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100 Things to Know about Numbers, Computers and Coding by Alice James; Eddie Reynolds; Minna Lacey; Usborne; Rose Hall; Federico Mariani (Illustrator); Parko Polo (Illustrator); Shaw Shaw Nielsen (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: 100 Things to Know Ser.
Did you know there's a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first computer bugs were actual insects and that most of the internet is under water? This fascinating book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, bright, infographic illustrations, a glossary and index, and links to sp ...Show more
5 People Who Died During Sex : And 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists by Karl Shaw
Category: Humour
All in perfectly bad taste Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ...Show more
82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle by Art Shaw, Robert L. Wise
Category: Military
"A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw's voice as if he were sitting beside you." -Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable soldier's-eye view of the Pacific War's bloodiest battle, by the first American officer ashore Okinawa. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard ...Show more
A Baby Scandal in Italy by Chantelle Shaw
Category: Fiction
Her boardroom bombshell...will change both their lives! Bursting into Rafael Vieri's business meeting in Rome, penniless Ivy has one goal: get the billionaire named as her orphaned nephew's father to take responsibility for his child. So she's shocked to discover she's exposed the wrong man! Bitter ex ...Show more
A Baby Scandal in Italy (Larger print) by Chantelle Shaw
Category: Fiction
Her boardroom bombshell...will change both their lives! Bursting into Rafael Vieri's business meeting in Rome, penniless Ivy has one goal: get the billionaire named as her orphaned nephew's father to take responsibility for his child. So she's shocked to discover she's exposed the wrong man! Bitter ...Show more
A Cross of Stars by Patricia Shaw
Category: Fiction
'As dramatic and colourful as the land itself' Gold Coast Bulletin
A Guide to Being a Friend by Natalie Shaw; Patrick Spaziante (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Olivia TV Tie-In Ser.
Olivia explains what being a good friend is all about in this 8x8 storybook with stickers! What makes someone a good friend? Find out from the best best friend around: Olivia! Olivia loves baking cookies with Francine and playing music with Julian. She loves being a friend! Everyone's favorite pig give ...Show more
A House Built on Sand by Tina Shaw
Category: Fiction
Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files--and her job as a result. Her marbles? 'Mild cognitive impairment', according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose. Rose has her own troubles with memory: a recurring vi ...Show more
A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw
Category: Accessories
London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was: comfortably sexist, racially prejudiced and crawling with corruption. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a ...Show more
A Song from Dead Lips by Shaw William
Category: Fiction | Series: Breen and Tozer Ser.
FREE LOVE. DEADLY PRICE. 'William Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction' Peter James 'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' Val McDermid 'A first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties' C. J. Sansom The Runaway A nameless young woman is found naked ...Show more
A String of Pearls - The Literary Landscape of the Lake District by Margaret Wilson (Editor); Helen Shaw (Photographer)
Category: Travel
From famous poets such as Wordsworth and Ian McEwan to modern thriller writers such as Reginald Hill and Val McDermid, the awe-inspiring Fells, crashing waterfalls and dramatic still waters of the Lake District have inspired writers for centuries. In this illustrated anthology, Margaret Wilson has selec ...Show more
A Trillionaire's Pathway - My Fantasy Hotel by Chris Shaw
Category: Business
A tongue-in-cheek self-help book for entrepreneurs, based on a hotel/casino in north Queensland catering to Chinese tourists and high rollers. Business ideas include high-speed monorail travel, franchising, innovative tourism ideas, and use of ethanol fuel derived from grapes to reduce costs.