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Sourcebooks, Inc Underneath the Sycamore Tree
Time is a luxury we don't all have...Emery Matterson's life has been broken for a while. First, she lost her twin sister to an incurable autoimmune disease, then her father left, then her mother fell apart when Emery herself was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her sister. The only option for Emery seems to be to move in with the father she hasn't seen in ten years, and start over.Enter Kaiden Monroe, the brooding athlete who has baggage of his own. Kaiden makes Emery feel normal. Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And...loved. Somewhere along the way, Emery finds solace in the guy with the sad eyes.But everything happens in stages. And nothing good ever lasts.From fan-favorite author B. Celeste comes an raw, real, and unforgettable story of love and loss between two young people grappling with the harsh reality of invisible disease.
£9.04
HarperCollins Publishers Bring Me Back
The million-copy bestselling author B A Paris returns with a breathtaking thriller. ‘We’re in a new golden age of suspense writing now, because of amazing books like Bring Me Back’ Lee Child ‘Made me stay up way beyond my bedtime!’ Jane Corry Finn and Layla: young and in love, their whole lives ahead of them. Driving back from a holiday in France one night, Finn pulls in to a service station, leaving Layla alone in the car. When he returns, minutes later, Layla has vanished, never to be seen again. That’s the story Finn tells the police. It’s the truth – but not the whole truth. Twelve years later, Finn has built a new life with Ellen, Layla’s sister, when he receives a phone call. Someone has seen Layla. But is it her – or someone pretending to be her? If it is her, what does she want? And what does she know about the night she disappeared? Bring Me Back is the utterly compelling, white-knuckle thriller from Sunday Times bestseller B A Paris. Praise for B A Paris: ‘An addictive new voice in suspense fiction’ Sophie Hannah ‘Just finished this BRILLIANT book… Clever, addictive and twisty, I couldn’t sleep until I found out the truth… The twist floored me! Utterly compelling from beginning to end’ Claire Douglas ‘Made me stay up way beyond my bedtime! B A Paris has a knack for getting into your head’ Jane Corry ‘A page-turning masterpiece’ Amanda Prowse ‘A tale of dark secrets, with mystery and intrigue building up and up to an ending with a fabulous twist. I devoured it – I couldn’t turn the pages quick enough’ Mel Sherratt ‘This book is compulsive reading from start to finish. A perfectly crafted work of art, seamless and mesmerising. I envy those yet to read it for the pleasure they have in store’ Amanda Robson ‘A cracking page turner with a killer twist' Camilla Way ‘An incredibly pacy, heart-pounding thriller – the twist at the end left me reeling. B A Paris does it again in this exhilarating exploration of love, jealousy and betrayal. A must read!’ Phoebe Morgan ‘Bring Me Back will not leave your hands until you have turned the last page!’ Wendy Walker
£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Therapist
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS… ‘Tense and compulsive’ Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House ‘Suspicion, betrayal and dark secrets abound’ T M Logan, bestselling author of The Mother ‘A delicious web of lies’ Jane Corry, bestselling author of Coming to FInd You When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, an exclusive gated community, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive… As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened. But no one wants to talk about it. And her neighbours are hiding something… The million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author B A Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in this powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. Praise for The Therapist: ‘Alice’s smart new home in The Circle comes with a nightmarish secret in B A Paris’s tense and compulsive new thriller – I gobbled it up in two sittings’ Louise Candlish ‘Suspicion, betrayal and dark secrets abound in this tense story – all hidden just beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect suburban life’ TM Logan ‘A delicious web of lies. Be prepared for your head to spin and your fingers to fly!’ Jane Corry ‘B A Paris is the queen of psychological thrillers and her latest does not disappoint’ My Weekly ‘This spooky thriller with excellent twists and a really fast-paced shock finale’ Heat ‘Totally hooked. Completely gripping’ Mel McGrath ‘A propulsive and deliciously dark page-turner. Perfectly paced and tightly plotted’ Lucy Clarke ‘Domestic suspense at its very best. An aspirational setting, an unsolved crime, a plethora of suspects and twisted allegiances at every turn … I loved it’ Caz Frear ‘Tense and suspenseful … a delicious slice of suburban noir shot through with secrets, lies, paranoia and the unsettling claustrophobia of a staunchly closed community’ Kia Abdullah
£8.99
Liberty Fund Inc Origin of the American Revolution, 1759-1766
£17.95
Liberty Fund Inc Origin of the American Revolution, 1759-1766
£24.26
University of Texas Press Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed
Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+’s photography of hip-hop music and its influences. Taking its name from the unplayed sounds that exist between beats in a rhythm, the book creates a visual music, putting photos next to each other to evoke unseen images and create new histories. Like a DJ seamlessly overlapping and entangling disparate musics, Cross brings together LA Black Arts poetry and Jamaican dub, Brazilian samba and Ethiopian jazz, Cuban timba and Colombian cumbia. He links vendors of rare vinyl with iconic studio wizards, ranging from J Dilla and Brian Wilson to Leon Ware and George Clinton, David Axelrod to Shuggie Otis, Bill Withers to Ras Kass, Biggie Smalls to Timmy Thomas, DJ Shadow to Eugene McDaniels, and DJ Quik to Madlib. In this unique photographic mix tape, an extraordinary web of associations becomes apparent, revealing connections among people, cultures, and their creations.
