Search Results: Titles starting with M from DASHbooks

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This beautiful book contains a wealth of imaginative projects for using over 40 different herbs. Along with culinary recipes, there are ideas for beauty preparations, pot pourris, scented sachets, wreaths, and decorations for the home. There is practical information on freezing and drying herbs, as well as helpful advice on growing herbs in the garden and indoors.All the projects have been exquisitely photographed on location, making this book a visual delight as well as a valuable reference for every herb-lover.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Jiao Mei is woken in her London bedroom by a woman claiming to be her grandmother, she dismisses the encounter as a vivid dream. What with the stress of impending examinations, her unshakeable lethargy and homesick cravings for Sichuan food, lately she's been something of a stranger to herself. But as Barbara, with whom she lodges, grows disturbingly eccentric, and the atmosphere of their Hampstead home ever stranger, Jiao Mei must accept that her night-time visitor is indeed who she claims to be, and that her message - that Jiao Mei is carrying her British boyfriend's child - is one she can no longer ignore.Meanwhile Tie Mei, Jiao Mei's grandmother, has other business in London: centuries-old scores to settle, which will affect those closest to Jiao Mei. Shocked into confronting her complex heritage, Jiao Mei begins to unlock the secrets that have eaten away at the bonds… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Paul Clitheroe, Australia's leading financial adviser, presents the whole issue of money, and how to make it grow, in one user-friendly volume for everyone.This completely revised and updated third edition of the bestselling investment guide answers the financial questions that concern us all.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Meet the hothouse student talent in a university Creative Writing course for would-be poets, novelists, dramatists - and some talents not so hot. Rivalries burn and grow dangerous. Sex simmers, Lucy Corth, a lecturer, is sacked, to cut overheads, and almost immediately afterwards turns out to be a published literary genius.Meantime, Vice Chancellor of the university, Caspar Ballaugh, must do what he can to suppress these internal wars and pull the college up from its low spot in the educational league tables, so that it can qualify for bigger Government money and survive. His job is made trickier by the fact that the Government's policy seems to change every other day. One way for Ballaugh to secure glory for his university might be to help get the local city a glistening European award for cultural achievement. He works on it gamely, but there are mighty snags...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day, she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully, His legacy, he calls them.Lydia, Dean and Robyn don't know each other. Yet. And they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and, although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed.Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. And Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father - a man she's never met. But is her whole life built on an illusion.Three people leading three very different lives. All lost. All looking for something. But when they… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Experience the jungle-frontier excitement of Malaysian Borneo or the sleek sophistication of Kuala Lumpur, sip gin slings amid colonial grandeur in Singapore or hot tea at a hill station in the Cameron Highlands, watch light playing on the domes of a stunning mosque in Brunei or the sun rippling on the water at Pulau Perhentian - this comprehensive guide covers all this and much more.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It's Eastport's most notorious landmark: the old Harlequin House. Named for the disgraced physician Chester Harlequin it was used as a hideout for gunshot gangsters and their molls during Prohibition's heyday. Now fixer-upper enthusiast Jake Tiptree and Harlequin's only living descendant, Ellie White, are refurbishing the mansard-roofed mansion to host the local Historical Society's upcoming gala. But when stripping down old wallpaper reveals a secret door to a room containing not one but two corpses, Jake and Ellie once again find home repair leading to homicide.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe be adjusted at checkout.MAN UP! You're not a little boy anymore. It's up to you to take control of your health and fitness.There's nothing fun about growing a pair of man boobs, having a bulging gut and feeling like crap. You'd like to lose weight but you don't want to spend hours on a treadmill. You don't want to eat boring salads. You don't want to count calories.Welcome to my Man Plan. No BS - just stuff that works. I'll show you how to eat well and exercise for maximum effectiveness - in just 10 minutes a day!It's this simple: • 5 daily man moves• 10 primal moves• 1 weekly workout• 50 recipesIt doesn't matter how busy you are, how old you are or how much money you have...you can lose your gut without losing all the beers, and still enjoy your favourite foods. Just follow my plan.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman.A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted.A woman searches through bushes for a piece of fabric torn from her husband's shirt.The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family and longing, Lloyd Jones takes conventional family life and tilts it sideways - what follows is a sublime blend of the suburban and the surreal, achingly beautiful and unforgettable.

