Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain’s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets…Young women are warned not to go out alone…Enter the Decoys.For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all th...

*Winner of Best New True Crime Author, CrimeCon UK True Crime Awards 2023**Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction, Crime Writers’ Association Awards 2023*The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice.BATH, 1984Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby s...

“[E]ver until the end — he retired in 1959 — a ‘diplomat among warriors’... this was Bob Murphy’s very special role. I doubt if any other diplomat has ever had an equivalent one. A normal Ambassador is assigned to prevent war or make peace. Much of his diplomacy was the diplomacy of war itself. He was a devoted, first-class public servant, a worthy companion to the great soldiers he accompanied. His memoirs, which include a great deal of fascinating, new historical material, should be wide...

Fourteen-year-old Joey spends his childhood visiting a beautiful back-country pond in Virginia. His humorous and heart-warming adventures in and around the pond, with the faithful dog Charley at his side, broaden his understanding of his place in the world and awaken in him a protective instinct towards all nature. In an era of climate-change debate and animal rights movements, The Pond delivers an important message to readers of all ages, at the same time never failing to delight.

Will Treadmill the Elf be able to overcome Termites, and stop him from destroying the Toy Factory?Will Treadmill save Santa?Will Treadmill repair the bridge of ice?Will there be Christmas this year?

Cutting through the clutter of management and leadership books, Manager vs. Leader: Untying the Gordian Knot works to differentiate the termsmanager and leader. With these terms often used synonymously, misunderstandingleads to confusion and failed expectations at all levels of an organization.Providing both academic and practical organizational examples, thisbook challenges readers with ranging experience and knowledge to exploremanagement and leadership in a new and comprehensiv...

A reader-friendly, how-to guide on reconstructive plastic surgery from international expertsReconstructive Plastic Surgery: An Atlas of Essential Procedures edited by esteemed authors, educators, and surgeons Robert X. Murphy Jr. and Charles K. Herman is a comprehensive resource detailing head-to-toe surgical procedures for a broad range of conditions. The senior editors have more than 50 years of collective surgical experience and expertise training hundr...

This eBook was written to inform dental students, recent dental graduates, and practicing dentists about the complex processes needed to properly build and develop a new dental office.This eBook provides useful recommendations from dental experts who have either been part of dental office construction or have owned a successful dental practice. Using the proven recommendations discussed in this book, dentists will be better able to create, build and develop their own exceptional de...

This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.

The new edition of The British Cinema Book has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to the major periods, genres, studios, film-makers and debates in British cinema from the 1890s to the present. The book has five sections, addressing debates and controversies; industry, genre and representation; British cinema 1895-1939; British cinema from World War II to the 1970s, and contemporary British cinema.Within these sections, leading scholars and ...

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.

British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late 50s and early 60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning...