This outstanding history describes & accounts for Britains rise as the worlds first industrial world power its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) & the effects of all these on the life of the British people. ...

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile & tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. A real historical figure Ines Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540 helping to claim the territory for Spain & to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel Isabel Allende
- one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers
- re-imagines Ines's life & that of the two men who become her lover & husband respectively. ' Ines of My Soul' evokes the conflict & drama of the Conquistadors' arrival in Chile as well as helping restore the reputation of Ines a powerful woman long neglected by history & a patriarchal society. It also finds Allende returning to territory beloved of her & her readers
- imaginative historical fiction evocatively told
- & to the familiar landscape of her native country. The novel gives Ines the recognition & glory that are rightfully hers; but more than that it is an epic tale of love & conquest lyrically written & enchantingly told by a writer at the peak of her powers.



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The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier & the Dark-Hunters. Now Nicks saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume.. . Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. Thats the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isnt the average teenager. Hes a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. & his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone even his own father tries to kill him. Hes learned to raise the dead divination & clairvoyance so why is learning to drive & keep a girlfriend so hard? But driving isnt the primary skill he has to master. Survival is. & in order to survive his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known
- or hell be the one who ends the world. With enemies new & old gathering forces he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or hell lose everyone he cares about. Even himself.
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OMG Madison Parker is back once again for the third book in her deliciously mean The Fame Game series. The claws are out in the race to become Hollywood's brightest star... Madison Parker made a name for herself as best frenemy of nice-girl-next-door-turned-reality-celeb Jane Roberts in L. A. Candy. Now she's ready for her turn in the spotlight & she'll stop at nothing to get it. But with backstabbing friends & family relentless paparazzi & tabloid scandals she can't control Madison is going to have her work cut out for her... Filled with characters both familiar & new this third book in Lauren Conrad's glamorous series about life in front of the camera dishes Hollywood gossip & drama at every turn. ...

The seventh fabulous novel in the New York Times bestselling IT GIRL series Jenny Humphrey has survived the trial of the barn fire with only a few scratches & has actually managed to make allies of the notorious Tinsley Carmichael & Callie Vernon in the process. Easy Walsh has been kicked out of Waverly once & for all & Callie is struggling to keep it together in her loves absence. But new friends Jenny & Tinsley have a plan to get her out of her funk: head to NYC over the Thanksgiving holiday for a little rest relaxation & pampering. & of course a whole lot of trouble. But can the alliance between Jenny Tinsley & Callie last? Theyre all beautiful captivating & a little crazy...and they all want to be Waverlys It Girl. ...

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. In this classic study of the art of war Rommel analyses the tactics that lay behind his success. First published in 1937 it quickly became a highly regarded military textbook & also brought its author to the attention of Adolph Hitler. Rommel was to subsequently advance through the ranks to the high command in the Second World War. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War he proved himself an aggressive & versatile commander with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage for gathering intelligence & for seeking out & exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements & those of his units in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front in the ensuing trench warfare in the 1917 campaign in Romania & in the pursuit across the Tagliamento & Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills providing an indispensable guide to the art of war written by one of its greatest exponents. ...

There have been many books on World War II infantry weapons so whats different about this one? Quite simply the photography. Infantry Weapons of World War II contains some 500 totally original all-colour specially commissioned photographs showing major infantry weapons from the Colt M1911A1 to the MG42. The Cobberton collection in North Devon England provides a remarkable basis for this detailed examination of small arms
- the term small arms being used loosely to include not only revolvers pistols rifles & submachine guns but also machine guns mortars grenades mines & h&-held antitank weapons. With over 150 weapons in the collection the small arms of the five main protagonists
- Germany Japan Russia the United States & Great Britain
- are shown with a sprinkling of those from other nations
- France Czechoslovakia & Pol&. Physical details
- caliber; barrel length; weights; firing mechanisms; ranges; rates of fire Manufacturing details
- who made it; where it was made; how many saw service; variants & modifications Service history
- when it entered service; where it saw service; who used it Effectiveness
- what was it like to use; & did it do the job. There is no doubt that Infantry Weapons of World War II provides a splendid reference that will grace any collection.







