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Featuring insights ... analysis ... great films and filmmakers from "the most-sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world" "(The Hollywood Reporter)."""A life in film. An extraordinary career. An unforgettable story -- from noted lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author Syd Field. What makes a ... More

Creative thinking, deductive reasoning and puzzle solving are all excellent areas for building up your mental muscle. The Boost your Brainpower series gives your brain the opportunity for serious regular exercise. Philip Carter and Ken Russell are UK Mensa Magazine Puzzle editors and are thus perfec... More

Configure, Secure, and Troubleshoot Until recently, the reality of video conferencing didn't live up to the marketing hype. That's all changed. The network infrastructure and broadband capacity is now in place to deliver clear, real time video and voice feeds... More

Everyone who reads DILBERT" and works in an office will appreciate this newest collection, Dilbert Gives You the Business. Creator Scott Adams tells it like it is through the insane business world inhabited by Dilbert. If frustration and lunacy are an inevitable part of your workday, appropriate mea... More

Everyone loves a challenge when it comes to sudoku, the insanely addictive puzzle craze that's taken the world by storm. Riding hot on the heels of the overnight success The Everything Giant Sudoku Book comes The Everything 15-Minute Sudoku Book and The Everything 30-Minute Sudoku Book. Packed with ... More

Everyone loves a challenge when it comes to sudoku, the insanely addictive puzzle craze that's taken the world by storm. Riding hot on the heels of the overnight success The Everything Giant Sudoku Book comes The Everything 15-Minute Sudoku Book and The Everything 30-Minute Sudoku Book. Packed with ... More

Two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide a hilarious guide to the various trendy discourses that academics have churned out for decades. Covering such schools of thought as difference feminism, deconstruction, and the sociology of knowledge, the author reveals that clotted jargon, tort... More

On a sunny morning in June, the Dean of St. Swithin's Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt, yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale. Doctor on the Brain is a fast-moving hilarious comedy wher... More

Truly a treat for Martin Gardner’s many fans, the articles span a wide range of topics. They include games of chance (and why a “computer” will always beat a human player), word ladders and mathematical word play games, tiling puzzles, magic squares, computer and calculator “magic” tricks,... More

This charming book of Indian film posters offers the uninitiated a window into the sub-continent's famously over-the-top movie industry, and for those who know it well, there is a wide selection of classic and little-known material. Posters from smaller production outposts in Tamil Nadu and Kerela a... More

The poems in this books focus on an unusual scarecrow who contemplates the world around him, even while keeping watch on bird traffic, monkeys and porcupines. The entire panorama of nature and the changing seasons is seen from the scarecrow's eyes and brought alive through simple yet subtle and humo... More

The secret of constellations, the enigma of the golden mean, and the brilliance of a proof-these are just some of the wonders Clawson explores with unbridled delight in this recreational math book. Throughout the book he divulges the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptian... More

In Bollywood, every cliche is true. the script doesn't mater, only the proposal does. The song and dance is everything. Packaging counts and marketing delivers. Everything revolves around a handful of starts. Much of the funding is from unorganized and sometimes even questionable sources. But Bolly... More

Hollywood may define our idea of movies but it is the city of Bombay on the west coast of India that is now the centre of world cinema. Every year the Indian film industry produces more than a thousand feature films, every day fourteen million Indians go to watch a movie in the country, a billion mo... More

Teach Yourself Chess contains everything a beginning chess player needs to know about this mentally challenging game. It describes the moves of the pieces, elementary tactics in offensive and defensive play, and the basic combinations to force checkmate. The author also provides detailed commentarie... More