Books from John Murray
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators
By Annie JacobsenWhen diplomacy fails and overt military action is not feasible, the President often calls on the Special Activities Division, the most secretive and lowest-profile branch of the CIA.
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Superfast: Lead at speed
By Sophie DevonshireUnerman, Sue, and Kathryn Jacob, The Glass Wall: Success Strategies for Women at Work – and Businesses That Mean Business (Profile Books, 2016) Webb, Caroline, How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform ...
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When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep: Fascinating Footnotes from History
By Giles MiltonThe Man with a Deadly Secret Barrie, Charles, Kill the Queen! The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria (Amberley Publishing, 2012). Berkshire Records Office, 'Edward Oxford, ...
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Fascinating Footnotes From History: Fascinating Footnotes from History
By Giles MiltonScotland Yard, 'Text of Scotland Yard's Report on July 9 Intrusion into Buckingham Palace', New York Times, 22 July 1982 The Man with a Deadly Secret Barrie, Charles, Kill the Queen! The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria ...
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Rural Life
By Chris Husbands, Tim LomasRural Life
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The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath
By Jane RobinsHaving few other options, he then took the risk of contacting Walter Davies, who hadan office at60 Uxbridge Road inShepherd's Bush. On 22January, Neil reported thatthe solicitor 'is, confidentially, ...
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Plants: From Roots to Riches
By Kathy WillisPlants: From Roots to Riches is a beautifully designed book, packed with 200 images in both colour and black and white from Kew's amazing archives, some never reproduced before.
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Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
By Lisa WoollettIt became George Walker's most notorious example. ... Later, the upstairs pews were removed and the hall leased by a temperance society for public lectures and dances, described by Walker as 'quadrilles, waltzes, country-dances, ...
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Danger Close: The True Story of Helmand from the Leader of 3 PARA
By Stuart TootalAs well as having to count the days until their return, those on R and R would feel guilty about being away from their comrades, especially iftheir platoon or company took lossesin their absence. Dan Jarviefelt it as theplatoonsergeant ...
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Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier
By Charles AllenEver, dear Joe, Yours very sincerely, J. Nicholson. ... Edwardes's letter to Joe Lumsden on the subject survives, and was presumably in a similarvein: 'We have all lost a friend, a master, anexample –asecond father.
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An English Christmas
By John Julius NorwichMaster Simon led the van, as 'Ancient Christmas', quaintly apparelled in a ruff, a short cloak, which had very much the aspect of of the old housekeeper's petticoats, and a hat that might have served for a village steeple, ...
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The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III
By Michael Jones, Philippa LangleyThe official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch.
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
By Michael McCarthy... the Test and the Itchen, both in Hampshire: on them Victorian anglers developed the technique of fishing the dry fly, which became almost a cult. A few more are celebrated in these writings: the Frome and the Piddle in Dorset, ...
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Good Ideas: How to Be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher
By Michael RosenPacked with enough practical tips, stories and games to inspire a legion of anxious parents and bored children, Good Ideas shows that the best kind of education really does start at home.
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Good Ideas How to Be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher
By Michael RosenPacked with enough practical tips, stories and games to inspire a legion of anxious parents and bored children, Good Ideas shows that the best kind of education really does start at home.
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The Countenance Divine
By Michael Hughes'Time is the thing, Johnson. If I am to stay in this fretful city I need to buy me time.' 'Perhaps you ought to up stakes, and travel. Bristol, or Dublin, or Philadelphia. You might find the Western soul has a greater taste for your ...
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Free Speech: All That Matters
By Alan HaworthWhat is free speech?; Why does it matter? These are pressing questions. In this book, Alan Haworth outlines and analyses the main arguments philosophers have advanced over the centuries, in an attempt to answer them clearly.
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From Armstrong to Nuffield: Studies in Twentieth-century Science Education in England and Wales
By Edgar William Jenkins129 Shelton , H. S. , op . cit . , 1939 , p . 118 . 130 E.g. ibid . , p . 35. “ The central idea of general science is that you are teaching science , not specialised subjects . ' Shelton was also critical of the publicity given to the ...
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Resource Book of Test Items in Chemistry
By Edgar William JenkinsResource Book of Test Items in Chemistry
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Paris 1919
By Margaret MacMillanThis book offers a prismatic view of the moment when much of the modern world was first sketched out.