The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances and Details Employed in the Design and Construction of Machinery for Every Purpose is a comprehensive and invaluable reference work for engineers, inventors, students, and anyone interested in the art and science of mechanical design. Authored by Thomas Walter Barber, this classic volume presents a vast collection of over 2,000 detailed illustrations and concise descriptions of mechanical movements and de...

FLAVEL C. BARBER’S memoir of his service with the Third Tennessee provides a rare contemporary history of a Confederate regiment. Major Barber’s imprisonment after the surrender of Fort Donelson spurred him to take pen in hand. What began as a way to “while away the tedious hours of imprisonment” on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie became a poignant, candid, yet unsentimental account of the life of a soldier at war.Of special value for Civil War scholars and buffs are Barber’s vivid descripti...

Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul—produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine!Serial meets Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter.The only thing more dangerous than a lie…is the truth.Josie Bu...

Praise for the Sam Archer thriller series:‘This has been one of the all-time favourites. Right there with Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series and Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp’‘I read all of the books in the Sam Archer series and I cannot say enough good things about each one…I’ve never read a series where each book was just as good as the next’‘This is an incredible series...the action is non-stop from beginning to end’‘...

From the author of Truth Be Told (formerly titled Are You Sleeping)—now an Apple TV series of the same name—comes a cautionary tale of oversharing in the social media age for fans of Jessica Knoll and Caroline Kepnes’s You.Everyone wants new followers…until they follow you home.Audrey Miller has an enviable new job at the Smithsonian, a body by reformer Pilates, an apartment door with a broken lock, and hundreds of thousa...

SADISTS?OF?THE?RISING?SUN focuses on the unique cruelty and capacity for slaughter displayed by Japan, from the beginning of the 1930s, with the origins of its atrocity-focused incursions into East Asia, until the devastation of its cities and incineration of its population by firestorms in 1945. During that period, Japan determinedly undertook the twentieth-century’s supreme mission of Imperially-sanctioned butchery, combining the bacteriological obliteration of entire cities with the c...

Andrea Barber is known to millions worldwide as Kimmy Gibbler, star of the hit 90s sitcom Full House, and the Netflix sequel, Fuller House. In this funny, heartfelt book, Andrea takes readers behind the scenes of her odd Hollywood career and beyond. She shares how anxiety, particularly postpartum anxiety, derailed her life, and how she was able to take back control and serve as inspiration for others. Refreshingly honest and deeply personal, Andrea writes in a way...

Alan Price, Fordhamton Town Councillor and local businessman is killed when his car hits a brewery draw down a narrow lane. Initially it is thought to be a heart attack but a subsequent toxicology report indicates an unknown drug in his blood. Detective Inspector Steve Harley is pleased to be pulled away from his secondment to the murder team investigating a serial killer on a farm but when he asks for an assistant he gets Detective Constable Miles Davis who is thorough but knows no more a...

Opulence. Invasion. Terror. And forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore.'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy, its future as assured as it was busy. And those days were made even better when, as was inevitable, I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong and, against all unwritten canons of Singapore life, we became lovers.'

***'This powerful, speaking-truth-to-power book is an essential read for everybody who wants to stop feeling clueless and helpless about the impacts of cosumerism, and start doing their part to help create a more sustainable world' - Layla Saad'A critique on what we buy, how it's made and the systems behind it that make an unfair and broken cycle' - New York Times'The book is a blueprint for anyone who wants to do bett...

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF RICHARD AND JUDY'S BOOK CLUB PICK OUT OF HER DEPTH.**_________________________________Two women - desperate to unlock the truth.How far will they go to lay the past to rest?ANNA has been taught that virtue is the path to God. But on her eighteenth birthday she defies her Mamma's rules and visits Florida's biggest theme park.She has never b...

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery.'An Education', ...