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The Infatuations" is a metaphysical murder mystery & a stunningly original literary achievement by Javier Marias the internationally acclaimed author of "A Heart So White" & " Your Face Tomorrow". Every day Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. & every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there & she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man lying stabbed in the street his shirt half off that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards when the woman returns to the cafe with her children who are then collected by a different man & Maria approaches her to offer her condolences an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random pointless death. With " The Infatuations" Javier Marias brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry addressing existential questions of life death love & morality. " The Infatuations" is an extraordinary immersive book about the terrible force of events & their consequences. "I am greatly impressed by the quality of Marias' writing.. .he uses language like an anatomist uses the scalpel to cut away the layers of the flesh in order to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species the human being". (W. G. Sebald). " Years ago I said that Marias was Spain's best living writer... Nothing afterwards has made me alter that opinion". (Eduardo Mendoza " El Pais"). "[I am] enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories lost experiences & real-life fantasies". (Marina Warner " Guardian"). " Stylish cerebral... Marias is a startling talent". (" The New York Times"). " Sentence by glorious sentence is there a better novelist alive in Europe now than Javier Marias?". (" Independent") Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels two collections of short stories & several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages & won a dazzling array of international literary awards including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for "A Heart So White". He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors including Joseph Conrad Robert Louis Stevenson Sir Thomas Browne & Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain the United States & in Britain as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for over twenty-five years & has translated many novels & short stories by Portuguese Spanish & Latin American writers including Javier Marias Fernando Pessoa Jose Saramago Bernardo Atxaga & Ramon del Valle-Inclan. She has won various prizes for her work including in 2008 the PEN Book-of-the-Month Translation Award & the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her version of Eca de Queiroz's masterpiece " The Maias" & most recently the 2011 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for " The Elephant's Journey" by Jose Saramago." ...

Our immune system is a complex network of cells continually working against a barrage of attack from our environment quite literally to save our lives. But how do our bodies protect us from the bacteria & other potentially life-threatening organisms that surround us every day? Infection & Immunity third edition explains how in the lucid accessible style for which John Playfair is renowned. Together with Greg Bancroft an expert in infectious diseases Playfair describes the main causes of infection that our bodies have to battle against
- from bacteria to viruses fungi to protozoa
- & explains the intricate & fascinating ways that our bodies respond to infection
- from detection of these potentially dangerous organisms to their ultimate elimination. Presenting a fully-rounded perfectly-balanced overview of the field the book also explains how diseases spread & what measures we can take to control this spread
- from vaccination to increased awareness through public health initiatives. With examples of infectious diseases from across the world Infection & Immunity is perfect for biomedical science bioscience & microbiology students who need to understand what causes infection & how our immune systems respond. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre features * Figures from the book ready to download (for registered adopters)
- Hyperlinks to primary literature articles cited in the text




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Infection control is fundamental to delivering effective health & social care at all levels. However health & social care professionals actual behaviour can sometimes seem intractable to the most rigorous training & promotion of safe practice
- including even basic hygiene precautions. Many have identified this problem but few have addressed why it occurs & how practices can lastingly be changed. This book reaches beyond a prescriptive approach to infection control behaviour examining the psychosocial forces that affect individual & group behaviours in practice. It gives a strong theoretical framework for practitioners supervisors & managers to reflect upon & challenge behaviour before providing practical advice on how to create supervise & promote genuinely consistent safe practice. This book aims to challenge fundamentally the way health & social care professionals supervisors & managers approach infection control & hygiene
- & in doing so to dramatically improve the health & safety of their patients clients colleagues & the public. I have deliberately set out to challenge the status quo & to push the frontiers of your thinking in relation to infection control. I have also attempted to provide a text that closes a gap where infection control research education & practice leaves much to be desired. Paul Elliott

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