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|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven

|author=Mirko Bonne

|rating=4

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right away, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap to a further voyage having been wrecked and stranded off the coast of South America for well over a week. But Merce here does – he wants to follow his best friend on to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeen, and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of the world's worst ever journeys.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>

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|summary=He's sitting contently on the third page. But who’s that over on the next one – Moose? ''D'' isn’t for ''Moose''! It’s for duck, but the poor little quackers have been pushed off the stage by the exuberant elk. ''No'', says Zebra. ''You’re'' ''on'' ''the'' ''wrong'' ''page'', he tells Moose.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397813</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Scott Berkun~~

~~|title=The Year Without Pants: WordPress.Com and the Future of Work~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Business and Finance~~

|summary=Sometimes you find a book which you simply can't ''not'' read. 'The Year Without Pants' was one of them. It's not what you're thinking (money's not ''that'' tight) - but the story of what happens when an old-school management guru goes back to the coal face to lead a team which had not had a leader before - to be accurate they'd not had teams - in a revolutionary company which takes remote working to the extreme. Members of Scott Berkun's team lived all over the world and worked for a company which had largely gone beyond email, had headquarters which were rarely used and had no rules. So, why did I ''have'' to read the book? Well, the company in question is Automattic which brings us WordPress, the open source software which powers fifty million websites. I run a website which uses open-source software - and I've been in business for the last seven and a half years with someone to whom I've never even spoken.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118660633</amazonuk>~~

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