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Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once...

"An interestingly idiosyncratic and personal vision of how to make podcasts."-Ira Glass Veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career's worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help podcasters...

An up-to-date, comprehensive guide to understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop. The essence of baking is chemistry, and anyone who wants to be a master pastry chef must understand the principles and science that make baking work. This book...

Dana Thomas's Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre goes deep inside the workings of today's world of profit margins and market share to discover the real meaning of 'luxury'. Fashion may be fabulous, but what's the true price of luxury? From the...

Written by an experienced examiner and author, the Revision Guide is endorsed by Eduqas, offering you high quality support you can trust. // It is ideal for consolidating your students' knowledge both at home for revision, and at school as a...

A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He...

Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553562835Author Sam WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the...

Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Computing ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018Get your best grade with the SQA endorsed guide to National 5 Computing Science.Fully updated to account for the removal of Unit Assessments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878991Author Erich SchwartzelFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

'Gloriously funny . . . unfailingly entertaining' - Mail on Sunday'What worlds she's seen, what a life she's had - at long last, the memoirs of the fearless, witty, indomitable Ann Leslie' - Deborah MoggachShe has been shot at by Bosnian snipers, been...

The first edition of The Small-Scale Poultry Flock helped thousands of small-scale farmers and smallholders adopt a practical model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl based on natural systems. In this expanded and thoroughly revised...

Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of...

'This book has had an enormous impact' Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft'Spectacular. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity' Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple'Iconic' Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's DilemmaCryptocurrencies are...

"I loved the 70s - and that's both the 1970s and the 1870s. There's obviously always something about a decade that starts with a seven that means the design dial is turned to 11; colours get bolder, shapes get badder and style flies its freak flag. So,...

Become an expert chef with this textbook which covers all the advanced preparation, cooking and finishing techniques you need to succeed in the professional kitchen.Part of the bestselling Practical Cookery series and matched to the NVQ and VRQ Diplomas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159528Author Roger EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn't break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge "Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a...

Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the nineteenth century and notable for their ability to withstand the airborne pollutants of the...

'A fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going' Phil Simon Huffington PostAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there...

In the years when it became clear that steelmaking on Teesside was coming to an end, Mike Guess decided to record the end of an era as 150 years of industrial history came to a close. After Sahaviriya Steel Industries had rescued the site in 2011,...

Rory Gallagher is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He was a dazzling showman, an accomplished songwriter, and a champion of blues music. His career began in an Irish showband at age fifteen, before forming Taste, one of the...

Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative...

'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful...

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs "Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction."-Nature The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource...

Invite light, warmth, and the freshness of spring into your home in time for Easter! Designer Thea Rytter, a fan favorite for her beautifully subtle color palettes and undeniable creativity, is back with a brand-new selection of decorations, ornaments,...

Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and...

In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and appreciate food in this country. It is no exaggeration to say that most of what makes our current culinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820682Author Jim KalbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural...

As a child, Bill Graham fled Europe to escape Hitler's armies. He grew up on the streets of New York and in the dining rooms of the hotels in the Catskills. After failing as an actor, he headed for San Francisco right before the Summer of Love where he...

The 2022 edition of the Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Distributors, the 'Green Guide', is the essential reference for all distributors, brokers of human medicines, importers and distributors of active substances in the UK.It provides you with the...

Making Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of...

Covers all mandatory units and four of the five option units so learners can be confident they have covered the required knowledge for their qualification. Colourful design packed with glossy new step-by-step photos to really inspire and motivate...

An important new edition of the bestselling Oxford Mini School Thesaurus, with new words on contemporary topics such as technology, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. Focused coverage of words, synonyms and antonyms help to improve writing skills,...

Fully updated in line with the new National Occupational Standards, so you can be sure your learners have the right information. New units added to cover the core units for both the general and massage pathways along with a variety of optional units to...

Fully updated with the latest industry standards, this 4th Edition of The Complete Nail Technician by Marian Newman, is a must-have for every nail technician. From the first time student studying towards their Level 2 or 3 qualification to the...

Nicky Haslam has always been at the centre of things wherever he is - at parties, opening nights, royal weddings - and has stories to tell of crossing paths, and more, with the cultural icons of our time: Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon, Diana Cooper, Lucian...

A history of mining in Cornwall Volume 1Book InformationISBN 9780752417073Author L J BullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm