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Thomas Leslie
A detailed tour, inside and out, of Chicago's distinctive towers from an earlier age
For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and…
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Features the experiences of African American artists in Nordic Europe
During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, performing, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom…
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A novel that tells the story of a grown man who runs away from home, and the adventures that befall him in his quest for a new lease of life.
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Leslie Thomas journals the difficult life journey of Helen, from a small child to adulthood. Helen’s compelling story can help you realize why it is important to stay positive in…
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This volume examines four major buildings and several smaller projects.
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At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit amid the retirement bungalows of the south coast…
Summer 1940 - Dunkirk has been evacuated. Dover is inundated with young soldiers, who wearily wander its streets, wondering what the future holds in store for them. This book chronicles…
Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant, defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong. Peace-time diversions include: sensual…
As an orphan, the author picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street…
In a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west…
A tale of a Welsh sailor with a girl in every port, but only one true love at home.
Presents a personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great…
A saga of life on a modern executive housing estate, seething with the fears, snobberies, frustrations and lusts of well-heeled young couples trundling uneasily towards middle age.
The worst has happened. On the eve of their return to Blighty, Brigg and his fellow National Servicemen find themselves sentenced to another six months in Panglin Barracks…
Britain is in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day and the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe. RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for…
When his latest case leads him to the unsolved murder of 17-year-old Celia Norris, this is Davies’s chance to prove his mettle.
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The village of Bedmansworth, close to Heathrow, has been there for six centuries. This is a tale of people who inhabit interconnecting worlds: the bustling, stress-filled, ultra-modern world of the…
Frank Inigo Savage simply wants to be alone and the top flat of Kensington Heights seems just the place. Until the other bizarre and eccentric inhabitants of the building start…
From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in…
Detective Constable Davies pursues a gang of petty cheque-thieves, and is injured in a case of mistaken identity. While recuperating, he is hired to investigate a murder 15 years before…
Idle, homesick, afraid, bored, oversexed and unsatisfied. A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while and where he could - in the Liberty Club, in Juicy Lucy’s…
In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality. And on the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of…
New Year’s Eve 1943 - the tiny village of Slapton is told that it has to be evacuated. American troops are occupying the wide district of South Devon. The Americans…
Dangerous Davies earned his nickname the same way that fat men nicknamed Tiny earn theirs. He is known as the last detective not because there are no others like him…
Leslie Thomas QC
‘If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we are not a society that values…
An unforgettable account of the life of an idealistic and outspoken lawyer and a powerful portrait of the lives of those he has fought for.
Lesli Inge-Thomas
Zoey's life had been a downward spiral until she had a random encounter with Joe, the police detective who turned her life around. She thought life had settled into a…
William Thomas Vincent
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Thomas Haynes Bayly
In this book we combine the fields of supervised machine learning and computer security. Our goal is to teach a computer to be able to recognise malicious or hostile network…
Proceedings of the 2017 BTES meeting in Des Moines, Iowa. Contains papers submitted for presentation on topics relating to architectural technology applications and pedagogy.
Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Per Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded…
From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skyscraper…
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Leslie Williams
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have…
Kate Leslie V1 (1838) is a novel written by Thomas Haynes Bayly. The story is set in the early 19th century and follows the life of the titular character, Kate…
Leslie Greene Bowman,Charlotte Moss
This visually stunning volume explores Monticello, both house and plantation, with texts that present a current assessment of Jefferson’s cultural contributions to his noteworthy home and the fledgling country.
The Evesham History is one of the last important 13th-century texts to be translated. It is written as a history of the lawsuit between the monastery at Evesham and the…
Hermann Kurzke
Provides fresh insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Thomas Mann’s life and into his writing - the only realm in which he ever felt free. This book shows…
Thomas Leslie Papillon
Terence Claims - P. Terentii Afri Comoediae is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as…
Thomas Leslie Donnell
When I got out of Military Police School, I had orders to go to Korea and Vietnam. Just before boarding the ship for Korea they changed my orders and sent…
Tonya Leslie
Look on a nickel and youll find the face of Thomas Jefferson! This book introduces young readers to Thomas Jefferson, a patriot and president who deeply loved his country.
National Geographic,Leslie Greene Bowman
The first and only official Monticello guidebook presents this remarkable and fascinating historic home as a perfect reflection of the man who created it.
