This famous novel about a respectable doctor with a double life marks a milestone in modern horror fiction. The book includes a history of horror stories, and looks at the medical profession in the 19th century.

Imagine a world without computers, cars, telephones, or airplanes. Have you ever wondered how these things were invented? From steam trains to underground trains, and from parachutes to space shuttles, this exciting book is bursting with intriguing facts and figures about the inventions that have made the world what it is today.

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

This is the second book from Robbie Williams, written with acclaimed music writer Chris Heath. For the first time the full, unexpurgated story of his life - brutally frank, funny and honest. First came Ebury\'s massively successful, 2001 illustrated account of Robbie\'s touring world, \"Somebody Someday\". Now the time has come for the complete, intimate story of Robert P Williams. Spanning his childhood

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD! `Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing\' Gillian Flynn `One of those rare books that really is unputdownable\' Stephen King \'Twisted to the power of max\' Val McDermid `A dark, twisty confection\' Ruth Ware What did she see? It\'s been ten months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old

What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxiety Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word \'Epicurean\' with the enjoyment of fine food and wine and decadent self-indulgence. But, as philosopher John Sellars shows, these things are a world away

The Cambridge Preliminary English Test 5 practice tests provide candidates with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with the 2004 PET exam and to practise examination techniques. The Student\'s Book contains practice material for Paper 1 (Reading and Writing) and Paper 2 (Listening), along with attractive colour visual material for Paper 3 (Speaking), enabling students to prepare thoroughly

A powerful and inspiring book from the founders of IDEO, the award-winning design firm, on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the \'creative types\'. But two of the foremost experts in innovation, design and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is

Coastal dwellings around the globe that will inspire your life and dreams\"We would like to take you with this book on a journey to some of the most beautiful and purest places on the globe. Skies are cerulean blue. Follow us as we set sail for distant, dreamy shores.\" Diane Dorrans Saeks

A treasury of selected quotations from one of the world\'s best-loved and best-selling writers and the author of The Alchemist. / Paulo Coelho is seen by millions as an alchemist of words. The ideas and philosophies in his internationally renowned boo ks touch the aspirations of readers searching for their own path and for new ways of understanding the world. / This uplifting compilation of Paulo Coelho\'s

In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the hush-hush floor of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting

WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014 Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires

Temnye allei - eto istorii o ljubvi. O ljubvi, chto mozhet stat grustnym i gorestnym epizodom proshlogo. Ili - minutoj, perelomivshej, peremolovshej chelovecheskuju zhizn. Vozmozhno - prosto poetichnoj legendoj, kotoruju rasskazhet kak umeet starenkaja strannitsa. A vozmozhno - izyskannym zhestokim romansom vremen Serebrjanogo veka. I kazhdaja iz istorij - temnaja alleja v samom zaputannom iz labirintov

The variety within the hotel industry has been considerably increased over the past years; outstanding concepts have been developed beyond just more and more luxury. Yet, despite all variations, the intention of today’s top-hotels is always the same: they want to find a way to make the place truly special. This volume features more than 50 extraordinary hotels from around the world, all of them remarkable

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor\'s Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old

Imagine David Nicholls\'s One Day as retold by Woody Allen and you\'ll get a pretty good idea of what to expect with Gabriel Roth\'s The Unknowns. It\'s not easy to pursue the most alluring woman in North America when you\'re a misfiring circuit of over-analytical self-doubt and she has a way with a killer line and a perfectly raised eyebrow. Even, that is, when you\'ve survived your teen years as

The eagerly anticipated companion to David Levithan’s New York Times bestseller Every Day. In this enthralling companion to his New York Times bestseller Every Day, David Levithan (co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green) tells Rhiannon’s side of the story as she seeks to discover the truth about love and how it can change you. Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her