Become a mental-math master & astound your friends family & teachers with.. .A fascinating & useful book. I recommend it." --Jaime Escalante (of Stand & Deliver fame) Hiram W. Johnson High School will fascinate students of all ages. A resource must for all math programs." --Howard Wang Founding Director of Sierra Canyon College Preparatory School " The tips & tricks were really cool." --Liz Matthews age 12 Anacapa Middle School Packed with 50 tricks & tips that let you add subtract multiply & divide in a flash makes math easier & more fun than youve ever imagined. You wont need a calculator or in many cases even a pencil to come up with the correct answers. Just a few simple shortcuts will have you solving basic problems in record time. will not only amaze you it will also help you at school & in your daily life. Most of all youll have plenty of fun along the way!" ...

There's been no sign of the Beautiful Dead for weeks. Darina achingly misses Phoenix all over again. But surely he will return with the rest of the Beautiful Dead as so much still remains unresolved. It's been ten months since Arizona drowned in Hartmann Lake. Suicide it would seem. But something doesn't add up. Drowning herself in a hidden-away lake does not sound like strong confident Arizona: Ellerton High School's high-maintenance drama queen. Darina needs to help Arizona the way she helped Jonas. But time is running out.. . ...

As the waters rose in FLOOD high in the Colorado mountains the US government was building an ark. Not an ark to ride the waves but an ark that would take a select few thousand people out into space to start a new future for mankind. Sent out into deep space on a journey lasting years generations of crew members carry the hope of a new beginning on a new incredibly distant planet. But as time passes knowledge & purpose is lost & division & madness grows. & back on earth life & man find a new way. This is the epic sequel to the acclaimed FLOOD; a stirring tale of what mankind will do to survive & the perfect introduction for new readers to one of SF's greatest tropes; the generation ship. Written by one of the most significant SF writers of the last 30 years a man considered to be the heir of Arthur C. Clarke as a writer with a unique ability to popularize science & science fiction for the largest possible audience FLOOD & ARK together form a landmark in modern SF. ...

From Cornwall to Cuba Venice to France Alex Rider has travelled far & wide as a spy for MI6 facing danger & death at every turn. But in his last mission fighting the criminal organization Scorpia Alex appeared to have finally met his match. In the thrilling sequel to Scorpia" find out the answer to the question on everyone's lips
- " Will Alex Rider live to fight another day?""
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In this inventive interactive picture book created by Barney Saltzberg the bespectacled author of Beautiful Oops!" who charms young readers & their parents with a perfect light touch & joyful spirit kids get to do just what Arlo does to solve his problem. They read an eye chart look through a fold-out phoropter (that big machine optometrists use) & try on different pairs of glasses
- movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist glasses! & they interact with Arlo as he rediscovers how to be the best ball-catcher in the neighbourhood & picks up a new favourite pastime along the way
- reading! One out of five school-age children needs glasses. Arlo will show them just how lucky they are."

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Four centuries two murders one motive... Archaeologist Neil Watson did not to expect to find the body of American veteran Norman Oppenheim in the ruins of the old chantry chapel... He turns to his old student friend Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson for help. Ironically both men are looking at an invading force
- Wes the WWII Yanks & Neil a group of Spaniards killed by outraged locals as they limped from the wreckage of the Armada. Four hundred years apart two strangers in a strange land have died violently
- could the same motives of hatred jealousy & revenge be at work? Wes is running out of time to find out.. . An intriguing blend of history & detection from the author of THE MERCHANTS HOUSE.

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A sunken secret. A missing woman. A race against time. Former SAS major Ben Hope is relaxing at his home in Normandy when he hears the worst news of his life. His ex-girlfriend Dr Brooke Marcel has been kidnapped. Racing against the clock Ben's frantic search for Brooke leads him from Ireland to the Spanish mountains & the rainforests of Peru. What is the mysterious link between the kidnapping the salvage of a sunken 16th-century Spanish warship & the secret activities of its wealthy discoverer? As the trail of wreckage & mayhem intensifies Ben soon uncovers a web of intrigue corruption & brutal murder. But will he be too late to find Brooke alive? ...

One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland & the German border where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found the strength to halt the Allied advance in its tracks & to prolong the war to 1945. This book is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe. ' As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals' Times Literary Supplement ' Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war' Financial Times ...

Fifty years from now our world is unrecognisable. Pollution & warfare have poisoned the skies the water & the soil. Pockets of society still exist living in highly fortified strongholds while those outside the walls roam the landscape
- either predator or prey. But even these isolated compounds are not safe; armies of demons & once-men assault their defences & inevitably one by one they succumb. Civilisation has fallen & anarchy is the only law. Logan Tom & Angel Perez are the last two Knights to stand against the forces of chaos. These two extraordinary people have the ability to resist the dark tide & to them will fall twin tasks: to find & protect a very old & a very new magic. They are humanity's last hope. Although the odds are stacked against them Logan & Angel have the power to halt the destruction of the Old World. It will be up to others to usher in the New.. .
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Air bags cause accidents because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people but not to economists who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience & illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The obvious answer is that the owner has a monopoly but if that were the whole story there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop & prices skyrocket journalists point to the obvious exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power theyd have raised prices before the frost. Why dont concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction & others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why dont firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong reveals better answers & illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it. ...