\\\"Would you rather...?\\\" is the ultimate party game and ice breaker. By asking your friends, colleagues, or family members the intriguing, wacky, and thought provoking either-or scenarios presented within you can really get to know what makes them tick....

The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new buildings at every turn....

Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera - even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts....

Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du......

The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands....

If you\'re serious about using the Visual Studio® .NET toolkit, you\'ll want Mastering Visual Studio .NET close by. This book will take you beyond what you\'ll read in the standard documentation by offering hints and recommendations that the authors and the community at large have found to be useful after many years of experience....