Rumors myths & fantastic stories have swirled around the automobile since the first car appeared over 100 years ago. Did you know that after James Deans death behind the wheel of his Porsche 550 Spyder parts of the car were sold off & said parts then cursed their new owners? Did you know that Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) wrote Henry Ford praising the power of Fords new V-8? Did you know James Browns wife once claimed diplomatic immunity when fighting a traffic ticket because her husband was the ambassador of soul"? Have you heard of the mythical 200-mpg carburetor that the oil companies & auto manufacturers conspired to hide from the public? How about the tale of Jocko Flocko NASCAR racer Tim Flocks simian co-driver? These are just a few of the automotive worlds crazy stories mysteries & legends. Historys Greatest Automotive Mysteries Myths & Rumors Revealed compiles a juicy selection covering subjects from racing to crime to pop culture encompassing historical to modern day tales. Read it & be amazed!" ...

Mankinds past is strewn with mistakes
- colossal blunders driven by virtue as often as vice. The unlucky people in this book didnt
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The people in this book set out to change the world with their brilliant new discovery or design. At best they failed monumentally; at worse they changed the world in ways for which no one will thank them. Historys Worst Inventions" is an entertaining look at the failures of celebrated inventors & less well-known (for good reason) pioneers. The book

Includes:: the parachute-overcoat (its inventor leapt from the Eiffel Tower to demonstrate it & plunged to his death) Trevethicks locomotive (too heavy for its rails & broke them) Soviet anti-tank dogs (with mines strapped to their backs they turned on their owners & blew up an entire Red Army division) & TGN1412 (the drug which in its 2006 clinical trial nearly killed its test subjects). A compendium of cock-ups " Historys Worst Inventions" provides a clear warning
- its all too easy to go down in history as an idiot!"


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There are many stories we can tell about the past & we are not perhaps as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study & understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history & explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation interpretation & periodization are introduced by means of concrete examples of how historians work giving the reader a sense of the excitement of discovering not only the past but also ourselves. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable. ...

A new drug is out. Everyone is talking about it. Death. Take it & you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price Adam is tempted. Life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. It's up to his girlfriend Lizzie to show him. violet & red cover available. ...

Easy-going Scott & the more aggressive Kel are rival strikers for the same football team & often contemptuous of each other. But with their team's place in the league at stake they need to start to work together. In the end it is the events off the pitch that will help to build the confidence & respect that each boy needs in order to play his best. ...

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest murdering victims in a gruesome & spectacular way. The local police suspect monsters are involved & have called in Anita Blake & Edward US Marshals who really know their monsters to catch the killer. But some monsters are very real. The Harlequin have been the bogeymen of the vampire world for more than a thousand years; they are a secret so dark that even to speak their name can earn you a death sentence. Now they are here in America hunting weretigers & human police. The Harlequin serve the Mother of All Darkness the first vampire. She was supposed to be dead but only her body was destroyed. Now she needs a new one & shes decided that Anita Blakes is the body she wants. Edward thinks the serial killings are a trap to lure Anita closer to the most dangerous vampire theyve ever hunted. The vampires call Edward Death & Anita the Executioner but Mommy Darkest is coming to kill one & possess the other & she doesnt care how many others have to die along the way. ...

When Robert Maxwell is assassinated at sea by an unknown agency it can only be a matter of time before the dark secret at the heart of the British Establishment is exposed to the light of day. SAS soldier Neil Slater has left the Army but soon it seems he is to be drawn back into the covert world. Bowing to the inevitable he allows himself to be recruited by the Cadre a group that applies the rules of war to those who threaten the internal & external security of the State. Slater soon finds himself in a rising body count situation & asking the question: who is the real enemy? Hit List is another action-packed explosive story from an establisehd master of the military thriller. ...

Fourteen years ago scientist William Fox implanted four babies with the Medusa gene
- a gene for psychic aibilities. Fox's experiment
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In this long-awaited & candid memoir Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date from his childhood in Portsmouth with his adoring tragic mother & reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way he recalls the girls boys & booze; the friendships & the feuds; the grand struggles & lost causes; & the mistakes & misgivings that have characterised his life. Hitch-22 is by turns moving & funny charming & infuriating enraging & inspiring. It is an indispensable companion to the life & thought of our pre-eminent political writer. ...