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  • How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World

    John Hudson

    Hardcover (Macmillan, June 27, 2019)
    'When it comes to survival and getting out of trouble, listen to this man. John is the real deal.'Levison WoodWhat is the connection between crawling through a jungle and your ‘to do’ list? What can ejecting out of a stealth bomber teach you about the importance of thinking the worst? What can surviving in extreme situations teach us about surviving everyday life?John Hudson, Chief Survival Instructor to the British Military, knows what it takes to survive. Combining first-hand experience with 20 years of studying the choices people have made under the most extreme pressure, How to Survive is a lifetime’s worth of wisdom about how to apply the principles of survival to everyday life.The cornerstone of military survival (surviving anything) is understanding the relationship between effort, hope and goals – a mindset that can be transposed anytime, anywhere. In How to Survive you will learn how this template for survival can be applied to any situation in your everyday life.Through gripping first-hand accounts of near disaster and survival stories from across the extreme world you will learn that by following these principles you can develop the mindset that will allow you to make better decisions under pressure, which are as equally applicable to first dates and presentations as to climbing Everest and getting lost at sea.
  • Archimedes Mathematician and Inventor

    Martin Gardner, Leonard Everett Fisher

    Hardcover (The Macmillan Company, March 15, 1965)
    Tells the story of the life and work of that ancient Greek mthematician, scientist, and inventor.
  • GLORY OF THEIR TIMES, THE, The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

    Lawrence S. Ritter

    Hardcover (The Macmillan Co., March 15, 1969)
    Baseball was different in earlier days-tougher, rawer, more intimate-when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game.
  • The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin

    Daniel James Brown

    eBook (Macmillan, June 6, 2013)
    Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany. Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others – and to find his way back home. Told against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive. ‘I really can't rave enough about this book . . . I read the last fifty pages with white knuckles, and the last twenty-five with tears in my eyes’ – David Laskin, author of The Children's Blizzard and The Long Way Home.
  • ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO the Complete Book with Illustrations from the Motion Picture

    RACHEL FIELD

    Hardcover (THE MACMILLAN CO., Jan. 1, 1940)
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  • C. S. Lewis Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength

    C.S. Lewis

    Paperback (Macmillan, March 15, 1967)
    Macmillan Paperbacks (First) Edition, 1965; Various Printings shown in Photos, all dated 1974.
  • Lessons I'Ve Learned: Better Golf the Sam Snead Way

    Sam Snead, Don Wade

    Hardcover (Macmillan Pub Co, Oct. 1, 1989)
    Snead shares the secrets and tips that have made him one of the all-time great golfers. He combines these insights with personal analyses of some of the best players and shows how to use their strengths and adjustments to overcome flaws and weaknesses in the reader's own game. Photographs and color illustrations.
  • Silently, the Cat, and Miss Theodosia

    Felice Holman, Harvey Dinnerstein

    Hardcover (MacMillan, Jan. 1, 1967)
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  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow

    Rainbow Rowell

    eBook (Macmillan, Oct. 8, 2015)
    Based on the characters Simon and Baz who featured in Rainbow Rowell's bestselling Fangirl, Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story – but far, far more monsters.Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything.
  • Hitchety Hatchety Up I Go!

    Patricia D. Brennan, Robert Rayevsky

    Hardcover (Macmillan Pub Co, Sept. 1, 1985)
    Tiny Hitchety Hatchety, who lives in a teacup, steals the things he needs from a cranky old woman down the lane, narrowly escaping her broom each time she dicsovers him.
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  • The Charmed Life of Alex Moore: A quirky adventure with an unexpected twist

    Molly Flatt

    eBook (Macmillan, May 3, 2018)
    Full of heart and humour, Molly Flatt's The Charmed Life of Alex Moore is one woman's adventure – with a most unexpected twist How would you feel if everything in your life suddenly started to go . . . right? Six months ago, Alex Moore was stuck in a dead-end job, failing to unleash one grand plan after another. Then, seemingly overnight, she launched her dream start-up and became one of London's fastest rising tech stars. At thirty, her life has just begun. But Alex’s transformation isn’t easy for those around her. Her friends are struggling to accept her sudden success, her parents are worried that she’s running on empty and her fiancé is getting cold feet. Then weird things start to happen. Muggings, stalkers and even a claim that she murdered a stranger. But when Alex visits the Orkney Islands to recharge, weird turns into WTF. Because there she discovers the world’s oldest secret – and it’s a secret that Alex’s stratospheric rise has royally messed up.'I was hooked after the first paragraph' Minnie Driver'A fabulous tale for the fabulist in all of us. Black Mirror for Generation Me' Philip Jones, Editor of The Bookseller
  • C. W. Anderson's Complete Book of Horses and Horsemanship

    C. W. Anderson

    Hardcover (The MacMillan Company, March 15, 1969)
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