pan macmillan sep 2019 (54 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Julia Donaldson is the author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs ¿ and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was Children¿s Laureate 2011¿13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Liz Brownlee has poems on all subjects in over seventy anthologies, including Reaching the Stars ¿ Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls, written with Jan Dean and Michaela Morgan.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses.Drawing on years of first-hand experience, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. From Kim Scott, former manager at Google and Apple, and CEO coach to Silicon Valley.'Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives' Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean InA New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerIf you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen first hand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the work place.Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google before moving to Apple where she developed a class on optimal management. Radical Candor draws directly on her experiences at these cutting edge companies to reveal a new approach to effective management that delivers huge success by inspiring teams to work better together by embracing fierce conversations.Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism - delivered to produce better results and help your employees develop their skills and increase success.Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees:Make it personalGet stuff doneUnderstand why it mattersRadical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.'If you manage people - whether it be 1 person or a 1,000 - you need Radical Candor. Now' - Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestseller DriveFeaturing a new preface, afterword and Radically Candid Performance Review Bonus Chapter, the fully revised & updated edition of Radical Candor is packed with even more guidance to help you improve your relationships at work.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chris Riddell, the 2015¿2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children and has won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. Chris has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. His work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Goth Girl books, the Ottoline series, The Emperor of Absurdia, Wendel and the Robots and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catherine Rayner studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She fell in love with the city and still lives there with her young family and a small menagerie of creatures including Shannon the horse, Ena the cat and a goldfish called Richard, all of whom inspire her work. Catherine won the Best New Illustrator Award at the Booktrust Early Years Awards for Augustus and His Smile and has been awarded the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Catherine's other titles for Macmillan include the critically acclaimed Solomon Crocodile and the award-winning Smelly Louie.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chris Riddell, the 2015¿2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children and has won a number of major prizes, including the 2001 and 2004 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. Chris has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. His work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Goth Girl books, the Ottoline series, The Emperor of Absurdia, Wendel and the Robots and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth books, the Scavenger series and the Blobheads series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To achieve the incredibleshe must attempt the impossible.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three dark sisters rise to fight. Allegiances shift. Bonds break. Secrets surface.Mirabella has returned to the capital, seemingly under a banner of truce.Katharine maintains her rule over Fennbirn - for now - but at huge personal cost. Arsinoe is lost, the responsibility of stopping the ravaging mist heavy on her shoulders.As oldest and youngest circle each other, and Katharine begins to yearn for the closeness that Mirabella and Arsinoe share, the dead queens hiss caution. They whisper that Mirabella is not to be trusted. But even they are drawn to her power . . .The fate of the island lies in the hands of its queens.Five Dark Fates is the epic conclusion to Kendare Blake's bestselling Three Dark Crowns series.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.'More marvellous musical stories from Lucia Berlin.' Sunday ExpressThe publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin's dazzling collection of short stories, marked the rediscovery of a writer whose talent had gone unnoted by many, but who has come to be recognized as one of the most important writers in twentieth-century American short fiction.Berlin earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin's remaining stories - twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin's oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.'There's plenty in Evening in Paradise to conjure the original thrill of reading Berlin.' Financial Times'Wonderful . . . Brilliant.' The Times'Berlin expertly balances beauty and bleakness, and finds drama, joy or revelation in humdrum experiences.' The Economist'Lucia Berlin writes in colour. Not wishy-washy pastels, or hues described with copious adjectives, but instead saturated colour.' TLS'Quietly extraordinary.' Scotsman'A writer of tender, chaotic and careworn short stories . . . Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize.' New York TimesLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Frank Peters' wife Maureen dies, he feels that his once-idyllic life on the Yorkshire Moors is over. And with a daughter emigrating to Australia and a son who has his own marital problems, Frank feels resigned to a life of loneliness. Then one night he finds a frightened young woman hiding at the back of his farmhouse. She explains that her name is Irena and was brought to this country by a man who promised her the world and then forced her into prostitution. Frank offers her a bed for the night but it's the middle of winter, and when heavy snowfall prevents her from leaving the next day, he's forced to extend the invitation. But the longer Irena stays, the easier it gets for the men she's trying to escape from to find her.People-trafficking could just be the tip of the iceberg, and Frank has no idea what these people are really capable of.PRAISE FOR MANDASUE HELLER'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget Me Not 'One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a blinder' Daily Mirror.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This awesome and inspiring guide will show you how YOU can help save our planet! Written by musician and environmental activist Dougie Poynter, this incredible book shows how you can get involved in the mission to cut out single-use plastic. Plastic is everywhere and it sucks. It fills up our oceans, endangers our wildlife and never goes away. So it's time to take action, find ways to cut down our plastic use and help protect our environment. Together we can make a difference! As a lifelong supporter of environmental causes and a key player in the campaign to ban microbeads in the UK, Dougie is always on the hunt for ways to reduce and replace plastic. This campaigning book, his first solo authored project, draws on his own experiences in the fight against plastic waste - the problems he's encountered and the solutions he's found. It covers the history of plastic, introduces us to some key campaigners and eco entrepreneurs and is full of top tips and infographics. The clear and easy steps in Plastic Sucks! You can Make a Difference show us how we can all make small changes and become champions for our planet.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the bestselling Luckiest Girl Alive comes Jessica Knoll's thriller, The Favourite Sister, which follows a pair of competitive and uber-successful sisters whose secrets and lies result in murder. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's Nine Perfect Strangers and Caroline Kepnes' You.Brett and Kelly Courtney are the shining jewels in a New York-based reality TV show called Goal Diggers. One of the most popular shows on American national television, its fiercely competitive cast of five self-made women are defined by their success, beauty and ruthless drive to reach the top by whatever means necessary.The Courtney sisters' rivalry goes skin deep despite the blossoming business they have built together that helps disadvantaged women in Morocco. Harbouring bitter jealousies and dark secrets about their manufactured screen lives they're joined by three other hyper-competitive women who all have their own agendas. And the latest season promises sparks to fly in the quest for even higher ratings.Vicious backstabbing, scathing social media attacks and finely-tuned scripting draw in the viewing public every week, all orchestrated by the show's omnipotent producers. But even they don't know that season four will end in murder . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Håkan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.\*Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger\*July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti's doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead. So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it's a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises. Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier, and it doesn't take Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . .Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos.'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Makes Game of Thrones look like Jackanory' Independent on The Traitor The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist - a secret lord of the corrupt empire she's vowed to destroy. But to gain the power to shatter this Empire of Masks, she's had to betray everyone she loved. She's now hunted by a mutinous admiral and haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two. But Baru is still leading her dearest foes on an expedition, to gain the secret of immortality. It's her best and perhaps only chance to trigger a war - one that would consume the Masquerade. But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge . . . or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her. The Monster is a breathtaking epic fantasy (published as The Monster Baru Cormorant in the US). It's the sequel to The Traitor, Seth Dickinson's powerful, critically acclaimed debut novel. 'A fascinating tale of political intrigue and national unrest' - Washington Post on The Traitor'Dickinson's originality and ambition are to be applauded' - Guardian on The Traitor.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, and features an introduction by Orlando Figes.In Mikhail Bulgakov's imaginative extravaganza, Satan, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. This visit has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, an author who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate and is now in a mental hospital. By turns satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between twentieth-century Moscow and first-century Jerusalem.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A book which inspired the creation of the NHS, The Citadel is a moving story of tragedy, triumph and redemption. With an introduction by Adam Kay, the bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt.When newly qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post in a Welsh mining community, the young Scot brings with him a bagful of idealism and enthusiasm. Both are soon strained to the limit as Andrew discovers the reality of performing operations on a kitchen table and washing in a scullery, of unspeakable sanitation, of common infantile cholera and systemic corruption. There are no X-rays, no ambulances - nothing to combat the disease and poverty.It isn't long before Andrew's outspoken manner wins him both friends and enemies, but he risks losing his idealism when the fashionable, greedy world of London medicine claims him, with its private clinics, wealthy, spoilt patients and huge rewards.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett 'is brilliant and dazzling.'The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity. The Great Fire is a story of love in the aftermath of war by 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today.' (Michael Cunningham).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Burke, Fatti (illustrator). Neuware - Tracey Turner has written more than 70 books, most of them for children, on subjects including inventions, the universe, famous writers, rude words and deadly perils. Many have sold foreign rights all over the world, and some have become best sellers. She is also an editor, and commissioned and edited the Horrible Histories series for many years. She lives in Bath, UK, with Tom and their son, Toby.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -WHEN DESTINY CALLS THERE'S NO FIGHTING BACK As a bard's apprentice, Kihrin grew up on heroic tales. Yet he also steals, desperate to escape Quur's slums. And when he raids the wrong house, he's marked by a demon, and life will never be the same again. Kihrin's plight attracts royalty, who claim him as their immoral heir's lost son. However, far from living the dream, Kihrin's embroiled in his new family's ruthless schemes. Escaping just makes matters worse, as Kihrin is horrified to discover he features in an ancient prophecy. Every side - from gods to demons to dragons - wants him as their pawn. And maybe Kihrin isn't even the hero, for he's not destined to save the empire. He's destined to destroy it.'Everything epic fantasy should be . . . brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying' LEV GROSSMAN'A fantastic page-turner . . . I loved it' JOHN GWYNNE'It's impossible not to be impressed . . . a larger-than-life adventure' NEW YORK TIMESLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 704 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Whatever the merits of Proust's work, even a fervent admirer would be hard pressed to deny one of its awkward features: length.A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features is its staggering length, many of us feel intimidated and perhaps, even, fatigued at the thought of diving in. Alain de Botton's hilarious and unexpected Proustian manual, then, is the perfect antidote to this problem.In How Proust Can Change Your Life, de Botton masterfully distils what Proust says about friendship, reading, being alive and taking your time, and mixes it with his own, no less nourishing commentary. As de Botton examines Proust for our collective benefit, we see the continued relevance of his work and the rich and varied insights he can offer us, from how to reinvigorate our relationships to being a good host. This is Proust as you've never seen him before. He may even change your life.'Curious, humorous, didactic and dazzling' New Yorker'As intoxicating as it is wise' Mail on SundayLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 215 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Broadcaster and historian Mark Urban interviewed Sergei Skripal in the months before the poisoning and explains why Skripal was targeted for assassination.'