The Grab Bag

The purpose of this text is to ensure the survival of skipper and crew in the event of their boat sinking. It features: advice on the essentials to pack into the emergency grab bag for a short or long cruise, hot or cold climate, coastal or offshore trip; flowcharts to prioritise abandon ship procedure; techniques for survival in the liferaft, short- and long-term - the why, when and how of liferaft survival; and checklists and tables.

Push the Limits of Your Creativity Creative Grab Bag captures the spirit of exploration and innovation—inside, you'll find inspiring work from 101 artists from around the world. Ethan Bodnar asked each artist to take on a task outside the realm of their normal work. Each task was randomly selected from a grab bag. The result is a collection of work brimming with creative energy. In this book, you'll find short biographies of the artists, examples of their typical work, their thoughts on the creative process, and images of their completed creative task. Here's a sampling of the creative grab bag tasks: Design a Building Make a Self-Portrait Make Art like a Child Design a Brand Create Visual Statistics Illustrate a Memory Illustrate Your Day Create a Collage Create a Sculpture Design a Book Cover Design an Album Cover Create a Photo Essay Photograph Strangers Design a Skateboard Design a Pair of Shoes Make a Wallpaper Pattern Design a Typeface Create an Animation Design a Character Creative Grab Bag also features tear-out cards, so you can do the creative challenges yourself. Work together or in a group, and push the limit—you'll break out of your routine and take your work into unchartered territory. PLEASE NOTE: Tear-out cards are NOT included with the ebook version of this title

Seventeen priceless stories from the author often referred to as “America’s Agatha Christie” Charlotte MacLeod’s heroes were men and women like Peter Shandy and Sarah Kelling—genteel sleuths who fight crime with brains, not brawn—and her settings were the drawing rooms and servants’ quarters of New England and beyond. With a keen wit and a strong eye for detail, she crafted some of the most memorable victims, murderers, and innocent bystanders of twentieth-century detective novels. In this volume, she proves herself a master of the short story as well. Here is the original Peter Shandy story, featuring the school that would eventually metamorphose into Balaclava Agricultural College. Here is peculiar Cousin Claude, who strangles himself with his own necktie. And here is the tale that answers the question “What does Max Bittersohn do when his wife is not around?” Whether the characters are familiar or not, the style is irresistible, and the mysteries are as delightfully puzzling as ever.

"The secrets in this book have put a LOT of money in my pocket. And they can do the same for you if you apply them to your own ads." - Michael Senoff Founder and CEO www.hardtofindseminars.com How to instantly increase your advertising response by 30% (or more) by making a few simple "tweaks" to your order form. Why using customer testimonials can actually hurt your sales. A secret way to make even "crappy" copy almost unbeatable. How to use an ordinary telephone to double your sales without doing any telemarketing. Why bad writing and lots of typos can make you more sales. How to create professionally produced video ads on a "shoe-string" budget. A sneaky (but 100% legal) way to use your competitor's customer testimonials... in YOUR advertising. How to "skeptic-proof" even your most outrageous claims and promises. A little-known way to get full page newspaper and magazine ads for pennies on the dollar. How to become a "celebrity" in your niche. The secret of banishing "writers block" forever. How to make it almost impossible for people to delete your email pitches. And much, much more. The Copywriting Grab Bag is packed with ways to multiply the profits of all your ads -- without needing a lot of money, experience or natural writing talent. Simply reach into this "grab bag" of copywriting and marketing instruction, pull out any one of the hundreds of gems you'll find, and immediately apply it to your unique situation.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER “One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times “Mandel’s sensational sixth novel offers immense pleasures of puzzle box plotting and high-flying imagination. . . . Masterfully plotted and deeply moving, this visionary novel folds back on itself like a hall of mirrors to explore just what connects us to one another, and how many extraordinary contingencies bring us to each ordinary day of our lives.” —Esquire From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, a “bold and exciting” (The Economist) and “transcendent” (Wall Street Journal) novel filled with “puncturing emotional truths” (Glamour) In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the west coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel’s dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect. Sea of Tranquility is a breathtaking and wondrous examination of the ties that bind us together, by a master storyteller.

Grab Bag is comprised of two interrelated novels, Dark Rides and Wish Book, from one of Canada's most important young writers. Both books are set in the same small rural city, in different eras (1950s, 1930s), each characterized by McCormack's spare and elliptical prose. Derek McCormack's journalism has appeared in many publications across North America, including nest, Saturday Night, and the National Post. In 2001, he was nominated for a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on Halloween. Wild Mouse, a book McCormack co-authored with poet Chris Chambers, was nominated for the 1999 Toronto Book Award. His new novella, The Haunted Hillbilly, will be published in Canada by ECW Press in Fall 2003.