Glamour intrigue lust & betrayal merge in the sizzling new blockbuster from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Daddys Girls New York billionaire Adam Gold is moving to London. Hes sexy single & about to come face to face with The Gold Diggers. Karin the jet-setting swimsuit entrepreneur & Londons most glamorous socialite. Adam Gold could be her perfect accessory. Erin the naive country girl who snares the job as Adams PA. But the bright lights & obscene money threaten to lose her everything she once held dear. Molly a fading eighties supermodel with an expensive drug habit. Adam could be her last chance at gaining the ultimate lifestyle before time finally catches up with her. Summer is Mollys daughter. A burgeoning beauty living in the shadows of her famous mother. Now the tables are about to turn when she lands herself a television deal & becomes the next big thing. From Monte Carlo to Lake Como St Moritz to St Barts Gold Diggers takes us on a heady journey through the social circuit of the super-rich plunging the reader into a world of sex murder & scorching betrayal. Tasmina Perry is bringing sexy back! ...

Gold First has: * New design & 100% new content with the same winning formula * Fast-paced syllabus with comprehensive exam coverage * Stimulating discussion-rich topics * Strong focus on vocabulary & chunks of language * Extensive writing support including full reference with sample answers With the Coursebook: * Active Book: digital book with audio interactive activities & Vocab Trainer to practise & remember new words. * i Tests.com access code for one full FCE test: realistic interactive exam practice in the format of the exam ...

Lovejoy discovers how the lure of gold brings out the worst kind of treasure seeker when broke as usual & earning a crust as an unlikely babysitter he stumbles across the diaries of a painter that appear to point to the whereabouts of a fabled hoard of Roman gold coins. Lovejoy is tempted to dismiss the whole thing as a hoax but vile threats & violent intimidation have a way of changing his mind. He sets out to unravel the clues in the diaries with some particularly nasty characters dogging his every move. ...

Big King was at the shaft station when they heard the water coming. It sounded like an express train in a tunnel a dull bellow of irresistible power. The water was pushing the air from the drive ahead of it so that a hurricane of wind came roaring from the mouth of the drive blowing out a cloud of dust & loose rubbish. Rod Ironsides ambitious & hard-living mining expert knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people -- for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams & ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself.. . ...

High Performance Anthropologist Rasmus Ankersen brings his first-hand study of success to a mass audience for the first time. We all want to discover our unique talents & make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen a 26 year old ex-professional footballer & performance specialist quit his job spent his last pennies booking flight tickets & for six intense months travelled the world & literally trained & lived with the worlds best athletes & their coaches in an attempt to answer this very question. Why have the worlds best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are 137 of the worlds 500 best female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston Jamaica succeed to produce most of the worlds best sprinters? What is the secret behind Brazils mass production of soccer super stars? In The Gold Mine Effect Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone
- or any business organisation or team
- can defy the many misconceptions of high performance & learn to build their own gold mine of real talent.

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Elite athletes arent born. Theyre made. Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games
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In 1945 US Intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion & other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation & with Nazi loot recovered in Europe to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. Overseen by General Mac Arthur President Truman & John Foster Dulles this Black Gold" gave Washington virtually limitless unaccountable funds providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies to bribe political & military leaders & to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. Drawing on a vast range of original documents & thousands of hours of interviews Gold Warriors exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century." ...

The Brit Writers' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing & publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries in its eight categories & is offering the largest prize ever for unpublished writers in a creative writing competition. Infinite Ideas will publish this year's deserved winner of the Children's story category Catherine Cooper's wonderful novel The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling & magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task & enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists & turns talking ravens & mischievous Spriggans The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining & exciting tale from a very talented new author. Your kids will love it & so will you! ...

Moving between Spanish conquest abroad & the court of the astute Charles V Hugh Thomas The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V" is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the sixteenth century they swept across the continent in a blaze of imperial expansion & brutal savagery. Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellans circumnavigation in 1522 & ending with Charles death in 1558 Hugh Thomas masterful work brilliantly brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods of the Renaissance revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala Yucatan Columbia Venezuela Peru & Chile; how the audacious conquistador Francisco de Orellana sailed down the Amazon why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico & what drove Hernando de Soto to pursue worldly riches in Florida Mississippi & Georgia. While adventurers & explorers like Cortes & Pizarro build entire cities & amassed vast wealth from the treasures of the land they also killed thousands & left the indelible mark of Spains language & religion for centuries to come. " Thomas tells the story of missionary zeal & military plunder with a zest worthy of a swashbuckling historical novelist". (" The Times"). "A riveting story of adventure & cruelty.. .a considerable scholarly accomplishment". (Ben Wilson " Daily Telegraph"). " This monumental history is an extraordinary achievement...A beguilingly-written account of a fascinating subject". (Alexander Samson " The Times Higher Education"). Supplement Hugh Thomas is the author of among other books " The Spanish Civil War" (1962) which won the Somerset Maugham Award " Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom" (1971) " An Unfinished History of the World" (1979) & the first volume of his " Spanish Empire trilogy Rivers of Gold" (2003)." ...

From some of the earliest attempts at art to the plant hunters of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries the images produced in the study of plants have held a fascination for all those who love nature. The Golden Age of Botanical Art" brings together the stories of the intrepid explorers (some of whom became botanical artists by default) & the many professional artists who recorded the flora that they discovered on their travels & expeditions. Truly global in its scope this beautifully illustrated book moves across centuries & continents looking at the artistry of China & India delving into the sketchbooks of explorers in the Himalayas & following the voyages of those who discovered new worlds & new species as far apart as Russian & South America. Alongside special features on key figures in the botanical art world the book highlights the work of some of the great names of botanical art including Ehret & Bauer. " The Golden Age of Botanical Art"

Includes:: a host of rarely or previously unpublished images & shows how what might have been a pastime for some also made a significant contribution to our understanding of the world & the glories of nature."

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