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' - John Le CarréChosen as one of the best political books of 2018 by the Sunday Times.4 March 2018, Salisbury, England.Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were enjoying a rare and peaceful Sunday spent together, completely unaware that they had been poisoned with the deadly nerve agent Novichok. Hours later both were found slumped on a park bench close to death.Following their attempted murders on British soil, Russia was publicly accused by the West of carrying out the attack, marking a new low for international relations between the two since the end of the Cold War.The Skripal Files is the definitive account of the Salisbury Poisonings and how Skripal's story fits into the wider context of the new spy war between Russia and the West. The book explores Sergei's past as a spy in the Russian military intelligence, explains how he was turned to work as an agent by MI6, and his imprisonment in Siberia. His eventual release as part of a spy-swap brought him to Salisbury where, on that fateful day, he and his daughter found themselves fighting for their lives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hilary McKay won the Costa Children's Book Award for The Skylarks' War, the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel respectively. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Josie and Deja have been pals ever since the first time, four years ago, that they worked together at the Patch, a giant seasonal pumpkin-patch theme park in rural Nebraska. But now it's Senior year, the last year they'll be working together, and it's Halloween night--the last night the patch is open! Deja is determined to do right by her pal Josie and help him hook up with the pretty redhead he's been pining after for four years. She works in the Fudge Shoppe, right across from the Succotash Hut where Josie and Deja are stationed. This should be a piece of (pumpkin spice) cake, right WRONG. In a one-night comedy of errors that feels like if Frank Capra and John Hughes teamed up, Josie and Deja find themselves in a mad scramble through the entire sprawling wonderland that is The Patch, in search of--if not true love, then at least a little closure. But both of those things might be closer than either of them realize.Teen queen Rainbow Rowell and fan-favorite graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks join forces for Pumpkinheads a goofy romp through everyone's favorite season that will leave a smile on the most curmudgeonly face. Seriously, just try resisting this one. It can't be done!Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 209 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nineteen-year-old Meg Oversby often dreams of a more exciting life than the dull existence she faces at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. Growing up, she's always sensed her father's disappointment at not having a son to help with the farm work. So when Meg dances all night at the local market hall with Sam Alderson, a lead miner from Swaledale, a new light enters her life. Sam and his brother Jack show Meg a side to life she didn't know existed. But when her parents find out, she's forbidden from ever seeing them again. Although where there is love, there is often a way. When Meg's uncle offers her the chance of helping to run the small village shop, she leaps at the opportunity, seeing it as a way to escape the oppressive family farm and see more of her beloved Sam. But as love blossoms, a darker truth emerges and Meg realizes that Sam may not be the man she thought he was . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, The Confession is an absorbing tale of secrets and self-discovery from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to LA, but in this city of strange dreams and razzle-dazzle, Elise feels even more out of her depth and makes an impulsive decision that will change her life forever.Three decades later, Rose Simmons is trying to uncover the story of her mother, who disappeared when she was a baby. Having learned that the last person to see her was a now reclusive novelist, Rose finds herself at the door of Constance Holden's house in search of a confession . . .'Dazzlingly good, utterly engrossing . . . Without doubt one of the best novels of recent years' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Long Call is the captivating first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too.Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Billet, Marion (illustrator). Neuware - Marion Billet was born in 1982 in Lyon, France and studied children's book illustration at the Emile Cohl School. Marion is widely published, with around eighty children's books published in eleven different countries. These include the Whizzy Wheels series and extremely popular London range. Her illustrations have also appeared in magazines, on stationery and toys, and on children's furniture and clothes. Marion lives in Paris with her husband and young daughter.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Discover the Japanese philosophy that can help you make incremental changes to your everyday habits.Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy which literally translates as 'good (kai) 'change (zen). The focus is on having patience, shaping solutions for yourself rather than following others and not giving up when things aren't working. This beautifully illustrated and photographed book offers a way to build good habits and remove bad ones without being too hard on yourself along the way. Rather than being critical of your faults, the emphasis is on mindful, positive change. Well-known in the business and sports worlds as a method for making incremental gains, Kaizen is also a wonderful tool for slowly improving aspects of your life, without feeling daunted or overwhelmed by the challenge.In Kaizen, Sarah Harvey brings you a personalized and flexible approach to change that you can apply to any area of your life (whether it is health, relationships, money, career, habits, new hobbies or general wellbeing). You can adapt it to suit working style, preferences and personality. Every person's experience of Kaizen will be different, which is what makes it such an effective tool for positive change.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England seriesDominion takes us from the dying days of the Regency and the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901, recounting an era of remarkable change: huge technological innovation; the emergence of the middle classes; the spread of industrialization with all the inequalities that followed in its wake; and the flowering of great literature - the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray and, of course, Dickens.