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On the eve of the Festivities, Claudia Seferius is actually heading in the opposite direction, but then, even beautiful young Roman widows have to act when their vineyards are threatened....

This collection of essays and articles - taken from the late-1960s onwards - show Chatwin and every twist and turn of his career, from art expert to archaeologist, to journalist...

The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where the sky is deep blue, forever blue, and there...

THE A TO Z OF SPORT is unique: nothing as comprehensive has ever appeared before. It covers more than one hundred sports, with the treatment of some of the nation's...

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what...

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain...

Early one morning at St. Anselm's church in Philadelphia, a parishioner sneaks the body of his dead wife into the sacristy and commits suicide. His wife, a severe diabetic, is...

How can Christians engage meaningfully with history In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little...

In this electrifying new novel from the bestselling author of The Devils Feather, British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, but his serious head injuries are only the outward...

Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders....

Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects...

'A brand name in computer science' (New York Times), David Gelertner has revolutionised computing with his work in the field of parallel processing. In this provocative new book, he urges...

Daniel MacGregor is the clan patriarch. He's powerful, rich - and determined to see his three career-minded granddaughters married. So he carefully chooses three unsuspecting men, men he considers worthy,...

What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a...

Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describes some...

The transition from serial to parallel computing in which many operations are performed simultaneously and at tremendous speed, marks a new era in computation. These original essays explore the emerging...

In "The Age of Intelligent Machines", inventor and computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots to tantalizing...

"Thinking things through" provides a broad, historical introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and to its contemporary significance. The presentation is centred around three issues in Western thought: What...

Recent decades have produced much research in artificial systems that exhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does it change the way...

Does every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly, decentralized models are being chosen for the organizations and technologies...

Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as a Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many still take their privacy for granted, even as we become...

A distinctive and chilling new thriller from the author of Richard & Judy pick and Sunday Times bestseller THE RECOVERY OF ROSE GOLD Why did he invite them? Why did...

The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His...

An honest and empowering guide to every aspect of pregnancy and childbirth Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power...

Sitting on a riverbank, with rod and line, must count as one of the most relaxing and enjoyable - yet occasionally frustrating - experiences known to man. Chris Yates discovered...

Captain Alexei Korolev returns...Following his investigations in "The Holy Thief", which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself decorated and hailed...

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take...

When is the last time you climbed a tree? Went pond-dipping? Picked blackberries? Held a snail race? Or tracked down a badger set? If the answer is 'can't remember', or...

Intended for use by technical projects managers, as well as members of their team, this guide provides information of the decisions and issues which must be considered when approaching and...

A fully illustrated, authoritative encyclopedia for children to learn about themselves, their world and beyond. Stimulating, popular topics, such as sport, animals and space, are organised into sensible, easy-to-use sections.

This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age...

Life is often a matter of gambles, pay-offs, and trade-offs, just like a game. This book takes us on a tour through the games and computer simulations that are helping...

Advance praise for Computers Ltd. 'An enlightening and entertaining explanation, written by a profound computer scientist and master expositor. A must read for inquisitive minds.' Michael Rabin, Professor of Computer...

Awash with superstition and folklore, the Yangtze river has been an inspiration for more than a thousand years to those who have lived beside it or sailed along it. This...