 league goals and playing a starrring role for the Scottish youth team. He was soon hot property. After two years of mixed fortunes at Sunderland, McCoist returned to Scotland and signed for his boyhood heroes Glasgow Rangers. Over the next fifteen years, he established himslef as arguably the greatest goal-scorer ever to play for the club. He not only gave heart and soul for Rangers but was also capped 61 times for Scotland. An authoritative and affectionate portrait of this much-loved sportsman, Ally McCoist - Portrait of a Hero charts the highs and lows of a fascinating career, culminating in McCoist reaching legendary status. It also looks at the events that helped to shape his life - overcoming homesickness when first playing for an English club, the effects his parents' seperation had on him and how he coped when his young son had to undergo several life-saving operations. Having hung up his books, Ally's vibrant personality made him a natural for the ...

Kerley J. A.

Little Girls Lost

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2009

The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers. Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues - and, as yet, no bodies. Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental and civic politics. And with his partner Harry Nautilus fighting for his life after being viciously attacked, Carson is feeling increasingly isolated. Public rage is now reaching dangerous levels, and Ryder's bosses turn for help to ex-Detective Conner Sandhill whose uncanny ability to spot connections and details missed by others is legendary - but who left the department under a cloud. Ryder and Sandhill form an uneasy alliance in the hunt for the missing children, a hunt which becomes all the more urgent for tragic personal reasons. But at the root of these disappearances is something truly evil... and its source is closer to home than either could have imagined.

Chinn Adrienne

The Lost Letter from Morocco

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2019

'The Lost Letter from Morocco has great authenticity, immediacy and is an emotive and engaging read.' Rosanna Ley A forbidden love affair. A long-buried secret. A journey that will change everything. Morocco, 1984. High in the Atlas Mountains, Hanane's love for Irishman Gus is forbidden. Forced to flee her home with the man she loves, Hanane is certain she's running towards her destiny. But she has made a decision that will haunt her family for years to come. London, 2009. When Addy discovers a mysterious letter in her late father's belongings, she journeys to Morocco in search of answers. But instead, she finds secrets - and is quickly pulled into a world that she doesn't understand. And when history starts to repeat itself, it seems her journey might just change the person she is forever... A heartbreaking story of impossible love and dark family secrets that readers of Dinah Jefferies and Tracy Rees will love. 'The Lost Letter from Morocco has great authenticity, immediacy and is an emotive and engaging read.' Rosanna Ley 'Rich, evocative and utterly immersive, this beautifully written book swept me away to Morocco. I could feel the heat, was captivated by the intense, ...

Button Jenson

How To Be An F1 Driver My Guide To Life In The Fast Lane

Editura: Bonnier Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Jenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. He has raced in Formula 1 for the last 17 years, winning 15 grands prix. In 2009 he won the World Championship for the unsponsored Brawn Racing team in one of the most incredible, against-the-odds sports stories of the century. Button is one of the the most popular figures in sport. He has over 2.7 million fans on Twitter, 1 million likes on Facebook and over 600,000 followers on Instagram Formula 1 is a sport that resonates with book buyers. Fellow British World Champion Lewis Hamilton sold over 300,000 copies of his book, while books by Damon Hill and Mark Webber have sold over 50,000 copies each in the last two years. Jenson's second book is packed with exclusive insights and unknown stories, delivering behind the scenes access to life in Formula 1. It was the bestselling sports book of 2018 and sold 133k copies through TCM.