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In these three travelogues, Andrew Sykes travels across Europe, along the Med, and from Spain to Norway on his trusty bike called Reggie. Making his way through tens of thousands of kilometres, he perspires his way through a hot and sticky mix of European mayhem and Mediterranean beauty.

Bloomsbury presents Future Build: How Construction Can Heal Our Planet, written and read by Will Arnold Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change. Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the...

Bloomsbury presents Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship by Angus Konstam, read by David Monteath Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit...

In this short, sharp book, Richard Lyon - electrical engineer, petroleum engineer and energy economist - strips the energy debate back to the physics. What he finds is alarming: the fossil fuels are running out, the proposed replacements can't do the job and the people in charge don't understand...

The ultimate guide to the very best scenic and fun routes for camper vans and motorhomes around the mountains, coastlines and winding roads of beautiful Spain and Portugal. Forget hurrying. Forget putting your foot down and racing through sweeping bends. Forget the understeer (whatever that is). Forget the blur of a life lived too fast. This is a look at taking life slowly. It's about taking the time to enjoy journeys and places for their own sake. It's about stopping and putting the kettle on. Stopping to take a picture. Stopping to enjoy stopping. How are you going to do it?

The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before told On the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before cheering crowds in Lakehurst, New Jersey, when suddenly, a titanic inferno...

Bloomsbury presents The Grid by Gretchen Bakke, read by Katherine Fenton One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016 A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America's...

Two catastrophes. One unshakable truth: the moment humanity declares something invincible is the moment disaster starts writing its opening line. Great Disasters 2-in-1 brings together Dominic Haynes's gripping accounts of the Titanic and Chernobyl — two of history's most devastating reminders that confidence is not the same as safety.

The clean energy transition is already underway. Wind and solar now provide 30 percent of global electricity. Yet ambitious policy goals consistently miss their targets, projects face years of delays, and stakeholders remain frustrated by a system that seems designed to slow progress.

For every car tragic out there - this is the one laugh-out-loud book you'll want to read this year... Australia's favourite motoring journalist, Stephen Corby is our Jeremy Clarkson - just a bit younger, funnier and less pompous. Drives a Bit Funny is part-memoir, part stories from a...

For every car tragic out there - this is the one laugh-out-loud book you'll want to read this year... Australia's favourite motoring journalist, Stephen Corby is our Jeremy Clarkson - just a bit younger, funnier and less pompous. Drives a Bit Funny is part-memoir, part stories from a...

Buying a manufactured or modular home? Get the numbers, the financing rules, and the resale reality—before you sign anything. Most buyers walk into this process with outdated assumptions and an incomplete cost picture—and it costs them. Buying Smart is a clear, no-nonsense guide to what manufactured and modular homes actually cost from factory to foundation, how financing really works when a home isn't classified like a traditional house, what land and zoning decisions do to your long-term value, and what separates a home that holds its value from one that becomes a financial regret.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The spreadsheet let accountants model their finances without a programmer, and the smartphone put a capable computer in nearly every pocket. Now artificial intelligence is quietly performing another shift, and most people still type a question, read an...

THE FASCINATING AND UNEXPECTED STORY OF THE ICONIC HARRIER JUMP JET, AND THE BRITISH ENGINEER WHO BUILT IT Victory in the Falklands War made the Harrier’s name as a world-beating British icon, as capable of giving the enemy a bloody nose as it was of thrilling the crowds at airshows with its...

Форма жизни №4 — это люди, усиленные имплантами и искусственным интеллектом. Евгений Черешнев — визионер, первый российский ИТ-спикер TED New York, предприниматель и бионик — описывает ИИ как ступень в эволюции жизни на нашей планете. Автор проанализировал историю думающих машин и современных методов анализа данных, рассказал о влиянии автоматизации на социум, семью, экономику и геополитику.

What if the perfect parking spot isn’t luck at all? Parking Magic reveals how intuition, psychology, timing, observation, probability, experience, and even ritual may influence where drivers park. For anyone tired of circling crowded lots, this entertaining guide offers a smarter, calmer, more curious way to find parking spaces successfully. This entertaining book investigates why some people seem to possess an uncanny “sixth sense” for parking, even at shopping centers, stadiums, airports, restaurants, and busy city streets.

In Private Power and Democracy's Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology creates centers of market power and monopoly concentration that result in a society in which some people are enriched immensely while many workers' livelihoods are often destroyed.

Прямое мысленное общение с компьютером, телекинез, имплантация новых навыков непосредственно в мозг, видеозапись образов, воспоминаний и снов, телепатия, аватары и суррогаты как помощники человечества, экзоскелеты, управляемые мыслью, и искусственный интеллект. Это все наше недалекое будущее. В ближайшие десятилетия мы научимся форсировать свой интеллект при помощи генной терапии, лекарств и магнитных приборов.

Everyone parks. Almost nobody thinks about it. That's costing you money. Every car journey ends the same way — hunting for a space, feeding a meter, or coming back to a ticket on the windscreen. It's one of the few frustrations that unites every driver on the road, and one of the least understood. Parking Made Easy — Making Life Easier is the guide nobody has written until now.

Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, spurred by the diverse and unfamiliar regions the US military had navigated during World War II, the United States defense...