WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair & he is still in love with her. When Beards professional & personal worlds collide in a freak accident an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess reinvigorate his career & save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico this is a story of one mans greed & self-deception; a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing & complex problem of our time. ...

Develop large-scale solar photovoltaic projects with this book to feed power into a grid. Contains case studies of the Waldpolenz Energy Park Germany Lopburi Solar Plant in Thailand & what will be the worlds largest PV plant the Topaz Solar Farm in California. Also included are interviews from leading figures in the PV industry. Contents cover: planning & structuring projects siting planning & connection issues building & operating projects technology basics economies of PV history & business of PV financing & regulation technical aspects of system design. Supported by figures & photographs this is for anyone wanting to master the commercial professional financial engineering or political aspects of developing mega-watt solar PV projects in a mainstream power market. ...

In this title bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets moons asteroids comets & spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insightful & surprising text are a wealth of beautiful images & diagrams printed in full colour richly detailed & accurately based on real scientific data. A perfect gift for anyone with an interest in astronomy The Solar System" allows the imagination to roam free from Mercury to Pluto & beyond." ...

What is the surface of Mars like? Why does Venus glow in the dark? How do scientists explore faraway planets? Beginner readers can find answers to these questions & more in this colourful information book. Illustrated with stunning photographs & illustrations accompanied by short informative text developed with reading experts.

Includes:: carefully selected internet-links to exciting websites about the Solar System.

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A psychologist arrives at a research space station called Prometheus his mission to ascertain whether research into the mysterious planet of Solaris should be terminated. He finds Prometheus all but deserted its straggling crew seemingly haunted by hallucinations of figures from their pasts. ...

When Philip Serrell
- now well known for his television appearances
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In November 2001 as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps & secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely & openly about their hopes & fears their concerns & their day-to-day lives. With a banality & ease which to the modern reader can appear shocking they also talked about the horrors of war -- about rape death & killing. Sonke Neitzel shared the material with renowned & bestselling psychologist Harald Wezler & they set about trying to make sense of the vast piles of documents the hours of transcripts. The result is SOLDATEN a landmark book which will change the way we look at soldiers & war & is as relevant to our modern conflicts in Iraq & Afghanistan as it was to the soldiers of the German Army in 1945. Published to huge acclaim & controversy in Germany it was a number one bestseller there & reignited the debate about the banality of evil under the Nazi regime. ...

The authors discovered 150 000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war of which Approx. one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the Mediterranean theatre of the war (North Africa Malta Italy) & the remainder comes from the bugging of prisoners of war in the USA. These transcriptions are thus unmediated uncensored & unselfconsciously candid & that is what gives this book its historical significance & extraordinary impact. What emerges from these transcriptions & within these pages is a shocking & profoundly illuminating portrait of the typical German soldier of the time: their thoughts their feelings & their ideologies. SOLDATEN is a book that explodes many of the myths that we hold on to about Germany & its people during the War. ...

General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years & all that time he has shown loyalty courage & commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction. A man of substance where foreign policy is concerned he has served in theatres from the Artic to the jungle but is perhaps best known for his role in charge of the British troops to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo for assembling the British ground component of the coalition that toppled the Taliban for equipping & organising the army we dispatched to defeat in Iraq & for re-organising the British army with aplomb. His drive enthusiasm & dominating personality were always popular with his soldiers & drove him right to the top of his profession. He may have been a general but he never stopped caring about the men & women in his charge despite the politics. Soldier: The Autobiography" exhibits all the qualities for which Jackson is admired; his professionalism his honesty his directness his exuberance & his sense of humour. Most of all it gives a vivid sense of what modern soldiering entails." ...

Stand to attention with the inside story on the life of a soldier from the Saracens to the SAS. From the Samurai of Japan to US rifleman experience life on the frontline through personal accounts of the training living conditions & engagements from 2 500 years of military history. This title helps you to learn about fighting techniques & tactics from each era & see the armour uniforms kit & weapons used in the field. It

Includes:: virtual tours that take you inside the fortresses ships tanks & aircraft in which soldiers have battled from a Viking longship to the cockpit of a B17 bomber. It provides foreword from Colonel Tim Collins (OBE) who made headlines with his inspirational Eve-of-Battle speech during the Iraqi conflict. Soldier" is an essential visual record of the fighting man."

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