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El Celler de Can Roca is the three Michelin starred Catalan restaurant in Spain which was opened in 1986 by the Roca brothers, Joan, Josep and Jordi. In 2015, it was once again named the best restaurant in the world by the Restaurant magazine. The Times...

The Story of Harley-Davidson is a compact and dynamic exploration of the legendary motorcycle manufacturer. There are few silhouettes on the world's roads as instantly recognisable as that of the Harley-Davidson. The iconic motorcycle brand is synonymous...

Oil is an unusual commodity in that individual decisions can have an outsized effect on the market. OPEC+'s choice to increase production, for instance, might send prices falling, affecting both oil producers and consumers worldwide. What do the leading...

The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.-a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and MorganNearly fifty years into IBM's existence, Thomas Watson Jr. undertook the biggest gamble in business history when...

Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the...

Product development is the magic that turns circuitry, software, and materials into a product, but moving efficiently from concept to manufactured product is a complex process with many potential pitfalls. This practical guide pulls back the curtain to...

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more...

For Level 1 Hairdressing students on NVQ, SVQ and VRQ courses.A genuinely new and innovative way for students to study hairdressing, this new textbook is supported with extensive multimedia material and activities at no extra cost. Some books include a...

Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio...

How a broad range of new immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality-and why you must act and adapt Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies examines the...

The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they...

Lavishly illustrated with unique images from the official company archive, this book charts more than 100 years of car-making at the Longbridge factory, near Birmingham. Herbert Austin founded the Austin Motor Company here in April 1905 and it was...

Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means - by a centripeta inward motion, while our presnt culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) movement, which is wasteful and many times less powerful and effective. It aslo uses up the Earth's...

An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the...

'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639263Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 384g

The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world - now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, My New York Year 'Gripping and funny'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593085974Author Maxine BedatFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A New York Times bestseller, now updated with an afterword and exclusive new material From the #1 bestselling author behind acclaimed oral histories of Saturday Night Live and ESPN comes "the most hotly anticipated book [in decades]" (Variety): James...

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and...

The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the...

Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Jeremy Bowen first became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already, both at home and abroad, but it wasn't until he covered his first war -- in El Salvador -- that he felt he...

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous appeal to fans or "enthusiasts", its permanent role in the lives of most of us, and its economic significance...

Tracy Mackness has always had a flair for business - if not all of it legal. She started work as a youngster on her dad's fruit and veg stall in Romford Market in the 1970s, preferring grafting to going to school, but by the time she was a teenager she'd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914934377Author Andy PedleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

In Resource Nationalism in Indonesia, Eve Warburton traces nationalist policy trajectories in Indonesia back to the preferences of big local business interests. Commodity booms often prompt more nationalist policy styles in resource-rich countries...

There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the world's oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer to spheres of power and influence in Britain. Since its first appearance in 1828, during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558609Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

THE GRIPPING, EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, AND INSPIRATION BEHIND THE GLOBAL NO. 1 NETFLIX SHOW THE SNOW GIRL'I literally couldn't put this book down' 5***** reader review'A well-layered, pacy thriller' MARI...

The advertising industry has reached a critical and dangerous point in its development - agencies destroy themselves by doing increased work for declining fees. So what are the logical consequences of the failure to act? Growing workloads and declining...

Whether you are a newly minted MBA or a project manager at a Fortune 500 company, data science will play a major role in your career. Knowing how to communicate effectively with data scientists in order to obtain maximum value from their expertise is...

Mo Rosser's unique, bestselling text has been fully updated to reflect the latest standards in Beauty Therapy, with new photographs and a wealth of learning features to reinforce study and place the theory in the context of the salon.In order to provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953788439Author Marijan DundekFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noble Gems PublicationsPublisher Noble Gems Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853411670Author David LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Packard Publishing LtdPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have...

Beautiful illustrations explain complex techniques and methods. Covers key themes relevant to the VTCT and ITEC qualifications. Extra web resources, including a full range of colour diagrams to label, can be used to revise for assessments. Expert authors...

'Wilder has created a gem of a novel with characters who unfold in complex and unexpected ways. The grounded Hollywood story utilizes a perfectly paced slow-burn romance, and at the end there's a winking nod to the entire journey' Library Journal ...

This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys. This volume covers the Lewis...

This guide takes the mystery out of butchering, covering everything you need to know to produce your own expert cuts of beef, venison, pork, lamb, poultry, and small game. John J. Mettler Jr. provides easy-to-follow instructions that walk you through...

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the...