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: The first detailed analysis of the internal working and the external relationships of the boards of Britain's leading companies. Responding to calls for greater scrutiny of Boards of Directors, this book presents an in-depth examination of directors of UK organizations, drawing on the accounts of directors themselves as to their roles, influence, and the potential and limits to their power, finding boards to be important mechanisms in maintaining the strategic framework of the organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A group of friends have spent 11 years overc oming their suspicions regarding a dreadful event that reduc ed their number to 7. Unfortunately new horrors are occurrin g and one by one the remainder are inexplicably dying. '

Product Description: Financial services businesses are leading the way towards the global economy, yet they are in a state of turbulence. Where financial services are today, other industries such as electronics, computers, telecommunications, and air transport will be in the near future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Wesen und Konzepte Strategischer Unternehmungsplanung und Unternehmungsführung. Darauf aufbauend werden im Rahmen eines integrierten und theoretisch fundierten Führungskonzeptes ausgewählte Themengebiete der Strategischen Unternehmungsführung, insbesondere der Unternehmungsplanung, vertiefend behandelt...read more

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Product Description: Supergrowth Companies is based on extensive research following the progress of over 200 businesses, including Anita Roddick and The Body Shop and Alan Sugar and Amstrad. It features interviews with company executives and a collection of over fifty case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Believing the people of Valley Green to be cruel and deceptive, John Callow seeks his revenge in an ancient curse that enables him to cause the painful deaths of everyone who has slighted him. Original.

Product Description: In most mature businesses, new technologies and new marketing approaches can only achieve a temporary competitive edge because they are quickly copied by rivals. A company's real competitive advantage lies in building a flexible organization which is able to respond quickly to the changing business environment...read more

Unbeknownst to Guy Holman, he had been the innocent pawn in an age-old battle between the forces of good and evil, and now he has the power to change the destiny of the world. By the author of Mother's Boys.

When his estranged wife returns after three years and wants to renew a relationship with their sons, Los Angeles architect Robert Madigan and his new love, Callie Harland, must deal with conflicting feelings. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Although they appear to be the same in almost every way, twins Madeleine and Tess are separated by the dark spirit that inhabits Madeleine, causing her to torment her sister and her family. Original.

Commissioned to paint a portrait at the Woolvercombe House, painter Tom Rigsby is drawn into the secluded mansion's maze of horror and mystery. Original.

A malevolent force haunts a peaceful cottage deep in the English countryside and preys on the occupants, either killing them outright or stigmatizing them for life

Alan and Kate Marlowe are a typical, loving, middle-class couple, with four young children. But they wish they had just one more, a beautiful baby daughter. So when a strange young woman abandons her infant at their house, they view it as a blessing-a godsend-and adopt little Bonnie as their own. But it is not long after Bonnie's arrival before terrible things begin to happen to the Marlowe family, beginning with the death of their son Matthew. As the tragedies mount, Alan starts to suspect Bonnie and fears he may be losing his grip on his sanity. After all, surely such a small, lovely, innocent child could not possibly be responsible for such horrors ... ? The classic first novel by Bernard Taylor, The Godsend (1976) earned widespread critical acclaim on its initial publication and was the basis for a 1980 film. This edition, the first in over twenty years, features a new introduction by Mary Danby. Taylor's Sweetheart, Sweetheart and The Moorstone Sickness are also available from Valancourt. "If you liked The Exorcist, The Other, and Rosemary's Baby, The Godsend is for you!" - Hartford Courant "The Godsend is a splendidly readable and creepy story." - Sunday Express "A shocker . . . I enjoyed every horrid word of it." - Daily Telegraph

Shenna Preston, a young movie star, gives up her Hollywood career to study art in London, but discovers she is pursued by a dangerously obsessed fan

Product Description: Recreates the background to seven classic cases of unsolved murder from the last hundred years. In many instances the authors have unearthed previously unknown facts that now indicate the most likely solution.

Product Description: The aim of The Best of Long Range Planning is to bring together the best articles on a particular topic from the Long Range Planning Journal, so that readers wishing to study a specific aspect of planning can find an authoritative and comprehensive view of the subject, conveniently published in one volume...read more

Hal and Rowan Graham decide to move to the village of Moorstone in search of quiet country life and accidentally discover an evil presence

Product Description: An excellent collection of Italian, French, and English songs with songs by Scarlatti, Handel, Rousseau, Lully, and more.

Product Description: 17 celebrated wedding songs, including: Ave Maria * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) * Devotion * I Love You Truly * One Hand, One Heart * Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy) * Set Me As a Seal * Wedding Prayer * and more.