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Increasingly, research in parallel computing is focused on how high-level language constructs can be implemented. Through the introduction of a language, EVAL, the authors show how such languages can help...

This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the...

In this age of information overload, traditional time-management techniques simply aren't able to deal with overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings that leave us all feeling panicked...

A group of Vietnam Vets who still keep in touch: the Custer Hill Club. Prepared to attack foreign countries if America is attacked, their current rule is that if an...

When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while out riding her bike one Sunday afternoon, her life is changed forever. She begins work at a shelter for the homeless and there meets...

Growing up in the town of Sleepy Hollow, the mystery and intrigue over Washington Irving's classic legend are all part of daily life for sixteen-year-old Abbey. But when her best...

Otto, Jen and Charlotte have planned the trip of a lifetime to India for their gap year, before going their separate ways to university. For Charlotte, it's an opportunity to...

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in Yellowknife, Northern Canada. There, in the summer of 1975, he falls in...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When...

** PUB DELAYED DUE TO UK LEGAL ISSUES** hen Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness first ventured into Eamonn Cooke's garage, to her seven-year-old eyes it was like an Aladdin's cave. Filled with broadcasting...

Our Father in heaven Hallowed be your name ...' When Jesus' disciples asked him for help with prayer, he gave them a beautifully simple but spiritually profound outline known as...

"A Girl Called Karen" is one woman's shocking yet inspirational story of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and later, her foster father. Despite the trauma and anguish...

With Lance Armstrong setting the pace, cycling is one of the fastest growing sports. It is a brilliant way to combine getting fit with covering vast areas of ground. It...

Fully revised and updated, this award-winning book vividly portrays the full spectrum of the diving experience. Its authors share the adrenaline rush of observing great white sharks in a feeding...

A delightful colour illustrated account of a voyage around the Welsh coast visiting various islands, reflecting the magical atmosphere of the islands, their history and landscape, wildlife and peaceful corners,...

The days between 27 December and New Year's Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a...

Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The final book in the trilogy...

Learn all the basics of drawing and tips to develop your drawings into imaginative artwork of a highly polished standard. This book features step-by-step sequences showing you how to: Draw...

THE CRYSTAL BIBLE has become the world's favourite crystal reference guide, having sold over a million copies. The directory format enables you to find a known crystal instantly or to...

This book tells the story of David MacBrayne, his ships and his company, his predecessors, rivals and successors. It explores the world of the early steamships, their successes and failures,...

J. W. Wells seems a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar agenda. Since he graduated...

In each episode of "The Science of Secrecy" Simon Singh tells us a fascinating story from the history of codes: how the course of Crimean War was changed by the...

Artificial Intelligence is not just a fictional concept. Half a century of research into the construction of intelligent machinery has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess...

If you think Intelligent Design Theory (IDT) is merely the respectable face of Christian fundamentalism, and Evolution the only sensible scientific world-view, think again. Historically, the situation is almost exactly...

Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as 'Id', 'Ego', 'libido', 'neurosis' and 'Oedipus Complex' have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But...

It was the biggest cycling team ever seen in Britain, supported by one of the world's most famous names. They took on the old school Europeans in their own backyard,...

A literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, in which a love triangle turns murderous. An atmospheric literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood...

Adrian Chiles's weekly column for the Guardian has gained a cult following for his unique insights into everything from the present tense in history podcasts to his favourite spoon, or...

The second a child disappears, the clock starts ticking. When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Detective Elisenda Domenech is put on the case....

PRE-ORDER THE MUST-HAVE GUIDE FROM TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM SENSATION, ANDREA CHEONG! Have you ever opened your wardrobe, filled with clothes, and felt you had nothing to wear? Have you ever...

We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. But it's time...

An novel poking fun at modern mores and delving into what we should really treasure in our precarious lives. From the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Sometimes we must...

Encyclopedia of Life is an incredible encyclopedia, encompassing everything kids aged 9+ need to know about the variety of life on our planet. Detailed, concise information presented in eight themed...

ONEIRON /o.ne:.ron/ noun, dream. Origin: Ancient Greek. Performance artist Shlomith from New York, chief accountant Polina from Moscow, heart transplant patient Rosa Imaculada from Brazil, upper-crust Nina of Marseilles who...

Money has many apparently magical properties. It can be created out of the void - and vanish without so much as a puff of smoke. It can flash through space....

From weeknight essentials to gatherings and celebrations, there's something for every occasion. Start your day with a Tomato and Herb Omelette, try your hand at a speedy Chicken and Butternut...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. A haunting...

Heraklion, May 1941 . On the north coast of Crete, the British forces are redeploying troops, ahead of a German invasion of the island. A brutal defeat in Greece has...

We rely so heavily on the internet for communication, information, entertainment, business and personal finance that we forget that we take a risk when we enter this digital realm. A...

On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of...

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur...

A narrator in retreat from suburban life, a shambolic draughty farmhouse in a scenic valley... A widowed survivalist called Cassandra White... A banker, a village-full of empty second homes, and...

Winning Your Family's Battle Over Worry Worry Free Living explores every family's daily battles with stress from three perspectives - how it affects our mind, body, and spirit - and...

"Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it." The words of Reinhold Niebuhr provide the title and set the tone for what is a wryly humorous look...