Hodder & Stoughton

The ability to understand finance is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Roger Mason, a leading expert on business finance as both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order become confident in financial issues. The highly motivational `in a week` structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

he world of finance and accountancy can seem one of impenetrable mystery but it is one that many managers have to face in their day to day lives. With its comprehensive coverage of the subject, this book allows you not only to ask pertinent questions but also to understand the answers. Chapter by chapter, the workings of finance are mapped out and laid bare - the formal reports, the methods used to prepare the numbers and what accountants actually do every day. This edition is fully updated to reflect current allowances, rates and regulations and further information. It also includes even more questions (with comprehensive answers) to challenge the reader`s understanding. Detailed explanations are provided in a clear, jargon-free style...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

This is the perfect introduction for beginners who want to learn the essential principles behind Tai Chi without overcomplicated instructions or confusing detail. You will learn the basic ideas and get into the Tai Chi way of thinking before picking up the `form` and exercises through a series of simple illustrations designed for all abilities, leaving you with the perfect antidote to the stresses of 21st-century life.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

A superb series of graded readers using the highly acclaimed phonic approach developed by reading expert Ruth Miskin. There are four levels - Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Green Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 3. All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour. Fiona Fusspot focuses on the following sounds: double consonants, `ll` as in `yell`, blended consonants, `ng` as in `hang` and two or three consonants together, `sk` as in `skin`, and `ft` as in `lift`.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013

`You`re a firestarter just one big zippo lighter`A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most and menacing.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: март 2012

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2012

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012

An understanding of public relations is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Brian Salter, a leading expert on public relations as both a practitioner and a journalist, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order run a successful public relations strategy. The highly motivational `in a week` structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

The perfect pattern for close-knit friendships, this novel is refreshing in its warmth and you`ll be imediately welcomed in.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage `54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that`s what it looks There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it`s a boy`s way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

`I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger`, writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up `1922`, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In `Big Driver`, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

I believe there is another man inside every man, a ` writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up `1922`, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In `Big Driver`, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself....

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point come when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead. A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger. Harry Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mix of eroticism and violence, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a true classic and established James M. Cain as a major novelist. And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that`s been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic. Claire has always clung to the Waverleys` roots, tending the enchanted soil in the family garden from which she makes her sought-after delicacies - famed and feared for their curious effects. She has everything she thinks she needs - until one day she waked to find a stranger has moved in next door and a vine of ivy has crept into her Claire`s carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe`en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don`t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011

A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald`s Game. But this time Jesse didn`t want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he`d loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she`

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Are you looking for a course in Japanese written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Japanese will give you the confidence to communicate in Japanese. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Japanese. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: can deal...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

This book is an essential companion for any aspiring songwriter, and is ideal for those with no formal musical education. Covering every genre of popular contemporary music, from rock and pop to musical theatre and country/western, it tracks everything from what harnessing your creative potential to finding a hook and selling, performing and promoting your songs. It also offers some material for those at a slightly more advanced level who`d like to understand things such as chords and sequencing. With straightforward notation and an accompanying CD which showcases the process at work, this accessible guide from a professional songwriter will prove indispensable for creating and peforming your own songs.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Are you looking for a course in Dutch written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Dutch will give you the confidence to communicate in Dutch. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Dutch. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: can deal with most...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Are you looking for a course in Latin written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Latin will give you the confidence to read and write in Latin. Do memories of your grammar lessons haunt you and other textbooks overwhelm you? Then Get Started in Latin is for you. Follow a Latin story set in a medieval monastery, where conspiracy unfolds in the cloisters, Vikings threaten to attack, and young lovers set out to unmask the villains. Sample some classical Latin too, and learn more about the authors who wrote it. Get Started in Latin is ideal for complete beginners because it introduces the language step by step through an interesting and humorous story. Each unit contains grammatical...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Are you looking for a course in Spanish written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Spanish will give you the confidence to communicate in Spanish. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Spanish. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can deal with...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Are you looking for a course in German written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in German will give you the confidence to communicate in German. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in German. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can deal with most...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Are you looking for a course in Mandarin Chinese written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Mandarin Chinese will give you the confidence to communicate in Mandarin Chinese. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Mandarin Chinese. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

This new edition of `TYS Beginner`s Russian` is specially written for people who have never learned a foreign language before. Fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive, it still relies on the benefits of a top language teacher and TYS` years of teaching experience, but now includes added learning features within the course and online. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and will be able to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Book and audio support pack.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012