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A selection of favorite cartoons representing the best of the popular comic strip spotlights the lunacies of the modern business world, from network administrators with more power than is good for them to obsessed managers, inane companies, and cheap accountants. Simultaneous.... More

Was it Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the revolver?Mrs. Peacock in the library with wrench? These short mysteries take the CLUEgame to a whole new level, incorporating all the elements of the game you loveinto tales of murder and intrigue. Best of all, More Clue Mysteriespresents fifteen w... More

Choosing the best 200 Hindi films ever made from the 1940's onwards, Subhash K. Jha gives concise and enjoyable reviews of the films, along with trivia and anecdotes about actors and actresses of that time and about the making of the films. The book also has a timeline of films and landmark events... More

Twenty-one extraordinary stories from a master storyteller For several decades now, Satyajit Ray’s tales about unusual happenings and bizarre characters rooted in familiar surroundings have both regaled and terrified his readers, young and old alike. Here finally are the very best of his shor... More

Bollywood, the Hindi film industry started with just one film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913. By the end of the century, however, it had grown into a creative and financial behemoth with the intervening decades witnessing technological innovations that were to change the face of the film industry. Tod... More

Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for "the island," Al-Jazeera has "scooped" the western media conglomerates many times. With its exclusive access to Osama Bin Laden... More

A well-crafted, full-color book for a growing market, this title explores Adobe's DVD creation program, Encore. It's a complete tutorial for Adobe CS developers, particularly those who use Premiere and AfterEffect, as well as for professional filmmakers who wish to transfer their projects to DVDs.... More

Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986 he closed the door on his adventurous life and settled down in Japan, eventually joining Mitsubishi as a Salaryman - a man in a shiny suit with a sh... More

James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before the RAF come round to his point of view. James Herriot's sixth volume of unforgettable memoirs sees him dreaming of the day when he can... More

Without the powerful potion whipped up by the Druid Getafix, Asterix and his fellow Gaulish villagers would never have the strength to fight Caesar's legions. Now Getafix has run short of rock oil.... More

Book cricket, beetle races, bows and arrows, inkball fights in school . . . Boys will be boys . . .Witty boys, sporty boys, befuddled boys, mean boys. You’ll find all kinds of boys in these pages—there is a rising cricket star who finds himself dangling from a tree on the day of the b... More

New Page 2 Being assertive means that you can express yourself with confidence. It means that you don't resort to being too passive, aggressive and manipulative. By developing your assertiveness and becoming aware of your strengths and weakness, you will learn how to modify your behaviour. ... More

Conventional wisdom has it that humiliation is a bad thing (at least for the person it's happening to - let's face it, for everyone watching, it's fantastic entertainment). There is, however, a school of thought which holds that humiliation can actually be a good thing (in a twisted, masochistic, ce... More