Bean: 220 books

‘It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time...’ It’s 1789. Ideas of revolution and democracy are in the air. In the South Pacific, Fletcher Christian overthrows Captain Bligh in the famous mutiny on The Bounty. With the ship’s crew and their Tahitian lovers...

I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore... The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny...

Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw. This...

Robot ninja monkeys. Flying bears. Week-long guitar solos. This is the kind of stuff you see every day when you're an awesome adventurer like Alec! Join Alec and his loyal dragon-dog Blaster as they traverse epic landscapes, experiencing all things AWESOME! In this episode they follow rumors...

Robot ninja monkeys. Flying bears. Week-long guitar solos. This is the kind of stuff you see every day when you're an awesome adventurer like Alec! Join Alec and his loyal dragon-dog Blaster as they traverse epic landscapes, experiencing all things AWESOME! In this episode they must stop the...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 In this unique construction book for kids who love tools and trucks, readers join...

**A short story**Brooke writes "LEAVE THIS PAGE BLANK" on the inside of her yearbook so her best friend has a place to sign. But after the book is passed around at school, she finds that someone else has written there first. The handwriting is bizarre and unrecognizable, and instead of well-wishes...

In SOA and Web Services Interface Design, data architecture guru James Bean teaches you how to design web service interfaces that are capable of being extended to accommodate ever changing business needs and promote incorporation simplicity. The book first provides an overview of critical SOA principles,...

More and more people are recognising the relationship between diet and emotional health. Scientific studies have identified nutrients in certain foods believed to have a dramatic effect in fighting low level depression and mental sluggishness caused by unhealthy, highly processed foods. Alexandra...

Knowing what we should or shouldn't be eating these days can feel like a bit of a minefield. Are eggs good for me? How many of them a week am I allowed? Is butter good, or should I be buying a vegetable oil spread loaded with special ingredients to lower my cholesterol? Is sugar really that...

Government policy has steadfastly been against drug legalisation, but increasingly critics have argued that this is unsustainable. This book is a timely examination of the issues this raises. Numerous suggestions have been offered. Some seek complete legalisation, others a more modified form, yet...

What are antioxidants, why do I need them and how do I get them? Diet or exercise - which is more effective for losing weight? How can I persuade my fussy children to eat vegetables? What can I eat to help me sleep better? Can certain foods really help my chances of avoiding cancer? Lorraine...

In its brief seven-year existence, the Freedmen’s Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begun to focus on the Bureau’s personnel in Texas, the individual agents termed the “hearts of Reconstruction.” Specifically addressing the historiographical...

"This is an excellent text. I particularly liked how the authors share examples of critical literacy throughout the book, especially with digital and multimedia texts." —Peter McDermott, The Sage Colleges "Through realistic discussion of how text shapes us and is shaped...