Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you mystified by how musicians just \"know\" what notes to play next when they\"re improvising? Or why certain notes sound great together and others clash? Discover the answers in this ear-opening tour of how music works....

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside \"the bunker\" of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli\"s influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair\"s Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries....

Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. In Jonathan Powell\"s masterly account we learn just how close the talks leading to the Good Friday agreement came to collapse and how the parties finally reached a deal....

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Wolf captures the story of the U.S. Fifth Naval District's defeat of German U-boats in the struggle for Hampton Roads, Virginia during World War II. The authors include personal interviews with American and German veterans, including German U-boat captains who led the initial attacks in 1942-1943--interviews never before published.....

Книга "Statistical Illustrations of the Territorial Extent and Population, Commerce, Taxation, Consumption, Insolvency, Pauperism, and Crime, of the British Empire. Demonstrating the Tendency, as Well of the Foreign Commerce of Great Britain, Under Both Existin"....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday party as an opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom....

By the end of the nineteenth century, Ireland, as the result of mass emigration, particularly to the United States, had come to mean more than just the island itself....

Mowgli the man cub is growing up in the jungle. What adventures does he have with Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther? Read it yourself is a series of character stories and traditional tales, written in a simple way for children who are learning to read....

A Tinga Tinga tale inspired by traditional stories from Africa. Lion is king of Tinga Tinga but he can\"t roar! Can his friend Flea help Lion to find his roar and behave more like a king? Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird\"s......

Covering different historical eras, this informative series details all the topics one would expect to find in a history series, such as family life, food, religion, entertainment and warfare. However, it focuses on the most gruesome parts of these topics....

Truth is a lot stranger than fiction! Weird True Facts includes the most eye-popping animals, vehicles and objects, the weirdest stories, the most astonishing facts and the most unbelievable situations EVER....

What is it that keeps professionals in the AEC industry up at night if it is not their ability to design and build good buildings? It?s their never–ending search for a competitive advantage – their ability, on a daily basis, to effectively compete for new work....