'A fascinating book by turns riveting & unsettling & wonderfully rich in period detail' Craig Brown Mail on Sunday In 1860 a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home killed by a blow to the back of her head What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle With an abundance of suspects from disgruntled step children concerned about their inheritance & a spurned admirer repeatedly rejected by the widow to a trusted employee former police officer & spy the case led to a public trial dominated by surprise revelations & shock witnesses before culminating with one of the final public executions at Newgate This is the case Conan Doyle couldn't solve & after confounding the best detectives for years has finally be solved by author Sinclair Mc Kay Discover 'whodunit' as the real murderer is revealed for the first time exclusively in this captivating study of a murder case in the nineteenth century a story never told before ...

Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music the preeminent landmark & fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time when he was working with an ensemble that has come to be known as the Lost Quintet In this book jazz historian & musician Bob Gluck explores the performances of this revolutionary group Davis's first electric band to illuminate the thinking of one of our rarest geniuses & by extension the extraordinary transition in American music that he & his fellow players ushered in Gluck listens deeply to the uneasy tension between this group's driving rhythmic groove & the sonic & structural openness surprise & experimentation they were always pushing toward There he hears & outlines a fascinating web of musical interconnection that brings Davis's funk-inflected sensibilities into conversation with the avant-garde worlds that players like Ornette Coleman & John Coltrane were developing Going on to analyze the little-known experimental groups Circle & the Revolutionary Ensemble Gluck traces deep resonances across a commercial gap between the celebrity Miles Davis & his less famous but profoundly innovative peers The result is a deeply attuned look at a pivotal moment when once-disparate worlds of American music came together in explosively creative combinations ...

This is the ultimate guide to arms & armaments from the spears & swords of ancient history to the guns tanks battleships & fighter planes of the 20th & 21st centuries The Military History Book profiles the key arms & armaments technologies & tactics of war from 5000 years ago to the present day in stunning visual detail
- from the siege towers & catapults of ancient times to medieval swords & fortresses & from the war machines of the industrial revolution World War I & II & the Cold War to the unmanned drones & stealth bombers used by today's armed forces Discover the battles leaders & weapons of war that have changed the course of history & shaped the world & get up close with virtual tours of iconic pieces including the T-34 Tank the Lockheed F-117 Stealth Bomber & the AH-64 Apache helicopter Bringing military history to life like never before The Military History Book is the perfect gift for military enthusiasts of all ages
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The Military History of China bestselling author Erik Durschmied traces China's passage through a thousand years of war colonial adventurism & internecine politics & seeks to understand what this huge & unstoppable country is today
- as well as what the future holds for a fragile world in which China is the latest economic & military superpower Long the world's most populous country China has always flexed its muscles beyond its borders for all its contemplative religion & dreamlike art Catastrophic clashes with other countries are a thread woven into the fabric of the nation's history Today China stands on the threshold of global economic domination a true rival to the United States in a generation or so it will be twice as wealthy as the US Britain France Germany & Italy combined
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The infamous 2005 mini-series returns in an all-new deluxe hardcover edition! The horror of suburban life explodes in an orgy of mythic violence
- & mild-mannered housewife Barbara Vale finds herself at its dark epicenter! & when you meet her family you'll understand why This slice of Americana is brought to you by the twisted minds of Joe Casey & the legendary Steve Parkhouse If you missed it the first time around this is your chance to finally join the Tupperware party!
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot If life had no love in it what else was there for Maggie? Tragic & moving The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions & tormented lives As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit & imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family most painfully with her beloved brother Tom their fates are played out on an epic scale George Eliot drew on her own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of childhood & one of literature's most unforgettable heroines The Penguin English Library
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' Was her life to be always like this?
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This title is presented with an introduction by Marina Lewycka Maggie & Tom Tulliver are both willful passionate children & their relationship has always been tempestuous As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss Tom's self-righteous stubbornness & Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments George Eliot's story of a brother & sister bound together by their errors & affections is told here with tenderness energy & a profound understanding of human nature ...

Introduction & Notes by RT Jones Honorary Fellow of the University of York This novel based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it & the result on more than one level is tragedy ...