She was a ' Jane Doe' an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department but the detectives had little to go on & after months of investigation the murder remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement want one last shot at the case.. .and they turn to Kinsey Millhone to help them find closure. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business & what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer. Based on an unsolved homicide that occured in 1969 Q is for Quarry & Grafton's interest in the case have renewed police efforts. The body has been exhumed & a facial reconstruction made that appears in the last pages of the novel. It is hoped that the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification. ...

A high-speed space-chase unfolds as QPootle 5 & his friend Oopsy flee from three hungry bladder monsters. Q Pootle 5 is in a hurry. & so is his friend Oopsy. They are being chased by three hungry bladder monsters! But Q Pootle 5 has a friend who is bigger & scarier than the bladder monsters. Dave is bigger than everyone! ...

In QED: The Strange Theory of Light & Matter" Richard P. Feynman explains in his lucid & witty style the revolutionary scientific theory that won him the Nobel Prize. Quantum electrodynamics
- or QED for short
- is the theory that explains how light & electrons interact & in doing so illuminates the deepest & most complex mysteries of the world around us. Thanks to Richard Feynman & his colleagues who won the Nobel Prize for their groundbreaking work in this area it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure
- a theory that has stood the test of time. In these entertaining lectures Feynman uses clear everyday examples to provide the definitive introduction to QED. " The perfect example of scientific genius". (" Independent"). " If you don't believe Nature is absurd let chatty Professor Feynman convince you in his series of exceedingly reader-friendly lectures... Full of witty one-liners with its learning lightly worn it's a book to enlighten". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Does a marvelous job of explaining one of twentieth-century physics' few unqualified triumphs". (" The New York Times"). Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical physicists & original thinkers. Feynman's other books also available in Penguin include "QED" " Six Easy Pieces" " Six Not-so-Easy Pieces" " Don't You Have Time to Think" " The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" " What Do You Care What Other People Think?" & " The Meaning of it All"."


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Have you ever wondered why most books of"ations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian"es by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good"ation book one which gathered the truest & funniest insights of the best minds & organised them into 250 subjects from ambition to worry (or from artichokes to woodpeckers) a book which offered you a useful take on almost every situation life throws at you (from the death of your child's hamster to the unified theory of everything) a sourcebook of wise one-loners of knock-out jokes of drole asides & heartfelt statements of truth & beauty a practical handbook of interestingness well that would be worth having. & guess what? Those thoughtful gentlemen at QI have come up with one. Five years of learning how to avoid the dull stuff have left the QI team in a uniquely good position to deliver this elusive holy grail: the big useful funny & really very good book of"ations. ...

Join the QI team for an off-road safari through a hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom armed with illuminating illustrations & diagrams by award-winning artist Ted Dewan. Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy & women promiscuous & the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe pigs that shine in the dark & woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument that hyenas are dogs or that sheep are pointless & stupid The Book of Animal Ignorance" has arrived just in time." ...

' The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless'
- Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species & researched them in depth distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp racy mini-biographies where the internationally & immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly & (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive & how we can make the most of the time we have. " The QI Book of the Dead" compares & contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe throws at us. Collected into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as ' There's Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life' ' Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone' & ' Is That All There Is?' here is a chance to share the secrets of the Dead to celebrate their wisdom to learn from their mistakes & to marvel at their bad taste in clothes. The man who is not dead still has a chance. Lebanese Proverb
- We don't rule out the alternative possibility of a compassionate God whose motives are beyond our ken."

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A number-one bestseller this is a comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions mistakes & misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition carry it everywhere to impress your friends frustrate your enemies & win every argument. ...

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin & it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? John Lloyd & John Mitchinson the brains behind QI here present a wonderful collection of the most outrageous fascinating & mind-bending facts taking on the popular General Ignorance" round from BBC1s top rated quiz & the first book in the bestselling series. & whatever your answers to the questions above you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong." ...

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin & it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? John Lloyd & John Mitchinson the brains behind QI here present a wonderful collection of the most outrageous fascinating & mind-bending facts taking on the popular General Ignorance round from BBC1's top rated quiz & the first book in the bestselling series. & whatever your answers to the questions above you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. ...

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin & it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? John Lloyd & John Mitchinson the brains behind QI here present a wonderful collection of the most outrageous fascinating & mind-bending facts taking on the popular General Ignorance" round from BBC1's top rated quiz & the first book in the bestselling series. & whatever your answers to the questions above you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong." ...