Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter across two thousand years into a future both strange and appallingly familiar. In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a global nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power ...
There's no doubt about it - a job interview is like an interrogation. Employers are going to ask you tough questions Lots of them. How you handle that means the difference between getting a job offer or not. Discover the secrets and techniques to answering tough job interview questions with ease. You will discover how to handle illegal questions, bizarre questions, personal questions, questions intended to put you on the defensive and make you sweat, and so much more.
The Black Sabbath front man and reality TV star discuss his life in his own in-your-face style, including his working-class upbringing, his decision to quit a factory job for a life in music, his affinity for biting the heads off bats, his alcohol and substance excesses, his brushes with death and STDs and the surreality of him becoming a grandfather. Лицо "Black Sabbath" и телезвезда обсуждает свою собственную жизнь, включая решение посвятить свою жизнь музыке.
The Case of the Late Pig is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published 1937, by Hodder & Stoughton. It is the eighth novel featuring the mysterious Albert Campion and his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg. As Lugg is reading aloud the obituaries one morning, he comes across one for an old school nemesis of Campion. Remarkably, an anonymous letter inviting Campion to the funeral has also appeared in the morning post. R.I. “Pig” Pe.
“A bluebear has 27 lives. I shall recount thirtreen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest,” says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. “Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair’s breadth, last-minute escapes….”
Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters, including Minipirates, Hobgoblins, Babbling Billows, the Spiderwitch, the Troglotroll, and the Mountain Maggot. It’s a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together and turned on its head.
