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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories by Lee Child
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Jack Reacher Short Stories Ser.
Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume.Read together, thes ...Show more
No Middle Name (The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories) by Lee Child
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Jack Reacher Short Stories Ser.
Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume.Read together, thes ...Show more
Noah's Ark and Other Bible Stories Old Testament by Enid Blyton
Category: Children's | Series: Bumper Short Story Collections
A beautiful gift edition of the best-known Old Testament stories retold with clarity and empathy by Enid Blyton, the world's best-loved storyteller. 'For the child in all of us, however old we are, this book is a real treasure' - from the introduction by Pam Rhodes. The stories previously appeared in ma ...Show more
Nothing: A very short introduction by Frank Close
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very lat ...Show more
Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction by Maxwell Irvine
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions
With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and t ...Show more
Nuclear Weapons: a Very Short Introduction by Joseph M. Siracusa
Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is dec ...Show more
Nutrition: A Very Short Introduction by David Bender
Category: Medical | Series: Very Short Introductions
Nutrition is a topic of wide interest and importance. In spite of growing understanding of the underlying biochemistry, and health campaigns such as 'five-a-day', increasing obesity and reported food allergies and eating disorders, as well as the widely advertised 'supposed' benefits of food supplements ...Show more
Old Testament Warriors by Simon Elliott
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
The age of the biblical warrior was one of both great technological development and innovation in warfare, and clashes between competing cultures in the ancient Middle East. The Sumerians were the first to introduce the use of bronze into warfare, and were centuries ahead of the Egyptians in the use of ...Show more
On The Job by Sandi Wallace
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Police-themed Short Story Collection
Police on the beat, working one-officer shops, and seasoned detectives pursue a cunning home intruder, a full-moon prankster, false friends, vengeful partners. Adrenaline-charged car chases, unsanctioned surveillance, intense interrogation. The impact of a child’s tragic death. The import of unearthing ...Show more
One-A-Day Christmas Stories by Enid Blyton
Category: Kindergarten | Series: Bumper Short Story Collections
Countdown to Christmas with 25 festive stories from the world's best-loved storyteller - perfect for reading before bedtime! Cosy up with this cheery collection filled with the joy and wonder of the holidays. From a magic sleigh bell that grants wishes to Santa getting stuck in a chimney, these jolly st ...Show more
Panic by Keith Tester
Category: Culture | Series: Shortcuts
Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop an or ...Show more
Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Western | Series: Short Circuits
In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political--and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.