On the road in with drifter mother Lily (Pascale Schiller) while dad Axel (Birol nel) is serving time for slinging dope 13-year-old Stevie (Cci Chuh) expects that the trio will head back to Portugal when her father gets out from behind bars When it's subsequently announced that they will instead be staying in Germany & living in the home of her recently deceased grandfather Stevie does her best to make due despite the constant presence of lazy layabout Ingmar (Georg Friedrich) & promiscuous Louise (Joana Preiss) -- who have come to stay with the family indefinitely As Stevie begins to recognize just how harshly her chaotic home life seems to contrast the lives of her relatively normal peers she begins to construct an elaborate web of tall tales in a desperate effort to fit in Later while attempting to enrol in school the troubled youngster finds her attempts to conform continually thwarted by her lackadaisical parents ...

This is a story for the outsider in every one ofus If 14-year-old Malin was God for a dayshe wouldn't change much Dad would still yell; her brother Sigve would stillget in trouble & Mom would still think wine is good for the heart She'dstill be friends with Hanna even if they met shoplifting Because stuff'sokay mostly & if He could fix the world wouldn't God have done it already? Darkly comic strikingand compassionate this is a portrait of small-town Norway a community thatsings with pain humour & a whole lot of nothingness told through the eyesof a unique teenage girl ...

First collected by his devoted family & colleagues as a 75th birthday present The Unpublished David Ogilvy collects a career's worth of public & private communications
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- from the ' Father of Advertising' & founder of Ogilvy & Mather Still fizzing with energy & freshness more than 25 years after it was first published its success outside the private circle of friends & colleagues it was created for was in the words of one of its editors 'because so often he spoke out on important matters long before the crowd caught up to him; because all of what he says he says so well; because so little of what he says in the book had ever before appeared in print' It

Includes:: The Theory & Practice of Selling the AGA Cooker described by Fortune magazine as 'the finest sales instruction manual ever written' & an interview in which he makes disclosures that even long-standing associates had never heard before This is a business book unlike any other a straightforward & incisive look at subjects such as salesmanship management & creativity presented in his trademark crisp prose Whether carefully prepared for a lecture or as a private joke to a friend his writing always underlines the importance of the rule 'it pays an agency to be imaginative & unorthodox'



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The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villain 48 pages Colour drawings throughout Sikoryak R ...

Full of action & interviews this baaad beefy story of the sweaty muscular celebrities of the hugely entertaining mat-slapping Pro Wrestling phenomenon The revealing secrets gimmicks & rules ( ...

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds & natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education This reissue

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For any fan of THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER or GILLESPIE & I this a startling historical crime debut based on a true Victorian murder 384 pages Mazzola Anna ...

As the third & largest sister of the famous Olympic-class trio Britannic is often & unjustly overlooked in comparison to Olympic & Titanic Launched on the eve of war in February 1914 Britannic would never see service on the White Star Line's express service on the North Atlantic mail run for which she was built After being requisitioned by the Admiralty in November 1915 His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic instead became indispensible to the thousands of injured & sick troops that needed transporting back to Britain from the Mediterranean theatre of war However as was the fate of many liners during the conflict her life was cut tragically short when she was suddenly wracked by a mysterious explosion on 21 November 1916 & sank in less than an hour
- three times faster than her sister ship Titanic & yet thanks to the improvements in safety heralded by the tragedy of her sister 1032 of 1062 on board survived Here Simon Mills brings together previously unseen material including stunning colour images of Britannic's wreck in the Aegean Sea & this poignant story to tell a tale of heroism in the First World War of an oftoverlooked but key ship to British maritime history & of the unique future that the wreck might still one day enjoy
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Showcasing photographs & illustrations from a variety of collectors' archives The Unseen Mauretania 1907 reveals the Cunard company's most luxurious ocean liner of the early twentieth century as you have never known her before When the Mauretania took to the North Atlantic for the first time in November 1907 she was the largest & fastest ship in the world serving with her sister ship the Lusitania for nearly eight years Although the Lusitania's life was cut short during the First World War the Mauretania continued to have an impressive presence at sea holding the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing until 1929 This evocative visual history by maritime expert J Kent Layton follows her glorious career which spanned four decades of the twentieth century ...

RMS Olympic was created during a period of intense competition between the north Atlantic shipping lines Sister to the ill-fated Titanic & Britannic Olympic encompassed all the qualities the line was striving for in size opulence & luxury Although sometimes overshadowed in the public consciousness by her two sisters given their unfortunate fates she enjoyed a lengthy & distinguished career that they did not including time spent as a troopship in the First World War She served as one of the White Star Line&s leading vessels from 1911 to 1935 when she was finally scrapped Packed with stunning postcards & photographs from author Patrick Mylon&s unrivalled collection this sumptuous book is the definitive unseen& history of this grand ocean liner ...