A young orphan goes from rags to riches in this remarkable tale of friendship, love, and adventure at the height of the Industrial Revolution.Like Charles Dickens's beloved Oliver Twist, John Halifax is an orphan. Determined to make his success through honest hard work, he becomes an apprentice to A[...]
Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles and great victories became embedded in Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. Thi[...]
Written by PETER MILLIGAN Art by SIMON BISLEY, GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & STEFANO LANDINI -Cover by SIMON BISLEY In this collection featuring issues #256-260, John Constantine goes to extremes to get his ex-girlfriend back. But will he sink to a new low by using a love potion?[...]
Sent i sitt författarskap gav den engelske poeten John Milton år 1671 ut Det återvunna paradiset och Simson i Gaza, som är hans mest betydande verk vid sidan av Det förlorade paradiset. För första gången ges de nu ut på modern svenska i tolkning av den flerfaldigt prisbelönte översättare[...]
Menestyneen, ristiriitaisen ja monisyisen uranuurtajan avoin elämäkertaKONE Oy:n pitkäaikainen toimitusjohtaja Pekka Herlin (1932-2003) oli liikemies, maanviljelijä ja purjehtija. Hän johti KONE Oy:n ennennäkemättömään kansainväliseen menestykseen.Koneen ruhtinas käsittelee avoimesti tä[...]
Pekka Herlin led KONE Corporation to unprecendented international success, making it a role model for other Finnish expansionist companies. In the process, he became a legend in his own time, but the brighter the light cast on any legend, the longer and more disturbing its shadow is likely to be.KON[...]
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down th[...]
Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another. For example, on hearing a sound, the person immediately sees a color. How does this happen? Is it a real phenomenon? Why do some people develop this condition and not ot[...]
This paperback edition explores the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into brewing. It includes a new timeline of events and describes the creation of big brewers, the official investigations and the damag[...]
Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stages 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.[...]
our Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.[...]
Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.[...]
Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.[...]
Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.[...]
UML has established itself as the industry standard for modeling software systems. Schaum's Outline of UML, Second Edition, provides you with a step-by-step guide to the notation and use of UML, with a focus on the new UML 2.0 software. The book features: Complete explanations of UML modeling techn[...]
This text focuses on the practical aspects of crystal structure analysis and provides the necessary conceptual framework for understanding and applying the technique. Many worked examples, problems with answers, and illustrations are included throughout to reinforce the material presented. Significa[...]
This Very Short Introduction explains the European Union in plain English. Fully updated for 2007 to include controversial and current topics such as the Euro currency, the EU's enlargement, and its role in ongoing world affairs, this accessible guide shows how and why the EU has developed from 1950[...]
Since the second edition of this popular Very Short Introduction published in 2007, the world has faced huge economic and political change. Showing how and why the EU has developed from 1950 to the present day, John Pinder and Simon Usherwood cover a range of topics, including the Union's early hist[...]
Urology continues to be one of the most rapidly advancing specialities. Approximately 20% of all surgical operations and a similar percentage of surgical emergencies are urological in nature. However, often doctors have very limited experience of the many common and varied conditions encountered in [...]