"Electric Motors and Drives" is intended for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives, filling the gap between maths - and theory-based academic textbooks and the more prosaic 'handbooks', which provide useful detail but little opportunity for the development of real insight and understand[...]

Set in the last century, this novel tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely haunting quality.[...]

Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philos[...]

Between Christmas and new year of 1817 the eccentric painter, B R Haydon, gave a famous dinner party. His guests included three of the greatest literary stars of the age: the poets John Keats and William Wordsworth and the essayist and wit Charles Lamb. This party became known as the Immortal Dinner[...]

You have to make sense of enormous amounts of data, and while the notion of "agile data warehousing" might sound tricky, it can yield as much as a 3-to-1 speed advantage while cutting project costs in half. Bring this highly effective technique to your organization with the wisdom of agile data ware[...]

Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens with interest as Brub describes their top suspect[...]

This beautiful collection contains traditional tales that have been carefully retold using phonics and familiar language so that children can read them for themselves. It contains 4 stories in 1: Chicken Licken, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Magic Porridge Pot and The Greedy Dog.[...]

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February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nom[...]

A series providing comprehensive preparation for the IELTS. Students at any level of English can prepare for the IELTS exam with IELTS Preparation and Practice. Suitable for home study or classroom use, it is a complete training course for the IELTS exam. The course develops the skills necessary for[...]