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A risky reportage of the modern city's streets and its dark markets. 'I can be guilty of getting caught up in things. Once I focus on a goal, I find it hard to let go of the race to get it. But right now, I'm having to consider the very real possibility that my search for the truth beneath this city is going to get me hurt. This situation has become way too unpredictable for comfort ...'I start asking questions. How do you do this? How do you get away with it? How much money do you make from it? Who supports you? Who resists you? And what happens to the people who resist you?'Curious about the modern love affair with criminal personalities, investigative reporter Conor Woodman spent four years exploring the hidden depths of dynamic cities across the globe. Sharks takes us on a journey through the lawless backstreets of cities as diverse as Mumbai, Bogot New Orleans, Barcelona and London. In each he uncovers the people and the scams that keep

As usual the RAF top brass don't know what to do with loose cannon Major Bart Bandy. Bart reinvigorates the pilots of his new squadron, who start doing some serious flying in the notoriously tricky new Dolphin Camels. With black comedy and seat-of-the pants escapades, Donald Jack's series makes the War to End All Wars come roaring to life.

In his mission to help people attain what he felt was their greatest gift, Leo Buscaglia famously developed a university course on love. This remarkable volume was the result of the interactions of students in his course. Love is for everybody who has ever reached out to touch the heart of another.

Horse-faced World War I flying ace Bart Bandy finds himself kicked upstairs, to everyone's appalled surprise, and made a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Flying Corps. But not for long. Soon he is once more heading for the hell of the trenches, this time on a bicycle. Donald Jack's blackly humorous Bandy memoirs are classics of their kind.

Donald Jack's blackly humorous Bandy memoirs are classics of their kind. Against an unshrinkingly depicted backdrop of war and its horrors, his anti-hero's adventures are both gripping and shockingly funny.

Taking only a modicum of knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus. Mathematics is the language of size, shape, and order - a language Hogben shows one can both master and enjoy.

This text discusses how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology. It argues that the contemplative traditions of the East help patients go beyond merely recognizing their problems to healing them, and that this approach is not at odds with the psychodynamic method.

War-time England, and a young Miss Emily Seeton's suspicious sketches call her loyalty into question-until she is recruited to uncover a case of sabotage. Faced with bombs, sabotage and murder, Miss Seeton must summon all her courage-it is after all her nature to Keep Calm and Carry On!

At the roulette table an elderly woman in diamonds is making a killing. Who would guess the bejewelled high roller is retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton, in disguise to help capture a mysterious crime boss?Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with only her sketchpad and umbrella!

When a flood of faked banknotes hits the market, retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton is chosen to investigate a respected Geneva bank. Bamboozling both the crooks and the police, and innocently humming the fraudsters' musical password, she trips gaily along the dangerous trail, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

From the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval Europe, the aristocracy's fashion for wearing wigs and the role of typhus in the First World War, Hans Zinsser reveals just how disease and epidemics have shaped human history.

Discover the incredible life of John Ogilby, shipwreck and Great Fire of London survivor, royal conspirator, mapmaker, translator and soldier in the first ever biography of this forgotten British legend.

Discover a captivating new voice and a great new heroine of Roman historical fiction in this fast moving page-turner.

An engaging, funny and extremely useful book on how to communicate with the French.

The occult wasn't Miss Seeton's cup of tea... until Scotland Yard requested she go undercover to investigate some sinister shenanigans. A flim-flam was afoot in the local witches' coven... and magic could be a prelude to murder most foul. Armed with only her sketchpad and umbrella, she is the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.

Miss Seeton's every attempt at a portrait of little Effie Goffer has become a chilling picture of a corpse. Is she actually drawing a clue to a series of child murders in rural England?Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, Miss Seeton is every inch an eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.

In this exploration of loving and living, bestselling author Leo Buscaglia addresses the intricacies and challenges of love relationships. He suggests behaviour that opens the way to truly loving each other. He recalls with heartwarming detail the importance of his own family and friendships in helping him to be open to grow and to love.

Churchill may have played the larger role in Hitler's defeat, but Orwell's reckoning with the threat of authoritarian rule in 1984 and Animal Farm defined the stakes of the Cold War and continues to inspire to this day. Their lives are an eloquent testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it takes to stay true to it.

In the conventional wisdom the scientist is seen as a data gatherer, but scientific creation is really more complex and inspiring. This beautifully written work was hugely influential when first published and continues to inspire today. As V.S. Ramachandran says, 'it makes science seem like a grand, romantic adventure yet also fun'.

A fascinating and entertaining social history, exploring how and why politicians have found solace, hope and despair at the bottom of a glass over the years.

As loyalties are stretched to the limit and Europe slides towards another war, could just one act of great courage and sacrifice change everything?

John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious cosmological quest brings together our scientific knowledge and evaluates the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and humankind.

A fresh, revealing and entertaining account of the most influential writer of his age and the women who inspired him

When a mysterious letter arrives containing cryptic references to Napoleon Bonaparte, Jake is drawn back in to a centuries-old conspiracy. The trail leads through the Middle East, Europe and Africa to a secret that could remake the world.

The passionate and elegantly dark tale of desire, obsession and deceit.

Miss Seeton lends her talents to the village scheme to create a quilted 'Bayeux Tapestry' of local history. But her intuitive sketches reveal a startlingly different perspective - involving buried Nazi secrets, and links to a murdered diplomat and a South American dictator . . .

Driven by curiosity, restlessness and a desire to better understand her own country, artist Alice Stevenson spent two years exploring and drawing Great Britain. The result is a book celebrating detail, of landscape and architecture, and creativity, an essential human urge.

In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic exploration on four continents, Lawler reframes the way we feel and think about all domesticated animals and even nature itself.

Gold Rush is a blood-and-guts treasure hunt - the ultimate adventure story.

The untold first-hand story of the legendary bomber pilot, 'cooler king' and arch escape artist