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What if Phar Lap had kept a diary? What would he have written about? Well, this book provides the answers to those questions. Beginning in August 1929, when Phar Lap...

is Australian poet MTC Cronin's tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force, the sequence consists of one hundred poems, the line-count arcing from a single...

The paperback edition of THE PARADISICAL PICTURES is created to celebrate the opening of the Gilbert & George Centre in East London. Gilbert & George's work confounds and rejects all...

A report of worldwide significance, based on a co-operative venture between MIT and the world's largest car makers from three continents. This book describes the volatile trends that will shape...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla created astonishing, world-transforming devises that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only...

Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his...

Join Adrian Gilbert in an exciting look at the Mayan calendar and the many mysteries it holds. Discover why the year 2012 is predicted to be a year of exciting...

The business world seems to have given up on loyalty: many major corporations now lose--and have to replace--half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half...

Acts of Memory presents 15 tightly integrated essays that illustrate the active role of individual and cultural memory in tying the past to the present. Memory, or memorialization, is a...

A family saga as riveting as any opera, and a matchless mirror of Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things--composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite--and...

Using interviews and official records, this volume traces the twenty-five year involvement of the United States Navy in Vietnam.

Recounts the founding of the U.S. Coast Guard, looks at Coast Guard operations and functions, and looks at how it has changed over the last seventy years.

Traces the development of fast patrol and attack craft by the U.S. Navy, examines the influence of foreign designs, and provides technical information on each vessel.

Traces the life and career of Admiral Towers, and examines his role in the development of military aviation in the United States.

This is the story of the author's journey of self-discovery, in which menopause appears to have served as a catalyst. Along the way she explores the intricacies of relationships with...

This deftly crafted biography explores the event-filled life of Paul Durand-Ruel (1831 - 1922), the dealer who 'made' the professional careers of Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Puvis de Chavannes and other...

Charlotte Bronte found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his...

12 legendary sports stories for kids! 12 legendary sports stories for kids! Meet a champion swimmer who loses his swimmers in the pool. Experience the most amazing handball rally of...

"Warning- Super-adventurous stories for boys within!" "Warning- Super-adventurous stories for boys within! Featuring stories that boys will be falling over themselves to read and re-read, Stories for Boys is a...

Loviah French owns a boutique dress shop in Manhattan. She has two best friends: Dinah - a columnist covering New York's wealthiest - and Avis - a prominent figure in...

'What would Germaine do?' This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as...

The classic tale of thrilling science fiction adventure. Verne's incredible underwater adventure is one of the earliest and most influential science fiction novels, being published first in French in 1869,...

All you ever (or never) wanted to know about Victorian London, penned by Jack Dodger. ROLL UP! ROLL UP! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Ladies and Gents, Sir Jack Dodger brings...

The haunting new standalone novel from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series. What if your child wanted you dead? 'I defy you to read the first...

"They didn't have to kill him ...He never drank from the altar of bones." Cryptic dying words from a murdered homeless woman in present day San Francisco unlock a decades-buried...