Product Description: Recently widowed, Mike Destep loses his job and is on life's down escalator when fate deals him a winning lottery ticket. He sets out to mend his broken family, but becomes the target of unknown watchers and is recruited to help a shadowy government agency ...read more

Imparts the secret of growing alpine and rock garden plants, by describing the techniques that imitate the conditions on which these plants thrive in the wild. Also included is an A-Z listing of over 1000 plants, with information on cultivation, height, flowering and origins.

Product Description: Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail with a swashbuckling crew of adventure-lovers for a ton of pirate fun! You'll learn how to build a galleon and send secret messages using ordinary household items, solve word searches and mazes, and make pieces of eight disappear...read more

Product Description: Join Professor Penny, Sahara Sally, and other intrepid explorers for an action-packed trip around the world. In the course of your globetrotting, you'll make your own compass, follow a mountain maze, search for stolen jewels, and solve puzzles galore...read more

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Achieving value in construction is now emerging as the main challenge facing the construction team if they are to offer the best service for the client. No longer is the aim simply to keep costs under control. This book from the RICS Foundation analyses how to provide best value by the effective application of leading edge techniques and processes throughout the entire life cycle of buildings, from the business case which underpins their initiation to the achievement of a satisfactory project out-turn. This book is a successor to Quantity Surveying Techniques: New Directions, edited by Peter Brandon and published on behalf of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors by Blackwell. It will be of interest not only to surveyors and construction managers but also to final year undergraduates of construction degrees. '[This book] will make a major contribution to the advancement of the methods by which construction professionals provide a service to their clients' - Professor Peter Brandon

Product Description: This helpful guide explains the techniques a father can use to strengthen the bond between parent and child. The direct, prescriptive, skill-oriented approach that Dr. Levant brings to this subject, as well as the clarity and sympathy he employs, makes Between Father and Child an enormous help to the many men attempting to incorporate good parenting into their daily lives...read more

Product Description: With declining passenger revenues Burlington President Ralph Budd realized something unique was needed to lure passengers back to train travel. The result was the Zephyr. The Zephyr's appeal during the Great Depression was tremendous, its sleek lines and streamline design was the beginning of a styling revolution...read more

Product Description: This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts...read more

Product Description: The Chicago & North Western was well-known for its Chicago-Twin Cities 400 passenger train. Encouraged by the success of the Twin Cities 400, the North Western established an entire fleet of regional streamliners that brought people from Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Wisconsin's North Woods, Upper Michigan, and southern Minnesota into the big city of Chicago for a day of shopping or business...read more

Product Description: In 1948, Chicago was the gathering place of 22 railroads, seven belt and switching roads, eight industrial railroads and three electric lines. Track was everywhere as passenger trains and commuter trains crowded the approaches to the terminals near the Loop that is Chicago, undisputed railroad capital of the world...read more

Product Description: This book features the streamliners designed by Raymond Loewy for the Pennsylvania Railroad, Henry Dreyfuss for the New York Central, Otto Kuhler for the Milwaukee Road and the B&O, and the Electro Motive Division styling team.

Product Description: Vividly entertaining and entirely unselfconscious, these early letters of W.B. Yeats reveal the sensibility of a great literary figure. This first volume of Yeats's correspondence contains 350 letters covering the first thirty years of his life, a creative period that saw the publication of his first three books of verse, the first performance of his plays, the beginning of his relationship with Maud Gonne,,and his increasing involvement with the Irish nationalist movement...read more

Product Description: Seamus Heaney has described The Collected Letters as "one of the great publishing events of the decade." This volume covers a formative period (1896-1900) in Yeats's political career, and the beginning of his theatrical involvement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Like the previous volume of The Collected Letters this book presents Yeats's letters with his characteristic misspellings and odd punctuation, giving the full flavor of his idiosyncrasies as a correspondent. Fascinating and highly revealing of the poet, the letters show his political fervor and poetic sensibility, and convey his passion as friend, adversary, critic, and countryman...read more

Product Description: From a hotel room high above snowy Manhatten, John Kelly considers life, the universe and Lower Lough Erne. Part diary, part travel book, part memoir, 'Cool about the ankles' is a new sort of book from a new sort of voice- Irish but cosmopolitan, funny but reflective, lyrical but immediate, modern but profoundly influenced by the popular culture of the past...read more