When Kurt Austin is injured while rescuing the passengers and crew of a sinking yacht, he wakes up with conflicting memories of what he saw. Did he witness an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain - yet - Kurt doesn\'t trust either version of his recollection. Determined to seek out the truth, in his hunt for answers, he soon

The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...\' \"Moby-Dick\" is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab\'s insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance,

President\'s Murderer is one of the ten titles in The Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Best-seller Pack, which is ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title. * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer * The Elephant Man * A Little Princess * Love or Money? * The Monkey\'s Paw * The Phantom of the Opera * The President\'s Murderer * Sherlock Holmes and the Duke\'s Son

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and that discovery,

The world we knew is gone. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. They thought they were safe in the prison. They were wrong. A force far more deadly than the walking dead is at their door and when the dust settles, their rank will be reduced by more than half. No one is safe.

This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet\'s world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks,

This collection of celestial maps by Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 – 1665) brings back to life a masterpiece from the Golden Age of celestial cartography. First published in 1660 in the Harmonia Macrocosmica, the complete 29 double-folio maps and dozens of unusual details reproduced here depict the world systems of Claudius Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, and

For Shannon Bodine, losing her mother has been doubly heartbreaking: hours before she died, her mother confessed that Shannon\'s father was not the man she believed, but a married man in Ireland. Across the ocean, Brianna and Maggie Concannon have been eagerly awaiting news of their half-sister. But the woman who visits Brie\'s guest house in County Clare is not the loving sibling they had hoped for.

`The moon drives everyone mad - you know that, well enough. But this is no lycanthropic or otherwise spooky metamorphosis: it\'s far stranger than that...\' When Quentin Blake embarked on creating a set of new drawings on fantasies of travel, even he had not envisaged a series so sombre, so haunting, as Moonlight Travellers. These watercolour journeys through unknown landscapes capture, with unmatched

It is high summer in rural Northumberland. Seventeen-year-old Silvie and her parents have joined an encampment run by an archaeology professor with an interest in the region\'s dark history of ritual sacrifice. As Silvie finds a glimpse of new freedoms with the professor\'s students, her relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate, until the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed

Jim Starlin and Alan Davis return in the first of a new trilogy! The Mad Titan has everything he ever wanted - but satisfaction is not in Thanos\' vocabulary. When a temporal distortion on Titan draws his attention, he finds the purpose he\'s been searching for: saving himself! An old enemy lurks in the far future, and it\'ll take the combined wits of Thanos, his brother Eros, and time-travel master

The sixth title in an epic series of adventures through time and space - The Lord of the Rings for the Alex Rider generation.

Have you ever wanted to dazzle your friends with your command of history, science, and other important matters? No? Then this is the book for you. Ronald Reagan once famously said, \"Facts are stupid things.\" The book you hold in your hands will prove it. Did you know that Albuquerque\'s population is 78% chupacabra and 22% victim? Do you know why civilization started in Mesopotamia, and not Boise?

Yes Logo: 40 Years of Michael Peters Branding, Design and Communication chronicles the story of Michael Peters, one of Britain\'s most significant design luminaries. Still actively lecturing in the fields of graphics and branding, Michael Peters is an inextricable component of the history of commercial design.

Viac ako 100 stoličiek z obdobia 20. storočia... \"A chair is a stool with a back rest, and a stool is a board on four supports,\" proclaimed Christopher Dresser in 1873. But thankfully designers have their own ideas on the subject. This book showca ses over 100 of the most famous 20th century chairs. More than any other type of furniture, chairs reflect the spirit of an age. Plain or ornate, practical

Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse. This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he\'s demanding

Fine lines 100 illustrators to remember Drawn from TASCHEN\'s Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With featured artists including Istvan Banyai, Gary Baseman, Seymour Chwast, Paul Davis, Brad HollandMirko IliÄ, Anita Kunz, and Christoph Niemann, the international overview provides an invigorating record

Presents an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, this novel charts Blackthorne\'s rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai.

Fergus Steyn hat zugesagt, auf einem Historikerkongreß zu berichten, was er 1945 beim Verlassen der niederländischen Kolonien erlebt hat. Doch je länger er darüber nachdenkt, über die Kindheit auf Java, ein Paradies voller Geheimnisse und Gerüche, und dann den plötzlichen Abschied von alldem, desto deutlicher und bedrängender kreist alles um sie, die alle und alles bezaubernde Pinkie. Pinkie mit den