For more than 400 years, the big-gun warship stood as the supreme naval war machine. It was not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation’s power, wealth and pride.The World’s Greatest Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed in the last 500 years. Beginning with English king Henry VIII’s flagship, Henry Grace à Dieu, the book covers all the main periods of battleship development, including the great sail ships, suc...

When a young Ayrshire band unexpectedly hits the big time with the smash hit record of 1984, everything looks rosy, despite their delusional young manager and a thwarted plot to kidnap Boy George. What could possibly go wrong? The riotously funny, heartwarming, and deeply poignant second book in the bestselling Disco Days Trilogy.***Now adapted for the stage by Scotland's Borderline Theatre Co. and the Ayr Gaiety theatre***'This band would ...

Life is too short to waste on unproductive workshops and draining meetings.We've all sat through workshops and meetings that drag. Perhaps participants were overwhelmed by "zoom fatigue" or there were plenty of opinions but no agreed way forward.This book provides a fail-safe methodology to address these common pitfalls and design and host workshops and meetings that produce real business outcomes.Created by a leading workshop training provider, the...

The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words.This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation's recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day. It covers a vast range of subject matter and demonstrates a remarkable variety of moods and tones, from the literary to the colloquial and bawdy. Packed with sharp observation and humour, it sounds other notes too. Meditative, triumphant, trag...

Advocacy, first published in 2007, explains how to win cases in court. Focusing on the techniques and methods of successful advocates, David Ross QC shows how to prepare a case for court. Writing in simple, clear language he gives the benefit of his many years of local and international experience. This second edition features new advice about how to prepare for, and run, an appeal, as well as how to write effective submissions to court. It also describes: • how to hold a court's attention...

From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, with the possible exception of Robert's friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for one vital reason: they were winners. For them it was not enough to follow the progress made by others. They had to be the best. Colossal in confidence, ability, energy and ambition, George Stephenson was al...

Remember middle school? Being afraid to wear the wrong clothes, scared of saying something stupid in class or awkward attempts at that first kiss? How about parents who don’t understand? Or, teachers who put you to sleep in 0.2 seconds? Hunter McCain is living through all this and much more as an eighth grader at Franklin Middle School. Add in a cookbook filled with recipes far more interesting then lasagna or a casserole. Love potions, strength formulas, and invisibility are just some of ...

Have you ever looked at your business or life and thought"How the hell did I end up here?"You are:Feeling overwhelmed and not making any progressUnsatisfied financiallyScratching around with no clear plan on where you are heading.It's ok, you're not alone. Many business owners end up in the same boat, looking for the latest guru or the next big thing to save the day. If you haven't achieved what you wanted when you first went into bu...

One of the philosopher's most studied works, the Nicomachean Ethics, is here made available in the same translation in the World's Classics. Notes of primarily textual importance have been omitted, leaving only those of more general philosophical interest the index has been adapted for this edition and there is a new Introduction by the translator. Though Aristotle at hisdeath left other ethical works, and this book is therefore called after its first editor Nicomachus, it is this which is...

In "Swingin Round the Cirkle," David Ross Locke employs a deft blend of humor and satire to explore the political landscape of 19th-century America. Through a character named Petroleum V. Nasby, Locke crafts a series of letters that lampoon societal norms and political figures, using dialect and a conversational tone that invites reader engagement. This work not only highlights the absurdities of its time but also serves as a precursor to modern political commentary, positioning Locke as a...

It’s been five years since Macy Jones and John Hendricks defeated Magnus Jupiter and Olympias, freeing Terraroma from centuries of war.When the smugglers aboard The Maryjane have to make a run from the Sol System Peacekeepers, they’re unwittingly sucked into the same time-space anomaly that captured the Crimson Star. As Brent, Helen, and Simon struggle to come to terms with their new reality, the evil alien entity tightens its grip on General Marcellus of Augustine.For Hend...

Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of, for precision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions, any more than in all the products of the crafts. Now fine and just actions, which political science investigates, admit of much variety and fluctuation of opinion, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature. And goods also give rise to a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people; for bef...