£36.00
Kalpaz Publications Economic Reforms Need Radical Change
£43.99
Universities Press Fuel Cells: Principles and Applications
£22.95
Nova Science Publishers Inc Neuroscience Imaging Research Trends
£76.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Discrete Strength & Lifetime Levels of Polymer Films & Fibers
£179.99
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Deadly Parallels
£17.00
Librairie generale francaise Les Vaisseaux Du Coeur
£8.39
F&W Publications Inc Drawing People
Draw Natural and Believable Clothed Figures In Drawing People, award-winning illustrator and instructor Barbara Bradley provides all the information you need to render clothed human figures with energy, detail and control. Bradley begins by teaching the basics of any drawing, including proportion, perspective and value. Next, you'll learn how to overcome the special challenges posed by clothing, including fabric folds and draping effects. Bradley illustrates how they're constructed and how to draw them in different situations—on male and female figures that are active or at rest. These reliable, proven drawing techniques will add a natural feel to your art, resulting in figures that look as if they could walk, run or dance right off the page.
£23.99
Watson-Guptill Publications Dynamic Light and Shade
This book, illustrated with drawings in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and brush and ink, shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light and shade. Hogarth demonstrates how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form and space. He then shows how the silhouette is transformed into three dimensions with the addition of highlights. There is a chapter devoted to each of the five basic categories of light and shade: single-source light; double-source light; flat, diffused light; moonlight; and sculptural light. Natural and artificial light sources are examined, and the effects of the five types of light on a variety of subjects - faces, figures, landscapes, still lifes - are illustrated. Hogarth also explains more complex light effects: how light and shade can create a sense of near and far; how light is affected by weather, time of day, and the changing seasons; how light reveals the surface qualities of forms; the effects of light passing through transparent materials like glass and water; and much more.
£18.89
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GMC Publications Woodland Workshop
A woodland craftsman's workshop should bring immense pleasure, whether it be a simple tarpaulin shelter deep in the woods or a purpose-built haven to shelter from the elements. The tools and devices that furnish it are unique to woodland work and have formed the heritage of woodland crafts that we have today. Following on from his successful book Woodland Craft, woodsman Ben Law explains what makes a good workshop, outlines the key tools needed, gives information on how to sharpen them and shows us how to make an array of fascinating devices from scratch. Clear step-by-step instructions, photographs and beautiful illustrations guide you through the making process. Coupled with interesting titbits of historical and practical information, this is an invaluable guide for every green woodworker. AUTHOR: Ben Law, woodsman, craftsman, eco-builder, teacher and writer, lives and works in Prickly Nut Wood in West Sussex, UK. The building of his unique woodland home was featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs in the UK and was voted by viewers as the most popular episode ever. In addition to the coppicing of his own woodland, he runs courses on sustainable woodland management and permaculture and trains apprentices. Ben Law is the author of several books, including The Woodland House, The Woodland Year, Woodsman: Living in a Wood in the 21st Century and Woodland Craft (GMC Publications, 2015). SALES POINTS: . A companion to the successful Woodland Craft . 16 step-by-step woodland device projects . Beautiful photography and illustrations throughout . A foundation book for every green woodworker to use as reference . Projects include: Peeling jig, Sussex knee vice, Triangulated cleaving brake, Shake brake, Pole lathe and Woodsman's grip 300 colour photographs
£22.50
Austin Macauley Publishers Aphrodite's Kiss
£9.99
Watson-Guptill Publications Dynamic Anatomy
Praised by critics and teachers alike for more than forty years, Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy is recognised worldwide as the classic, indispensable text on artistic anatomy. Now revised, expanded and completely redesigned with more than 75 never before published drawings from the Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. This award-winning book brilliantly reveals the live, expressive structure of the human form. Superb action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest. Over 400 remarkable illustrations explain the anatomical details of male and female figures in motion and at rest, always stressing the human form in space. This revised and expanded edition of Dynamic Anatomy initiates the re-launch of all six titles in the series.
