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Theory of Wing Sections
Reference for engineers and students progresses from elementary materials to methods used in design of NACA low-drag airfoils. Presents techniques for using wing-section data to predict wing characteristics. "Most useful...
A Life Of Walter Scott: The Laird of Abbotsford
A brilliant and very readable critical biography of, according to the author, 'the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century'. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. 'I have...
The Irish: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism
Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history. The Irish...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman...
The Terracotta Army
The incredible story of China's greatest archaeological treasure - the Terracotta Army - revised and updated for 2018. The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological...
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady
Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher. 'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and...
How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Why Enron
Enron, Tyco, Sunbeam Global Crossings, Waste Management are but the tip of the iceberg, the symptoms at the surface that reveal what companies of the future have to do to...
A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About The Man Behind The Rifle
A Vietnam sniper tells his story and reveals the battles he fought even after the war was over... In 1968, Gary Mitchell enlisted in the Army and was sent to...
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
The first ever authorized history of the British Security Service (MI5) To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent...
Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways
Every so often, a startling book emerges that gives voice to a new or previously unexamined trend that is transforming society. Alan M. Dershowitz's provocative new work, Preemption, is just...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain...
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday
'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author...
The Game of Hearts: True Stories of Regency Romance
'Endlessly captivating ' - Tracy Borman ' Tantalising ' - Gill Hornby ' More scandal than Bridgerton 's Lady Whistledown ' - Helena Kelly The carriages have rolled back into...