Thirty drawings depict such famous trains as Europe's Orient Express, the observation lounge on the Burlington Zephyr, and a sleeping compartment on New York Central's 20th Century Limited.
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained aby...
Masterworks of the 19th-century composer include "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Consolation No. 3 in D-flat major, Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major, La...
What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases...
1. Determinants 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The Definition of a Determinant 1.3 Properties of Determinants 1.4 Row and Column Expansions 1.5 Vectors and Matrices 1.6 The Inverse Matrix 1.7 The Determinant...
Drothe is a Nose, an informant who finds and takes care of trouble inside the criminal organization hes a part of. He also smuggles imperial relics on the side.§Theres a book rumored to contain...
In the far future, a breakaway group of pilgrims seek the Void, a mysterious part of space - but it could prove their doom. The Dreaming Void is the first thrilling novel in the Void trilogy, set...
In essays as revealing of their author as they are of their subject, Rilke examines Rodin's life and work, and explains the often elusive connection between the creative forces that drive great...
We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today's modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. With incredible new discoveries and stunning...
Short story trilogy about a club for people who wish to end their lives bronicles the exploits of Prince Florizel and Colonel Geraldine as they travel incognito through some of 19th-century...
London. 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a Pre-Raphaelite painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is...
Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War II! It's...
'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful,...
BeginningsThe Three Elements: Line, Notan, ColorLine Drawing: Japanese materials and brush practicePrinciples of composition: Ways of creating harmonyLine: Composition in Squares and Circles;...
Foreword to the First Edition by Oskar MorgensternAuthor's IntroductionAcknowledgments1. An Overview2. "The Two-Person, Zero-Sum Game with Equilibrium Points"3. "The General,...
Animal Farm is George Orwell's brilliant political satire and allegorical fable about the corrupting effects of power. Published in 1945 it is, to this day, one of the most famous and...
Britain, 1941. The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover, including a group of kids cut adrift by the war and who, for official purposes, do not exist. They...
Rich treasury of great 17th-century composer's organ compositions. Included are 72 chorale settings for Lutheran ritual, 48 secular works, among them toccatas, fugues, preludes, fantasias, and...
Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's...