This interactive board book lets you mix & match the heads bodies & tails of ten real prehistoric animals
- like the saber-tooth
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What if I were to tell you that a psychopathic arsonist might also be the person most likely to save you from a burning building? This book is about a special kind of persuasion: flipnosis. It has an incubation period of just seconds & can instantly disarm even the most discerning mind. Flipnosis is black-belt mind control. It doesnt just turn the tables it kicks them over. From the malign but fascinating powers of psychopaths serial killers & con men to the political genius of Winston Churchill
- via the grandmasters of martial arts Buddhist monks magicians advertisers salesmen CEOs & frogs that mug each other
- Kevin Duttons brilliantly original & revelatory book explores what cutting-edge science can teach us about the techniques of persuasion.

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Award-winning nature photographer Jonathan Chester captures the essence of the Antarctics most popular residents to illustrate the similarities between penguins lives & our own. Patrick Regans clever narrative offers surprising insights & humorously entertaining life lessons. The appeal of penguins is undeniable & universal. & we can learn a lot from these fat funny birds. ...

The sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake. When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love & she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. & not for long. ...

A delicious romantic comedy from the bestselling author of Elegance ' Unique situation available for attractive well mannered reasonably educated young man. Hours irregular. Pay generous. Discretion a must.' In a small office in Half Moon Street Hughie Venables-Smythe discovers the world of the professional flirt. A timeless art it can save a marriage or lift a heart faster than any therapy. Letitia Vane runs a bespoke lingerie shop in Belgravia & understands just how to make women feel beautiful. But she cannot let her guard down & fall in love least of all with Hughie. Olivia Bourgault de Coudray is in an unhappy marriage to a very wealthy man. When a series of beautiful notecards begins to appear with intriguing clues handwritten on each her interest is piqued. But the same clues are being delivered to Letitia. Who is flirting with whom? & is flirtation as innocent as it seems -- or can it lead to far more dangerous territories of the heart? ...

Many people are mortified by their flirting skills & get flustered when dealing with people theyre attracted to. This easy-to-follow manual to mastering the art of flirting offers indispensable advice on working the dating scene & reinvigorating your love life. Exploring key areas including listening & communication skills body language & self-image Flirting For Dummies provides readers with all the tools they need to boost their self-confidence & engage with people in a natural & charming way. Flirting For Dummies: Features black & white photographs to provide examples of flirting in action Gives advice on getting to grips with flirting basics & how to get noticed Covers how to develop a killer rapport with body language Provides advice on taking the next step Gives Top Ten tips such as opening lines & flirting faux pas About the author Elizabeth Clark is a renowned flirting & charisma expert. She has featured on ITVs Des & Mel BBC Breakfast & in a host of radio shows & press articles. Elizabeth is the founder of Rapport Unlimited- a company specialising in presentation skills training & keynote speaking. ...

Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard her French exchange before he comes to visit & her normal ability to write charismatic charming & seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution
- a digitally enhanced solution
- & who better to ask to help than her best mate Fred? Its only when youve stopped laughing that you realise in addition to being incredibly funny Sue Limb has dealt seamlessly with the bigger themes of friendship & loyalty Fans will lap up this prequel as it charts Fred & Jesss relationship
- & Jesss relationships with others
- before Fred & Jess actually get together. The whole book sparkles with Sue Limbs characteristic wit & humour & will send fans racing to read the rest of the books in the series.



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Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers G.K. Chesterton & nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago. Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar whose boat the body was found in is clearly withholding information & the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye -- even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime & whether he will ever unravel it! In 1931 Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers & ten other crime writers from the newly-formed ' Detection Club' collaborated in publishing a unique crime novel. In a literary game of consequences each author would write one chapter leaving G.K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue & Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition each of the authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope all of which appeared at the end of the book with Agatha Christie's ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be 'enough to make the book worth buying on its own'. The authors of this novel are: G. K. Chesterton Canon Victor Whitechurch G. D. H. Cole & Margaret Cole Henry Wade Agatha Christie John Rhode Milward Kennedy Dorothy L. Sayers Ronald Knox Freeman Wills Crofts Edgar Jepson Clemence Dane & Anthony Berkeley. ...

Next year. Sea levels begin to rise. The change is far more rapid than any climate change predictions; metres a year. Within two years London only 15 metres above the sea is drowned. New York follows the Pope gives his last address from the Vatican Mecca disappears beneath the waves. Where is all the water coming from? Scientists estimate that the earth was formed with seas 30 times in volume their current levels. Most of that water was burnt off by the sun but some was locked in the earths mantle. For the tip of Everest to disappear beneath the waters would require the seas to triple their volume. That amount of water is still much less than 1% of the earths volume. & somehow it is being released. The world is drowning. The biblical flood has returned. & the rate of increase is building all the time. Mankind is on the run heading for high ground. Nuclear submarines prowl through clouds of corpses rising from drowned cities populations are decimated & finally the dreadful truth is known. Before 50 years have passed there will be nowhere left to run. FLOOD tells the story of mankinds final years on earth. The stories of a small group of people caught up in the struggle to survive are woven into a tale of unimaginable global disaster. & the hope offered for a unlucky few by a second great ark.. . ...

Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family & their faithful guardian Edgar the raven & discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherh&. Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded: Lord Valevine Otherhand is too busy trying to invent the unthinkable & discover the unknowable; his wife Minty is too absorbed in her latest obsession
- baking; & ten-year-old Cudweed is running riot with his infernal pet monkey. Only Solstice the black-haired poetry-writing Otherhand daughter seems to pay any attention. As the lower storeys of the castle begin mysteriously to flood & kitchen maids continue to go missing the family come ever closer to the owner of the black tail... Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk
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