Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market &, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves & their partners. ...

Played 24, won 10, lost 10 & drawn four. Three goals, three benders, one suspension & one sacking. This is the inside story of what happened when the world's most famous footballer joined the tenth best team in Scotland
- THE definitive story of what happened when George Best came to Edinburgh.
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The final word on the world's greatest rock b&, Led Zeppelin. They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer & former confidant of both Page & Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess
- & eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction & death. WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page's longstanding interest in the occult, & goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London's O2 arena last year, & how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently
- if only his former protege, now part-time nemesis, Robert Plant will allow him to. Wall also recounts, in a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible & hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, & their infamous manager, Peter Grant. The culmination of several years research, this book tells the full, shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside, written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years.

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Over ten years after When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the b&, comes this major & extensively researched

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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by religious groups that was bedevilling most European countries. He would hold his God-appointed position & unify his kingdom. Out of these circumstances, & involving the very people who were engaged in the bitterest controversies, a book of extraordinary grace & lasting literary appeal was created: the King James Bible. 47 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford & London translated the Bible, drawing from many previous versions, & created what many believe to be the greatest prose work ever written in English – the product of a culture in a peculiarly conflicted era. This was the England of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson & Bacon; but also of extremist Puritans, the Gunpowder plot, the Plague, of slum dwellings & crushing religious confines. Quite how this astonishing translation emerges is the central question of this book. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create & shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, & the foundations of the English-speaking world. It was a generous & deliberate decision to make the Bible available to the common man: not an immediate commercial success, but which later became a bestseller, & has remained one ever since. Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating & dramatic account of the early years of the first Stewart ruler, & the scholars who laboured for seven years to create the world's greatest book; immersing us in a world of ingratiating bishops, a fascinating monarch & London at a time unlike any other. ...

When Ella's dad refuses to buy her cool school shoes or let her stay up later than 9:30, Ella decides to take things into her

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Giving an analysis of the mental pitfalls that trip up even elite critical thinkers, the author makes a case that under certain circumstances everyone is vulnerable to accepting erroneous beliefs. He begins by reviewing the hallmarks of critical thinking related to the evaluation of claims, & concludes by focusing on a range of claims. ...

Bubble & Squeak are going to Granny's for Christmas! But how can they make sure Santa finds them?

They'll pogo to Lapland!

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" Her life was in danger & she didn't know it. He felt a thrill just knowing that simple thing…"

Gemma's

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Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork & toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe
- starting with her own small life. Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to underst&. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself & her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew
- home & schoolmates & well-loved toys
- right out of Germany...


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