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Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. …
Best Days of Our Lives
Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. …
Comanche Moon
The Reverend Jonas Faulkner, pastor of the First Claremont Presbyterian Church in Texas, is a man with a secret: in his younger days he was a notorious gunman, involved in a …
Aubrey's Brief Lives: Thomas Hobbes: With Hobbes's Latin Prose Autobiography, translated by William Duggan
The Malmesbury philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously said that life was 'nasty, brutish and short'; but, as Simon Webb's introduction makes clear, the author of 'Leviathan' was not …
The Life and Times of Jeremiah Dixon: Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line
An English Quaker from County Durham, in 1763 Jeremiah Dixon became the joint architect of one of the most important boundaries in history: the Mason-Dixon line between …
Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes
High in the Pyrenees, a full day's hike from any trappings of civilisation, is no place for a human to be - unless you are searching for the time of your life.This is the roof of a …
First World War Trials & Executions
Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, …
The Battle of Neville's Cross: The Whole Story
In October 1346 the Scottish king David II invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand men at his back. The outcome of the battle he was soon forced to fight at Neville's …
A 1970s Teenager
What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a record …
British Concentration Camps
For many of us, the very expression ‘Concentration Camp’ is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a …
The Origins of Wizards, Witches and Fairies
This book tells the fascinating story of the origin of our ideas about wizards, witches and fairies. We all have a clear mental image of the pointed hats worn by such individuals, …
The Orphaned Tiger
Anna finds a tiny wooden tiger ornament at her grandmother's house and just knows it's special. That night, she is magically transported to a village in Russia, where a tiger cub …