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Van Haren Publishing It Service Management: Iso/Iec 20000-1:2018 - Introduction and Implementation Guide
£23.70
Pajama Press Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family
One day they will send for her, but how long must Van Ho wait for her family to find a way to get her out of South Vietnam? During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. They have escaped the new communist regime that has taken over Ho Chi Minh City for freedom in the West. Four-year-old Van is too young--and her grandmother is too old--for such a dangerous journey by boat, so the two have been left behind. Once settled in North America, her parents will eventually be able to sponsor them, and Van and her grandmother will fly away to safety. But in the meantime, Van is forced to work hard to satisfy her aunt and uncle, who treat her like an unwelcome servant. And at school she must learn that calling attention to herself is a mistake, especially when the bully who has been tormenting her turns out to be the son of a military policeman. Van Ho's true story strikes at the heart and will resonate with so many families affected by war, where so many children are forced to live under or escape from repressive regimes.
£12.99
Die Gestalten Verlag Leaving the Comfort Zone: The Adventure of a Lifetime
£36.00
Luster Publishing Morphē: Van Damme - Vandeputte Architects
The Belgian architectural firm Van Damme – Vandeputte was founded 5 years ago but their portfolio is impressive, featuring a wide range of architectural projects: new residential constructions tailored to the client’s needs, sustainable and high-quality renovations, interior design with special detailing, offices and corporate sites built with, among other things, great attention to the integration into the surroundings, and restorations of (protected) heritage sites. In this coffee-table book, compiled and designed with the greatest care, the architects present a selection of projects and shed light on the process and philosophy behind their oeuvre. The book is like an extension of their work and exemplifies the firm’s passion and dedication, captured in the amazing photos by Thomas De Bruyne (Cafeine). He specialises in architecture and interior design photography and works for renowned clients and firms in Belgium and abroad.
£40.50
Vintage Publishing The Vietnamese Market Cookbook
Easy, vibrant street-food inspired Vietnamese recipes that you can cook at home from street-food entrepreneurs Van and AnhVietnamese food is well-known these days – think cleansing noodle soups, succulent caramelized pork, spicy herb-filled baguettes, zingy salads, crunchy pickles, perfect dipping sauces, and moreish sweet coffee. Van and Anh began their award-winning street-food in East London’s Broadway Market, and that bustlingly fresh, creative market vibe typifies the cooking in this book. With the freshest of ingredients, exquisite flavours, bright colours, sociable plates for sharing, and comforting broths for one, this is traditional cooking made utterly current.‘There’s a romance to this cookbook that is hard to resist… A great introduction to the flavours of Vietnam’ Conde Nast
£23.40
DruckVerlag Kettler Ruth Marten: Afterlife, My 20th Century
Ruth Marten started her career as a tattoo artist in the 1970s before working as an illustrator for a range of publishers and magazines in the US. Her visual artwork has earned well-deserved international recognition only in the last few years. This book is the second publication on the highly acclaimed New York artist and presents Ruth Marten's most recent creations - 19 large-format works on paper produced between autumn 2018 and summer 2019. Marten used photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries as the basis for these artworks. By overpainting the photos, she created literally fantastic pictures that seem to allow the impossible to become possible. Like the pioneers of surrealism, she developed a world between dream and nightmare that is full of mystery, where inanimate objects suddenly become alive and where new, unheard-of phenomena shake up our established worldview. Her works abound in psychoanalytic enigmas that have sprung from the depths of her artistic subconscious. Text in English and German.
£27.00
Cinebook Ltd Thorgal Vol. 0: The Betrayed Sorceress
Thorgal's coming-of-age is painfully similar to the rest of his life: the young man finds himself tied up to the stone of sacrifice by Gandalf the Mad, king of the Vikings of the North and father of his beloved Aaricia. There, the Child of the Stars can do nothing but wait for the coming tide - and death. Until, that is, a mysterious sorceress with flaming red hair comes to offer him a deal: his life, and revenge, against one year in her service.
£13.99
Columbia University Press Sachiko: A Novel
In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country.In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki—where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution—and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei’s dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō’s compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels.
