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Logos and No Gos ought to be mandatory reference material for all managers of branded products and services. It is a concise, easy read, jammed with crucial information on how to survive and thrive in the I.P. Jungle. It shows how to add brand value and how to guard that value with your life. When Kangol moved out of manufacturing and distribution into brand licensing it took us a while to realise that brand value lies as much in the quality a...

Astounding new information about the role of anthropologists in Hitler's efforts to create a "master race

The year 2006 marked the two hundredth anniversary of John Stuart Mill's birth. Though his philosophical reputation has varied greatly, it is now clear that Mill ranks among the most influential modern political thinkers. Despite his enduring influence, the breadth and complexity of Mill's political thought is often underappreciated. While his writings remain a touchstone for debates over liberty and liberalism, many other important dimensions...

Structural Analysis with Finite Elements, 2nd Edition provides a solid introduction to the foundation and the application of the finite element method in structural analysis. It offers new theoretical insight and practical advice on why finite element results are 'wrong, ' why support reactions are relatively accurate, why stresses at midpoints are more reliable, why averaging the stresses sometimes may not help or why the equilibrium conditio...

An introduction to MATLAB for engineering students, complete with practice problems Written as a complement to Engineering Mechanics Dynamics, this book provides students with an introduction to MATLAB as well as example problems that correspond to the aforementioned text. The book covers numerical calculations, defining functions, graphics, symbolic calculations, differentiation and integration, and solving equations with MATLAB and then pres...

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A remarkable and popular history of the English Civil War, which has already sold over 2, 000 copies in hardback. Diane Purkiss brings to life the people who fought and died in the war and changed the history of the world forever. With a fresh approach to the subject, she concentrates on the histories of the people who conceived the ideas which led to the conflict as much as the ideas themselves.

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Subtitled, "The True Story Of A Family Divided In War-Torn Zimbabwe". A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.

Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life.

A sturdy board book with fantastic flaps. Help find Ted so a little girl can go to bed. Ages: 0-5yrs.

You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. So begins our hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. This is a classic 80s novel.

Collects the first three volumes and provides the readers an introduction to the cast and crew of the Eisner-nominated comic series. This work shows the characters and story lines evolve and get more humorous and complicated, including alien abductions, vegan Amazons, Elvis impersonators, Jane Bond and feisty ex-girlfriends.

Another brilliant book in the popular "How To Read" series, concentrating on Aquinas, the 13th century thinker and theologist.

Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture she is not permitted to sit on. She washes glasses from which she is not allowed to drink. Yet despite being separated from each other by blood and class, she and Sera find themselves bound by ge...

A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry and Ben Cooper, in which a small community is ripped apart by arson and murder. An assassination in the night. An open window and three bullets from the darkness, the victim a harmless middle-aged woman. But can she really be quite as innocent as she seems? The death of Rose Shepherd swarms with questions - unlike the deaths of a woman and her two children in a house fire. A tragedy, yes, but a...

The overarching theme of this volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The book contains cutting-edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Languages investigated in the text include Basque, Georgian, and Hi...

The seventh in the hugely poplar "Georgia Nicholson" series. Georgia is on the 'rack of luuurve' once more, will Masino the Italian Stallion agree to be her one and only boyfriend? And has Robbie the Sex God gone for good? With over half a million books sold in the UK, Louise Rennison is the queen of teen. The Georgia Nicholson website has had over 60, 000 visitors since February! Ages: 11-14yrs.

She inspired you, you loved her and sang of her, her task was done' Franz Liszt to Hector Berlioz, 1854

February, AD 668, and Cashel is full of distinguished visitors. The reason? Fidelma of Cashel and Eadulf of Seaxmund's Ham are to be married. But on the eve of the ceremony, the pious Abbot Ultßn, who has travelled from the far north to attend, is found murdered in his chamber. Worst still - one of the most distinguished guests, the King of Connacht, has been seen fleeing from the scene and is charged with the murder. He demands his right to a...