Bad deals come back to haunt Scrooge Mc Duck! When our miserly mallard isn’t buying screwy outer space real estate he’s betting fellow gold miners that he’ll never get married—then falling for a spendthrift spouse! Add a winter wager with Santa’s grouchy grandpa & you’ve hit the tightwad trifecta for thrills! Collects issues No 10–12 ...

Scrooge Donald & the nephews are off on more adventures in these tales from around the world OK Quack may look like a normal Duckburgian to Scrooge Mc Duck—but he&s really a spaceman whose shrunken ship is lost in Scrooge&s Money Bin! Then in " Crisis at Sorcery Summit" Magica De Spell sics her fellow magic-makers on Scrooge & in " The Great Cackle Caper" a golden egg has turned up at the Mc Duck Chicken Farm & the Beagle Boys are ruling the roost! Collects issues 29-31 of IDW&s Uncle Scrooge comic series About the Author Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian artist that started his career at the age of 14 inking for Romano Scarpa producing stories for Disney with the characters Micke Mouse Donald Duck Scrooge Mc Duck & others He is known for combining the traditional appearance of Disney characters with realistic illustration of technological gadgets & machinery ...

Badger Bill needs rescuing He's been kidnapped by two nasty sisters who are about to make him fight a boxing match against three even nastier dogs The four most depressed llamas in the history of llamas need rescuing too They are about to be turned into llama pies But never fear Uncle Shawn is here! He loves rescuing things He has a rescuing plan which involves dancing & a mole & an electric fence What could possibly go wrong? ...

Published in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America Describing the many trials & eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering good-hearted slave Uncle Tom it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty Uncle Tom's Cabin has remained controversial to this day seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery & remains one of the most important American novels ever written ...

Editedand with an Introduction & Notes by Dr Keith Carabine University of Kent at Canterbury Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular influential & controversial book written by an American Stowe's rich panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in & responsible for the sin of slavery & resoundingly concludes that only repentance justice & mercy' will prevent the onset of the wrath of Almighty God!' The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe asthe little lady' who started the great Civil War As Keith Carabine argues in his lively & provocative Introduction the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing & contradictory responses among Northern & Southern readers moderate & radical abolitionist groups blacks & women with regard to issues of form genre politics religion race & gender that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex & divide modern readers & critical constituencies ...

As heard on Radcliffe & Maconie Danny Baker & Simon Mayo Fascinating from start to finish' Simon Mayo Radio 2 The age of the rock star like the age of the cowboy has passed Like the cowboy the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations What did we see in them? Swagger Recklessness Sexual charisma Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief A certain way of carrying themselves Good hair Interesting shoes Talent we wished we had What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us To live out their songs To stay young forever No wonder many didn't stay the course In Uncommon People David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995 taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies they also shaped us our real lives & our fantasies Uncommon People isn't just their story It's ours as well ...

The age of the rock star like the age of the cowboy has passed Like the cowboy the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations What did we see in them? Swagger Recklessness Sexual charisma Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief A certain way of carrying themselves Good hair Interesting shoes Talent we wished we had What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us To live out their songs To stay young forever No wonder many didn't stay the course In Uncommon People David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995 taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies they also shaped us our real lives & our fantasies Uncommon People isn't just their story It's ours as well ...

This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom & whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense
- thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense
- is the secret to competitive success For those who want to succeed & stand out from the herd this book is a beacon of uncommon sense & a timely antidote to managerial humbug

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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor A hectic funny sexual affair between two best friends A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional & physical scars A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom & a whirlwind press junket A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce Four friends going to the moon & back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life These are just some of the people & situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction a collection of stories that dissects with great affection humour & insight the human condition & all its foibles The stories are linked by one thing in each of them a typewriter plays a part sometimes minor sometimes central To many typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship beauty & individuality that is harder & harder to find in the modern world In his stories Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level Known for his honesty & sensitivity as an actor Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing Alternatingly whimsical moving & occasionally melancholy Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans It also establishes him as a welcome & wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships families love & normal everyday behaviour ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor A hectic funny sexual affair between two best friends 416 pages Hanks Tom ...