RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.90
Review Talk the Talk: French (PC/Mac) / EuroTalk Limited:
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2007-05-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £19.10
Price: £14.98
Review Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: Entrepreneur Magazine
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £35.99
Price: £19.14
Review How to Start a Restaurant and Five Other Food Businesses / Entrepreneur Press:
Creator: Charles Collingwood
Publication date: 2005-11-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.85
Review Everyman's England / Crimson Cats:
Edition: Com/Bklt
Publication date: 2003-09-26
Dewey code: 495
RRP: £10.03
Price: £4.95
Review Chinese Mandarin Berlitz Travel Pack (Berlitz Travel Packs) / Berlitz Publishing:
Creator: Author
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 814.54
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.92
Review Me Talk Pretty One Day / Little, Brown & Company:David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of Santaland Diaries a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's department store. Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves", he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God", says one. "Then he be die one day on two. morsels of. [+]lumber", says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox man whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mother and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests". Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with "s" sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong-"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match". As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode. It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. -Tim Appelo.
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publication date: 2006-11-13
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.00
Review Scott and Amundsen / CSA WORD:
Dewey code: 799.12
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.54
Review Dream Fish and Road Trips: Fly-fishing Tales from Alaska, Montana, and Beyond / American Media International LLC:
Publication date: 2004-05-06
Price: £16.63
Review The Olive Farm (CD): A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France / Orion:
Edition: 1 Com/Bklt
Publication date: 2007-07-15
Dewey code: 440
RRP: £5.02
Price: £1.78
Review French Berlitz for Your Trip / Berlitz Publishing:
Creator: Phil Gigante
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-07-20
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £30.04
Price: £15.51
Review Spell of the Highlander / Brilliance Audio:
Publication date: 2004-09-13
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £16.63
Price: £14.22
Review Winning! / Hodder & Stoughton:Clive Woodward was at the helm when English rugby union triumphantly heaved itself from the boozy, pot-bellied mire of amateurism to the top of the professional game at the 2003 World Cup in Australia. And in Winning he makes a robust, cogent and at times brilliant argument for taking the lion's share of the credit. As sports autobiographies go this is an extraordinary book, part personal memoir and part historical revision, of course - Woodward is not backward in correcting his critics or laying bare the politics that shroud top-level sports managers. But what sets it apart is that the former England coach presents a detailed analysis of the man-management and coaching theories that underpinned the success, in what is effectively a case study in winning. To this end there is an abundance of diagrams, flow charts and 'key rules' which at first glance will have a worryingly familiar look to anyone who's ever sat through a motivational business seminar. They formed the day-to-day intellectual touchstones that were the foundation of the Woodward era, covering the 75 matches between November 1997 and that famous victory in the Telstra Stadium. And in a sporting turn-up akin to Jonny Wilkinson's last-ditch drop-goal that felled the Aussies in Sidney, Woodward takes these unpromising raw ingredients and delivers a genuinely engrossing read: a how-to manual for aspiring coaches and an unique insight for fans. The tone is occasionally bombastic - whatever the veracity of their substance, one or two of the recounted conversations ring about as true as an episode of Acorn Antiques, but somehow it doesn't get in the way. Midway through the book, there's a rather peculiar "Author's note about confidentiality" in which Woodward claims that he will never: "show any player or member of the management in any sort of bad light". Not fashionable and frankly not much fun, but arguably entirely in keeping with the Winning philosophy. [+]And you can't argue with results, can you?-Alex Hankin.
Creator: Patrick Lawlor
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-07-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £15.49
Price: £11.46
Review Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 951.05092
RRP: £17.49
Price: £15.79
Review Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man / Tantor Media, Inc:
Dewey code: 491
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.87
Review Travel Talk Hindi and Urdu (Travel Talk):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 401
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.48
Review Spanish CD Travel Pack (Linguaphone Travel Pack) / Linguaphone:
Creator: Billy Hartman
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 944
Price: £10.99
Review Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Classic non-fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2007-10-08
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.97
Review Palin's New Europe: Abridged Reading / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.49
Review Gulliver's Travels / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Dewey code: 491
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.98
Review Travel Talk Polish (Travel Talk):
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Talk the Talk: French (PC/Mac), Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea, How to Start a Restaurant and Five Other Food Businesses, Everyman's England, Chinese Mandarin Berlitz Travel Pack (Berlitz Travel Packs), Me Talk Pretty One Day, Scott and Amundsen, Dream Fish and Road Trips: Fly-fishing Tales from Alaska, Montana, and Beyond, The Olive Farm (CD): A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France, French Berlitz for Your Trip, Spell of the Highlander, Winning!, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man, Travel Talk Hindi and Urdu (Travel Talk), Spanish CD Travel Pack (Linguaphone Travel Pack), Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Classic non-fiction), Palin's New Europe: Abridged Reading, Gulliver's Travels, Travel Talk Polish (Travel Talk) |
