In 1804, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark set out on an expedition to explore the uncharted American frontier. This is the story of what the monsters they discovered lurking in the wilds...In this second volume of the hit series, Lewis, Clark and the surviving members of [...]

Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide-ranging and savage wars of religion and dynasty, involving all of the major powers. This was therefore a key period in the development of 'modern' infantry tactics, such as the use of pole-arms and muskets together - [...]

Moving Japan can be a complex, challenging experience. Not only is the language barrier daunting, but life there often appears about as foreign as it can get. Why are people bowling to vending machines? Why did they laugh at your feet after a visit to the lavatory? Despite the uncertainty and disrup[...]

Essential PV know-how for architects: this handbook presents photovoltaic technologies and products, and illustrates their application in new or existing buildings with numerous international case-studies.[...]

An illustrated reference guide to identifying all types of spiders. The general features of each family are also described, with information on courtship, hunting and web-making behaviour. A key to spiders' webs is also included in the introduction.[...]

Occupy your very low level pupils, struggling with KS3 Maths, with Collins' brand new Step Up to New Maths Frameworking Workbook Book 1. Packed with write-in practice at levels 1 and 2 it gives pupils confidence and a thorough foundation in the Maths they need.[...]

June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with the Anglo-Allied armies led by the Duke of Well[...]

An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commande[...]

In The Making of the President 1972, the fourth volume of narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore H. White brings his defining quartet of campaign narratives to a surprising and riveting close. The consummate journalist, White chronicles both the Democratic and the Republican part[...]

There's a ferocious feline in town, and she's out to steal from Gotham's wealthy citizens. Unfortunately, Catwoman makes a mistake when she visits venerable citizen Bruce Wayne and takes Bruce's prized family heirloom. She thinks she made a clean escape . . . but she doesn't know who she toyed with[...]

In this colorful storybook with stickers, Plants vs. Zombies: The Three Little Pigs Fight Back, the famous fairy-tale pigs are thrown into the fun-dead world of Plants vs. Zombies, the award-winning video game.Instead of the big bad wolf, the brave pigs must escape a mob of fun-loving, brain-eating [...]

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hil[...]