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Dave Mabbutt is having a crisis. He’s the richest man in Britain, a bona fide rockstar with fans, fame and fortune. He even has a personal assistant called Mr. Tumble, who is in fact an elephant - but he’s not happy. When you have more money than sense life can have hilarious consequences. And how rock and roll does it really feel to have your mum at every gig?

T.S. Eliot tells us in his poem “The Hollow Men” that the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Well, he was wrong. Dead wrong. When death and destruction come, the screams of terror, horror, and excruciating pain will rend the blood-red sky and be heard across the world. When your number is up, there’s nowhere to run and no place to hide. You can't cheat death; death will find you. It always does.

In the late 2020s and early '30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world's wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations. In the late '30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initiated hostile takeovers in a whole new fashion. Employees, armed with corporate weapons, warred for dominance. On May 1st, 2067, it all ended in a nuclear fire.

Men with ADHD: A Guide to Organizing, Overcoming Distractions, and Strengthening Relationships addresses the unique challenges that men with ADHD face in both their personal and professional lives. This includes managing emotions, enhancing communication skills, and strengthening relationships with partners, family, and colleagues.

The Ultimate Marketing & PR Book gives you everything you need to be a better marketer. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible. If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From strategy, mobile and ecommerce to social media, SEO and PR, The Ultimate Marketing & PR Book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques and strategies for success.

Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit - and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality. Weirdo is an endearing story about the quiet power of being different by two veteran writers. Together they have created a story that adults and children alike will treasure.

Welcome to the Part Time Pilot Audio Ground School Podcast! This podcast is going to be all about providing student pilots with ANOTHER way that they can consume the Private Pilot curriculum. The #1 reason student pilots never end up becoming a private pilot is NOT due to money. The real reason is actually deeper than that. Yes, flight training is expensive. But every student pilot knows this and budgets for it when they decide to do it. The actual #1 reason a student pilot fails is because they do not have a good, fundamental understanding of the private pilot knowledge they are meant to ...

Nick Smith charts his journey from trainee teacher through to inspiring head across his near thirty-year career, with fascinating insights into the educational system along the way. The catalogue of incidents ranges from the embarrassing to the ridiculous, hilarious to the heart-breaking, and together they illustrate the daily grind of life at the whiteboard face in UK schools. Head Trauma is more than an amusing look at the trials of teacherdom—it's a call to arms for parents, teachers and pupils alike.

“I have 50 days to live. I don’t mean roughly 50 days. I mean exactly. My life ends on 30 December 2016". These are the opening lines of Drowned Hogg Day. Narrator Alex Hogg must come to terms not only with the wreckage of his life, but the certainty of his imminent drowning. Part comedy, part history, part thriller, Drowned Hogg Day charts the last 50 days of Alex’s life as he discovers a series of extraordinary historical parallels to his situation.

Follow the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains the science behind light!

Join Max Axiom as he explores the science behind light. Max helps young listeners understand the critical role light plays in everything we do.

Join us as we discuss the wondrous world of Dungeons and Dragons and our tips to have a great time playing! If you are a first time player or a Veteran of roleplaying games, Come along for the Adventure! What is the difference between a Dragon and a Kobold? How does one start running a campaign? When will I finally level up? (We can’t tell you that...) We will discuss everything D&D and Roleplaying and answer your questions about the game! Advice and Advantage is a weekly Role-Playing podcast focused primarily on 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. Between the Rulebooks and Live Action play ...

Conversations with Niche Aviation Manufacturers, Airlines & Investors. On this podcast, I'll share the stories behind these unique ventures. Guests include founders, pilots & investors.

Debating the hottest topics in sports today and past. The NFL, NBA, NCAA, MLB, BOXING, UFC, WWE, AND AEW. Music, tv, and movies, any and everything entertainment!

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows crawling and slithering to life to terrify those brave souls amongst you who dare to listen.

The Social Media Management Handbook provides a complete toolbox for defining and practicing a coherent social media strategy. It is a comprehensive resource for bringing together such disparate areas as IT, customer service, sales, communications, and more to meet social media goals. Wollan and Smith and their Accenture team explain policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities, metrics, strategies, incentives, and legal issues that may arise.

Nigel Shirazi, the Speaker of the Merc Guild, knows that war is coming and he’s not ready. He needs to build up the mercenary forces after years of war, and he’s proclaimed the Phoenix Initiative to give people who want to start new companies the opportunity to do so. CASPers are cheaper and financed at lower rates, and the government of Earth is offering bounties to take the mercs from alien races off the planet. Now is the time!

Four business-owning entrepreneurial knuckleheads chew the fat on the sometimes murky, always quirky, world of UK and Irish personal finance.

Two guys and a girl who peaked in high school talk about how they wish they would have known more, when they thought knew it all. 

Two guys and a girl who peaked in high school talk about how they wish they would have known more, when they thought knew it all.