A gorgeous edition of the classic short collection featuring Sherlock Holmes , the perfect gift for readers and collectors. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is...

One of Us Is Lying meets Big Little Lies in Melissa de la Cruz's first YA thriller. Four Los Angeles prep students are at the center of a fatal car crash - and they will go to and the dangerous lengths to bury the truth. One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When one of their own is...

Korean dishes, some traditional and some reimagined, from the home cook and storyteller behind @thekoreanvegan on TikTok The single most frequent question Joanne Lee Molinaro gets asked is "How can you be vegan and Korean?" Korean cooking is, after all, synonymous with fish sauce and barbecue. And although grilled meat is indeed prevalent in some Korean food, the ingredients...

Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in...

An illustrated collection of fifteen tales from the brothers Grimm, retold for younger readers. Stories include \"Hansel and Gretel\", \"Sleeping Beauty\", \"Rumpelstiltskin\", \"Tom Thumb\" and \"The Frog Prince\" as well as a short biography of the brothers themselves. Chapters in this book include: - Snow White and Rose Red - Little Red Riding Hood - Rapunzel...

Professor Włodzimierz Nykiel celebrated his seventieth birthday in 2021. This is a perfect opportunity to thank the Jubilarian for his scientific and academic activities to date. The Editors of this jubilee book – Professor’s long-term associates at the Tax Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz, the Centre of Tax Documentation and Studies and the...

Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an "outlander"-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted...

A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021“Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret documents-including many that have never been published before-which both fill in and complicate settled...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the YearVietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has...

onely Planet’s Ireland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Causeway Coast, have a pint in the pub, and drive the Ring of Kerry; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Ireland and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet’s Ireland Travel Guide: ...

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a simple yet powerful software architecture style to create lightweight and scalable web services. The RESTful web services use HTTP as the transport protocol and can use any message formats, including XML, JSON(widely used), CSV, and many more, which makes it easily inter-operable across different languages and platforms. This successful book is...

Dieses Buch dient als Brücke zwischen Schul- und Hochschulmathematik. Zum einen hilft es Schülerinnen und Schülern sowie Studienanfängern, grundlegende Rechenfertigkeiten zu erwerben, die man bei jedem naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Studiengang beherrschen muss, wie z. B. (Un)Gleichungen lösen, Grenzwerte bestimmen oder Integrale knacken. Hat man sich diese Fertigkeiten bereits vor...

Die erfolgreichste Liebeserklärung jetzt auf Kölsch, übertragen von Mariele Millowitsch.Hochwertige Geschenkbuchausgabe mit Schutzumschlag. Der kleine Hase hat den großen Hasen lieb. Wie lieb? Sooo lieb hat er ihn und breitet die Ärmchen aus. Aber die Arme des großen Hasen reichen weiter. Wie lieb man sich überhaupt haben kann, das zeigt dieses bezaubernde Buch. Für jedes Alter.

'Kiss boys two times after I have gone' On her deathbed, Kate Greene's only concern was for her two little boys, Reef and Finn, and her loving husband, Singe, who she was leaving behind. Over her last few days, Kate created Mum's List after Singe asked, 'What if you leave me?' They talked and cried together as Kate painstakingly wrote her thoughts and wishes down, trying to help the man she...

'An absorbing novel about a young man's voyage into adulthood, enlivened by Mary McCarthy's needling wit' Hilary Mantel, Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies 'Fiercely intelligent, insatiably combative, McCarthy's novels invite controversy' Penelope Lively, from the introduction Peter Levi, a shy and sensitive American teenager, moves to Paris to avoid being...

Master travel writer Paul Theroux immerses himself in the fascinating, rich and troubled culture of modern Mexico. Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills...

«Ти і Малевич» — це книжка-альбом із творчими завданнями, наліпками, розмальовками, яка дитині 5–13 років дає можливість уявити себе учнем чи ученицею Казимира Малевича. Кожен розгорт книжки присвячено одній із головних ідей художника, що спонукає не тільки читати й пізнавати, а й самостійно створити свою версію «Чорного квадрата», супрематичну композицію, проєкт планіту для земляніта,...

"A map for men...[Moore and Gillette] are handing men concrete images and explicit ways of thinking and being, ways to mature and still remain fully masculine."--Chicago Sun-Times The classic guide to the four essential male archetypes. Masculinity is on trial, leaving many men feeling lost, threatened, or unable to clearly express themselves. Instead of leading to...

There are automobiles that slipped into anonymity as though they had never existed. And then there are vehicles that made history, that served as reference points for design, performance, and fascination. These icons of technology thrilled the hearts of both enthusiasts and the general public. This book is dedicated to these jewels on four wheels, produced from the start of the 1900s up to...

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' – George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones Now an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards...