Bøger af Robert Rankin

Beginning is often the hardest part of learning a new language; with a Practical Companion, it becomes like tying your shoes. With this text, a list of world seed distributors by country is provided as a novel reference for the novice Spanish learner as well as the international agricultural corporations providing food and sustenance to the world. Managing crops, harvests, livestock, exports, imports, and technology used in agriculture are vocabulary found in this text. Modern practices with Spanish references are provided to enhance communication with Spanish speakers worldwide. With A Practical Companion, you've got this!

Beginning is often the hardest part in learning a new language. With a Practical Companion, it becomes like tying your shoes. Each chapter is curated to be an easy guide with all of the answers ready for the reader throughout each activity. The fundamentals to communicate with Spanish speakers are covered in this text. Pronunciation of as well as phonetics are provided to help the reader's ability to speak in Spanish; likewise, helpful grammar and spelling help are provided to help the reader's ability to write in Spanish. Written as a quick-reference to native and non native Spanish speakers in effort to provide easier communication for everyday tasks, with A Practical Companion, you've got this!

A Familiar Treatise On Life-Assurances And Annuities: Comprising A Historical Sketch is a comprehensive guide to life insurance and annuities. Written by Robert Rankin, the book provides a detailed historical overview of life insurance and annuities, explaining how they have evolved over time and how they work today. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the different types of life insurance policies and annuities, how to choose the right policy or annuity for your needs, and how to calculate premiums and benefits. It also includes practical advice on how to manage your life insurance and annuity investments, as well as tips on how to maximize your returns. Whether you are a seasoned investor or just starting out, A Familiar Treatise On Life-Assurances And Annuities: Comprising A Historical Sketch is an essential resource for anyone interested in life insurance and annuities.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr Stephen Malone.

Eon Legacy, A Role Playing Game, with simple and powerful systems that give both the Storyteller and Game Masters full control of the universe with simple guidelines and templates and the players full control of their characters. Contained in this book are the Basics to Character Creation (Including Original Character Races, A Template for Custom Character Races, Original Classes, and all the standard gear one needs to play the game), Various systems for Combat and Interaction, Basics to designing entire worlds and Non Player Characters, Standards for Vehicles, Power Frames, Guides for structure and adventure, and a Slew of samples to use. Limitless action and adventure all at your fingertips! Art and even a simple D10 system have been added for those who like to roll!

Horrible demonic stuff oozing out of computer screens! Fido the Dog do Frankie Howerd impressions! Rex Mundi, Rambo Bloodaxe, Deathblade Eric, Hugo Rune and a cast of millions caught up in Events Beyond Their Control! all the loose ends from Armageddon the Musical magically tied up! A comic genius doing the business!

'Ahead, where once had been only bombsite land, the Lateinos and Romiith building rose above Brentford. Within its cruel and jagged shadow, magnolias wilted in their window boxes and synthetic Gold Top became doorstep cheese...'Something sinister is happening east of Ealing.

Hailed as the 'guru's guru', Rune penned more than eight million words of genius including his greatest work, The Book of Ultimate Truths. But vital chapters of The Book were suppressed, chapters which could have changed the whole course of human history.

Not that it's a real dog, Danny's mother would never let him have a real dog, so Danny made up one for himself. And which small ads in the comic books to send off to, so Danny can become irresistible to women, bend others to his will, gain vital inches and fear no man living. No, Danny's not sad and lonely any more.

Darwin, the Educated Ape, sets off on another madcap adventure through time, space and chickens in the conclusion to Robert Rankin's series of steampunk adventures.

THE YEAR IS 1899 AND THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!

Another wild and wacky adventure from the Master of Far Fetched Fiction!

It's a computer virus and it's about to make the deadly species cross-over, from machine to mankind. The computer mouse. Formerly known as Brentford, this Thamesside Shangri La is now London's first ever suburban theme park and holiday village. Just give your computer mouse a wiggle.

Robert Rankin's Far-Fetched-Fictional Steampunk sequel to THE WAR OF THE WORLDS!

We read him for his exuberant salmagundi of old jokes, myths, urban and otherwise, catchphrases, liberatingly crazy ideas, running gags, recurring characters and locations, unreliable authobiographical anecdotes, and not forgetting the now legendary 'load of old toot'.

When the world's all wrong and it needs setting right, who're you gonna call? Hugo Rune, of course: a man who offers the world his genius, and asks only, in return, that the world covers his expenses!

Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of mankind hangs upon the result. Of course.

History is a cauldron of lies brewed up by Victorian Witches: The Witches of Chiswick.

A hilarious comic fantasy from the bestselling cult creator of the Brentford Triangle Trilogy

Private eyes, glamorous dames, ukulele maestros, a lost city of gold and millions and millions of zombies? It's Robert Rankin's THIRTIETH novel!

The longed-for sequel to Rankin's bestselling and award winning THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE

Another wild and riotous adventure from the bestselling Master of Far-Fetched Fiction.

The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything. And that is everything. When the Ministry learns of a spacecraft that crashed four thousand years ago into the Pacific Ocean it sends an elite team of paranormal investigators to recover it. A mad alien thaws out, there is hell and horror all around and thousands flee in terror.

Norman's dad fell out of the sky and flattened him. Norman doesn't want to work at The Universal Reincarnation Company and it's God's fault. If He hadn't closed down Hell, then Heaven wouldn't have got overcrowded and they wouldn't have built the extension, and the URC wouldn't be recycling souls.

'To call Rankin irreverent doesn't begin to describe just how good he is at playing with the rules' MIRRORGary Cheese is twenty-two years of age and works for British Telecom as an operator. Gary's a bit of a fan boy and Gary really wants to speak to all of his dead heroes.