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A groundbreaking work of creative non-fiction blending true crime, memoir and reportage, About a Son is a powerful, devastating and eye-opening story of a father's love for his murdered son and his determined quest for justice

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission.

A groundbreaking work of creative non-fiction blending true crime, memoir and reportage, About a Son is a powerful, devastating and eye-opening story of a father's love for his murdered son and his determined quest for justice

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A journey through the evolving cosmos, considering how human survival will depend on otherworldly perspectives.

[A] skilful history of space exploration ' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50 years of space exploration have in store. The thirteenth man and the first woman to walk on the Moon will be the first to exp...

The amazing full story of Apollo 11 - Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff for a new generation

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The secrets and hidden stories of the Apollo 11 mission are presented in authoritative depth, revealing the true drama of man's journey to the moon. A "The Right Stuff" for a new generation.

Memories make us who we are – but what if yours belonged to someone else?This is the story of a missing plane, a rare-flower hunter, and a lonely young man who has begun to remember a past that isn’t his. It’s the story of a long-buried mystery, a quest that ended in tragedy, and a love that can never be forgotten.‘Effortlessly entertaining, smart and effervescent . . . Whitehouse is a writer with a dazzling wit and a striking empathy’ Benjami...

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This book provides a timely, graduate level introduction to the fast-paced area of genomics and clinical diagnostic technologies and introduces the concept of applications based on this area.

New York, 1983. Als Peter Manyweathers in einer Bibliothek einen alten Brief entdeckt, weiß er noch nicht, dass er gerade das größte Abenteuer seines Lebens in den Händen hält. Sechs seltene Blumen sind in dem geheimnisvollen Brief notiert. Sechs Blumen, die so unvergleichlich sind, dass Peter Manyweathers für sie um die ganze Welt reisen wird. Peter Manyweathers hat weder ausgefallene Hobbys noch abenteuerliche Phantasien. Doch dann fällt ih...

PRAISE FOR DAVID WHITEHOUSE’S AWARD-WINNING FICTION‘Hilarious and tragic’ The Times‘Staggering, inventive and heartbreakingly beautiful’ Esquire‘Quietly profound . . . genuinely compelling’ Guardian‘Charismatic, sparky . . . full of heart’ Sunday Express‘Outlandishly clever . . . a writer to watch’ New York TimesWhen the black box recorder of a plane that went missing thirty years ago is recovered from the bottom of the sea, a young man named ...

Written by the leading authority in the subject, Handbook of Surface Metrology covers every conceivable aspect of measuring and characterizing a surface. Focusing both on theory and practice, the book provides useful guidelines for the design of precision instruments and presents data on the functional importance of surfaces. It also clearly explains the essential theory relevant to surface metrology. The book defines most terms and parameters...

This work tells the story of 150 years of the London Midland & Scottish Railway. Rich in detail and full of evocative images, this work lays bare what was the world's largest commercial organization.

Celebrating 150 years of the smallest of the companies formed in the Grouping era in the early 1920s, this work captures the heart of the Southern Railway.

Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics aims to bring together key developments in the areas of molecular diagnostics, therapeutics and drug discovery. The book covers topics including diagnostics, therapeutics, model systems, clinical trials and drug discovery. The developing approaches to molecular and cellular therapies, diagnostics and drug discovery are presented in the context of the pathologies they are devised to treat. Molecular and Cell...