The Wife's Tale - A Personal History
The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman ...
After the Orphanage: Memory, Identity and Personal Hist...
After the Orphanage: Memory, Identity and Personal History i...
The History of the Legislation Concerning Real and Pers...
The History of the Legislation Concerning Real and Personal ...
Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History i...
Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law...
Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History i...
Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law...
The Story of Food - An Illustrated History of Everythin...
Includes a foreword by Giles Coren. Explore the rich storie...
The Pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign ...
The Pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relat...
The Death of the Artist as Hero: Essays in History and ...
The Death of the Artist as Hero: Essays in History and Cultu...
The Enduring Vision, Volume 2: A History of the America...
The Enduring Vision, Volume 2: A History of the American Peo...
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction ...
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in Am...
The Wife's Tale - A Personal History
How it Works - The Wife
The PERFECT GIFT for your long-suffering wife or prospective bride. Or, for any fool of a husband or seriously deluded groom-to-be who hasn’t yet understood what he’s signed up for. —————————— Tina is getting married. It is the best day of her life. Next year, she will claim that becoming a mother was the best day of her life, but only because she was on some very strong drugs. Neit...
How it Works - The Husband
This handy guide to the HUSBAND makes the PERFECT GIFT for any long-suffering wife or prospective bride. ———————- ’The wife likes to read romantic fiction. The books are a fantasy and an escape for her. The husband does not waste his time on silly stories. He likes to read books about things that really happened and tales of real men. Reading these will be invaluable if he ever has to...
The Wife Between Us
THE INSTANT NYT BESTSELLER “A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller” New York Times Book Review “Jaw dropping. Unforgettable. Shocking.” Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The best domestic suspense novel since Gone Girl.” In Touch Weekly “Buckle up, because you won’t be able to put this one down.” Glamour When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. It’s about a je...
The Handmaid's Tale
NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES Â’It isnÂ’t running away theyÂ’re afraid of. We wouldnÂ’t get far. ItÂ’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edgeÂ’ Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk dail...
Body of Truth - How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, “fat” has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, “I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat.” How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is “fatÂ...
History Year by Year
Join us on a journey through the ages, from the origins of our earliest African ancestors right up until the present day. History Year By Year will take you through history like never before; discover the events, cultures, inventions and ideas that have shaped the world in this innovative and visually impressive book that presents the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘what’ of history through our detaile...
Arminius - The Limits of Empire
‘This is a powerful retelling of one of the most dramatic events in ancient history’ – BBC History Magazine One man’s greatest victory.Rome’s greatest defeat. A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of thr...
Ignite the Fire - The Secrets to Building a Successful Personal Training Career
“A look at personal training that goes beyond the textbooks.” – Muscle & Fitness Now in a revised, expanded, and upgraded edition, Ignite the Fire is the highly practical approach to personal training already relied on by thousands of trainers Worldwide. Repeatedly called one of the “best books for personal trainers,” it provides a clear road map teaching you how to become a personal trainer...
The Mummy's Curse
In “Mummy’s Curse” join DK Adventure’s exclusive SLIP club (Secret Living In the Past) a group of young history buffs who belong to a top-secret club that allows them to travel throughout history to any time, any place through a phone app, on their next action-packed adventure as they go back to Ancient Egypt to uncover the truth about the mummy’s curse. Travel along the Nile and through the ...
The Iceman - Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer
Richard Kuklinski, aka “the Ice Man,” will go down as one of the most vicious killers in history. Responsible for well over 200 murders, he is the man who claims a direct link to the killing of Jimmy Hoffa and he is one of the reasons for John Gotti’s rise to power. the wife of one victim referred to him as “the devil.” Yet behind every monster, even the most cold-blooded ones, there lies ...
Personal History - Katharine Graham
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America’s most famous and admired women — a book that is, as its title suggests, both personal and history. It is the story of Graham’s parents: the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out “Washington Post”; the aggressive, formidable, self-absorbed mother, known...
Twenty-Six Seconds - A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Abraham Zapruder didnÂ’t know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November 22, 1963 that this single spontaneous decision would change his familyÂ’s life for generations to come. Originally intended as a home movie of President KennedyÂ’s motorcade, ZapruderÂ’s film of the JFK assassination is now shown in every American history class, included in Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit questions, a...
The General - The Classic WWI Tale of Leadership
The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of `the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings. C.S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a f...
The Map That Changed the World - A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured – in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber – it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one man’s obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the ...
The Breakfast Club for 40-Somethings - A Novel Approach to Unlearning Money and Reinventing Your Life
By the mid 2030Â’s Australia will see the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in its history. Good news if youÂ’re Gen X. In little over a decade (you) will inherit all the wealth. Research suggests this could amount to more than $3 trillion dollars. But, thereÂ’s a huge problem. Gen X is the least experienced generation in our history at managing the vast amount of wealth coming their...
The Great Grand Final Heist - A Mysterious Tale of Tigers, Rabbitohs and an Unlikely Coaching Hero
BalmainÂ’s shock defeat of Souths in the 1969 Grand Final has been called the biggest boilover in rugby league history. The true story of the TigersÂ’ upset win has remained untold for almost 50 years, so it has kept its sense of mystery. Until now Â… They were coached by Leo Nosworthy, a savvy operator whoÂ’d grown up around the Balmain docks. His team was full of character and characters, but l...
Feet in the Clouds - A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
Nearly 10 years after its first publication, Aurum are re-issuing this classic running book which has defined a genre. It includes an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane and an epilogue from Richard Askwith. The concept of fell-running is simple: it’s a sport that involves running over mountains – sometimes one, sometimes many. It’s also immensely demanding. While running uph...
A Whole New World - A Twisted Tale
What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This paperback edition of the first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of DisneyÂ’s Aladdin. Plus, it includes an excerpt of book two, Once Upon a Dream, a twist on DisneyÂ’s Sleeping Beauty! When Jafar steals the GenieÂ’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Ag...
The Scrivener's Tale
An action-packed standalone adventure moving from present-day Paris to medieval Morgravia, the world of Fiona McIntosh’s bestselling QUICKENING series. the story begins in Paris and moves swiftly into the otherworld of Morgravia. Gabe, a writer and bookseller living in Paris is asked by one of his customers, Rene – a psychiatrist – to use his writing skills to help mentor a young woman patient...
The Heart of Yoga - Developing Personal Practice
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of KrishnamacharyaÂ’s teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. KrishnamacharyaÂ’s son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now...
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
A hilarious retelling of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. You may think you know the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf – but only one person knows the real story. And that person is A. Wolf. His tale starts with a birthday cake for his dear old granny, a bad head cold and a bad reputation. The rest (as they say) is history. A hilariously inventive retelling of the popula...