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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into...

Once solely the domain of engineers, quality control has become a vital business operation used to increase productivity and secure competitive advantage. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control offers a detailed presentation of the modern...

On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was...

We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless of women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

A thrilling and captivating retelling of one of history's most famous space missions, publishing to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13's fateful launch. April 1970: Apollo 13 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida...

A powerful and unsettling novella from the multi-award-winning Mal Peet, with stunning full-colour illustrations from Kate Greenaway-longlisted Emma Shoard. Sandie has been battling it since childhood: the hulking, snarling black dog of her...

It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields...

A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported reference of all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in use around the world from the end of World War Two to today. This book will be a one-stop, generalized...

This is a manual for creative writers, but the approaches and exercises can readily be adapted by practitioners working in other media. All of the exercises included here have been foot-tested. Use the book to walk and work alone or in groups, together...

A HISTORY OF THE MEDICINES WE TAKE gives a lively account of the development of medicines from traces of herbs found with the remains of Neanderthal man, to prescriptions written on clay tablets from Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC, to pure drugs...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398821095Author Peter GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416997474Author Neal ShustermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & Schuster Children'sPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733973397Author Abbie EmmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Abbie EmmonsPublisher Abbie EmmonsWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

'Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized world' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again 'Important, compelling and wise' Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Stolen Focus Everyone...

The danger rises and the deception grows in the heart-stopping fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series! It's time to come out of hiding... Frey has spent her life in a family of...

The Royal Navy of Nelson's time was such a huge organisation, that it is sometimes hard to comprehend its full scope. Indeed, during the Napoleonic Wars it was by far the largest employer in the entire world. Not only did the Royal Navy maintain a fleet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838343057Author Catherine WimpeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Northodox PressPublisher Northodox Press

The Rolls-Royce company acquired Bentley Motors in 1931 and, although models continued to be produced with the Bentley name, they increasingly used many Rolls-Royce components. By the time the Silver Cloud and Bentley S were released in 1955, they were...

Saab has gone, but its cars and its loyal band of owners remain. In this photographic album, internationally known Saab author and commentator Lance Cole celebrates all things Saab. In a collection of over 200 photographic images accompanied by a...

In fear for his life, American millionaire Daniel Cartwright changes his will, appointing his old friend Rowland Sinclair as his executor. Soon murder proves that fear well founded. When Rowland receives word of Cartwright's death, he sets out...

An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through history How did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea of what a dragon looks like and of the sorts of stories it inhabits, not least devotees...

Flight Lieutenant Thomas Tommy' Rose, a First World War fighter ace, was a pioneer of private flying. He installed and managed the UK's first fuel pump for private aviation at Brooklands before becoming Sales Manager for Phillips and Powis Aircraft Ltd...

Eleven-year-old Emily doesn't think Badger Cottage will ever be home. But there is something out there that needs her; a bright pair of eyes in the darkness. In the middle of a fierce battle between conservationists, who want to to rewild the lynx in...

This second volume begins with the account of Mussolini attempting to mirror Hitler in acts of aggression by thrusting towards Egypt and capturing the important artery of the British Empire; the Suex Canal. The Italian initiative failed and when its army...

A gripping, haunting and beautifully written book for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, They Both Die at the End and Holly Jackson. How can the things you love hurt so much? 17-year-old Luka isn't looking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913111267Author Paul StanbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Galley Beggar PressPublisher Galley Beggar Press

The miracle' of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest defeat...

An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until Sterling was purchase by British Aerospace in 1989 and closed. The Lanchester and the Patchett Machine Carbines were both developed at...

As the fight for women's rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in...

Stalin's purge of army officers in the late 1930s and disputes about tank tactics meant that Soviet armoured forces were in disarray when Hitler invaded in 1941/. As a result, during Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht's 3,200 panzers ran circles round...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354223068Author Boria MajumdarFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm)...

When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the Scottish border, including half of France. Henry's grandmother Empress (of...

The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle Earth is a comprehensive biography of the linguist and writer; taking the reader from his formative years of home-schooling, through the spires of Oxford, to his romance with his wife-to-be on the brink of...

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_Into the Valley of Death_ tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the men who fought during the most heroic and yet futile engagement of the modern era. By drawing on key evidence the author has not only provided a...

In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy's history was centred on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force; its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453535677Author Norman AtterburyFormat HardbackPage Count 54Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913724115Author Aphra BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Renard Press LtdPublisher Renard Press LtdWeight(grams) 128g

for SATB and organ or organ, harp, and strings Maurice Ravel's popular Pavane pour une infante defunte is here arranged for mixed voices and organ or chamber ensemble, allowing choirs to perform this beautiful staple of the orchestral repertoire for the...