£22.00
For Beginners Derrida for Beginners
£15.22
Dynamite Entertainment James Bond: Live and Let Die HC
In this second adaptation of the Fleming novels. Bond is sent to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", an agent of SMERSH and a criminal voodoo leader. With no time for superstition—and with the help of his colleague in the CIA, Felix Leiter, Bond tracks "Mr. Big" through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, knowing that this criminal heavy hitter is a real threat. No-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end…
£20.69
Van Haren Publishing Itilr 4 Foundation Courseware Nederlands
Naast de ITIL(R) 4 Foundation Courseware - Nederlands (978 940 180 460 8) raden wij u aan om de overweging te maken de volgende publicatie aan te schaffen: ITIL(R)4 - Pocket Guide (ISBN: 978 940 180 442 4). ITIL(R)4 - Pocket Guide sluit aan op ITIL(R) 4 Foundation Courseware - Nederlands. Deze cursus is ontwikkeld om uw ITIL(R) 4 basisvaardigheid te ontwikkelen waardoor u een nieuwe kijk krijgt op IT Service Management through a Service Value System (SVS).ITIL(R) 4 leert u wat het betekent om een toevoeging te leveren aan de bedrijfswaarde evenals modellen zoals Lean IT, Agile en DevOps.De cursus is bedoelt voor ieder die werkt in de IT service branche of (meer) kennis nodig heeft van IT Service Management. Kandidaten van deze cursus moeten binnen 60 minuten 40 vragen beantwoorden. Deze vragen zijn multiple choice en het gebruik van het boek tijdens het examen is niet is toegestaan. Bij een score van 65% heeft u het examen behaald en krijgt u het certificaat. U kunt uw examinering st
£30.77
Top Shelf Productions Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Complete Edition
£23.00
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading
This book includes masterful trading advice and insights - from two of today's day trading pioneers. More than ever before, a high-income career as a full-time trader is within your grasp. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" shows you how to do it - without risking your savings or your sanity! This step-by-step short course on electronic day trading takes you through the nuts-and-bolts technical and strategic basics you need, then tackles the all-important psychological aspects of trading - transforming you from an awkward, second-guessing novice into a confident, knowledgeable day trading master who knows how to turn market inefficiencies into fast, solid gains.Noted trading coach Van K. Tharp and top-level trader Brian June combine their formidable knowledge and experience to give you: proven market analysis techniques adapted to a day trading perspective; key tactical - and mental - components for developing your personal trading plan; below-the-radar methods to determine a market maker's position. Today's high-volume, high-profit markets are a formidable, but beatable, foe - as long as you have the knowledge and wisdom to not beat yourself." Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" gives you the trading tools and the psychological insights to control your emotions, master every market and trading environment, and knock hundreds of hours - and thousands of dollars - from your electronic trading learning curve. 'Our goal in writing this book is to show you another way...' - Van K. Tharp and Brian June. Every electronic day trader has access to the same technology and information for locating and locking in quick trading profits - along with the same tired advice on how to use these tools. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" shows you how to master a third essential element - trading psychology - and discover how to gain the ultimate market edge. While it gives you numerous examples of what to buy, when to sell, and why, this follow-up to Dr. Tharp's revolutionary "Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom" shifts the focus to using psychological preparedness and expectancy to gain the advantage.Based on the principle that there is no universal strategy that will work for all traders, this hands-on e-trading blueprint combines the latest techniques in business and trading success with established tenets of behavioral finance to detail: broad-based strategic guidelines to help every trader, with specific trading tactics that can be tailored to fit any plan; chapter-ending knowledge keys and calls to action that summarize each chapter's messages - and serve as a fast fingertip reference; recommendations for integrated hardware and software configurations; and, profitable uses of mechanical aspects from expectancy to position sizing; applications of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) to the science of trading. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" isn't out to dazzle you with arcane, elaborate facts and equations. Its only goal is to make you the best trader possible, in the shortest time possible. From Rmultiples, momentum patterns, and market maker tactics to market-making strategies, momentum strategies, and simulations, each of these intricate trading aspects is explained in straightforward, conversational style, easy to understand and apply. Electronic day trading is the first great entrepreneurial opportunity of the twenty-first century. But to be a successful electronic day trader, you must first have the knowledge to understand the markets and the wisdom to understand yourself. "Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading" is the only book on today's crowded trader's bookshelf to give you knowledge and the wisdom to intuitively isolate fast-gain opportunities and grab the profits - dramatically increasing the odds of success on every trade you make.
