Philip - Libros y biografía

'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music,' says Jimi Hendrix's citation in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. James Marshall Hendrix remains unique as an African American who broke...

In 2012 the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary. Their story – the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking hits – is the...

The Tarantula was a diamond – a diamond as big as a man’s greed: many men would fight for it, some would kill, some would die. Martin Taggart found it, after six years’ grubbing in the steamy...

A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history, featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun. Towards...

Lydia Ackland was nearly blind when she fell downstairs and was killed. Her grandchildren have always accepted the official verdict – accident. Besides, they have their own problems: beautiful Kate is...

Cave exploration has uncovered archaeological finds which have enhanced our understanding of human evolution, and fossil remains, such as woolly mammoths, which reveal something of the Pleistocene animal...

Neuseeland. Viel weiter geht es nicht mehr, das Ende der Welt ist nah. Nach der Schule eine Auszeit nehmen, das trauen sich zwar einige, aber noch lange nicht alle. Philip Raillon packte seinen Rucksack...

Desert Heat, Darryl MacArthur (Mac) Lester and Raymond Vincent (Raven) Watkins help people while running Mac’s laundry and dry cleaning business. You have a child in trouble? You have a problem with...

Under the tutelage of his father and the memory of his grandfather, both having fought against tyranny and injustice their entire lives, Drew Keller became an assassin for the Israeli Mossad. After many...

Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice. Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate...

Philip Kotler's name is synonymous with marketing. His textbooks have sold more than 3 million copies in 20 languages and are read as the marketing gospel in 58 countries. Now Kotler on Marketing offers...

A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels.Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the...

Writer Will Adams’ peaceful life is interrupted by the sudden and not entirely welcome arrival on his doorstep of his young niece, Marisa, and her best friend Nick. Marisa has learned from her...

Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear. As Philip Alcabes...

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary,...

From priceless eighteenth-century dining tables hidden away in decaying farm sheds to tattooed travellers with a penchant for Wedgewood china, professional auctioneer Philip Serrell has seen it all. In...

Le livre qui a fait connaître la profondeur du zen à l'Occident. Voici enfin la réédition d′un des livres les plus célèbres sur le zen. Cet ouvrage a été l′un des premiers à présenter...

He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity...

No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to a quarter of the world’s population and 3 million km2 of land, it represented a diverse and dynamic collection...

Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In...

What will it take to run a marathon in less than two hours?The world’s fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago....

With training tips, exercises, and injury remedies, this is a book that every golfer and coach should have!There are few things more satisfying than a great round of golf. But the joy and thrill of golf...

Philip Wylie’s enthralling tales of saltwater fishing have been entertaining readers of the Saturday Evening Post since 1939. Captain Crunch Adams, skipper of the charter boat Poseidon , and his friend...

Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of forms—noncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and...

From one of the greatest political journalists of recent times, an insider’s account of four decades of covering the British political scene, packed with tales of the biggest political happenings of the...

Gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn is in a race against time to save an innocent man from the hangman’s noose. Colonel Anthony Gethryn is recalled from a holiday in Spain to solve a murder...

In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery alive. When the bones of Brigid go missing from their church, the theft threatens...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Une collection de livres indispensables à la prise en main immédiate de votre appareil photo numérique Vous venez de faire l'acquisition d'un appareil photo numérique et après avoir déballé les différents...

Qu'aurait été Lennon sans McCartney ? On ne sépare pas comme ça le duo de compositeurs le plus prolifique du XXe siècle – la vie s'en est assez chargée. Et sous ses apparences de gentil garçon, compositeur...