A Timeless Classic of Chivalry and AdventureIvanhoe by Walter Scott is a sweeping historical novel filled with adventure, romance, conflict, and memorable characters. The story brings medieval England vividly to life, combining tournaments, political tension, loyalty, and personal courage in an engaging and dramatic narrative.Scott’s rich historical atmosphere and sense of adventure make the novel especially enjoyable for readers who love classic h...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

The Self-Made Blueprint is the story of a man shaped by hardship, rejection, danger, work, survival and the long search for meaning.From a difficult childhood and fractured family life to the streets, the sea, construction sites, business, fatherhood and the hard lessons that came with each chapter of his life, Walter Heuvel tells his story without pretending that survival was ever simple.This is not a polished tale of overnight success. It is a memoir about what i...

The Khan's Grocer: Marco Polo and the Food That Built an Empire, and how a Venetian Merchant Discovered Pasta, Pepper, and a New World of FlavorThis book (The Khan's Grocer) examines the life and adventures of Marco Polo, tracing his roots to Venice, a city pivotal in Eastern trade. It commences with the expedition of Marco's father and uncle to meet Kublai Khan, who return with a golden passport that fuels young Marco's aspirations for exploration. The narrative progresses as they...

Have you ever walked away from a conversation completely sure of how it went… only to find out later you had it all wrong?The meeting you thought was a success. The friend who said "I'm fine" and clearly wasn't. The date you were certain went well — until they never texted back. That gap between what you thought was happening and what was actually true is more common than you think, and it's costing you more than you realize.Mos...

Your phone isn't the problem. Your understanding of your own brain is.You sit down to do the one thing that actually matters to you — and ninety seconds later, you're scrolling. Again. You tell yourself you'll start after this next video, this next refresh, this next small hit of something. Then the day is gone, the project is still just an idea, and you're left with that familiar mix of guilt and exhaustion that makes tomorrow even harder to start....

Quantum Communication and Cryptography introduces readers to the theory of quantum cryptography, with a focus will on quantum key distribution (QKD) and more advanced quantum cryptographic protocols beyond QKD. It contains a brief introduction to the field of modern cryptography that is needed to fully appreciate and understand how quantum cryptographic systems are proven secure, and how they can be safely used in combination with current day classical systems. Readers are then introduced ...

Walter Blasberg thought owning a historic Vermont inn would mean candlelit dinners and foliage season. What he got instead was a septic system with an acute sense of bad timing, a rotating cast of chefs who made Gordon Ramsay look stable, a New Year's Eve brawl that brought down the Christmas tree, and a great flood that nearly took the whole place with it.Along the way he also found an unlikely family - his partner John, John's mother Aida who became the inn's force-of-nature hous...

What if the problem in your relationships has been you — and what if that's the best news you've ever gotten?Most people never ask that question. The fact that you're even willing to means you're already someone who can change.If you've watched people slowly pull away, been told you're controlling, critical, or cold, or lain awake wondering if you're the toxic one, this book was written for you. Not to shame you. To help you.How to Stop Bein...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Up, Up. Up and Down! features brother and sister, Ben and Jess, who are pushing and pulling their go-kart and scooter up the road and hill to get to the top. And when they get there, they cannot wait to come down again!Reading Champion offers indepe...

This updated and expanded second edition has the same theme as the first: the price, the number, someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product, comes from statistically modeling data.Five new chapters provide a wider perspective on pricing analytics to more effectively develop elasticities and pricing strategies. This book gives readers the statistical modeling tools needed to get the number to put on a product, based on economic and statistical principles ...

Nobody ever sat you down and explained how money actually works — and now you're supposed to just... figure it out?You're not alone. Most teens reach their first paycheck, their first bank account, and their first credit card offer with zero real guidance — and end up learning the hard way, through overdraft fees, maxed-out cards, and money that disappears before they even know where it went.This book is the conversation you were never given.