If you`re going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one. As co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy & fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent & helped shape the careers of hundreds of A-list stars & directors, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Steven Seagal, Bill Murray, Robin Williams & David Letterman. But this personal history is much more than celebrity friendships & bare-knuckled deal-making. It`s an underdog`s story: How did a kid with no connections work his way into the William Morris mailroom, & become the most powerful person in Hollywood? How did a superagent also become a power in producing, advertising, mergers & acquisitions & modern art? & what were the personal consequences of all those deals? After decades of near-silence in the face of intense controversy, Michael Ovitz is finally telling his whole story in this blistering, unforgettable memoir. ...

A colourful lift-the-flap guessing game perfect for sharing at bedtime. Who is sleeping in the river, under the leaf & in the tree? Lift the flaps to find out & discover a sleepy surprise at the end, in this colourful bedtime board book from acclaimed author/illustrator Petr Horacek. ...

Tom got a note from his girlfriend. It says she hasn`t left him, but she`s gone. But where the hell is she? When is she coming back? & what is Tom supposed to do in the meantime? With each new clue to Hayley`s whereabouts, Tom is forced to question whether he truly knows his girlfriend at all. Because who is Hayley really, anyway? Who is this other strange girl following him? & who, for that matter, is Tom Ditto? ...

Who Knows Where? is a global location guessing game in which opponents race to be the first player to travel around the world by locating famous places on the double sided world map board. It’s quick & simple to play, with everyone playing all the time, so there’s no waiting around. With over 1000 locations to guess in 5 categories, including capitals, major cities & towns, events & facts, famous tourist sites & beautiful images of many iconic landmarks it’s a great fun way to learn about our world. There are easy & hard question cards, adjustable levels of accuracy for beginners & experts, & a double sided board allowing you to play on the easier country map with borders & named countries or more challenging satellite image with no borders or countries marked. The rules are flexible to make the game easier or harder according to the level of expertise of the players, & with a great combination of knowledge, tactics & luck everyone can win. This is a brilliant game for 2 to 4 players or teams & a great fun way to learn about our world. Contents:- Double sided board with 2 different world maps- Easy & hard question cards with over 1000 locations to guess- 4 Clue cards- 8 playing pieces- Dice- Rules Sheet Recommended for ages 12+. ...

Elliot`s mum is ill & his home is under threat, but a shooting star crashes to earth & changes his life forever. The star is Virgo
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Who`s that behind the tree? Lift the flaps to find all your favourite characters from the Gruffalo. A brand new title from the My First Gruffalo pre-school & baby range. A chunky board book with sturdy flaps
- perfect for small paws. Publishing alongside My First Gruffalo: Spot & Say, a first words board book with handy tabs.
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The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 appeared to usher in a remarkable new era of peace & co-operation with the West. This, we were told, was the end of history: now the entire world would embrace enlightenment values & liberal democracy. Reality has proved very different. Russia emerged from the 1990s battered & humiliated, a latter day Weimar Germany, its protests ignored as NATO expanded eastwards to take in Moscow`s former satellites. Vladimir Putin offered a new start when he took the place of the erratic Boris Yeltsin in the Kremlin, but, determined to restore his country`s bruised pride, he has wrong footed the West with his incursions into Georgia, Ukraine & Syria. A cold war threatens to turn hot once again. In this provocative new work, based on exclusive interviews with key players either side of the new divide, Peter Conradi addresses the failures of understanding on both sides over the past twenty-five years & outlines how we can get relations back on track before it`s too late. ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 appeared to usher in a remarkable new era of peace & co-operation with the West. This, we were told, was the end of history: now the entire world would embrace enlightenment values & liberal democracy. Reality has proved very different. Russia emerged from the 1990s battered & humiliated, a latter day Weimar Germany, its protests ignored as NATO expanded eastwards to take in Moscow`s former satellites. Vladimir Putin offered a new start when he took the place of the erratic Boris Yeltsin in the Kremlin, but, determined to restore his country`s bruised pride, he has wrong footed the West with his incursions into Georgia, Ukraine & Syria. A cold war threatens to turn hot once again. In this provocative new work, based on exclusive interviews with key players either side of the new divide, Peter Conradi addresses the failures of understanding on both sides over the past twenty-five years & outlines how we can get relations back on track before it`s too late. ...

In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat & brother-in-law to John of Gaunt
- one of the most powerful men in the kingdom
- Chaucer was celebrated as his country`s finest living poet, rhetorician & scholar: the pre-eminent intellectual of his time. & yet nothing is known of his death. In 1400 his name simply disappears from the record. We don`t know how he died, where or when; there is no official confirmtion of his death & no chronicle mentions it; no notice of his funeral or burial. He left no will & there`s nothing to tell us what happened to his estate. He didn`t even leave any manuscripts. How could this be? What if he was murdered? What if he & his writings had become politically inconvenient in the seismic social shift that occurred with the overthrow of the liberal Richard II by the reactionary, oppressive regime of Henry IV. Would the dogs of suppression, unleased by Archbishop Arundel, have been snapping at the heels of a dangerous poet? Terry Jones` hypothesis is the introduction to a reading of Chaucer`s writings as evidence that might be held against him, interwoven with a portrait of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, its politics & its personalities.

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Welcome to the secret world of skeletons! From the largest elephant to the smallest mouse, each animal is different, & that goes for their bones, too! Meet a whole host of amazing skeletons & learn about what makes each one unique, from how to tell a gorilla from a human to how to recognize a turtle just from its skull. Lift the flaps to discover each skeleton`s animal owner, & find out amazing anatomy facts along the way! Can you work out Who Owns These Bones? ...