' A rollicking romp.' – Mail On Sunday'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' – Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk…' – Iain DaleDesigned as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolp...

'His book is both lively and engrossing, and provides the clearest and most comprehensive account yet of this extraordinary saga.' - Peter Parker, The Spectator'Daniel Smith tells the story of Boothby, the Krays and Goodman in a rollicking tone that carries conviction and reads well.' - Richard Davenport-Hines, The Times'Daniel Smith explores the conspiracy of silence surrounding Sir Robert Bo...

1845-1870 An Untold Story of Northern California is a revisionist historical non-fiction narrative of the American settling of Northern California, and their difficult experiences with local native conflicts that arose. These hostility's have been eyeballed and extensively written about through the eyes of the indigenous locals. Modern knowledge on the true experiences of the pioneers settling of this specific area of 19th century Northern California, today, is seemingly swept under the ru...

'A serious reinvestigation full of revealing background information that sheds additional light on what was then and now remains a shocking crime' Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking'This riveting, eye-opening investigation of a 70-year-old murder mystery reads like a whodunit ... A true crime must-read' Dean Jobb, author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream'As much social history as it is gripping true cri...

Mike Edwards and Jason Kennedy are smokejumpers making their way through an underground facility hidden deep in a nature preserve. Stacey Cartwright is a young woman the smokejumpers rescued along the way. They must stop a secretive mining conglomerate from abducting people for illegal and unethical human experimentation. Miles of tunnels, dozens of armed security guards and a nano-machine controlled sasquatch stand between the trio and shutting down the operation. Their training and resou...

New leaders, many of whom start out as first line supervisors and managers, are often faced with decisions that are above their paygrade, yet necessary for the continued operation of their workshop or site. Their training isn't complete, mentors aren't always available, and often the only advice they get is faulty. What's a first time, first line or mid-level leader to do?Based on 28 years of experience, S. Daniel Smith walks new leaders through the idea that slowing the problem do...

The two-volume set LNCS 14771 and 14772 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop, PQCrypto 2024, held in Oxford, UK, during June 12–14, 2024.The 28 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Applications and protocols; code-based cryptography; group-action-based cryptography; lattice-based cryptography;Part II: Isogeny-Ba...

In this enthralling historical novel, Harold Knutt, a young British officer, arrives in Western Pennsylvania in 1758 near the end of the French and Indian War. Thrown into the chaos of battle, he proves himself a capable strategist. After leading a one-sided victory against extreme odds, he is given the honorary title of Red Fox by the men who follow him.He meets his match in Meghan O'Malley, a strong-willed colonist. She is one of dozens of camp followers helping support English t...

The little-known history of the "Garden Front"—Britain's wildly successful vegetable-growing campaign during WWII: "A fascinating story." — Northern EchoAfter food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self-sufficient.The result was an amazingly effective campaign—Dig fo...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately provide an invaluable and comprehensive record of what it means to be human.This volume takes a curated list of fifty of the most influential books of ...

Montessori ToddlersWhat can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation?How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants?This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive exploration of the first three years incorporates the furnishings and tools she created for the care a...

'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear'. Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes' techniques. In "How to think like Sherlock" you will learn how to increase your powers of observation, memory, deduction and reasoning using the tricks and techniques of the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. The book incorporates the latest techniques and theories across a range of topics:...