Class 3 of Hampstead Primary School are off on a school trip to Paris! Morgan is the first to spot the bearded man in the black Citroen car cruising behind their school bus & feels sure he is following them The plot thickens when a second mysterious bearded man appears on the ferry boat Soon Class 3 find themselves entangled with a group of art thieves intent upon stealing the Mona Lisa! ...

A special illustrated edition of The Monarch of the Glen by bestselling storytelling legend Neil Gaiman This American Gods world novella will thrill Games of Thrones devotees & Terry Pratchett fans alike Illustrations by celebrated artist Daniel Egneus' Original engrossing an endlessly entertaining' George RR Martin on American Gods He was not sure what he had been looking for He only knew that he had not found it Shadow Moon has been away from America for nearly two years His nights are broken with dangerous dreams Sometimes he almost believes he doesn't care if he ever returns home In the Highlands of Scotland where the sky is pale white & it feels as remote as any place can possibly be the beautiful & the wealthy gather at a grand old house in the glen & when the strange local doctor offers him work at the party Shadow is intrigued He knows there is no good reason for him to be there So what do they want with him? ...

Chester Royde an American millionaire travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie & sister Myrtle to find out more about Carrie's Scottish ancestry Their new 'relatives' turn out to be a little more authentically Scottish than they bargained for Ben Nevis Laird of Glenbogle Castle is fiercely protective of his lands & the Macdonald clan spirit but being cash-strapped he's not above attempts to marry heiress Myrtle to one of his many brawny sons But then a group of hikers stumble onto his moor & spoil a day's hunting sparking all-out war between gentry & commoners ...

Explore the deadly elegance of finance's hidden powerhouse The Money Formula takes you inside the engine room of the global economy to explore the little-understood world of quantitative finance & show how the future of our economy rests on the backs of this all-but-impenetrable industry Written not from a post-crisis perspective but from a preventative point of view this book traces the development of financial derivatives from bonds to credit default swaps & shows how mathematical formulas went beyond pricing to expand their use to the point where they dwarfed the real economy You'll learn how the deadly allure of their ice-cold beauty has misled generations of economists & investors & how continued reliance on these formulas can either assist future economic development or send the global economy into the financial equivalent of a cardiac arrest Rather than rehash tales of post-crisis fallout this book focuses on preventing the next one By exploring the heart of the shadow economy you'll be better prepared to ride the rough waves of finance into the turbulent future Delve into one of the world's least-understood but highest-impact industries Understand the key principles of quantitative finance & the evolution of the field Learn what quantitative finance has become & how it affects us all Discover how the industry's next steps dictate the economy's future How do you create a quadrillion dollars out of nothing blow it away & leave a hole so large that even years of quantitative easing can't fill it & then go back to doing the same thing? Even amidst global recovery the financial system still has the potential to seize up at any moment The Money Formula explores the how & why of financial disaster what must happen to prevent the next one ...

What happens in the City has never affected us more In this excellent guide now fully revised & updated leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines the scandals & the jargon to explain the nuts & bolts of the financial system What causes the pound to rise or interest rates to fall? Which are the institutions that really matter? Why is it we need the Money Machine
- & what happens when it crashes? Coggan provides clear & concise answers & shows why we should all be more familiar with a system we so intimately depend upon
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A New York couple (Tom Hanks & Shelley Long) buy a bargain basement house in the country but when they try to turn it into their dream home they realise why it was so cheap Not only do they have to deal with the structural integrity of the building but also with the conning & conniving builders & plumbers they employ to rebuild it ...

Imagine living for an entire year without money Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that & here is his extraordinary & compelling story How do friends & family react? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle finds out the hard way & explores the troubling consequences of our obsession with money Encountering cuttlefish toothpaste seasonal foods paper made out of mushrooms & compost toilets Boyle puts the fun into frugality & will inspire you to question what really matters in life ...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals a leader of genius driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule Believing he was divinely protected Genghis united warring clans to create a nation & then an empire that ran across much of Asia Under his grandson Kublai Khan the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology justifying further expansion Kublai doubled the empire's size until in the late 13th century he & the rest of Genghis's Golden Family' controlled one fifth of the inhabited world Along the way he conquered all China gave the nation the borders it has today & then finally discovered the limits to growth Genghis's dream of world rule turned out to be a fantasy & yet in terms of the sheer scale of the conquests never has a vision & the character of one man had such an effect on the world Charting the evolution of this vision John Man provides a unique account of the Mongol Empire from young Genghis to old Kublai from a rejected teenager to the world's most powerful emperor ...

Matthew Lewis's Gothic masterpiece depicting a holy man slowly becoming entangled in a web of sin The Monk is edited with an introduction by Christopher Mac Lachlan in Penguin Classics Savaged by critics for its blasphemy & obscenity particularly since the author was a Member of Parliament The Monk soon attracted thousands of readers keen to see if this Gothic novel lived up to its lurid reputation With acute psychological insight Lewis shows the diabolical decline of Ambrosio a worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid who is tempted by Matilda a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy Descending into a hell of his own creation Ambrosio is driven to magic & murder in an attempt to conceal his crimes from the Inquisition The Monk was greatly admired by the Marquis de Sade who saw it as a response to the upheavals of the French Revolution yet it also reveals something more universal the way violent & erotic impulses lurking within us all can break through every barrier of social restraint Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was educated at Oxford after which he held a position in the British Embassy at The Hague It was there in 1794 that he wrote the racy novel The Monk under the influence of the early German romantics Its controversial publication in 1796 due to Lewis' new status as MP earned him fame & the book a great deal of popularity If you enjoyed The Monk you might like Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto also available in Penguin Classics ...

With an Introduction by Kathryn White Prepare to be shocked This novel written in 1796 is a Gothic festival of sex magic & ghastly ghostly violence rarely seen in literature The Monk is remarkably modern in style & tells a breathless tale of temptation imprisonment & betrayal Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul Meanwhile two sets of young lovers are thwarted & the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits & is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden & skeleton-crowded vaults Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novel's merits Lord Byron & the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis's daring while Coleridge warned parents against The Monk's suitability for their sons or daughters describing the novel as 'poison for youth If you want a novel that still terrifies over two hundred years after it was written there is none finer than The Monk ...