£43.19
Pajama Press Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family
One day they will send for her, but how long must Van Ho wait for her family to find a way to get her out of South Vietnam? During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. They have escaped the new communist regime that has taken over Ho Chi Minh City for freedom in the West. Four-year-old Van is too young--and her grandmother is too old--for such a dangerous journey by boat, so the two have been left behind. Once settled in North America, her parents will eventually be able to sponsor them, and Van and her grandmother will fly away to safety. But in the meantime, Van is forced to work hard to satisfy her aunt and uncle, who treat her like an unwelcome servant. And at school she must learn that calling attention to herself is a mistake, especially when the bully who has been tormenting her turns out to be the son of a military policeman. Van Ho's true story strikes at the heart and will resonate with so many families affected by war, where so many children are forced to live under or escape from repressive regimes.
£10.99
Van Haren Publishing BV Implementing Information Security Based on ISO 27001/ISO 27002: A Management Guide
£22.94
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Sam’s Smile
Sam is a little boy who has lost his smile. His parents wonder what they can do to help him find his smile again. Ice cream, toys, clothes, even his favourite toy giraffe fail to cheer him up. Finally, his parents give him a big hug... and Sam smiles! This simple story with its bright and bold illustrations is ideal for young children. The moral of this story is simple, love is more important than having things!
£6.68
Columbia University Press Kiku's Prayer: A Novel
Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile her feelings for Seikichi's religion with the sacrifices she makes to free him mirror the painful, conflicting choices Japan faced as a result of exposure to modernity and the West. Seikichi's persecution exemplifies Japan's insecurities, and Kiku's tortured yet determined spirit represents the nation's resilient soul. Set in the turbulent years of the transition from the shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo Shusaku's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. Yet this novel is much more than a historical allegory. It acutely renders one woman's troubled encounter with passion and spirituality at a transitional time in her life and in the history of her people. A renowned twentieth-century Japanese author, Endo wrote from the perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared with that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers.
£28.80
Nova Science Publishers Inc Mexico: Outlook & U.S. Relations
£152.09
Dynamite Entertainment James Bond: Casino Royale
Ian Fleming's literary debut of British Secret Service agent 007 is stylishly adapted to the sequential art medium by Van Jensen and Denis Calero in the official James Bond: Casino Royal graphic novel. Sent to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux, Bond aims to eliminate the threat of the deadly Le Chiffre by bankrupting the ruthless SMERSH operative at the baccarat table. However, when the luck of the draw favors his enemy, 007 becomes the target of assassins and torturers in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
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DruckVerlag Kettler Hugo Schmolz / Karl Hugo Schmolz: Cinemas
In recent years, the images shot by the Cologne-based architectural photographers Hugo (1879-1938) and Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917-1986) have been winning wide acclaim and are receiving more and more attention. After completing his photography training and working in various positions, Hugo Schmölz set himself up as an architectural photographer in Cologne in 1911. Later, his son Karl Hugo took over the company. While the work of the two photographers fell into oblivion over the years, it is being rediscovered today and reveals its breathtaking aesthetic originality and technical perfection. Due to the development of a special, additional exposure technique, Schmölz was able to capture dark interiors in astounding detail even at the beginning of the century and to create dazzlingly elegant pictures which have lost none of their expressive power. For the first time ever, the book presents a series of photos, taken mostly in the Rhineland and the Ruhr district between 1935 and 1957, together with pictures showing movie theatres which were brand new at the time. Most of these cinema auditoriums have since been destroyed, but the light in the photos gives them a three-dimensionality that evokes a striking sculptural effect. They are certainly not imbued with nostalgia, on the contrary, they appear to be strangely lost in time and, owing to their extremely delicate gray nuances, seem almost hyperreal. Text in English and German.
£45.00
Currency Press Pty Ltd Muff, MinusOneSister and SHIT: Three plays
£19.79
Aftershock Comics BYLINES IN BLOOD
£15.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Proceedings Of The 18th Annual Meeting Of The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (Aogs 2021)
The 18th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2021) was held from 1st to 6th August 2021. This proceedings volume includes selected extended abstracts from a challenging array of presentations at this conference. The AOGS Annual Meeting is a leading venue for professional interaction among researchers and practitioners, covering diverse disciplines of geosciences.
£90.00