This book features a fascinating visual exploration of the transportation system that helped shape the modern world, from the earliest experiments with wooden rails & horse-drawn wagons, through the golden age of railways to the modern transcontinental & international high-speed lines. With full-colour photographs, detailed computer-generated maps & informative supporting text, this comprehensive analysis charts the rise, fall & revival of world railways over the course of 200 years. ...

Travel back in time with the latest instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series.

The History Book charts world history

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When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician.

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Divided into major historical periods with useful timelines, this richly illustrated book covers both well-known & obscure events.

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In Foundation the chronicler of London & of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from he building of Stone Henge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: our common law & our cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of our most distant past
- a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house
- & describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon or Norman French.

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The Story of Boeing
- The Boeing Company Part 1: Developing aircraft requires huge expenditure. One company has on a number of
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Cameras follow the race against the clock to construct the world's largest airliner in time for its launch party. With the day set for its unveiling, the engineers & designers responsible for delivering the giant aircraft pull out all the stops to try to ensure a stress-free launch. But as the day looms, doubts still remain about whether the A380 will be ready. ...

Formula 1 is the premier, international racing series, featuring the world's most skilled drivers, the fastest cars & cutting-edge technology. Packed with stunning photography, comprehensive text & statistics, The History of Formula 1 covers the races, the fearless drivers & the development of engines from the 1950s to present day. Featuring detailed information on all of the circuits, past & present, from the grandeur of Monaco to the ultra-modern track in Bahrain, as well as the triumphs, the tragedies & the outcomes of each individual championship ...

From Verecunda, a girl in love with a Roman gladiator, who etched his name on a love token, to the footballer & television presenter Gary Lineker, & popular fashion consultant Gok Wan, it is characters such as this that have contributed to Leicester's long & exciting history, & sent its name around the world.

It was in Leicester that DNA fingerprinting was invented & Thomas Cook pioneered his dream of tourism for the masses. Sir David Attenborough met his first dinosaur & Alfred Russel Wallace formulated the concept of natural selection, possibly before Charles Darwin. Images now recognised around the world, such as Thomas the Tank Engine, & the polar bear that promotes Fox's Glacier Mints, were created in Leicester, as were the diaries of Adrian Mole & Walker's crisps. Joseph Merrick, also known as the Elephant Man, was born in the town, & it was here that a young apprentice in Leicester's largest textile factory learned how to build bicycles & gave his name to Curry's retail stores.

The stories of the men & women who were at the forefront of invention, scientific discovery & entertainment, politics & faith are inextricably linked with the bigger picture of the development & growth of a major English city over two thousand years, & are celebrated in The History of Leicester in 100 People.

This paperback book has 96 pages & measures: 23.5 x 16.5 x 0.8cm





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Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mothers loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.

Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. & although he doesnt know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans & generations, & changing lives...

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