£23.39
Watson-Guptill Publications Extraordinary Everyday Photography
£20.69
Watson-Guptill Publications Words for Pictures
This book comes from best-selling Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis. In this book, step-by-step lessons teach everything needed to take ideas from script to dynamic sequential art. It exposes methods for crafting comic scripts, reveals business secrets, insights from Bendis' fellow creators and more. Arguably the most popular writer in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis shares the tools and techniques he uses to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time. Words for Pictures provides a fantastic opportunity for readers to learn from a creator at the very top of his field. Bendis' step-by-step lessons teach comics writing hopefuls everything they'll need to take their ideas from script to dynamic sequential art. The book's complete coverage exposes the most effective methods for crafting comic scripts, showcases insights from Bendis' fellow creators, reveals business secrets all would-be comics writers must know, and challenges readers with exercises to jumpstart their own graphic novel writing success.
£19.79
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Operations in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Text and Atlas
£248.00
HarperCollins India The Roaring Lambs
£10.16
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd Preventive & Social Medicine (Solved Paper)
£6.80
Asian Educational Services The History of the Bengali Language
£16.92
Asian Educational Services Mysteries of Nature Science
£10.79
Skyhorse Publishing June Schwarcz: Artist in Glass and Metal
June Schwarcz (1918-2015) was among the most innovative artists working in the contemporary enamels field. Best known for her electroplated metal sculpture embellished with rich enamel colour, she produced an extensive body of work that, while linked to long-standing vessel-making traditions, defied convention. In a field known for visual opulence, preciousness, and adherence to traditional craft practices, Schwarcz was a renegade. She learned enameling on her own and adopted a highly experimental approach to process, inventing new ways of creating sculptural objects in metal and unorthodox strategies for their embellishment. Believing in the power of opposing principles, she created forms that were at once raw and elemental, elegantly composed, and lushly beautiful. A seminal figure in the American craft field, Schwarcz led enameling workshops across the country and influenced several generations of young and emerging artists. She also played a central role in the craft community of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lived and worked for more than fifty years. June Schwarcz: Artist in Glass and Metal is the first publication to investigate Schwarcz's work in depth. It explores the rich trajectory of her career along with the sources and influences that helped shape and define her singular vision. It also investigates the themes and subjects that intrigued her as it examines the role she played in advancing enameling in America in the late twentieth century. This lavishly illustrated publication celebrates the extraordinary body of work Schwarcz created over a period of sixty years. AUTHORS: Bernard N. Jazzar and Harold B. 'Hal' Nelson are authorities on the history of enameling in America in the twentieth century. In 2007 they founded the non-profit Enamel Arts Foundation to support and promote the modern and contemporary enamels field. Jazzar is curator for the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection in Los Angeles, and, until his retirement in 2017, Nelson was curator of American Decorative Arts at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. In 2006 they co-authored Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980; in 2015 they co-authored Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present; and in 2017 they co-curated June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. SELLING POINT: . First book to chronicle the life and artwork of June Schwarcz, a pioneer craftsperson in the enamel and decorative arts field 290 colour images
£45.00
Nova Science Publishers Inc State-of-the-Art Imaging in Stroke: Volume 2
£195.29
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John Wiley & Sons The Roadmap to Financial Freedom A Millionaire8217s Guide to Building Automated Wealth
£21.59
Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications Inc Great Golden Garland of Gampopa's Sublime Considerations on the Supreme Path: Volume 2 -- Contemplative Contemporary Commentaries of Gampopa's Root Text
£27.89
University of Exeter Press La Soeur
La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph Giambattista Della Porta; sometimes it remains close to the original text, at other times it is bold in eliminating superfluous material and in imparting a convincingly French flavour to the dialogue. The introduction to this new edition assesses the originality of Rotrou’s adaptation. The notes are devoted above all to linguistic questions and to the many exotic allusions found in the text.
£21.53
Chicago Review Press The Death Ship
The Death Ship tells the story of an American sailor, stateless and penniless because he has lost his passport, who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction.The Death Ship is the first of B. Traven's politically charged novels about life among the downtrodden, which have sold more than thirty million copies in thirty-six languages. Next to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is his most celebrated work
£19.95
John Wiley & Sons Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded and Updated 24 Steps to a Successful Startup
£28.79
Workman Publishing Cat
It’s the mother of all cat books. The book that gave new meaning to wacka-wacka and forever redefined it.Cat is the classic that started it all. It gave a voice to catmaniacs around the country and launched an entire genre in publishing and licensing. Everybody went crazy.“Neither cute nor mysterious but instead simply and irreverently, even raucously, very funny.”—Village Voice.
