A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your familys expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are & how we behave. Nurture in effect shapes our very nature. James combines the latest scientific research with fascinating interviews to show that understanding your past is the first step to controlling your present. ...

The sixtieth birthday party of Silas Kane was marred by argument & dissension amongst his family. & then the morning after the celebrations Kane is found dead at the foot of a cliff. The theory that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog is confirmed when the coroner returns a verdict of death by misadventure. But then Kanes nephew & heir is murdered & threats are made on the next in line to the fortune throwing a new & sinister light on Silas Kanes death. All clues point to an elderly lady of eighty as the killer. But as the redoubtable Superintendent Hannasyde delves further into the case he discovers that nothing is quite as it seems... ...

This is an introductory work which presents a profile of the relationship between American Indians & Europeans & later Americans from the early sixteenth century onward. Its intent is to provide college students & general readers a clear overview of significant aspects of the American Indian experience with those people who asserted their control over the continent. The story is generally told in this volume within the framework of white history -- first because Indian policy was formulated from the white perspective rather than from that of the First Nations & secondly because whites so influentially affected the American Indians -- their lives culture & history. ...

What turns an ordinary man into an extraordinary one? The answer lies in the stories of six teenage volunteers for Second World War aircrew who exchanged school uniform for Air Force Blue & took a giant step into the unknown. Based on original research from flying log books diaries & family archives this collection of true tales describes the mens training for those coveted Wings; the nervous excitement of that first sortie over enemy territory; & flying into the hell of an enemy flak barrage & fighters. From the skies over Europe to jungles & deserts all endured hardship adventure & danger. They experienced action under enemy fire wounds burns & crash-landings escape & evasion in occupied territory & the privations of life as a POW. Seventy years on & these brushes with death are by any measure hair-raising encounters that turned adolescents into men
- some of whom survived the war while others paid the ultimate price.
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Balint Abady is forced to part the beautiful & unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Laszlo Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink & his own feckleness. The politicians quarrelling among themselves & stubbornly ignoring their countrymens real needs are still pursuing their vendetta with Habsburg rule from Vienna. Meanwhile they fail to notice how the Great Powers
- through such events as Austrias annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908
- are moving ever closer to the conflagration of 1914-1918 that will destroy their world forever.

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While an undergraduate Carl Chinn recalls a lecturer postulating that working-class women were downtrodden & brow-beaten by their men: I remember thinking Theyre not in my family".. .I lacked the confidence to disagree & to tell him that I knew many working-class women who were at least the equals of their men & who could fight physically. Indeed the first fight I had seen was when I was ten. My Nan had taken me & my brother down the Villa. An away fan had pinched Our Kids scarf & Our Nan just four foot eleven tall turned round & laid the chap out with one punch. A tough woman whose fore-finger had been torn off by a machine at work Our Nan was the daughter mother & grandmother of strong working-class women. Often strong physically women of the urban poor worked from when they were toddlers until they died. They worked inside & outside the house cooking washing cleaning & planning how to get by; they worked as domestics in the houses of a middle class often arrogant & condescending in their attitudes towards them; they worked in factories shops mills & workshops; they worked in their neighbourhoods in providing vital services for their neighbours. Often earning her own income & receiving the earnings of her children it was the mother who was in charge of the daily battle against hunger & hardships. Such supreme dedication & true grit earned these women the central role in the family & fostered the devotion of their children who recognised a mothers command of the household finances her ability to maintain a familys self-sufficiency through careful housekeeping & creative cooking & her valiant efforts to stay clean & respectable. Married daughters chose to live close to their mothers forming extended families in settled neighbourhoods & furthering cementing strong kinship ties. Older married women who were grannies & aunts held sway over large familial networks & from this position of importance many of them achieved status in their neighbourhoods as layers-out unofficial midwives wise women custodians of the moral code & guardians of the group consciousness. The women of the urban poor worked all their lives for their families & neighbours: they deserve our respect & admiration." ...

Carr
- ex-CIA
- is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning a robbery of such extraordinary proportions that it will leave

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Its the kind of f***-up that would normally have Malcolm Tucker Number 10s Communications Director the master of spin & the Matrix spitting blood.. . No the guilty party in this instance is none other than Tucker himself. The man who likes to keep an iron grip on every news item in the media & every policy announcement that comes out of the government has only gone & Left a confidential file on a train
- The Do SAC Files". Based around the idea that King of Spin Malcolm Tucker has lost a confidential & highly-damaging file on a train this book is a collection of highly sensitive documents: personnel files policy drafts letters & emails transcripts of phone calls election campaign documents & top secret papers on the governments media strategy for wars & recessions. There are also more personal documents such as the early drafts of Tuckers diary in no legal condition for publication. Its explosive stuff which could end careers on both sides including Tuckers own... From the team behind the award-winning & phenomenally successful " The Thick Of It" & the Oscar-nominated " In The Loop" comes the official tie-in book " The Do SAC Files". Written by the shows creator Armando Iannucci along with his co-writers Jesse Armstrong Tony Roche Simon Blackwell & swearing consultant Ian Martin " The Do SAC Files" looks set to be the political satire event of the year."
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Old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Fix in the fourth gripping Felix Castor novel. Names & faces he thought he'd left behind in Liverpool resurface in London bringing Castor far more trouble than he'd anticipated. Childhood memories family traumas sins old & new & a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell.. .these are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with as things go from bad to worse for London's favourite freelance exorcist. See Castor's stepped over the line this time & he knows he'll have to pay; the only question is: how much? Not the best of times then for an unwelcome confrontation with his holier-than-thou brother Matthew. & just when he thinks things can't possibly get any worse along comes Father Gwillam & the Anathemata. Oh joy.. . ...