Do you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job career & social life? How to be a Brilliant Thinker" will help you to achieve all these ideals by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking analytical thinking problem analysis idea generation & other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive evaluate & implement great ideas as well as improve your memory sell your ideas & win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use backed up by exercises puzzles quizzes graphics & illustrations." ...

In ten easy-to-follow spreads this action-packed guide to sleuthing contains everything you need to know to examine a crime scene collect evidence identify suspects & solve the most confounding crimes
- just like Sherlock Holmes. This title

Includes:: an inkpad for taking fingerprints make-your-own periscope kit & a fold-out poster with a case to solve. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most well-known fictional characters of all time. He featured in 60 stories & books written by Arthur Conan Doyle & has been immortalised in over 100 films & plays.


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How to be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess but about feeling like one. What this deliciously reassuring & mouthwatering cookbook shows is that it's not hard to bake a tray of muffins or a sponge layer cake
- but the rewards are high. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies understands our anxieties & puts cakes pies pastries preserves puddings bread & biscuits back into our own kitchens. With a writer's flair & a cook's passion Nigella brings you everything from brownies to bagels from gooseberry-cream crumble to double apple pie from pizza to pistachio macaroons from festive bake to Barbie cake.
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How to be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess but about feeling like one. What this deliciously reassuring & mouthwatering cookbook shows is that it's not hard to bake a tray of muffins or a sponge layer cake
- but the rewards are high. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies understands our anxieties & puts cakes pies pastries preserves puddings bread & biscuits back into our own kitchens. With a writer's flair & a cook's passion Nigella brings you everything from brownies to bagels from gooseberry-cream crumble to double apple pie from pizza to pistachio macaroons from festive bake to Barbie cake.
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How to be a Gardener Book Two available in long last in paperback is the hugely successful follow up to the fastest-selling gardening title of all time. Having set out the basic principles of gardening in Book One this second volume takes an in depth look at all areas of designing & planting your garden. Alan's love of gardening & years of experience really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design & plants the chapters include boundaries & climbers patios & containers borders & perennials & water & wildlife gardens. Released to coincide with How to be a Gardener Revisited a reversioned series of HTBAG 1 & 2 featuring new footage with Alan Titchmarsh in January 2005. With its perfect balance of practical advice & inspirational ideas How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening & together with How to be a Gardener Book One provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner. ...

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane & timelessly true for example: It is a wife's duty to look her best. If you don't tidy yourself up when you have done the bulk of the day's work don't be surprised if your husband begins to compare you unfavourably with the typist at the office. Don't forget that a wife can always set the standard of behaviour for the home. If she allows laxities of dress or conversation at the table she will soon find that they become a fixed procedure. Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining & especially refrain from doing so before the servants. After all is said & done husbands are not terribly difficult to manage. ...

Marta & Hector have been married for a long time -- so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her & she has always done everything she can to be a good wife. But when Hector comes home with a secret their ordered domestic life begins to unravel. In the shadows there is a blonde girl that only Marta can see. & she is trying to tell her something.. . ...

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Design consultant & writer Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive & meaningful work & avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career & suggestions
- that you wont have been taught at college
- for running a successful business. This revised extended edition

Includes:: all-new chapters covering professional skills the creative process & global trends including green issues ethics & the rise of digital culture. The book contains all-new imagery & the previous interviews have been replaced with new ones each focusing on a specific issue of importance to graphic designers.



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Much has been written about what to expect of your child in the first year of its life how to tame toddlers & raise children. In an age prone to overparenting the time is right for the UKs largest online parenting organisation to put the emphasis back on a mothers needs. Often the pressure to be the perfect mother can add to a mothers worries
- especially first time around. Forget the Yummy Mummy phenomenon that says its possible to look after a newborn baby keep your house spic & span cook gourmet family dinners & still manage to put your lipstick & heels on. Life isnt really like that. This practical handbook looks at the elements of parenting that can make a mother unhappy & offers information & advice on how to cope. Most importantly this is real advice for real women from real women
- the 250 000 members of netmums.com together with advice from the experts.

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THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.. . Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter a dragon-whisperer & the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy & finding it very hard to be a Hero. Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? & if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN will he live to tell the tale? How to Train Your Dragon is a Dream Works film starring Gerrard Butler America Ferrera & Jonah Hill out on DVD in October 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragonseries by Cressida Cowell. Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Train Your Dragon How to Speak Dragonese How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse How to Twist a Dragon's Tale A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons How to Ride a Dragon's Storm & How to Break a Dragon's Heart. Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go for games downloads activities & sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup & all of your favourite characters learn to speak Dragonese & train your own Dragon to do tricks! ...