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Starter for Ten by David Nicholls is a novel first published in 2003 about the character Brian Jackson and his first year of university (1985–86), his attempts to get on the Granada Television quiz show University Challenge, and his tentative attempts at romance with Alice Harbinson, another member of the University Challenge team. [1]
Starter for 10 is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Tom Vaughan from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted from his 2003 novel Starter for Ten.The film stars James McAvoy as a university student who wins a place on a University Challenge quiz team.
Starters is a novel by Lissa Price. [1] The book was published on March 12, 2012, by Delacorte Press and has been published in German, Greek, Dutch, Italian, French, Portuguese, Turkish and Spanish. [2] The sequel is a book entitled Enders, with screen rights to the series currently being shopped. [3]
Image credits: Joanne Taylor Generally, reverse psychology works on people who resist conformity. On the flip side, someone who is more compliant might respond better to a direct request.
In this Rule Breaker Investing episode, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner welcomes back game designer and publisher Jamey Stegmaier for a lively conversation about scaling a creative venture ...
A flip book, flipbook, [1] flicker book, or kineograph is a booklet with a series of images that very gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Often, flip books are illustrated books for children, but may also be ...
How to Succeed was inspired by Mead's corporate experiences at the Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which he joined in 1936 as a mail-room clerk, eventually working his way up to a vice-presidency. During his journey up the corporate ladder, Mead wrote the book in his spare time—before work and on weekends. The book was a best-seller.
Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980.It tells the story of a young girl, Charlie McGee, with the ability of pyrokinesis, whose destructive force a ruthless government agency tries to harness for their own purposes.