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Jerusalem(Paperback)The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. Jerusalem lies at the centre of the world, the capital of three faiths, the prize of many conquerors, the jewel of many empires and the eye of the storm of today's battle of civilisations. But the city lacks a biography.....
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Bronze Summer(Paperback)An epic wall has been built to keep the sea out. And the history of the world has been changed. A superb alternate history from an SF master. Centuries have passed. The wall that Ana's people built has long outlasted her and history has been changed. The British Isles are still one with the European mainland and Doggerland has become....
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The Dead Zone(Paperback)The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.
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The Clockwork Rocket(Paperback)As the threat of imminent annihilation hangs over the world, so Yalda sets off on a historic rescue mission - one that will take millenia... In Yalda's universe, light has mass, no universal speed and its creation generates energy; on Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time is different: an astronaut might....
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Hit List(Paperback)A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect 'monsters' are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, US Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer. But some monsters are very real.
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Dead Reckoning(Paperback)There's a reckoning on the way...and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but before she can investigate something else - something even more....
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The Glitter and the Gold(Paperback)For fans of Downton Abbey, this is the riveting real-life story of the Vanderbilt heiress who married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895. A fascinating insight into upstairs-downstairs life and the highest circles of Edwardian aristocracy.
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Battlefield 3: The Russian(Paperback)As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before. In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where they will experience heart-pounding missions across diverse locations including Paris, Tehran and New York ...
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Steve Jobs(Hardback)FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense....
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Castlepoint(Paperback)Say Castlepoint to any New Zealander of a certain age, and they'll know where you mean. It's real Country Calendar country up here - what farmers call summer dry, and typical East Coast Wairarapa. Windswept cliff-top paddocks and rugged hills grow the best carpet wool in the world, and tough men and women have have lived on and worked the....
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New Zealand on the Move(Paperback)As this country developed from 1840 on, transport was the key to opening up areas for farming, forestry and manufacturing. The trains, ships, cars, planes, motorbikes and trucks that we used on to get places and make us more efficient were so relied upon that they have become part of our DNA.
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Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand 4th Edition(Hardback)For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the bible for New Zealand beekeepers. The only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand, it provides both amateur and professional beekeepers with details on honey bee management throughout the year, advice on handling hive products and information about many other beekeeping subjects.
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Lisey's Story(Paperback)Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a celebrated, award-winning, novelist. And a complex man. Lisey knew there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. Boo'ya Moon is what Scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could....
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Big Ideas: 100 Wonders of New Zealand Engineering(Paperback)Roads, bridges, dams, railway viaducts, tunnels . . . New Zealand is full of amazing feats of engineering. Our number-eight wire mentality has brought about some incredible engineering solutions to create structures and systems to wonder at, from the Manapouri underground power station to Burt Munro's famous Indian motorcycle. Who designed these amazing things? How were they built? ....
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The Beekeeper's Lament(Paperback)The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America. The honeybee is a miracle. It is the cupid of the natural world. It pollinates crops, making plants bear fruit, and, in turn, helping farmers make money. But in this age of vast industrial agribusiness, never before has so much been asked....
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![]() | Environmental Effects on Engineered Materials(Electronic book text)A comprehensive overview of corrosion and environmental effects on metals, intermetallics, glossy metals, ceramics and composites of metals, and ceramics and polymer materials. It offers numerous options for applications involving corrosion environments and guidance in materials selection and substitution. The contributors explore a wide range of environments, including aqueous and high-temperature surroundings.
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![]() | Bivalve Molluscs(Electronic book text)Bivalve Molluscs is an extremely comprehensive book covering all major aspects of this important class of invertebrates. As well as being an important class biologically and ecologically, many of the bivalves are fished and cultured commercially (e. g. mussels, oysters, scallops and clams) in a multi-billion dollar worldwide industry. Elizabeth Gosling who has a huge wealth of research, teaching and....
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![]() | Multiphase Flow Dynamics 2(Electronic book text)Multi-phase flows are part of our natural environment such as tornadoes, typhoons, air and water pollution or volcano activities as well as of industrial technology such as power plants, combustion engines, propulsion systems, or chemical and biological industry. The industrial use of multi-phase systems requires analytical and numerical strategies for predicting their behavior. In its second extended edition this book....
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![]() | Construction Collaboration Technologies(Electronic book text)Since the late 1990s, web-based collaboration technologies ('project extranets') have become increasingly widely used within the UK construction industry and are now routinely deployed on the design and construction of thousands of projects. The first book dedicated to the topic, this comprehensive guide will help current and future construction professionals understand, implement and use such systems more effectively. Cutting through....
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![]() | Services for Umts(Electronic book text)UMTS is not about Technology, it is about Services... The UMTS or 3G environment is the ultimate convergence of fixed and mobile, voice and data, content and delivery. The result will be the largest and most complex communications system that man has designed. If you want a challenge then this is the industry to be in. Services for....
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