A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar...a veritable tour de force Richard Overy, New Statesman Transnational history at its finest ...social, politi...
Polish psychologist, Urszula Tokarska, has done a great service to the emerging field of temporal psychology by creating this unique volume, along with 18 authors from around the world, which illus...
The author proposes a redefinition of critical flow conditions that become universal for pressurised flows, free-surface flow conditions in any shape of channel cross-sectional areas. In fact, the ...
The monograph presents the results of research conducted in Poland and Greece. The originality of the monograph is also evidenced by its interdisciplinarity - it combines issues related to the ente...
Blask. Ołtarz Mariacki Wita Stwosza to książka składająca się z kilku części. Jedna z nich to materiał ikonograficzny przedstawiający stan samego ołtarza, wykonany przez Andrzeja Nowakowskiego. Pos...
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in comm...
A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I.Seven years before the...
A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice ...
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nat...
Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and auth...
How did we come to be? A complete, uncomplicated guide to the science of life, the universe and everythingHow did everything start?And how did we come to exist?In this one b...
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a si...
Economics has the power to make the world a better, happier and safer place: this book shows you howOur world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality, hunger and a gl...
Featuring everything you need to know about being an effective leader, The Leadership Skills Handbook will help you develop signature strengths and accelerate leadership success.The Lea...
One of the most creative and influential entrepreneurs of our timeBrains behind the Tesco Clubcard, the first and largest loyalty card globallyA successful pioneer in the da...
From the forageable to the bizarre, this book is an introduction to 50 of the fungi kingdom’s most interesting mushrooms.Mushrooms have existed for millennia, which can make it ov...
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of t...
The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief ...
The ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 yearsA singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the most incr...
An anthology of cult magazine Sneaker FreakerBack in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Frea...