Chief Engineer - The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Wagner Erica)(Paperback / softback)

Chief Engineer - The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Wagner Erica)(Paperback / softback)

Bridge (Banks Iain)(Paperback / softback)

The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains

Leith-Built Ships (Neish R. O.)(Paperback)

Leith-Built Ships is a testimony to the skill of the men who built the ships and to the many men and women who may have sailed or served on them. This history is brought together in vol. I of a three-volume series about the almost-forgotten part that Leith played in our great maritime heritage and

Bridge Over the Drina (Andric Ivo)(Paperback / softback)

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict. Visegrad has long been a bone of contention between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but the bridge

John Dixon - The Man Who Could Have Built the Forth Bridge (Pearce Ian)(Pevná vazba)

A colour review of John Dixon's contribution to railway, mining and maritime

The Great Bridge (McCullough David)(Paperback)

The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is the

Wagner and Philosophy (Magee Bryan)(Paperback / softback)

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. This title places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and offers a comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to

Bridge On The River Kwai (Boulle Pierre)(Paperback / softback)

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his

Traveller's Life (Newby Eric)(Paperback / softback)

A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu

Voyage Out (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. Published in 1915, The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf's first

Brunel: The Man Who Built the World (Brindle Steven)(Paperback)

A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost

Morning Star (Giacometti Eric)(Paperback)

After the dramatic events in London, Largo is on the hunt for the man who ordered the bombing that nearly killed him. But his enemy, whoever he is, has a lot of people working for him - and is always three moves ahead. And as the body count rises, Largo must also guide the Group W through the

Illustrated Eric (Pratchett Terry)(Paperback / softback)

ERIC is Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend starring many of the Discworld's most popular

Railway Man (Lomax Eric)(Paperback / softback)

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife Patti and the Medical

How to Love Wine (Asimov Eric)(Paperback)

Eric Asimov, the acclaimed chief wine critic for the New York Times, has written a beautiful and thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto, How to Love Wine.With charm, wit, and intelligence, Asimov tells how he went from writing beer reviews for his high school newspaper on Long Island to

Man Who Ate Everything (Steingarten Jeffrey)(Paperback / softback)

THE MAN WHO ATE EVERYTHING was the winner of The Guild of Food Writers Book of the Year and was a bestseller in the UK and

My Name is Asher Lev (Potok Chaim)(Paperback / softback)

Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion'. Into it, he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his

Emergency Birth in the Community (Association of Ambulance Chief Executives)(Paperback / softback)

Emergency Birth in the Community is the essential resource for all healthcare professionals who come into contact with emergency deliveries in the community setting, including midwives and GPs. The book has been specifically adapted from the official JRCALC Guidelines, which covers the established

Man Who Invented History - Travels with Herodotus (Marozzi Justin)(Paperback / softback)

A sensational blend of travel and history in the spirit of the man who invented

My Name is Asher Lev (Potok Chaim)(Paperback / softback)

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion'. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here he plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and

Best Man To Die - (A Wexford Case) (Rendell Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

The fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Nothing is ever quite what it seems... A man and his daughter lie dead after a car

Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby Hubert Jr.)(Paperback / softback)

A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; and Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual

Homo Faber (Frisch Max)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a

View From The Summit (Hillary Sir Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one