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Starting life on BBC TV, Whack-O! transferred to radio in 1961 and ran for three series on the Light Programme until 1963. Collected here are those rediscovered episodes, featuring scholastic scheming and academic anarchy at Chiselbury School. An old-established seat of learning for the ‘sons of gentlefolk’, Chiselbury is presided over by whack-happy Headmaster Professor James Edwards, who runs rings around his fellow masters and never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the pupils and their parents.

Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn't have to question you - he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, Xander struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night - the voice of a woman begging him to save her.

Belle Stuart walked into my life with crimson lips, and a smart mouth to match, that made it impossible not to put her in her place - and on her knees. She should be off-limits. Claiming her was reckless. Keeping her is dangerous. But she's more than a conquest, she's my obsession. I'll do what it takes to protect her, even if it means letting her go. But she's the one woman I can't give up. She's the one woman I can't stop craving. She's the one I covet.

Keeping up with inflation is hard. Beating inflation is nearly impossible. But it doesn't have to be. Inflation Wealth Generator: Harness Inflation and Supercharge Your Net Worth is a practical book that explores the potential wealth generating benefits of inflation and how to make the most of them. Author Roger Martinez, a Stanford University trained economist and seasoned investor, delves into the intricacies of inflation, its causes, and its effects on the economy and financial markets.

¿Por qué ya no son tan importantes los libros de texto? ¿Por qué hay que relativizar la importancia de los deberes? ¿Por qué se debe educar en empatía? ¿Por qué la educación debe estar por encima de todos los gobiernos? La nueva educación es el testimonio sincero y valioso de un maestro de hoy. César Bona, uno de los cincuenta mejores maestros del mundo según el Global Teacher Prize, el llamado Premio Nobel de los profesores, nos aclara en este libro que ser maestro no es acomodar a los alumnos a unos planes de estudio: todo educador debe adaptarse al motor imparable y entusiasmado de un niño.

These stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuane's fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words. In this collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia, and a father's outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when lifelong friends on a fishing trip finally confront their deep dislike for each other.

Kneebone maps out a path we're all following, whether in our career or any other part of our lives. He shows how you start by 'doing time' as an Apprentice, copying how things are already done. Then you set out on your own as a Journeyman, developing your 'voice' and taking full responsibility for your work, with its successes and inevitable failures. Finally, you become a Master, passing on your knowledge and skill to future generations. Expert explains the internal processes we all have to go through as we edge forwards.

Desperate to escape an unwanted marriage to an unsavory man, 18-year-old Amanda Eaker is delighted when James Coventry, a handsome gentleman with powerful connections, promises to rescue her. But after she is spirited away in his carriage late at night, Amanda soon learns that James has very specific plans for her, and those plans leave no room for her modesty. Amanda is to be enrolled in a unique school run by James' friend Dr. Reginald Brown, whose specialty is teaching particularly innocent brides to surrender their bodies.

Originally meant to be heard rather than read, this great epic returns to the oral form for today's listeners.

"Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos," libro aprobado por el Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería desde su primera publicación, es una guía indispensable sobre las increíbles criaturas del mundo mágico. Presenta una colección de criaturas mágicas, detalladas de forma magistral por el reputado magizoólogo Newt Scamander, al que quizá recuerdes por las películas del mismo nombre. Las estanterías de la biblioteca de Hogwarts también albergan muchos otros libros fascinantes. Si disfrutaste con "Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos", quizá quieras echar un vistazo a algunos de sus otros tesoros: "Quidditch a través de los tiempos" y "Los cuentos de Beedle el Bardo."

Blending fact and fiction, this trilogy by a very young Tolstoy centres on the inner life of Nikolai as he navigates the universal challenge of growing up. In relating his thoughts and feelings, his self-awareness and embarrassing mistakes, the work is timeless: regardless of era, location and environment, we are given an unvarnished portrait of one boy—both self-important and self-deprecating—as he tries to find his place in the world. The sense of nostalgia, with its strange blend of sadness and solace, is tangible as the years pass and the child becomes a young man.

In a May 2019 countrywide referendum, Ireland voted overwhelmingly to make abortion legal; three years earlier, it had done the same with same-sex marriage. With help from prominent Irish and Irish American voices like historian and best-selling author Tim Pat Coogan and the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, A New Ireland tells the story of a modern revolution against all odds.

When the forces of chaos interrupt the most important meal of Dash's day and conspire against him, his friends, his school, his town, and indeed the entire planet, Dash needs to take things into his own hands, and some crazy stuff starts to happen.

Alexander had the world at his feet and me on my knees until secrets tore us apart. I should stay away from him. I should run. But I'm addicted to him...to the pleasure and the pain. He warned me about his dark side...about his past. But I have a dark side, too. Together we'll conquer our demons...if we don't destroy each other first. Love doesn't always conquer all, but it can Conquer Me.

Long considered the world's greatest adventure story, The Odyssey is celebration of life in all its infinite variety. The poem has deeply ingrained in us the sense of life as a journey, introducing a gallery of characters and events that have profoundly influenced western literature. Scylla and Charybdis, Circe, the Lotus Eaters, a visit with the dead, and, through it all, Odysseus's determined search for home, are all here in a classic translation.

Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together, to give it purpose and direction, he tells the writers: 'I want you to concoct a story about aliens poised to invade earth... I want it to be massively detailed, and completely believable. If you need props and evidence to back it up, then we can create them."

Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, and in 1981 he captained the England team to the momentous Ashes series victory against Australia. In The Art of Captaincy, his treatise on leadership and motivation, he draws directly on his experience of man-managing a team, which included a pugnacious Ian Botham and Geoffrey Boycott, to explain what it takes to be a leader on and off the field.

The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape instantly recognizable, as is the howling noise it makes when the engines are opened for takeoff. Vulcan Boys is the first Vulcan book recounted completely firsthand by the operators themselves.

It's 2037, and the United States government is on the brink of collapse amid rebel uprisings and aggressive political maneuvering turning the country into an active war zone. In a nation where opportunity is sequestered behind doors open only to the privileged, joining the Army seemed like James Trent’s best option. He just never thought he’d actually see combat. Now Trent finds himself on the front lines of a second American Civil War, fighting for a cause he’s not sure he even believes in.

After more than a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin?