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The Uses and Abuses of History
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or...
Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The international bestseller - reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to...
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World
How did photography bring about social reform? What connects refrigeration to Hollywood? And how did our battle against dirt help create smartphones? In this story of ingenious breakthroughs and unsung...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen
The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How...
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop it
In The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with...
The End of Memory: A natural history of aging and Alzheimer's
An authoritative and highly readable exploration into the plague of the 21st Century- Alzheimer's. It has been called 'the plague of the 21st century' for its dramatic increase in numbers...
Why Is God Laughing?
Why Is God Laughing? tells the story of successful comedian Mickey Fellows and his friend Francisco as they explore how to overcome fear, egotism and addiction (which are the three...
The Complete Fortune Teller
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Fortune telling, in its various guises is as popular now as ever, though it is still regarded as a mysterious and complex process. In this book, Marc Lemezma breaks the...
Antony's Slow Cooking: 100 easy recipes for the slow cooker, the oven
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100 one-pot dishes for the slow cooker, the oven and the stove-top are wonderfully easy to make. Once you have put the ingredients into the casserole, you just leave them...
Buying Affordable Art
Buying original works of art is no longer the preserve of the wealthy. This book reveals that good quality pieces at reasonable prices are available to buy. In a practical...
The Five-Minute Writer 2nd Edition: Exercise and Inspiration in
Suitable for writers, this title includes chapters that offers a writing-related discussion, followed by a five-minute exercise. Five minutes a day spent on an exercise is one of the most...
The Last Human Cannonball: And Other Small Journeys in Search of Great
But, as one might expect, Rogers' encounters with celebrity have their own unexpected outcomes. Burt Lancaster rants to him about transsexuality. Rita Hayworth is most worried about her neighbour's TV...
Pets & Pet Care, The Encyclopedia of: The essential family reference
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Choosing and caring for dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, fish, with 1200 photographs. Whether you are a first-time pet owner or you are looking after an existing menagerie,...
Vintage Lighting: A Practical Guide
This practical guide by interior design expert, Barty Phillips, will focus on lighting from Victorian times onwards with examples of what you can have in your own home, as well...
Famous Robots and Cyborgs
Famous Robots and Cyborgs is a high-octane voyage through the history of our metallic friends and foes. Dan Roberts narrates the history, strengths, weaknesses, quirks and foibles of a plethora...
The American Television Industry
The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed,...
Robots
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As we enter the digital age, advances in technology are turning robots that were once pure fantasy into real artificial beings that can walk, run and talk like human beings....
Into the Forest
An atmospheric exploration of a child's anxiety by the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal Winner. One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm is breaking, lightning...
Let's Talk About Where Babies Come From: A Book about Eggs, Sperm,
This information book about sex and reproduction covers all the main areas: babies, reproduction, bodies, chromosomes, genes, growing up, love, health and lots more. As before, the information is imparted...
Battle for Sicily: Stepping Stone to Victory
On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days,...
Donitz's Last Gamble: the Inshore U-boat Campaign 1944-45
After the June 1944 D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements...
Flying in Defiance of the Reich: A Lancaster Pilot's Rites of Passage
This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilised in August...
Who's Who in the Zulu War 1879, Vol. 2: Colonials and Zulus
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has a character that inspires and fascinates readers and increasing numbers of visitors to South Africa. The two volume biographical dictionary of the participants is...
Axis of Evil: the War on Terror
Axis of Freedom examines the dramatic world events which unfolded from 11 September 2001 to the end of occupation of Iraq in the summer of 2004. Many books have been...
Black Maps
One day Merchant's Worldwide Bank ceased to exist. Its creditors discovered what its employees had known for some time, that the firm's equity had never existed and that its sole...
The Behaviour Of Moths
An extraordinarily haunting, subtle and moving first novel about secrets and lies and moths From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister...
The Land Of Spices
Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has,...
Dawn Chorus
Sharing her family history of unique characters Joan Wyndham explores her ancestors' experiences of bygone eras, at home and at war. Starting with her aristocrat grandfather who built a vast...
Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for
Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down...
Mums on Babies
Drawing on the wealth of material on the "Mumsnet" website, this guide presents the collected wisdom of real parents who have been through it all and survived to pass on...
Dirty Dancing: An Ethnography of Lap Dancing
Based on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of...
Ciao, Carpaccio!: An infatuation
"After a good dinner one evening, with excellent company and a bottle of wine, I settled by my fire with a volume of paintings by the 15th century Venetian painter...
Looking at Manet: Writings on manet by Emile Zola
Manet's career was surrounded by controversy almost from the very start. The hard-edged technique of his early works was not what Salon audiences expected, and when he started painting subjects...
"24": The Unofficial Guide
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This is the unofficial guide to 24, the hit espionage thriller starring Emmy Award Winner Kieffer Sutherland, where each episode marks another hour of real-time drama. With a detailed breakdown...
East of Nowhere
This is the story of how a bad man called Edward Miller lost his job, his house, his wife, his hair and his front teeth, but in the process becomes...
Fortune's Daughters
The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...
The Paper House
In the spring of 1998, Bluma Lennon, a Cambridge academic who has just acquired a copy of Emily Dickinson's POEMS from a second-hand bookshop in Soho, is knocked down and...
Handmade Cards and Gift-Wrap
Following on from the success of The Big Book of Greetings Cards, this is another highly practical and inspirational book from Vivenne Bolton. In this book there are over 50...
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What
From the bestselling author of 'I before E', this light-hearted book examines some of the more unusual phrases that litter the English language. Discover how we got such phrases as...
Inspirations: Glasswork: Hand Painting Glass for the Home
Glass has a magic all of its own, and the techniques of painting glass can customize everyday household objects and transform them into original decorations for your home. Glasswork helps...
Maximilian & Juarez
Maximilian and Ju rez recounts one of the great tragicomedies of the nineteenth century, the attempt by Napoleon III to establish Archduke Maximilian of Austria as the Emperor of Mexico....
Bobby Gold
Twelve slices from the life of Bobby Gold; by night, the security chief of a mobbed-up New York City nightclub, by day, a reluctant bonebreaker and enforcer for Eddie Fish...
Vengeance
Part thriller, part detective story, Vengeance is an utterly compelling novel about the nature of revenge. Through the dark, icy streets of London flits a man on a mission: he's...
Feng Shui Life Coach: Become the person you've always wanted to be
The ancient art of feng shui has long been used to maximise the energy of homes and living spaces. Now expert author Simon Brown shows you how to use the...