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Packed full of puzzles and challenges, this book will help you develop the vital mind-training skills needed for any team player or budding recruit – get ready to tackle logic puzzles, explore mazes and wrestle with problem-solving tests. You’ll learn to • Crack codes essential to survival situations • Complete complex navigation challenges • Put leadership and teamwork skills to the test with essential lateral thinking techniques • Strengthen crucial cognitive skills through quizzes and word games • Problem-solve under pressure • Analyse ‘real-life’ scenarios, and ask yourself: ‘What would I do in this situation?’ • Teamwork is at the heart of the British Army, and this is the perfect challenge book to enjoy with family and friends – work together or invite some friendly competition!

The perfect book for dog lovers everywhere – is your dog king-of-the-hill…or run of the mill! • Does your dog respond to hand gestures? • How about facial signals? • Can he perform tricks both inside and outside? • Now you can find out just how smart your dog really is by giving him or her the Dog IQ Test. With three fun quizzes designed to measure your dog’s communication skills, social behaviour, motor skills and memory, you’ll finally discover if your dog is really a canine Einstein • Test Your Dog also comes complete with guidelines on analyzing your dog’s score, tips for improving your dog’s IQ and amusing illustrations throughout

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand

The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story • In his dark little curio shop Julian Joolby is weaving an extravagant scheme to smash the financial machinery of the world by flooding the Oriental market with forged banknotes. But this monster of wickedness has not reckoned on Max Carrados, the suave and resourceful investigator whose visual impairment gives him heightened powers of perception that ordinary detectives overlook • Max Carrados was a blind detective whose stories by Ernest Bramah appeared from 1914 alongside Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, in which they often had top billing. Described by George Orwell as among ‘the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading’, the 25 stories were collected in three hugely popular volumes, culminating in a full-length novel, The Bravo of London (1934), in which Carrados engages in a battle of wits against a fiendish plot that threatens to overthrow civilisation itself

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A brilliantly entertaining and hilarious quiz book from the country’s favourite sports broadcaster • Know your bull calf from your bullseye? • Your Hawksbee from your Hawk-Eye? • Your Saints from your Seagulls? • Then join the talkSPORT team as they test you and your mates or family on some of the greatest sporting moments of the past 50-odd years • With over 2,500 questions – split into family-friendly Easy, Medium and Hard sections for each sport – this awesome quiz book is the ultimate test of sporting knowledge and the perfect gift for anyone who loves the ups, downs and hilarity of the world of sport • Don’t be a numpty – pick up your copy of The talkSPORT Quiz Book … NOW

A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elegance and The Debutante • One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe's life upside down • 'Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D'Orsey and it is our duty to inform you that you are named as the chief beneficiary in her will. We request your presence at our offices at your earliest convenience, so that we may go through the details of your inheritance.' • There is only one problem. Grace has never heard of Eva D'Orsey • So begins a journey which leads Grace through the streets of Paris and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses. An abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank will lead her to unravel the heartbreaking story of her mysterious benefactor, an extraordinary woman who bewitched high society in 1920s New York and Paris

A revised and expanded reissue containing over 1,200 brain-teasing questions on the legendary works of J.R.R. Tolkien, published to coincide with the release of the third and final The Lord of The Rings movie • How many Hobbits joined the Fellowship of the Ring? • What colour is the Orcs’ skin? • Why did Gandalf have difficulty in opening the West-door of Khazad-dum? • Who betrayed Berien and Luthien to Thingol? • What was Farmer Giles’ full name? • The worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, from the saga of Middle-earth to a brief visit to Wootton Major, are so rich and varied that they inspire legions of followers of different ages. This peerless revised and expanded quiz book offers over 1,200 questions and answers, including easy starter questions and more difficult tie-breakers, to test the range and depth of your knowledge

More than a decade since her bestselling novel, The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar continues Bhima’s unforgettable story in this stunning sequel • Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India • Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired

Being able to share a meal with family and friends is something to celebrate – enjoying home-cooked food together, whether it’s a meltingly tender weekend roast or a cake fresh from the oven • Filled with beautifully photographed dishes that really do taste as good as they look, The Good Housekeeping Ultimate Collection has mouthwatering inspiration for every type of get-together. The recipes cater for all skill levels and have been Triple-Tested in the Good Housekeeping kitchens to ensure they’ll work every time. And with more than 400 recipes, you’ll reach for this cookbook again and again for years to come, whether you’re making vegan dishes or cocktails, or want budget-friendly meals or foodie gifts for Christmas. Whatever the occasion, the Ultimate Collection has a brilliant flavour-packed solution

These books contain the complete test for level N1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. As the questions are presented in the same way as in the exam, they give the learner a chance to become familiar with the test format. The question booklet is detachable and so can be used in the same way as in the exam (comes with a mark sheet) • To use effectively in class, the test is presented in the order it would have in the exam, and the explanations flow from planning for the exam, to how to actually do it, and finally to the feedback section. Furthermore, the 'Correct Answer Sheet' in the feedback section enables the learner to grasp his/her weak points • These books have been compiled by the Sendagaya Japanese Institute, which every year helps many learners to pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test

"Искусство войны" Сунь-цзы, написанное в 6 веке до нашей эры, является китайским военным трактатом, который до сих пор почитается как главный комментарий к войне и военной стратегии. Эта философия, основанная на принципе, согласно которому можно перехитрить своего противника ментально, очень тщательно продумав стратегию, прежде чем прибегать к физическому сражению, продолжает применяться в корпоративном и деловом мире • Вечная оценка Сунь-цзы различных аспектов ведения войны изложена в 13 главах, включая разделы "Разработка планов", "Ведение войны" и "Местность". Слова, которые сегодня так же звучат во всех аспектах нашей жизни, как и тогда, когда он их писал • Книга на английском языке • Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy