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Adam's Navel
A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Body
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2003
167 kr
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A tour of the body, telling the natural (evolutionary) history of each part, and the cultural history that records our response to it. Starting with the head, it moves down, chapter-by-chapter to end with the feet. Chapter titles include Samson'sHair, What's an Eye Without an Eyebrow? A Brief …
Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
Av Michael Sims
Häftad, 2004
356 kr
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Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
Av Michael Sims
Häftad, 2009
224 kr
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Collected here for the first time is the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present - Arsene Lupin and A.J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl - burgling London and Paris, conning New York …
Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
Av Michael Sims
Häftad, 2011
266 kr
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It is the late Victorian era and society is fascinated by - and worried about - that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides bicycles and drives those newfangled automobiles and doesn't like to be told what to do. In crime fiction as everywhere else, such women are breaking all the …
Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
Av Various, Michael Sims
Häftad, 2024
179 kr
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A scintillating and unusual anthology of lost treasures from the timeless murder mystery genreFor The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from …
Working With Agencies
An Insider's Guide
Av Michael Sims
Inbunden, 2005
627 kr
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The client/agency relationship is an area fraught with potential problems. Competition in the field has now augmented the necessity to understand the working relationship far more thoroughly to help the client to get better value from the agency. The demand has moved from the need for client …
Working With Agencies
An Insider''s Guide
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2005
756 kr
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The client/agency relationship is an area fraught with potential problems. Competition in the field has now augmented the necessity to understand the working relationship far more thoroughly to help the client to get better value from the agency. The demand has moved from the need for client …
Agency Account Handling
Avoiding Blood, Sweat and Tears
Av Michael Sims
Inbunden, 2004
436 kr
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Agency Account Handling strives to distinguish between good account handling and great account handling.This book will help you understand the wider picture of client servicing, give you satisfied customers and allow you to go home at night with a smile on your face. In reality it may not avoid all …
Agency Account Handling
Avoiding Blood, Sweat and Tears
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2004
722 kr
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Agency Account Handling strives to distinguish between good account handling and great account handling. This book will help you understand the wider picture of client servicing, give you satisfied customers and allow you to go home at night with a smile on your face. In reality it may not avoid …
Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2009
90 kr
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Read Michael Sims''s posts on the Penguin Blog An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and …
Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2011
88 kr
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A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn''t like to be told what to do. And, in …
Dead Witness
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2011
155 kr
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The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. ''The Dead Witness'', the 1866 title story by Australian …
Dead Witness
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
Av Michael Sims
Häftad, 2012
205 kr
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The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems.'The Dead Witness', the 1866 title story by Australian writer …
Story of Charlotte's Web
E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2011
193 kr
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While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, Charlotte''s Web , E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: ''Write what you know.'' Helpless pigs, silly geese,clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his …
Dracula's Guest
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2011
141 kr
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Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us... Before Twilight and True Blood , vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker''s legendary 1897 novel, Dracula . Acclaimed author and anthologist …
Adventures of Henry Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2014
143 kr
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From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry David Thoreau – author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, schoolteacher, engineer – have long been an inspiration to many. But who was the unsophisticated young man who in 1837 …
Phantom Coach
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2014
136 kr
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Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity''s oldest obsession . The Phantom Coach includes …
Arthur & Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2017
130 kr
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''Fascinating … A stimulating contribution to our never-ending fascination with Holmes himself, and, even more perhaps, his genial creator'' Sunday Times A medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell …
Apollo's Fire
A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2008
115 kr
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It?s the oldest story on Earth. You relive it every day. So much of our shared daily experience in the world is shaped by the sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle effects of the Earth?s spin, its tilt on its axis, the alternation of light and darkness, the waxing and waning of the moon, the …
Memoirs of Theresa Crawford but Watch out I'm an Addict
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2008
127 kr
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MY THREE MAIN HOBBIES ARE COOKING, READING COMIC BOOKS AND STUDING THE BIBLE. I HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PEOPLE''S PERSON. I LOVE AND ENJOY MEETING PEOPLE ESPECIALLY LEARNING ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS HISTORIES AND CULTURES. IN THE LATTER YEARS OF MY LIFE WHILE WORKING AS A COOK, BARTENDER AND SUBSTANCE …
Story of Charlotte's Web
E. B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Av Michael Sims
Ljudbok, 2011
328 kr
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As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats—White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. …
Frankenstein Dreams
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2017
211 kr
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From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula''s Guest . Long before 1984 , Star Wars , or The Hunger Games , Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they …
No One of Us Is as Good as All of Us
Av Michael Sims
E-bok, 2021
55 kr
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I have a deep passion for people development; for I have had no greater reward than being a part of the success and growth in someone's life! To this end I have written this book... No One of Us Is As Good As ALL OF US My book is a guide to leaders in ALL industries for building and MAINTAINING …
