Item Tag: 19.8 cm

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Accessible Easier Edition (Paperback Book)

An adapted, illustrated and accessible edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mystery. Enjoy Every Cherry’s new adaptation of Easier Classics’ Hound of the Baskervilles featuring illustrations, sensory features and glossary descriptions to aid in reading comprehension and accessibility. Our shorter versions of the text allow for the same great stories to be delivered in a condensed but still equally fun and entertaining edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s exciting book. This story follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they explore the mystery of a scary ghost hound. They must solve the mystery of the ghost hound before anyone else gets hurt…About The Easier Classics Reading Library: The Starter Collection:From the streets of Dickens’s Victorian London to the open sea with a dangerous.

The Jungle Book: Accessible Easier Edition (Paperback Book)

An adapted, illustrated and accessible edition of Rudyard Kipling’s classic heart-warming tale. Enjoy Every Cherry’s new adaptation of Easier Classics’ The Jungle Book featuring a range of accessibility features to bring this story to as many people as possible. With an inclusive and empowering approach to reading, this adaptation serves to break down barriers to reading through a cleverly thought-out approach, enabling young people to grow in confidence and independence when reading, whilst enjoying this world-renowned title. This story follows a little boy who walks into a wolf’s cave. But, the wolves choose to look after him and not eat him! The wolves raise little Mowgli as one of the wolf pack. But Mowgli soon learns that the jungle is no place for a boy. Will the jungle animals.

Gresham’s Law by John Guy (Paperback Book)

Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions he founded and in the City of London’s position at the economic centre of the earth. Without Gresham, England truly might have become a vassal state. His manoeuvring released Elizabeth from a crushing burden of debt and allowed for vital military preparations during the wars of religion that set Europe ablaze. Yet his deepest loyalties have remained enigmatic, until now. Drawing on vast new research and several startling discoveries, the great Tudor historian John Guy recreates Gresham’s life and singular personality with.

When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein (Paperback Book)

Picking up where Liar’s Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer’s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street’s brightest and best, Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions.It became the banks’ own favourite fund and from its inception achieved a run of dizzyingly spectacular returns. New.