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. ...

Written when Engels was only twenty-four & inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian Engl&. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns & for miners & agricultural workers
- depicting overcrowded housing abject poverty child labour sexual exploitation dirt & drunkenness
- in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His fascinating later preface written for the first English edition of 1892 & included here brought the story up to date in the light of forty years further refelection. A masterpiece of committed reporting & an impassioned call to arms this is one of the great pioneering works of social history.

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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. ...

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... ...

BPP Learning Media is proud to be the official publisher for CTH. Our CTH Study Guides provide the perfect tailor-made learning resource for the CTH examinations & are also a useful source of reference & information for those planning a career in the hospitality & tourism industries ...

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran Attars great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey the birds soon express their reservations to their leader the hoopoe. With eloquence & insight however the hoopoe calms their fears using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty & profound The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry. ...