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Jackie Strachan

    CALL TO ORDER A MISCELLANY OF USEFUL HIE
    Fix Your Garden
    50 Games to Play with Your Cat
    Never Grow Up
    Fix Your Home
    Fix Your Bike
    • 2018

      Never Grow Up

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.0(2712)Add rating

      Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016--after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones--he received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film. But at 64 years-old, Jackie is just getting started. Now, in Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life, including his childhood years at the China Drama Academy (in which he was enrolled at the age of six), his big breaks (and setbacks) in Hong Kong and Hollywood, his numerous brushes with death (both on and off film sets), and his life as a husband and father (which has been, admittedly and regrettably, imperfect). Jackie has never shied away from his mistakes. Since The Young Master in 1980, Jackie's films have ended with a bloopers reel in which he stumbles over his lines, misses his mark, or crashes to the ground in a stunt gone south. In Never Grow Up, Jackie applies the same spirit of openness to his life, proving time and time again why he's beloved the world over: he's honest, funny, kind, brave beyond reckoning and--after all this time--still young at heart.

      Never Grow Up
    • 2018

      A useful and fascinating guide to rankings, classifications, and hierarchies that make up our world -- from the Richter Scale to the classification of wine to the Jedi Order. Sure to be classified as more informative and useful than Schott's Miscellany, but easily just as much fun, CALL TO ORDER is an essential illustrated guide that fills in the gaping holes in our knowledge and helps settle plaguing questions. Among them, "Does four-of-a-kind beat a full house in poker?" (Yes.) Does a Marquess outrank a Duke? (No.) And, what classification of sinner populates the Sixth Circle of Hell? (Heretics.) And, how are they punished. (Crammed into burning tombs.) Can you never pass question three on HQ? Here are the hierarchies, pecking orders, ranks, and standings that order every aspect of our lives, from society, government and religion to culture, music, biology, and environment. CALL TO ORDER is the definitive catalog of where things stand.

      CALL TO ORDER A MISCELLANY OF USEFUL HIE
    • 2017

      The Order of Things

      • 198 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      An informative book of lists, attractively designed, to fill in the gaps in our grasp of hierarchies of all kinds, from angels to seraphim and from kitchen boys to chefs de cuisine.

      The Order of Things
    • 2017

      Fix Your Home

      • 118 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      A stylish, practical guide to making your home beautiful and keeping it in tip-top condition, aimed at young urban professionals.

      Fix Your Home
    • 2016

      Fix Your Garden

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.5(19)Add rating

      Aimed at the first-time homeowner or renter with little or no gardening know- how, Fix Your Garden contains a wealth of stylishly presented information on how to make your garden grow and your balcony bloom.

      Fix Your Garden
    • 2015

      Fix Your Bike

      • 111 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Everyone's cycling nowdays. City streets are thronged with cyclists on the latest cool bikes, and more and more of us are cycling for fun at the weekends. You may love to cruise the streets and lanes with the wind in your hair, but would you be able to fix your bike if it let you down?

      Fix Your Bike
    • 2015

      Cats may spend up to two-thirds of their life asleep but when they're awake, they enjoy wall-to-wall entertainment: something to stalk, to chase, or to eat. This book provides tips that explain your cat's behaviour. It shows you how to coax a cautious cat into play without coercion, and reveal how to gently wind down an over-excited cat.

      50 Games to Play with Your Cat