It's time to rethink our attitudes to work For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology & yet many of us are not suited to office life while skilled manual work provides one of the few & most rewarding paths to a secure living Drawing on the work of our greatest thinkers from Aristotle to Heidegger from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch as well as on his own experiences as an electrician & motorcycle mechanic Matthew Crawford's irreverent & inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work forever ...

Take a front-row seat & witness the filmmaking magic that brought JK Rowling's script for the Academy Award (R)-nominated Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them to the screen Explore the realm of fantastical creatures that roam the wizarding world & discover the magical cast of characters in pursuit of them Officially licensed by Warner Bros Consumer Products & designed by Mina Lima designers of the graphic props for the Harry Potter films as well as Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them The Case of Beasts delivers an enchanting interactive experience by sharing filmmaking secrets film photography & artwork & behind-the-scenes stories from cast & crew Full of removable facsimile reproductions of props & paper ephemera from the movie along with some very special effects this collectible volume offers a unique look from the talented group who created this movie magic ...

When the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency is approached by famous fossil hunter Mary Anning the team know that this could be their most important case yet Mary Anning's precious dog has been snatched
- to get her back the kidnappers demand she lie about fake dinosaur bones & pretend they are genuine Now the Wollstonecraft detectives have just three days to track down the fossil fakers & save the integrity of science! The game is afoot blood-sucking leeches smoke bombs & diabolical disguises abound & behind the lies & fakery a genuine criminal may finally be revealed
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Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective She's sure there are lots of adventures to be had on the streets of Victorian London & together with her faithful puppy Eddie she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery
- no matter what! In Book 5 of the Maisie Hitchins series Maisie is intrigued by a new lodger Mr Fred Grange who isn't quite what he seems Mr Grange claims to work as a clerk for a biscuit company but he's out & about on the London streets at odd hours & Maisie soon discovers something very precious hidden in his rooms Determined to unmask him as a thief she soon discovers that the truth is far more complicated
- & dangerous Before long Maisie & her friends are led into a web of mystery lurking underground A fantastic mystery series from best-selling author Holly Webb packed with adventure Maisie Hitchins is perfect for readers aged six to eight years

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Rumors revolving around The Book of Vanitas a clockwork grimoire of dubious reputation draw Noe a young vampire in search of a friend&s salvation to Paris What awaits him in the City of Flowers however is not long hours treading the pavement or rifling through dusty bookshops in search of the tome Instead his quarry comes to himin the arms of a man claiming to be a vampire doctor! Thrust into a conflict that threatens the peace between humans & vampires will Noe cast in his lot with the curious & slightly unbalanced Vanitas & his quest to save vampirekind? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

Now installed at a hotel in Paris with the help of Count Orlok No? & Vanitas take their awkward partnership on the roadto a vampire masquerade ball! The order of the evening may be small talk & hobnobbing with fellow guests but the mystery of the curse-bearers is never far behind Intrigue swirls as quickly as the dancers twirl a blue moon ascends over the guestsand all hell breaks loose! About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

Deep within the bowels of Paris Noe & Vanitas race through the catacombs with an elite team of chasseurs the Church&s anti-vampire unit in hot pursuit Their search for the missing vampires takes the pair down a path all too familiar to Vanitas bringing them face-to-face with not only an overwhelming curse-bearer but also with Vanitas&s past Confronted by the horrific menace what will Noe & Vanitas fight for & whom will they save? About the Author Jun Mochizuki is the New York Times bestselling creator of Pandora Hearts & CRIMSON-SHELL The success of her Pandora Hearts series spawned an extremely popular anime adaptation ...

' When you have eliminated all which is impossible then whatever remains however improbable must be the truth' In this the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures the intrepid detective & his faithful companion Dr Watson examine & solve twelve cases that puzzle clients baffle the police & provide readers with the thrill of the chase These mysteries
- involving an illustrious client & a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge & of the Lions Mane; a creeping man & the three-gabled house
- all test the bravery of Dr Watson & the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes the greatest detective we have ever known

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Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence' It rose with a steady movement I saw it pale & huge through the whirling funnel of cloud
- a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss It rose higher & higher Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it' Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder an Edwardian psychic detective investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as ' The Whistling Room' the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in ' The Horse of the Invisible' & the demons from the outside world in ' The Hog' Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge To complicate matters he encounters human skullduggery also Armed with a camera his Electric Pentacle & various ancient tomes on magic Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage These exciting & frightening stories have long been out of print Now rewaders can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series
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With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him' In The Casebook you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective They are perhaps the most unusual & the darkest that he penned Treachery mutilation & the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories along with atmospheric touches of the gothic involving a bloodsucking vampire crypts at midnight & strange bones in a furnace The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with The Red Circle' & the insidious murders in The Devil's Foot' The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all & his erstwhile companion Dr Watson ...