Find out all about our world today with this 5th edition of this reference atlas. From the defining boundaries of the Balkan states to the icy terrain of Antarctica over 400 maps created with the latest digital mapping techniques & satellite data are combined to bring you Earth in more detail than ever before. Terrain models reveal physical features while informative text photographs & diagrams provide a superb overview of the physical political economic & demographic geography of the world. Detailed fact files on all 193 nations including each regions land use industrial activities & population distribution. Plus a 75 000 index-gazetteer makes this an essential desktop reference for business home or school use. Visit our associated website to find out more about the worlds 193 countries from maps & historical information to up-to-date statistics. ...

Concorde is the worlds most famous passenger transport aircraft & an icon of 20th century design. When British Airways & Air France withdrew their Concordes from service in 2003 it marked the end of a unique era in supersonic air travel. For this first large-format full-colour tribute to Concorde Jonathan Falconer has scoured a wide range of private collections company archives & media libraries in order to compile a stunning collection of colour photographs that portray Concorde from its first flights in 1969 to its swansong in 2003. ...

This fully revised edition of The Concorde Story" published to coincide with the anniversary of the first landing at Heathrow is a complete history of Concorde. When commercial air services were launched in 1976 Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world. Lavishly illustrated throughout this new edition documents the early difficulties encountered on the way to commercial success as well as examining the tragic event at Gonesse in 2000. With a new section on the after-story of the aeroplane & a look at what the future holds for supersonic aircraft this is the definitive book for all Concorde fans." ...

When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot & killed Norman Church the ' Dollmaker' the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse Bosch has just received a note eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with giving him a location where a body can be found. Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats & destroy Bosch's career in the process? ...

Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare from sieges to street-fighting from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed although strategists have advised against it across the millennia armies & generals have been forced nonetheless to attack & defend cities & victory has required that they do it well. In Concrete Hell Louis Di Marco has provided a masterful study of the brutal realities of urban warfare of what it means to seize & hold a city literally block by block. Such a study could not be more timely. We live in an increasingly urbanizing world a military unprepared for urban operations is unprepared for tomorrow. Di Marco masterfully studies the successes & failures of past battles in order to provide lessons for todays tacticians. ...

With university behind her Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons & she leaves her family home in 1920s Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife & mother. This desire leads her to flirt with risk passion & unorthodox friendships & carries her to Tunisia on a journey of self-questioning & intellectual reawakening. Conditions of Faith is both a provocative romance & an elegant meditation on a timeless dilemma. Impetuous yet entirely sympathetic Emily Stanton like Henry James Isabel Archer is in search of a reason for living in a society where motherhood is deemed reason enough. This mesmerising & thought-provoking story of dreams obsessions & destiny will hold you in thrall. ...

The crackle of a tannoy breaks a pregnant silence...and for one moment as the barrage of shell & artillery pauses music washes over the city of Leningrad. The defiant symphony of Leningrads famous son the composer Shostakovich infiltrates ruined homes & businesses echoing in the empty streets & perhaps even beyond the besieged walls to the very heart of the German forces. But this is not the story of Shostakovich. This is the story of a man caught in the white heat of obsession. A man who inspired an entire city much less a ragged orchestra of half-starved musicians to an act of resistance & hope in a time of war. Karl Eliasberg. The Conductor. ...

In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe brothers Calum & Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare he comes face to face with Duror the gamekeeper. In retaliation in the depths of the wood Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers. Under a bright blue sky Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives. It is a prophecy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood. Powerful & unforgettable The Cone-Gatherers is a novel about the good & the bad in human nature
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This volume is part of a new series of novels plays & stories at GCSE/ Key Stage 4 level designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text

Includes:: an introduction pre-reading activities notes & coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing often compiled by the author. This is the story of two brothers Calum & Neil who work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror the gamekeeper.

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This city is famous for its gamblers prostitutes exhibitionists anti-Christs alcoholics sodomites drug addicts fetishists onanists pornographers frauds jades litterbugs & lesbians.. .dont make the mistake of bothering me. Ignatius J. Reilly: fat flatulent eloquent & almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice & ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. & he has a pirate costume & hot-dog cart to do it with... ...