£8.40
Watson-Guptill Publications Beyond Portraiture
£20.69
Cornell University Press Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author, a mystic, and an apocalyptist. In Abravanel, B. Netanyahu suggests, two long lines of tradition met and concluded: that of medieval Jewish statesmen and that of medieval Jewish philosophers. In what is both a biography and an exploration of Abravanel's thought and influence, Netanyahu describes how Abravanel illuminated the grave crisis and profound transformation experienced by the Jewish people after the Spanish expulsion. First published in 1953, Don Isaac Abravanel has been out of print for several years. This new edition includes revisions in the text, notes, and bibliography.
£27.99
Watson-Guptill Publications Bryan Peterson′s Understanding Composition Field G uide
£17.99
Random House USA Inc Born to be Wild
Give your toddler or preschooler hours of fun as they color and learn their ABCs and numbers along the way!The Born to Be Wild coloring book includes 62 colorable pages and teaches young children fundamental learning concepts like letters, numbers, counting, and animals. Give it to your child and let them enjoy coloring on their own, or use the book with them as you help them identify the animals on each page and learn to count and recite their numbers and ABCs. Letters: Coloring pages to practice ABCs Numbers: Color 1-10 and practice counting with pictures of nature items like the sun, palm trees, ladybugs, and more Animals: 26 cute coloring pages featuring animals like a dolphin, monkey, rabbit, turtle, and zebra! Perforated Pages: One-sided coloring pages that are easily removable so you can display on the fridge afterward! Big, Simple Pictures: Perfect for little hands!Each adorable illustration featured in this toddler coloring book was created by bestselling artist Brita Lynn Thompson, aka @zenspiredesigns!
£7.99
GMC Publications Woodland Craft
Accompany woodsman Ben Law as he celebrates the amazing diversity of craft products made from materials sourced directly from the woods. Including brooms, rakes, pegs, spoons, chairs, baskets, fencing, yurts and even a caravan, the items are hewn from freshly cut green wood, shaped by hand and infused with a simple, rustic beauty. Detailed instructions and advice are given for each craft, along with essential knowledge about tools and devices. With fascinating information on the history, language and traditions of the crafts, coppice management and tree species, this book teaches about all aspects of the low-impact woodland way of life.
£22.50
Palgrave USA Evolutionary Finance
The purpose of this book is to introduce the field of bioinformatics to financial modelling. It focuses on the way information informs price, and constructs a framework to explain information generation and the agglomeration process, enabling the reader to make more effective financial decisions. Based on all aspects of applied finance, this book uses informational analysis to help the reader understand the similarities between biomathematics and financial mathematics.
£80.99
Watson-Guptill Publications Pastel Book, The
Absolutely the most thorough guide to pastel materials and techniques ever assembled in a single volume, this is the book for anyone working with pastels, from beginners to experienced artists looking to develop more professional skills.Defining the pastel medium broadly—color in stick form to be used for drawing and painting simultaneously—the author creates works of sensuous textures and colors, ranging from subtle to intense. He uses traditional soft and hard pastels, as well as oil pastels and oil sticks, showing the effects produced by each in step-by-step demonstrations. Included are sophisticated ways to combine pastels with water, acrylic, alkyd gels, and oil paint for stunning mixed-media results.
£19.79
Watson-Guptill Publications Understanding Flash Photography
£22.99
GMC Publications Step–by–Step Pyrography
Pyrography, the art of 'drawing with fire' by burning designs onto a medium, is an ancient craft practised worldwide. This book presents 25 original pyrography projects in easy-to-follow step-by-step style that are suitable for the absolute beginner to master. The readers will love the clear and simple format which takes away the mystery behind achieving great results. The 25 projects include: door plaques, coasters, key fobs, letter opener, coat hook hanger, jotter board, picture frame, letter holder, trinket box, bread board and many more...This book includes detailed information on tools, equipment and materials. It is suitable for beginner level, with clear instructions and illustrations. All techniques are fully explained and illustrated in full colour throughout.
£9.99
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Gendering Minorities:: Muslim Women and the Politics of Modernity
£24.19
S Chand & Co Ltd Botany for Degree Students
£16.92
Saurabh Publishing House Handbook of Journalism and Mass Media
£13.12
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd I See No Stranger
£40.00
Aryan Books International Historicity of the Mahabharata: Evidence of Literature, Art and Archaeology
£29.99