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This is a real fantasy trip around the Pacific Islands as Reed retells these beautiful fanciful stories and legends: from New Zealand: The Sky Father and The Earth Mother; The Sea Fairies and Hinemoa and Tutanekai; from Hawaii: The Little People Of Hawaii and The Goddess Of The Volcano; from Tahiti: The Children Who Became Stars; from Samoa: The Sandpiper And The Crab; from Tonga: How Maui Brought Fire To Tonga; from Niue: The Woman Who Was Swallowed By A Whale; from Cook Islands: The Gift Of The Eel God; from Chatham Islands: The Sea Monster; from Fiji: The Giant Bird and The Spirit-That-Changes-People; from the Solomon Islands: The Foolish Canoe Paddlers and Why The Moon Has A Dirty Face; from New Britain: The Wise Brother And The Foolish Brother; from New Guinea: How The Turtle Got Its Shell and The Snake And The Cockatoo; from New Hebrides: Six Men Who Tried To Catch A Sunbeam; from Nauru: Young Spider In The Sky; from Caroline Islands: The Mouse Who Was Hungry; from Marshall Islands: The First Sail; from Paulau Islands: The Boy Who Came From The Sun Egg. Illustrated by Stewart Irwin. -
The author talks mostly about people he claims to know, like his neighbours in his imaginary suburban street, Crawlie Crescent. And Maisie the Barmaid. His Uncle Duncan. And the everyday, absurd family events that were a part of the Australian suburban landscape of the sixties. Collie worked for the Australasian Post for ten years, in which his column Corn Beef and Collie was a regular feature. Typical Aussie humour at its best. Illustrated by 'Vane'. -
At twenty-nine, Bettger was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was forty he owned a country estate and could have retired. What are the selling secrets that turned Bettger’s life around from defeat to unparalleled success and fame as one of the highest paid salesmen in America? Here he reveals his personal experiences and explains the foolproof principles that he developed and perfected. He shares instructive anecdotes and step-by-step guidelines on how to develop the style, spirit, and presence of a winning salesperson. He covers: the power of enthusiasm; how to conquer fear; the key word for turning a skeptical client into an enthusiastic buyer; the quickest way to win confidence; the seven golden rules for closing a sale. This was first published in 1951 and the times have changed - but people don't. There is plenty that is still applicable today. -
Warne's Star Series. This volume also appears under the titles of The Percys; A Mother's Influence and Ever Heavenward. (Not to be confused with Stepping Heavenward.) First published in 1870, we learn that Mr. Percy has decided to send his older children to school hours away in New York City, resulting in many changes to his whole family. Mrs. Percy is broken-hearted but agrees to let them go, as her husband is convinced that the trials and temptations of school will help the children grow in their Christian faith. Through personal letters, we learn about life at boarding school and its challenges, as well as events back at home. With realism and humor, the author draws the reader into to this loving family and makes one feel at home among them. They are not without their struggles andtroubles but comic relief is provided by twin brothers Rio and Lio and the clumsy Daisy. Mrs. Percy is the real hero of the story, as she guides her flock, teaching them love for God above all. -
The irrepressible Wolfe has a satiric 'go' at the pretensions of Bauhaus art, attitudes and architecture. 'Starting from zero', 'bourgeois', the Cubists, Fauvists, Secessionists and every 'ism' comes under the gun, including Post-Modernism. Wolfe follows architectural design from Europe to America where Bauhaus was embraced in earnest and explores, with due irony, the vast contradiction between the bare, spare impersonal and abstract Bauhaus architecture and the exuberant, muscle-flexing populace that it serves. Illustrated with black and white photos
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Subtitle: Being Two Hundred Pictures of the English Inn from the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Railway Hotel. Somewhat misleading - this is not a book of two hundred pictures, but two hundred observations on the history of the English inn and its role in society, travel, festivals, portentous solemnity, a place of repose...The observations come from a fantastic diversity of names: John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell, Disraeli, Dickens, Washington Irving, Thomas de Quincey, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, 'George Eliot', Chaucer, Anthony Trollope and many more. The theme of the observations is as diverse as the contributors: from the 'gallant' in the tavern to the arranging of duels; from gluttons to gourmands; from highwaymen to harridans; from cockroaches to cleanliness and - of course - hosts and hostesses. -
Book XX of Doctor series. From the author of the practically-infamous Doctor series of books, film and television comes a brilliant solution to the bunglings of the National Health Service: The Lady With The Lamp. The legendary Florence Nightingale returns to Earth, determined to reorganise the NHS, as she memorably reorganised the medical chaos of the Crimean War. And more: the late Sir Lancelot Spratt also returns to stop the NHS closing his beloved St. Swithin's Hospital. He's not having it. The combined effect of these ghostly visitations is that of a UFO landing on the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, the wild Professor Whapshott is recreating the human race with his gene-loaded mega-mosquitoes... -
Yes, everything you thought you knew is STILL wrong! As made famous on QI - Quite Interesting with Stephen Fry. You'll be amazed at which country has the lowest age of consent; and that you should definitely NOT urinate on a jellyfish sting to ease the pain; and you will also discover when a spiral staircase is not a spiral staircase. Great potential for trivia buffs.
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Here’s Lower: Lennie Lower
$20.00Lower only wrote the one novel, Here's Luck, in which Gudgeon and Son battle the great Australian icons - the police, the wife, the booze and the races. Here is a selection of his whimsical newspaper columns of the 1930s, short tales which were a showcase for Lower's natural Aussie anarchy. You can get the low-down on Banking; The Cruel Tactics of the Emu; The Terrors of Wealth; The Perils of the Bathtub and What Bread Is and How To Use It among other wits and wisdoms on life.
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