This title is the winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award. It is longlisted for the Financial Times" Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. In today's financial climate we are all naturally obsessed by debt. In almost every aspect of our life we experience it
- on our credit cards mortgages bank loans & student loans. But where has this debt come from? How does it work? What is any money really worth? & what promises do we need to believe to keep the whole system afloat? In this fascinating look at money through the ages
- including our own unstable future
- award-winning financial journalist Philip Coggan examines the flawed structure of the global finance systems as they exist today & asks with deeper imbalances that the world is currently facing what's actually at stake."


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This entry in the successful series focuses on classic paper quilling: a form of filigree thats perfect for scrap booking as well as card & ornament making. Using a friendly question & answer format & dozens of close-up step-by-step photographs it explains how to roll coils make basic shapes & create off-centred circles scrolls roses loops & more. For every technique theres a project! ...

Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window & climbs into his life
- dressed like a ninja & summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge
- he follows. After their all-nighter ends & a new day breaks Q arrives at school to discover that Margo always an enigma has now become a mystery. She has disappeared. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance.. .and they are for him. Trailing Margo's disconnected path across the USA the closer Q gets the less sure he is of who he is looking for.

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What do reading a book smoking a cigarette throwing confetti & voting in an election have in common? The answer of course is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change
- Christmas wont be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. & the language of paper
- documents files & folders
- has survived digitisation. In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper & explores its paradox
- its vulnerability & durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper its printed on.



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Discover the versatility of techniques possible in folding paper through this beautiful collection of original project designs. This title features six core paper folding techniques including teabag folding origami & iris folding
- essential knowledge for every papercrafter! Over 25 original projects make unique gifts for many occasions including Christmas birthdays & anniversaries. Novice papercrafters can follow the clear specially drawn step-by-step artworks while more experienced crafters will be inspired by the many design variations & ideas.
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This fully updated edition offers over 120 000 words phrases & definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus a databank of 21st century English containing over 2 billion words. The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people countries & science.

Includes:: 3 months' access to Oxford Dictionaries Pro at oxforddictionaries.com.

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Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...

Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...

Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...

Paperblanks have been producing superb writing journals for nearly 20 years. They believe that the written word matters & that ...