Product Description: A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great...read more

This book revisits many of the best productions of those years. The resuliting book is vital and necccessary re-evaluation of the era, which will alter many a mind-set and provoke many more discoveries.

Shows how to operate the Macintosh personal computer, explains its features and accessories, and compares the Macintosh with the IBM PC

Product Description: 'A very deadly squib - likely to upset the equanimity of upholders of capital punishment far more than any ponderous tome of high explosiveA" argument or invective.' Observer A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman...read more

Passages taken from the newspapers, magazines, and literature of various Spanish countries introduce students to the vocabulary, grammar, idioms, and sounds of the language

A basic French text explaining the principles of grammar, discussing customs and culture, and providing selections from classical French literature