It was Wall Street\'s toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying \'let\'s make nothing but money\' over the trading floor. This book tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street\'s entire house of cards came crashing

Does the thought of delivering a presentation make your heart skip a beat? Do your pitches fall flat no matter how much preparation you put in? Are you often comparing yourself to more eloquent speakers and wondering how they capture the room? At some point in our careers we will need to speak in front of an audience; whether to present our ideas to a group of five in a meeting, pitch for investment

This is the story of Revd David Railton MC, who after his harrowing experiences as a chaplain on the Western Front conceived the idea of the Tomb of the Unknown

Winner of the 2018 Australian Indie Fiction Award \'Lyrical and brutal\' The Irish Times Justine Lee was born breech, entering the world on her knees. She reads words the wrong way round. But she sees things more clearly than the adults around her think. Raised by her Pop since her parents left, Justine helps feed the chooks and makes dens down by the narrow stretch of the Murray River they call the

Featuring a foreword by Will Self We\'ll all experience recovery at some point in our lives, whether from addiction, physical illness, mental health issues, or loss. Many of us heal, and we may discover ways to live with our changed selves, to reclaim a life. We may find a new voice, or unearth a voice that has been submerged. Vitally, recovery can mean community. This anthology--which grew out of

This book provides basic knowledge of the programming and interfacing of devices with IoT modem and programming. The aim is to explain the basic steps to understand the IoT and its application in agriculture field. It will serve be a reference book for postgraduate and undergraduate Engineering students. Students from Electronics, Electrical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Mechanical, Computer science can

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- OPRAH\'S BOOK CLUB PICK - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER- A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD \"Quietly powerful and] moving.\" O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the

An easy-to-understand how-to guide to the single most important thing you can do in investing -- choosing and mixing your assets successfully. You don\'t need to be an expert analyst, a star stock-picker, or a rocket scientist to have better investment results than most other investors. You just need to allocate your assets in the right way, and have the conviction to stick with that allocation. The

A gorgeous collection of Spring-themed quilting and stitching designs from top fabric designer Lynette Anderson, including table runners, wall hangings and larger quilts, as well as smaller, quick-to-stitch gifts, all featuring Lynette\'s new fabric range from Lecien. Beautiful fabrics, fresh colours and cute designs are enhanced by a book design that captures Lynette\'s heart-warming, quirky

From the book: \"The reader may be disgusted by my behaviour and its rubric, and feel that I am defiling the mountain like a piece of grit in your eye. But I belong now in this place, I\'m attached to it. The mountain dictates my behaviour as the soil does a worm\'s. Can you understand that? What I\'m doing here is valid and harmonious.\" Dennis Cooper has described New Juche as \"one of the most

Flip the flaps to create your own silly animal characters or weird jungle animal combinations in this fun

The First World War was the world\'s first \'total war\'. Although large-scale wars like the Napoleonic wars had ranged across many territories, the scale of WWI was unprecedented. It was also the first war between modern, industrialised nations and mechanised warfare saw new and terrifying weapons deployed for the first time, including airplanes, tanks, zeppelins, giant warships, and poison gas. Now,

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial

An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today\'s most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society\'s insatiable demand for energy.In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century\'s crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world\'s unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere.

The forgotten origins and story of the leading power of Europe in the Dark

The first anthology on animal music and communication, with contributions from leading scientists, researchers and musicians.Ever since the accidental discovery of whale song in 1967, the idea of complex animal sentience has been gaining strength within the scientific community. A growing number of researchers and academics are exploring the idea that animals enjoy music on a similar level to human

Earthy and lyrical, Only as the Day Is Long draws from Dorianne Laux\'s five expansive, award-winning volumes and includes twenty new odes that pay homage to the poet\'s mother. Exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration, Only as the Day Is Long represents a bold and brilliant body of work from a \"poet of immense insight and masterful craft\" (Kwame

The new characters, new enemies, and a new era of Firefly continues as the crew of the Serenity find themselves stranded on The-Earth-That-Was! New York Times best-selling writer Greg Pak (Darth Vader) along with artist Simona Di Gianfelice (Power Rangers), Jordi Perez (Queen of Bad Dreams), and Jahnoy Lindsay (Marvel\'s Voices) continue the Firefly saga featuring the original crew of the Serenity.