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365 Sports Cars You Must Drive: Fast, Faster, Fastest by John Lamm; Steve Sutcliffe; Larry Edsall; James Mann; Kris Palmer; George F. Williams (By (photographer)); David Newhardt (By (photographer))
Category: Sports and Hobbies
365 Sports Cars You Must Drive puts you in the driver's seat of a century's worth of sports car legends (and a few rather less legendary), each presented with a fun and informative profile and fact-and-spec box. Its the ultimate gearhead's bucket list and poses the challenge: How many have you driven? W ...Show more
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 - Invicta--The Undefeated by Joe Bamford; John Williams; Peter Gallagher
Category: Military
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 covers the station's history during the period that the RAF was on the offensive against the Luftwaffe. Having been badly damaged during the Battle of Britain and the only airfield to have been put out of action, Manston rose from the ashes to become a base fo ...Show more
A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite by John Germov, Lauren Williams
Category: Health and Wellbeing
A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite explores the socio-cultural, political, economic and philosophical facts influencing food production, distribution and consumption. This interdisciplinary text encourages students to question, reflect and apply their understanding of health and nutr ...Show more
America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
Category: Music
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
Category: Biography
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
America's Mistress - The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt by John L. Williams
Category: Biography Memoir
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
Augustus by John Williams
Category: Humour Books
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award In "Augustus, " the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, William ...Show more
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can be Saved by Peter Andrews; John Williams (Foreword by); Gerry Harvey (Foreword by)
Category: Animals & Nature
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He ...Show more