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With previously unpublished illustrations documenting this important East Midlands freight railway line.

Explore a fascinating and evocative collection of postcards depicting the Scottish city of Sterling.

Utilising a selection of rare and previously unpublished images, maritime historian Ian Collard delves into the story of this iconic company and its ships.

Rare and previously unpublished images of shunters on Britain's railways - covering classes 01 to 14.

Das »Hagakure« ist einer der einflussreichsten japanischen Texte überhaupt. Vor über 300 Jahren diktierte Tsunetomo Yamamoto seinen Schülern diese Lektionen, um den Ehrenkodex und die Kultur der Samurai hochzuhalten. Auf seiner Überlieferung des »Bushido« beruht der Großteil unseres Verständnisses dieser alten Kriegerkultur. Diese Ausgabe enthält die ersten beiden Bücher vollständig und ausgewählte Auszüge aus dem dritten Buch. Zahlreiche Erlä...

Tackle technology overuse and rediscover balanced living If you're struggling to live up to your full potential "IRL, " you might be suffering from Internet addiction--and you're not alone. Today's screen technology taps right into our brain's reward circuitry, keeping us (and our loved ones) hooked. The good news: we can understand and heal this common mental health issue. This book gives you a primer on addiction, including the neurobiology...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman for Nowhere, " who has spent his life cloistered in the firm Barbox Brothers, makes use of his new-foun...

A prolific sub-contractor building airframes during the First World War, Boulton & Paul entered the field of design and manufacture in 1917 with the formation of an Aeronautical and Research Division under John Dudley North.

The present is, I believe, the first complete translation of the great Arabic compendium of romantic fiction that has been attempted in any European language comprising about four times as much matter as that of Galland and three times as much as that of any other translator known to myself, and a short statement of the sources from which it is derived may therefore be acceptable to my readers. Three printed editions, more or less complete, ex...

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Das japanische Wort Chowa bedeutet »die Suche nach Balance«. Dieses Konzept hilft uns, herauszufinden, was uns wirklich wichtig ist, um zu wahrer Harmonie zu gelangen - in allen Lebensbereichen. Ob im Privatleben, der Familie oder bei der Arbeit, Chowa vermittelt praktische Schritte, um zu wahrer Ausgeglichenheit zu finden und das Gleichgewicht zwischen unseren Wünschen und den Ansprüchen an uns zu wahren. So gestärkt können wir allen Stürmen ...

Wer selber kocht, isst gesünder und nimmt schneller ab, denn industrielles Essen und Fertigprodukte sind meist die schlimmsten Dickmacher. Doch oft fehlen Zeit und Ideen für die tägliche Menüplanung. Die Lösung heißt »Meal Prep«: An einem Tag für die ganze Woche vorkochen und dann täglich ausgewogen, lecker und abwechslungsreich essen. Die Food- und Ernährungsexpertinnen Pascale Weeks und Aurélie Guerri zeigen, wie man mit der richtigen Planun...

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), first published in 1751 and revised and published again in 1758. It tells the story of an egotistical man who experiences luck and misfortunes in the height of 18th-century European society. The novel begins with the character of Peregrine as a young country gentleman rejected by his cruel mother, ignored by his indifferent father, and ...

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721- 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists including Charles Dickens. His novels were amended liberally by printers, a definitive edition of each of his works was edited by Dr O. M. Br...

Travels Through France and Italy is travel literature by Tobias Smollett published in 1766. After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled across France to Nice. In the autumn of the next year, he visited Genoa, Rome, Florence and other towns of Italy. After staying in Nice for the winter he returned to London by June 1765. Travel...

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London in June 1771 (just three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. It is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six characters. Much of the comedy arises from differences in the descriptions of the same events and places seen by the participants. Attribution...

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, a novel by Tobias Smollett, was published in 1760 in the monthly paper The British Magazine. The novel, Smollett's shortest, differs stylistically from his previous works. Sir Launcelot is virtuous and strange, and he is surrounded by a Smollettian menagerie whose various jargons are part of this novel's linguistic virtuosity and satire. He is an eighteenth-century gentleman who rides about the...