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From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson’s spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, ‘A Curious Guide to London’ takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining tour of the city you think you know, unearthing the capital’s secrets and commemorating its rich, colourful and unusual history.
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the world’s first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream first as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged an early partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later and against all odds, ‘Toy Story’ was released, changing animation forever. Since then, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as ‘Monsters, Inc.’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘The Incredibles’, ‘Up’, and ‘WALL-E’, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner 27 Academy Awards. Now, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques, honed over years, that have made Pixar so widely admired-and so profitable.
The kill list : a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world’s security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets. As the bodies begin to pile up, the message goes out: discover this man’s identity, locate him and take him out. Tasked with what seems like an impossible job is an ex-US marine known only as The Tracker.
From innocent child to charismatic world-famous scientist, Richard Dawkins paints a colourful, richly textured canvas of his early life. Honest self-reflection and witty anecdotes are interspersed with touching reminiscences of his family and friends, literature, poetry and songs. We are finally able to understand the private influences that shaped the public man who, more than anyone else in his generation, explained our own origins.
Patrick has been on the outside all his life. Thoughtful, but different, and infuriating even to his own mother, his life changes when he follows an obsession with death to study anatomy at university. When he uncovers a crime that everybody else was too close to see, he proves finally that he has been right all along: nothing is exactly as it seems, and that there have been many more lies closer to home.
Will the shape of my bump tell me the sex of my child? Can eating curry really trigger labour? Why do newborns smell so good? From the moment she discovers she’s pregnant, every woman becomes obsessed with the life that’s developing inside her. Linda Geddes was no different, except that as a journalist writing for ‘New Scientist’, she had access to the most up-to-date scientific research. What began as a personal quest to find the truth behind headlines and information that didn’t patronise or confuse became a blog and is now this book.
My name is Jack Reacher. No middle name, no address. I’ve got a rule. People mess with me at their own risk. This book contains advice from the maverick former Army cop. Topics covered include hand-to-hand combat, travelling light, cracking codes, handling weapons, conquering your deepest fears and understanding women.
This illustrated landmark book tells the absorbing story of Britain’s favourite radio programme in all its rich and intriguing detail through an exclusive selection of just 100 castaways.
Nebraska – and Jack Reacher, huge, hulking and with a freshly busted nose, is still trying to hitch a ride east to Virginia. He’s picked up by three strangers – two men and a woman. Immediately he knows they’re all lying about something.
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