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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Managing Employee Performance and Reward is the first major text to explore employee performance and reward in a conceptually integrated way. It offers students, managers and general readers alike a detailed and cohesive coverage of these two pivotal and closely connected yet controversial and challenging facets of human resource management (HRM).The book critically examines current theory and practice in each field and provides a conceptually informed yet practical framework for analysing and addressing the myriad performance and reward issues that confront today's managers and HRM professionals. In doing so, it draws on a wide range of up-to-date research evidence drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - from organisational psychology and strategic management to critical management studies.Chapters addressing performance and reward basics and key themes in employee… Read More

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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other-in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armoured vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris Faulkner is just the man for the job. He fought his way out of London's zone of destitution. And his kills are making him famous. But unlike his best friend and competitor at Shorn, Faulkner has a side that outsiders cannot see: the side his wife is trying to salvage, that another woman-a porn star turned TV news reporter-is trying to exploit. Steeped in blood, eyed by common criminals looking for a shot at fame, Faulkner is… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is the summer of 1969, Ellie Barton has spent her young life in a sprawling and dilapidated manor house with her elderly father and her memories of her dead mother. Impoverished and isolated, she has been raised to a life of duty. But Marlford, the village founded by her philanthropist grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from abandoned salt mines is threatening the buildings, the books in the memorial library are mouldering, and old loyalties and assumptions are shifting. When two radical, anti-establishment young men decide to squat in a disused wing of the house, they open Ellie's eyes to a world wider than Marlford, and Ellie begins to feel trapped beneath a newly unbearable weight of history and expectation...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fiancée, Peter knew nothing about.But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that July day in South Devon. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl makes her wedding vows. And a few days later her bridegroom is found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. As Wesley investigates he suspects that the death and the bride's subsequent disappearance might be linked to Kirsten's murder.Meanwhile the skeleton of a young female is found buried in a farmer's field - a field that once belonged to the family of Ralph Strong, an Elizabethan playwright whose play, The Fair Wife of Padua, is to be performed for the first time in four hundred years. Is this bloodthirsty… Read More

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.If you are a wedding planner by trade then it's best not to have affairs with married men. This is a view that Robyn Hood (yes, her parents really did do this to her) would subscribe to, but when she meets Jonathan sticking to principles suddenly seems pointless...After a delicious dalliance the pressures mount up: keeping it secret turns from being an aphrodisiac to a source of guilt. Against the backdrop of organising the high profile wedding of a rock star's daughter, Robyn comes to see that there are some interesting single Best Men about...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."In this family, we've always made love far too important," Rufa Hasty told her sisters. "Its only ever brought us trouble. Maybe we should think about marrying money..."Like Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters - Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for own good; and Nancy, a gorgeous, irreverent redhead who relishes her work as a part-time barmaid in the local pub - decide that the way to redeem the family fortunes is to marry money. Surely it can't be that hard to find two very rich men and make the men fall in love with them.Thus beings a gloriously… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Read about flood, blood, the glitter of gold. Sense the hubbub in sailors' pubs and feel the force of big, jagged ice punching through roofs in the 1966 hailstorm. Picture yourself on one of the spooky, lamp-lit ghost tours of the old mortuary chapel. Hear the bells still tolled every March for a convict woman and the Time Cannon go 'bang' in the main street every Thursday. This, and more, is in these pages with 50 remarkable drawings.This book is Maryborough as it was, and a part of something it is today - a rare old 'town' of about 27,000 with a bright future. The year 2005 marks its 100th year as a City.

In good condition - has markings from use - no dustjacket - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. No date in book though inscription inside dates book prior to 1956. Has yellowing on pages.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.After their recent adventures with hidden treasure and secrets from the past, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are looking forward to enjoying a quiet spell at Pemberley with their new daughter, but their hoped-for peace is short-lived.Darcy's aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, is eager to arrange a lucrative and socially acceptable match for her daughter, Anne. Of course, Lady Catherine has not taken into account such frivolous matters as love or romance, let alone the wishes of her daughter. Needless to say, there is much turmoil when the young bride-to-be elopes.In pursuit of the headstrong young couple, the Darcys speed to Mansfield Park - where the usually intricate game of marriage machinations becomes even more convoluted by lies and deception. The Darcys know that love and marriage can be a complex and dangerous business - one that can even lead to murder.Anne's betrothal… Read More