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Utilising previously unpublished photographs, Howard Berry tells the story of Duple-bodied buses and coaches.

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A celebration of the unsung heroes behind the game, including first-hand stories from moms of the NHL's biggest starsHockey Moms laces together the stories of NHL hockey moms like Kelly McDavid and Ema Matthews with those of mothers who never expected their children to set foot on the ice. With insight, warmth, honesty and humour, more than thirty hockey moms share their own journeys as they figure out how to juggle trips to the rink with rais...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

Alle Jahre wieder werden uns die Unzulänglichkeiten des Euros vor Augen geführt: Stets sind milliardenschwere Rettungsschirme nötig, um schwächelnden EU-Staaten unter die Arme zu greifen. Immer und immer wieder steht der Euro am Abgrund und muss mit immer größeren Rettungspaketen gerettet werden. Schuld daran sind aber nicht nur einzelne Staaten wie Italien oder Griechenland, die das Wort »Haushaltsdisziplin« scheinbar nur vom Hörensagen kenne...

The first Graphic Novel in the world of Terraria! Terraria is a land of adventure! A land of mystery! A land that's yours to shape, defend, and enjoy. Your options in Terraria are limitless. Are you an action gamer with an itchy trigger finger? A master builder? A collector? An explorer? There's something for everyone. Vale lives a quiet life on a farm tending to animals, surrounded by people who love him. All that changes with a knock at the ...

Iconic buildings commissioned by women. The contribution of women to 20th-century modernism still receives relatively little attention. The male architects are still in the limelight, while the achievements of their female partners, colleagues, classmates, and clients are poorly researched. This book fills an important gap in our understanding of the history of architecture from 1900 onward, and sheds new light on the women who commissioned nu...

Bauikonen im Auftrag von Frauen. Der Beitrag von Frauen an der Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts findet bis heute kaum Beachtung. Noch immer stehen die männlichen Architekturschaffenden im Rampenlicht, während die Errungenschaften ihrer Partnerinnen, Mitarbeiterinnen, Kommilitonen und Auftraggeberinnen wenig erforscht sind. Dieses Buch liefert uns nun einen der fehlenden Bausteine für eine erweiterte Rezeption der Baugeschichte ab 1900 und rückt de...

In 1752, Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, which would soon become the most powerful tool in the American revolution, but while his many accomplishments have been lauded, his mysterious connection to Paul Revere and a cabal of powerful alchemists has been lost to history—​until now. Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex-con Nick Patterson—fresh off uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War alongside American history prof...

From Caldecott Honor?winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes a fascinating, comprehensive, and in-depth look at our world as seen through numbers, facts, and stunning infographics.With his signature style, Steve Jenkins uses engaging graphics and visual literacy to convey scientific facts and concepts, making them accessible for all kinds of readers. Readers will learn about the complex and wonderful place we call home, Earth.This colle...

The acclaimed film biographer and author of Young Orson and Funny Man returns with the definitive look at the life and legacy of Woody Allen. The writer, director, and frequent star of more than fifty popular, award-winning, and internationally successful pictures over seven decades of filmmaking, Woody Allen is one of the most consequential American cultural figures of our time. Yet this national icon has fallen from grace nowadays. In this e...

The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long-underappreciated—and now quickly burgeoning—poetic tradition.For decades, the prose poem has variously delighted, confounded, and incensed readers and critics. Until recent years, it had been confined to the margins of literary history as a rather disturbing and elusive oddity. All this is changing.The prose poem, whic...

A provocative book that proposes a new and suprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.”Written toward the end of Kafka’s life, “Investigations of a Dog” (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author’s oeuvre. Walter Benjamin remarked that it was the one story he never managed to figure out. Kafka’s tale of philosophical adventure...

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, follows her TikTok hit, The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse, and casts a spell with another spine-tingling witchy romance.................................................................................................Praise for The Ex Hex, an unmissable treat!'A spooky romantic comedy treat that had me sighing at one page, laughing out loud at the next' TESSA BAILEY 'Sterli...

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, follows her TikTok hit, The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse, and casts a spell with another spine-tingling witchy romance.

?How good it is to hear a Darug voice speaking of Darug history.??Kate Grenville, author of The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth PrizeBlending the mythical power of Téa Obreht and the epic scope of Min Jin Lee, a searing historical novel that tells a story of colonization, survival, and resistance in a way never done before?a beautiful, brilliant, and brutal reimagining of the first contact between Indigenous people and white British s...

This fascinating picture of this important legacy from the prehistory of Britain will be of interest to all those who have seen and visited these mysterious structures around England, Scotland and Wales.

The New York Times bestselling author of Saving Freedom and cohost of Morning Joe assesses President Abraham Lincoln's deft timing for the Emancipation proclamation and its consequences for America. Abraham Lincoln's pragmatism combined with a devotion to higher ideals made him the American leader capable of accomplishing the seemingly impossible: saving the Union and ending slavery. The year was 1862. The Union's first large scale offensive, ...