Designed for the battlefields of Europe at the height of the Cold War, the M60 and T-62 were the premier combat tanks of their day. However, it was in the deserts of the Middle East that they...
The revised Second Edition of Fashion Law provides authoritative information on all legal aspects of the fashion business-from the start-up phase all the way through international expansion....
In the post-war years there was a humanitarian desire to feed people effectively and cheaply. But now the insidious creep of industrial agriculture, powered żeby the remorseless drive to get more...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a...
Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney solves the mysterious fate of the lost ships of Jutland and reveals - for the first time - the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in...
Describes the dramatic four-month campaign that saw the Red Army not only succeed in crossing the Dnepr at multiple points, but also liberate Kiev, capital of the Ukraine.
A fast-paced tour through the history of the skateboard, from a surfer fad to a public nuisance to an Olympic sport, told by some of the world's best and most fascinating skaters.
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) by 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English...
A highly illustrated account of the bitter struggle for the Philippine island of Luzon between the United States and Japan, the largest land campaign in the Pacific War.
A town a ten thousand people. What parade do we get? I'm a parade. I'm a one-man parade. Halloween. A small town in the west of Ireland. There's a party to get to and Mikey and Casey...
Osprey's examination of the battles of Jena and Auerstadt of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Forewarned of Prussia's intention to declare war on France, Napoleon decided to strike first...
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he...
Vladimir Nabokov's novel about the poet John Shade and the demented Slavic scholar who worships him is an ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary in which is...
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's...
Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has, ever since its publication in 1847,...
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman,...
A literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called "sessions of sweet silent thought," this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering...
Hidden behind rust-coloured frontage in the bustling heart of London's Soho, Spuntino is the epitome of New York's vibrant restaurant scene. After bringing the b cari of Venice to the...