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Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself ..

In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain.From the disruptive childhood which had such a crucial impact on Cobain's personality to the ambitious career musician who, as a friend said, 'lunged for success', and the worldwide breakthrough of Nirv..

A compilation of both vintage and never-before-collected Asimov stories. It features works such as "Little Lost Robot", "The Feeling of Power" and "The Last Question". Recent books published by the author include "Robots and Empire" and "Foundation and Earth"...

Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashi..

Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will ha..

teNeues is happy to announce that the title Cool Hotels Italy has won the Prix Villegiature 2008 in the category “Best hotel book published in Europe 2008”.Since Roman times, Italy has been a byword for cutting-edge style. There's simply nowhere better to indulge in some elegant hedonism. ..

teNeues is happy to announce that the title Cool Hotels Spain has won the Prix Villegiature 2008 in the category “Best hotel book published in Europe 2008”.Long a favorite travel destination, Spain is host to a growing number of chic, contemporary lodgings that offer every comfort and..

teNeues is happy to announce that the title Cool Hotels Spa & Wellness has won the Prix Villegiature 2008 in the category “Best hotel book published in Europe 2008”.Travel used to be considered stressful…now, you can have some refreshing rejuvenation wherever your travel destinati..

The story of the wily Avery Cates, being chased by the sinister Monks and the System Police is non-stop and action packed with lots of rollicking twists and turns. In the bleak and poverty stricken near-future, the population walks around lost and purpose-less. Everyone either seems to be a thief or..

The leading edge of recent garden design has not only embraced the latest thinking in science and materials, but also appropriated ideas from related disciplines, such as architecture and product design, redefining and blurring the borders of nature and the man-made in the process.Avant Gardener..

"Costume Worldwide" is a magnificent study of style through the ages, combining the studies of the two classic 19th-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time.Their works are presented by chronology and by subject, so that illustrators, historians and studen..

With a growing emphasis on green living, the design world is becoming more ecological. These groundbreaking designs appeal to the eye, the mind—and the planet. And there's a dash of whimsy as well! It includes chapters on furniture, lighting, housewares, children's goods, industrial design, office d..