![]() The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). ![]() ![]() "One of the best baseball-and management-books out.Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."-Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. ![]()
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![]() She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our most fearless and accomplished writers. Perfect for reading by the fire with loved ones, or while traveling home for the holidays. ![]() From trees with mysterious powers to a tinsel baby that talks, philosophical fairies to flying dogs, a haunted house and a disappearing train, Winterson's innovative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. ![]() These tales give the reader a portal into the spirit of the season, where time slows down and magic starts to happen. For the Twelve Days of Christmas-a time of celebration, sharing, and giving-she offers these twelve plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enchanting collection of stories for the holiday season.įor years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales. ![]() ![]() Package content is not flexible and cannot be modified. Please note that if your order ships in multiple boxes, package components may not all be in the same box. The package item number is also listed at the bottom of your packing slip for reference. On your packing slip, package components are picked and packed individually and are identified with the code "PKGCMP" in the price column. Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. Hear, and listen well, my friends, and I will tell you a tale. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. by Michael Morpurgo & illustrated by Michael Foreman RELEASE DATE: Nov. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Beowulf by Sir Michael Morpurgo at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many. ![]() Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. ![]() ![]() Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). ![]() A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. ![]() ![]() MARK BITTMAN is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health. You’ll also find unexpected grilled treats like avocado, watermelon, or pound cake, and innovative surprises-like cooking meat loaf or from-scratch Rosemary Olive Oil Bread on the grill-to get the most out of every fire. Plenty of quick, high-heat recipes will get dinner on the table in short order (Spanish-Style Garlic Shrimp, Green Chile Cheeseburgers) low and slow “project” recipes (Texas-Style Smoked Brisket, Pulled Pork with Lexington BBQ Sauce) are ideal for leisurely weekend cookouts. ![]() Recipes cover every part of the meal, including appetizers, seafood, meat and poultry, vegetables (including vegetarian mains), and even desserts. 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It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and many more. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. ![]() ![]() From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and filmmaker. Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology, Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. Yes, it's ALL here: All eighteen issues in their entirety, covers, letters pages and all of the epochal, definitive single-creator anthology comic book series: Daniel Clowes's Eightball Everything is as it originally appeared, in black & white and/or full color. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, he introduces her to his brother, Hiiragi, a rather quirky young man who seems to suffer from some kind of narcolepsy and likes to cook for people since he can understand everything about them by the way they eat, and his girlfriend, Yumiko, who has an interest on the paranormal, and particularly the titular phenomenon, which, supposedly, allows people to convene with the dead. It is love at first sight, and the two fall for each other heads-on. Hitoshi meets Satsuki at night on the banks of a river, after hearing the sound of a small bell. Let us take a more thorough look at the whole endeavor however. ![]() Yoshimoto actually praised the movie on her Instagram account, mentioning that it “is a masterpiece of elegance”, and that “the director painstakingly portrayed beautiful parts of Japan's landscape that even few Japanese can find”. The first entirely Japanese-language feature of Edmund Yeo is based on a 1988 short story by Banana Yoshimoto, with the idea seeming brilliant in theory, since the style of the two is a rather good fit. ![]() ![]() ![]() As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass-abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement-transforms himself from slave to fugitive to reformer, leaving behind a legacy of social, intellectual, and political thought. ![]() In his foreword to the 2003 Modern Library paperback edition, John Stauffer writes: "My Bondage and My Freedom," a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War. Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring-specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. ![]() Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat one in five Americans has been molested one in four grew up with alcoholics one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing. ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare's Dark Artifices series. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it? But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn't recognize his family. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind - and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it. Making things even more complicated, Julian's brother, Mark - who was captured by the faeries five years ago - has been returned as a bargaining chip. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions. Together with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. ![]() ![]() Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series. ![]() |