What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? At first glance, very little. But Roger Kneebone is the expert on experts, having spent a lifetime finding the connections. In Expert, he combines his own experiences as a doctor with insights from extraordinary people and cutting-edge research to map out

This book is very close to my heart. It\'s about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn\'t really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly... my vege table patch! I came to realise last year that it\'s not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed

Nina, auditor extraordinaire, is known at work as the Ice Queen, where her colleagues joke that her frosty demeanor travels to the bedroom. But what they don\'t know is that Nina spends her after-work hours locked into fiery games with her boyfriend Andrew, where she acts out her deepest fantasy of being a prostitute. Nina ups the stakes in her anonymous guise, being drawn deeper and deeper into London\'s

Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper\'s The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a \'vigorous and profound defence of democracy\', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political

Look, I didn´t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That´s when things started really

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

The Language of Graphic Design provides design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language, graphic design: what they are, why they are important, and how to use them effectively. To communicate in a new language, you first have to gain a complete understanding of its fundamentals; the ABC\'s of that language-definitions, functions,

As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. \'An aura of fate had marked him,\' John Irving writes. \'The

As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a young man in the Barcelona of the late 1950s, Daniel runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop and enjoys a seemingly fulfilling life with his loving wife and son. Yet the mystery surrounding the death of his mother continues to plague his soul.

From Louise Bourgeois, Andreas Gursky, Zaha Hadid, and Shirin Neshat, to David Lynch, Omar Sharif, Sting, and Naguib Mahfouz: many artists and other celebrities from the worlds of film, music, and literature have posed for the camera of Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil (*1972 in Cairo). His first portraits were of friends, taken after he finished studying literature in the early nineties before

This is a highly original and indispensible source of inspiration for graphic designers and illustrators everywhere. One of the biggest challenges facing all graphic designers, illustrators, and artists is being able to work in just one colour - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, or Black, the colours used in the four-colour printing process. \"The THNK CMYK\" series provides much-needed inspiration by showing

In Thoughtless, Kiera told her story. Now it\'s time for Kellan Kyle to share his side in Thoughtful . . . The only place Kellan has ever felt at home is on stage. Gripping his guitar in a darkened bar, he can forget his painful past. These days his life revolves around his music and his band mates, and that\'s the way he likes it. And then one woman changes everything . . . Kiera is the kind of girl

Travel back in time and share the experience of everyday thoughts and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diaries traces the history of the diary from ancient times to the present day, bringing together more than 80 historical and literary diaries, artists\' sketchbooks, explorers\' journals, and scientists\' notebooks. Discover what it was like

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. The advent of the French Revolution confirmed the worst fears of the rulers of Europe. They saw their states as storm-tossed vessels

Coastal dwellings around the globe that will inspire your life and dreams\"We would like to take you with this book on a journey to some of the most beautiful and purest places on the globe. Skies are cerulean blue. Follow us as we set sail for distant, dreamy shores.\" Diane Dorrans Saeks

IELTS foundation is a new and motivating course book for students studying IELTS. Aimed at those in the IELTS band of 4-5.5, this topic-based book will train students in all the skills required to increase their IELTS score.

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe\'s Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe\'s meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an overly modern idiom. It remains the nearest \"equivalent\" rendering of the German ever achieved.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World\'s

Dirty DIY is a book of sexy postcards for adults to write/draw/otherwise complete and give to their partners/lovers. Activities such as \"When I think about you I.....\" or partially drawn illustrations with missing bits, will prompt even the most reticent to get in touch with the creative lover within. Lucy Kirk\'s drawings are edgy and bold but have a humor and warmth that will bring out the sweetest

When a Washington, D.C. police detective is targeted by Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Loving is a ruthless \'lifter\', hired to extract information from his victims, and he will use whatever means necessary including kidnapping, torturing or killing their family. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted