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Nick Lyons
Final issue! After cutting herself on the sword that beheaded the original Medusa, Gloria Merrick is transformed into Medusa. Medusa's sisters Stheno and Euryale (who are also hideous Gorgon creatures)…
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Nick Davies
With no role in sight and nothing to lose, actor Lou Galloway leaves Los Angeles and heads to Mexico to drown his sorrows in cheap mezcal. But, after a round…
Over a period of 18 months, the author researched for the Guardian a special series of stories investigating the condition of our state schools. They were published in three batches…
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Nick Davis
The nation is in ruins, and soon the world will be as well. Soon after a ferocious attack from the former U.S President, two siblings, Sam and Olive Harris, are…
Giving the historical, political and cultural background, the guide reveals how to read body language and be aware of potential pitfalls in communication, and at the same time provide the…
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‘This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham…’ In amongst the bright lights and bumper…
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Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision…
At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal correspondent of the News of the World was caught listening in on Buckingham Palace voice mails. He was quietly sent…
A four-color celebration of the New York Mets’ iconic World Series championship, with oral history-style text throughout and a new foreword by Jimmy Kimmel. In 2021, ESPN aired Once Upon…
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First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost.
Gripping, thought-provoking and revelatory, this is an insider’s look at one of the most tainted professions. ‘Meticulous, fair-minded and utterly gripping’ Telegraph ‘Powerful and timely…his analysis is fair, meticulously researched…
A gifted biologist’s careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of years.
You have to do it you might as well enjoy it No one likes a pushy, smarmy salesman no one wants to be that guy but most of us need…
Dr Nick Davis (University of Liverpool, UK)
Explores how writers including Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare chart Early Modern culture’s shift from the primacy of collective experience to that of individual private life.
Jessica Berens
Biography/Personal Memoir
Nick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their…
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with…
Nick Lloyd-Davies
Katie’s amazing glow-stone sends her to Sunset Beach in California, to meet a big bear fashion model called Claude. A bear with bad hair!
Katie is 10 and, one day, on a school trip, she found a stone in her lunch box. But this is not just any old stone we're talking about. It's…
Katie's second Glow-Stone adventure! A bad-mannered lizard has been dumped in the Arctic, and Katie is sent to find out why and what on earth to do with him! Who…
Kate Davis
Saint Nick loved and cared for the least fortunate and most vulnerable, just like Jesus! The Saint Nick Story provides one more way to share the truth with your child…
The definitive book on how the News of the World phone-hacking scandal reached the highest echelons of power in the government, security, and the media in the UK, from the…
Nick Jonah Davis
Stephen Davis
A classic rock biography about the defining face and voice of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, who at 68 is still one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known and…
Nick Davis (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University)
The Desiring-Image redefines queer cinema as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexuality and desire as fundamentally fluid for all people, exceeding familiar stories and themes in many LGBT movies.
Stephen Davis (Claremont McKenna College California)
A classic rock biography from the classic rock biographerDavis, author of Hammer of the Godsa serious, vibrant book about the defining face and voice of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks.
Nick Rowles-Davies (Managing Director, Managing Director, Burford Capital)
The first comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to third-party funding to help practitioners in preparation for seeking funding and in their decision making.
Between Worlds, the highly anticipated operatic debut from Tansy Davies to a libretto by Nick Drake, opened at London’s Barbican Theatre on April 11, 2015. A bold and highly individual…
Linda Davies
Money is one of the most important languages on the planet. In this book, Linda Davies helps people understand and speak it better. – Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Phil Davy
This user’s guide to over 200 hand tools highlights how to use tools effectively, understand them better, and how to properly care for them. With foreword by Nick Offerman, host…
Nick Adnett,Peter Davies
An economic analysis of schooling markets is developed, emphasizing both the strengths and weaknesses of orthodox analyses. This publication is designed to be accessible to all those concerned with education…
Nicola Davies
Find out about the largest mammal on the planet in this fun, informative, award-winning picture book, part of the Nature Storybooks series.
With conversational text and pen-and-ink illustrations, Davies and Maland examine the largest mammal on Earth, detailing the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of the blue whale.
Nick Morgan
What if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim--but it's largely true. Our brains…
