Presents a month-long workout program for your social, attraction, dating, and seduction skills. This book is a simple, easy-to-follow guide to the basics of approaching and attracting women of quality. It is not meant to be read. Designed for the hardest cases, it has also been proven to work for men who are already successful with women.

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace.

Featuring each of the first 3 titles of the Myth series - The Penelopiad , Weight , and A Short History of Myth , this edition boxset also includes the introductory pamphlet, A Word or 2 About Myths , and is presented in a slipcase. Each book is a retelling of a myth by an internationally renowned author.

As the economic downturn, continuing climate change and the prevailing terrorist threat prove that the dangers facing our world loom larger than ever, Neil Strauss decides he's had enough. Soon he is investigating ways of getting second citizenship on the island of St Kitts, protecting his assets offshore, and making friends.

A luxury hotel suite in an idyllic, tequila-drenched Caribbean hideaway is supposed to be all cocktails and sex on the beach. But when a job icing a Mafioso godfather goes awry, trouble hits paradise ... in the form of a cross-dressing capo, a debauched Irish hard man and a slew of incompetent but vicious US marshals.

Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy, writes passionately of his life. A generation later, Akbar's son struggles to decipher the notebook. As he gets closer to his father's story, he unravels the tale of how the world of a carpet-mender was forced to give way to one where the hostile environment of modern Iran has brought the family both love and sacrifice.

Condemned to shoulder the world, for ever, by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then, he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden. This work addresses difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in the myth of Atlas and Heracles.

Set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, this book tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw, while offering a modern vision of hell. Its playful narrative techniques intend to convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.

Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. This book offers an account of this period in modern history; a portrait of an era when revolutionaries turned into rock stars, and rock stars dressed up as revolutionaries.

A glimpse into the personalities of twenty-five of the most significant writers. Inspired to revisit the lives of some of the world's most eminent writers of all time, looking at them from the angle of some peculiar detail of their lives, this work provides an insight into personalities we thought we knew everything about.

Helps in seeking answers from a varied crew of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.

A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

Takes us into the mid-1950s as Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final shape, and Charlie Brown becomes ... well, even more Charlie Brown-ish.

A re-examination of the libel case in which Lord Aldington was accused and cleared of knowingly handing over refugees and POWs for execution to Stalin and Tito, in what was labelled as Britain's only war crime of World War II.

An illustrated edition of Life of Pi .

At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for a stranger to arrive. Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will visit again, making his way across the heath to relate the story of his life. As these two men sit together in front of a roaring fire, a remarkable tale unfolds.

Between 1967 and 1973, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. Rock and soul music fuelled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, were being dragged into the fray. This collision of radical fervour and musical passion touched every facet of the revolution.

This work is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author - his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist.

An illustrated edition of Life of Pi .

Part biography and part cultural history, this book does not just tell a fascinating story - it is essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and remarkably potent fame.