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Intended for both the layman and the scientist, this book presents an overview of some of today's great scientific questions, from the way in which we acquire language and the...

When half-Greek, half-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros is asked to trace a missing teenager, an immigrant of the former Soviet Union, he doesn't see any connection with the recent plague...

The Clothesline Diet Club continues Karen's amazing tale and also features the remarkable stories of club members and their struggles with weight and self-esteem - including the 177 kilo postie...

Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world...

When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend--Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the...

As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400-year-old journal and is...

In "To Try Men's Souls", Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 and the man who would become the father of our nation,...

Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is...

It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression...

Today everyone-whether they know it or not-is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders,...

These recipes strike a fine balance between old-fashioned goodness and modern trends. Traditional ideas have been adapted to today's techniques and equipment, to contemporary needs and eating habits, and there...

Scientific findings have indicated that emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more - that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking. Not only...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.' After seven years of marriage, the...

Following a map drawn three hundred years ea rlier by a dying man, three adventurers set out in search of the legendary riches of King Solomon''s diamond mines. '

A deliciously dark new offering from the award-winning author-illustrator of the Ottoline books Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm...

I have struggled, harder and more explicitly than for anything else in my life as a writer, to develop a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific...

A little Vietnamese girl tries to come to terms with her grief over the loss of her family and her new life with an Australian family. The swallows are here...

Languages and Machines gives a mathematically sound presentation of the theory of computing at the junior and senior level and is an invaluable tool for scientists investigating the theoretical foundations...

Are you sick of pushing paper in a job that's taking you nowhere, except to thecopy machine? Did you enjoy BASIC as a kid, but feel left behind by theprogramming...

The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be...

The new editions contain new sections: Classwork and Examinations and Background to Shakespeare's England. There are also short sections on Date and Text, and Source.

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? Should you play Roulette or the Lottery?...

The Scripture Source Book for Catholics is a collection of information about Scripture gathered to help people of faith learn about the Catholic understanding and interpretation of Scripture and enrich...

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything, and big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending...

Media star Jamila Rizvi's exploration of the confidence deficit holding women back, the barriers to career success this can create, and how they might be overcome. Accessible and timely, this...

Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense...

From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All Expect the unexpected. Macy's got her whole summer carefully planned. But her plans didn't include a...

The Lightness of Being is a tour de force, revealing a universe where matter is the hum of strange music, mass doesn't weigh, and empty space is a multilayered, multicoloured...

A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of Faust is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.

This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production,...

Moving on from his books on chaos ("Does God Play Dice?") and symmetry ("Fearful Symmetry"), the author of this book deals with the wider field of complexity theory. The book...

Become a safe and responsible cyclist with Cyclecraft - The complete guide to safe and enjoyable cycling for adults and children. Whether you are new to cycling, looking to extend...

A very enjoyable, nicely illustrated book on one of royalty's most captivating personalities: Mary, Queen of Scots. Her rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I, over Mary's claim to the throne of...

Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle...

The computer has revolutionised the modern age of communication and information. It has touched every part of modern working life to the extent that it would now be inconceivable without...

Newton is one of the most influential scientists the world has ever known. He changed the way we viewed the universe by showing how it really worked - developing the...

DNA - the very building blocks of life. Its discovery by Francis Crick and James Watson has had astounding implications for mankind's present and future - opening up a whole...

The only book to tell you what your habits say about you - and how to read other people - by Judi James, author of The Body Language Bible Did...

Essentially it's just a little collection of microchips in a plastic case, but in a few short years the iPod has become the quintessential accessory for music fans everywhere. It's...

Hilarious spoof letters from the king of correspondence Ted L Nancy continues his gently surreal correspondence with the great and the good. His hilarious and bizarre letters - as before...

Never out of style, plants are one of the most enduring popular home ornaments. Their natural good looks suit any type of decorating theme and recent research shows that foliage...

Listening to music is just the beginning! With coverage of the iPod classic, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPhone, How to Do Everything: iPod & iTunes, Fourth Edition...