This book is very close to my heart. It\'s about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn\'t really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly... my vege table patch! I came to realise last year that it\'s not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed

Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression makes for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including the

It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting \'Bah! Humbug!\' at anyone who dares wish him a Merry Christmas. But that night the miser has a terrifying visitor. Marley, his dead business partner who must wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins, comes with a warning. Scrooge will be haunted by three more spirits. The ghosts of Christmas

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

This text represents a synthetic approach to the understanding of the evolution of life history variation using the three types of environment (constant, stochastic, predictable) as the focus under which the theory is developed and tested. Each chapter includes a summary.

A disparate group of human protagonists from Dark Horse\'s past thirty years of Predator are set on a collision course with their most hated enemy--rendered in frenetic, violent detail by artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco! Since time immemorial, the aliens known as Predators have come to Earth to hunt us. Now a group of survivors of those visits have begun a hunt of their own. This is the year that humanity

In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis\' first priority in the event of a successful invasion. Who were they? What had they done to provoke Germany? For the first time, the historian Sybil Oldfield uncovers their stories and reveals why the Nazis feared their influence. Those on the hitlist - more than half of them naturalised refugees - were many

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident - the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies a husband and wife shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed

Paul Copeland\'s sister went missing twenty years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, Cope balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. Is this body one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive...? Confronting his past, Cope must

You\'re in love with a man on Death Row in Florida, convicted of a brutal murder twenty years ago. You\'re convinced he didn\'t do it, and you\'re determined to prove it. You\'re part of a mass online campaign that picks holes in the case, uncovers evidence of police incompetence, and agitates for this miscarriage of justice to be overturned. Now you\'re married to him, and he\'s a free man, his conviction

Deadpool has a lot of unfinished business in his inbox, and he\'s determined to take care of it before...any sort of bad and permanentish thing happens to him. Revenge on Stevil Rogers? Settling things with Rogue? Oh, and doesn\'t he still need to kill a few more folks? It\'s time to get Wade\'s affairs in order. You know, just in case... COLLECTING: DESPICABLE DEADPOOL 292-296

For readers of Schindler\'s List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Based on the incredible true story of Lale Sokolov Heart-breaking - a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human - the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust - the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners\' arms Inspirational - the very best of humanity in the

Nick Stone is back in an up-to-the-minute thriller - ripped fresh from the headlines. Stone has returned to London. Both the UK and the US are in a state of unrest and ever more extreme politicians are looking to take advantage of an unstable world. Their motives are unclear. But their threat is real. Who are they really working for?

This title will appeal to both boys and girls of 12 to 13 years. This haunting ghost story set in London is combined with ten pages of \"Fact Files\" which provide a useful supplement to any cultural studies syllabus.

On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will\'s brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job

V osnovu sbornika legli poeticheskie proizvedenija V.S.Vysotskogo, posvjaschennye narodnomu podvigu v tragicheskie gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny i otrazhajuschie osmyslenie ego v poslevoennoe vremja.

In this third volume of highly original \'detective\' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí , kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické,

Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process. Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat of deportation, Ephraim anxiously awaits word of his

Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv\'d Honest, and died a Penitent\' So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known as Moll Flanders, whose real name we never discover. And so, in a tour-de-force of writing by the businessman, political

Make the most of your city break with the best of Vienna in your pocket. From Gothic St. Stephen\'s Cathedral to the Imperial Palace to finding your way back to your hotel - find everything you need in this great value, quick reference map and guide that slips easily into your pocket or bag. Great for on-the-go navigation, discover Vienna\'s Top 5 must-sees, great restaurants, bars and shops, plus