Stories are everywhere... Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix & from Tolstoy to Toy Story this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative & learn to create their own. With startling & original insights into how we construct stories this is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to read & write better. ...

The original classic property trading board game. Invented in America during the Great Depression its the game about dealing in big money & getting rich quick. Starting from the famous GO" space move around the board buying & selling properties building houses & hotels as you go. Watch out for players landing on your property
- they owe you rent! & dont forget to collect £200 everytime you pass "GO"! Your success depends on wise speculation smart investments & clever deals. Even if your luck fails you can still resort to mortgages & deals with other players. If you become the wealthiest player with so much money that you own it all
- you win MONOPOLY! Carries EU Toy Safety Directive not suitable for children under the age of 8"

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This is the game-changing guide to smarter financial decisions. Through vividly illustrated game play Monopoly Money & You shows you how to manage real-life financial challenges using lessons from the iconic board game. You'll improve the critical skills it takes to succeed financially including: cash management; diversification; negotiating; deal-making; analyzing opportunities; creating a budget; reducing debt; making the best of limited choices; & keeping your cool in tough times. [ Orbanes] reveals tips & life lessons that are useful to everyone from high schoolers getting their first credit cards to Wall Street traders looking for an edge in their next negotiation." (Kevin Tostado producer & director of Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story). " Monopoly became a part of my life the moment my father Robert Barton
- then president of Parker Brothers
- acquired the game in 1935. Now all these years later Philip Orbanes reveals what we've all sensed since then
- the game is replete with solid financial lessons." (Randolph P. Barton former president of Parker Brothers). " As Philip Orbanes says Monopoly teaches you two N's: numbers & negotiation. Numbers are vital to financial success be it in your business career or personal life. & negotiation is really the acquired skill of selling effectively a skill you rely on daily." (Bob Reiss founder of 16 start-ups & author of Low Risk High Reward)."


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Monopoly City adds new twists to the classic board game. This board game will teach your kids about what it takes to be the best property developer & the work that goes into building their dream city. With the goal of owning the prestigious Monopoly tower your kids will be learning important lessons about money while wheeling & dealing their way to the top. Build on every Go & watch your city fortune grow. In this metropolitan edition of Monopoly be the top property developer & watch your dream city rise before your eyes. What will you build-- houses or industrial complexes schools skyscrapers or stadiums? The choice is yours. But watch out a rival developer could build a sewage plant right next to your prize property & make its value plummet. So build wisely & rake in the rent... & the prestigious Monopolytower could be yours.

Includes:: deal making button. Monopoly City is exactly like classic Monopoly in lay out rules & gameplay-roll the dice move your character around the board & try not to spend too much time in jail or go bankrupt. However Monopoly City has also made several neat changes with newly named properties new monetary values futuristic buildings & new playing cards. Instead of property deeds you acquire permits for the zones youd like to build in & this latest version also

Includes:: an electronic trading unit making it possible to hold public" or "private" auctions for your properties & districts. Not suitable for children under the age of 8 "



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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of its launch Monopoly have created & launched monopoly revolution circular board with all new graphics & sound! The Electronic Banking Unit with built in songs & sound effects will make this a Monopoly experience that the whole family will enjoy. A modern spin on the traditional game play experience. Now theres no need for paper money electronic banking on credit cards is the Monopoly Revolution way! The Revolution Edition is made up of a modern round game board & an electronic game pod that features exciting song clips & sound effects.... So now if you hear the sound of the jail door closing you know what to do! It also

Includes:: a great mix of hit songs from the passed 5 decades that bring the game to life! Monopolys 75th edition objective is to travel around the game board to become the wealthiest player by buying trading & renting classic Atlantic City properties. As always the last player left standing without going bankrupt is the winner. The Monopoly Revolution boardgame
Includes:: * 1 circular gameboard & game unit * 6 Monopoly bank cards * 6 Movers * 30 Title deed cards * 32 Houses & 12 Hotels * 2 Dice * Instructions Carries EU Toy Safety Directive not suitable for children under 8 years


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With Sancho Panza a deposed Communist mayor his faithful Rocinate an antiquated motorcar Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes classic Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life & times. ...

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the farthest edges of the known world the mighty East India Trading Company suffers catastrophic losses from pirates of the high seas. After four years away from service master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for his latest & most dangerous voyage -- a death or glory mission in the name of the Empire & the Crown. Monsoon is Wilbur Smith's extraordinary new Courtney novel: a story of anger & passion of peace & war. Action romance & adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their wildest dreams...' Let yourself be blown away by the hurricane of storytelling that is Monsoon...a fantastic reading experience.' Sunday Times ' Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared.' The Times ...

On 28 August 1984 Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether & imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years he raped & abused her never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark windowless cellar. Based on 150 new interviews with psychologists neighbours colleagues & friends who knew Fritzl as well as the insight of his own chilling confession Allan Hall reconstructs the monstrous personality behind this hideous crime. He exposes Josef Fritzl's dark past in Nazi Austria his previous conviction as a rapist the appalling conditions in which Elisabeth & her children were kept & her astonishingly brave conduct while held prisoner. Including exclusive photographs & previously unseen evidence this is a truly heart-stopping record of one of the most elaborate & disturbing cases of abuse in modern times. ...

Fright-master R.L. Stine invites you on an all-new all-terrifying adventure! When Matt ordered a container of Monster Blood from a weird website his only intention was to play a harmless practical joke. But the joke's on him
- & so is the mysterious green ooze. He's even eaten some of it! As if Matt's problems weren't big & slimy enough an invitation to Horror Land is also on its way. Can Matt & his sister survive inside a terrifying scream park where trouble lurks behind every turnstile? Can YOU?
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Not all monsters look like monsters. Some everyday folk are the worst monsters of all.. . Rossamund Bookchilds lamplighting career has been brought to a dramatic close & he now faces a new life as personal assistant to Europe a powerful monster-hunter. As he settles into his new role he finally discovers the story of his origins
- a story that must remain hidden if he is to survive in a land divided by the conflict between men & monsters. But now that he knows the truth how can Rossamund work alongside a professional monster-hater? Only his loyalty to Europe keeps him by her side as they embark on a dangerous monster-hunting tour that must in tragedy...
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