Editora: Charles River Editors
William Shakespeare is widely considered to have been the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. More than 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, his plays are still performed more than any other playwright and have been translated into every major language in the world. This edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor includes a table of contents.
Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco--corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories--and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones.Ver livro
“A darkly comic cornucopia set in a mythic London department store” from the author of Hunters & Gatherers, “a comic satirist of biting precision” (Kirkus Reviews). “Powered by a fast-moving plot, this latest exuberant fantasy concerns a department store, a female employee-turned-terrorist upon whom the reclusive proprietor exercises his droit de seigneur, and a porter who stumbles upon the hidden tunnels in which the building’s architect entombed himself in the 1930s. Nicholson has a wonderful ear for the unintentionally funny clichés of modern speech and manners.” —The Sunday Telegraph “An off-beat tale with a sardonic edge, Nicholson’s brightly lit black comedy takes place in Haden Brothers, a monstrous London department store that is a combination of Harrod’s, Kafka’s Castle and the Marx Brothers’ The Big Store . . . An exhaustively entertaining farce.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “It is the black humor and the satire that win us over to Nicholson’s novels. Haden’s sexual romps, Chalmers’ desire to recreate Vietnam in the store, the greed of both customers and management and poor little Charlie Mayhew who finally discovers his art form (but how pitiful it is)—no-one is safe from Nicholson’s savagery. Read it and join Charlie, Anton, Arnold Haden and Edward Zander in a trip through the bowels of consumer society.” —The Modern Novel “Nicholson’s minor characters—slimy personnel manager Derek Snell, paramilitary security chief Ray Chalmers, Anton Heath, the anarchist-wanna-be foreman of the work-averse porters, and Vita’s kleptomaniac mother, who worked for the store herself years ago—are small Dickensian gems, and Nicolson’s clockwork emporium provides a vivid setting for this very British yet universal comedy of modern manners and morals.” —BooklistVer livro
Communicate with clarity and confidenceUse communication skills to improve marriageImprove awareness; think more clearly and communicate more conciselyKnow how to effectively communicate with partnerYou will be able to identify communication mistakes you and your partner are making which are leading to tension and arguments.You will learn some of the top communication strategies in order to listen, be heard and reduce conflict in your relationships. Communication builds up your relationship. Lack of it can keep partners apart, and over time, lose affection and feelings for one another, even as they live under the same roof. Communication is the nourishment of relationships. Not just marriage relationship, relating with your coworkers, friends, families, kids, and parents demand some amount of effective communication and at a certain quality. Health-wise, effective communication reduces your stress level. In older couples, the cases of high blood pressure are reduced as couples will have less to worry about once issues are being discussed effectively.Importance of Communication in marriageWhat makes marriages work?Pathways of Effective Communication within MarriageRules for Effective CommunicationThe Art of Positive Marriage CommunicationHow to Utilizing the ABCs of Good CommunicationThe Mirror MethodWays to Effectively Become Emotionally Open In Your RelationshipUnderstand the True Meaning of Perfect RelationshipsThe Art of Intent ListeningSolving Intimacy ProblemsWho is the target audience? This book is for anyone who wants to improve communication to have a happier and healthier relationship with their significant other.Ver livro
Mara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after her twenty-eighth birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon and a pile of unpaid bills. On top of that, her job, working as a receptionist at a cosmetic surgery clinic is a nightmare; her boss is a tyrant; and her friends have gotten ahead of her in the game of life. Mara realizes it's time for an identity makeover. She devises the OM List, a personal pathway to perfection inspired by her best friends, Olivia and Mitz, and her newfound love for yoga. But instead of finding the perfect job, getting the perfect body and cooking the perfect meal, Mara hilariously tries and fails at all the things she thinks will make her the sophisticated grown-up she wants to be. Navigating the dueling worlds of yoga and cosmetic surgery, gourmet dinners and Frankenberry cereal, etiquette handbooks and too-helpful loved ones, Stuck in Downward Dog is Chantel Simmons' unforgettable comic debut about how to get unstuck when you're caught in a rut. A Chatelaine Best Beach Book and Book of the Month A Winnipeg Free Press bestseller A Vancouver Sun Editor' s Choice " The National Post called author Chantel Simmons one to watch, and with warmth, humour and heart, her debut novel doesn' t disappoint." -- Chatelaine " Refreshingly realistic...as good as having Sunday brunch with a girlfriend." -- Winnipeg Free Press " Hilarious and touching." -- The Literary WordVer livro
An illustrated edition of the author’s first novel—the hilarious, viral hit Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher, in which a bespectacled boy finds out that magic is disappearing in Singapore... and has to stop it. Harris bin Potter is an orphan who loves to play void deck football like any other Singaporean boy. But when he discovers he is a parceltongue (i.e., he can talk to boxes...er, parcels), his world changes. Harris learns about his magical lineage and enrols at the MOE-approved Hog-Tak-Halal-What School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, he is sorted into the House of Fandi and gets caught up in an insane adventure to save Singapore’s magical folk from being turned into kosongs.Ver livro
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values. (Summary by wildemoose)Cast:Sheila Ray: GraceAda Timbrell: Charlotte DuckettEdgar Timbrell: mbMary Broome: Arielle LipshawLeonard Timbrell: balaMrs. Timbrell: Elizabeth KlettEdward Timbrell: ToddHWMaid: Beth ThomasMr. Pendleton: CalmDragonMrs. Pendleton: Tara DowMrs. Greaves: AvailleJohn Broome: John SteigerwaldMrs. Broome: CaprishaPageNarrator: MaryAnn SpiegelAudio edited by: Arielle LipshawVer livro
