Browse by category
Statistics 101 - From Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling to Measuring Distribution and Determining Probability, Your Essential Guide to Statistics by David Borman
Category: Science | Series: Adams 101 Ser.
A comprehensive guide to statistics--with information on collecting, measuring, analyzing, and presenting statistical data--continuing the popular 101 series. Data is everywhere. In the age of the internet and social media, we're responsible for consuming, evaluating, and analyzing data on a daily ...Show more
Stencil Style 101 by Ed Roth
Category: Art | Series: Stencil 101 Ser.
Stencil Style 101 presents a whole new take on DIY fashion! Stencil maverick Ed Roth offers 20 stencils perfect for customising clothing and accessories. Patterns like argyle, hound's-tooth, chevron, leopard print and polka dots combined with iconic imagery such as feathers, buttons, records and stars m ...Show more
Stock Market 101 - From Bull and Bear Markets to Dividends, Shares, and Margins--Your Essential Guide to the Stock Market by Michele Cagan
Category: Other Gift | Series: Adams 101 Ser.
All you need to know about buying and selling stocks Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of investing into tedious discourse that would put even a hedge fund manager to sleep. Stock Market 101 cuts out the boring explanations of basic investing, and instead provides hands-on lessons that ...Show more
Tennis - Breaks down the Subject into 101 Easy-to-Grasp Tips by Paul Douglas; Marlena Spieler
Category: Sport | Series: 101 Essential Tips Ser.
From choosing the right equipment to learning the rules of the game, this useful and authoritative guide covers everything there is to know about tennis. Handy guides that use pictures to give readers the information they need, 101 Essential Tips feature comprehensive coverage, beautiful full-color ima ...Show more
The Duel by J. G. Nichols (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels on the run from the authorities of his native Venice around northern Europe, poking fun at the ruling classes he encounters there, before focusing on a pivotal incident that occurs in Warsaw. Insulted by a Polish count over an It ...Show more
The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso; Roland Penrose (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love; the ...Show more
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Frozen DeepBy Wilkie CollinsThe date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is-dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from the ...Show more
The Jew's Beech by Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff; Lionel Thomas (Translator); Doris Thomas (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history. A proto ...Show more
The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Deeply shocking in its time, this is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only comfort, he spends his hours recounting hi ...Show more
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices By Charles Dickens In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showc ...Show more
The Life of Castruccio Castracani by Niccolo Machiavelli; J. G. Nichols (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd warlords in Italy. Indeed, Machiavelli argues, so great was his vigour and charisma that o had he not been prevented by his untimely death o he might have surpassed in fame the g ...Show more
The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist; Richard Stokes (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, ...Show more