Product Description: "If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat." ―Stephen KingWhitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known murder and beneath the bed on which he's butchering his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy...read more

Useful for wood enthusiasts and to both workshops and libraries, this book offers a detailed study of the basic properties and characteristics of some of the world's most widely-used woods. It is illustrated with over 300 colour photographs showing tangential, radial and magnified cross-sections of each wood.

Product Description: This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

Product Description: This text guides the woodworker through the myriad of small tools on the market, differentiating their various merits and uses. The book grades each tool for desirability, offers tips on their safe use and provides advice on their care and maintenance.

Product Description: This is a practical, easy-to-follow guide to the many skills needed for working with small, or narrow, bandsaws. Aimed at the serious woodworker it looks at the types of machine available, different blades, care and maintenance, and a range of techniques from a basic level to more complex skills...read more

Product Description: This book examines a wide range of techniques, technologies and systems used in the support of data communications. In particular it addresses a variety of data transmission methods used to transfer data between physically distant locations.

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Product Description: Shangri-la. An arcadia hidden in a remote, secluded valley. A vast, wind-swept plain cradled among the far away peaks of the Orient. Tibet. Beginning almost as a mere rumor in the mid-eighteenth century, Tibet evolved over the next century of industrialization into one of the last great sacred places of Victorian romanticism, taking on much of the mystery, power, and ambiguity of more traditionally experienced sacred spaces...read more