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From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, this work lets us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.

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May and Jansen are in love. That must be why they bicker and fight over, well, just about everything. The spark in their relationship, or at least the sex, has been misplaced. May, too busy not writing a PhD, decides to take life lessons from fabulously French Francine.

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The history of Orientalism shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified by their shared obsession. This book is a work of scholarship.

Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. This title contains seven stories chosen by the author as his favourites, together with a further seven from the later period and the opening chapters of a Rumpole novel that Sir John was working on when he died in 2009.

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Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of armies' marching through the jungle battlefields.

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Provides an account of the creation of an Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. This book tells the story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures.

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Shakespearean comedy has as much to do with the structure and movement of the drama as with the wit of its dialogue or the humour of its characters. This title contains four comedies wherein there is a near-tragic crisis at which disaster or happiness may ensue.

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This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.

The Foxcatcher estate, Pennsylvania, January 1996. Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medallist and wrestling golden boy, is shot in the back by billionaire John du Pont. After a two day siege at the ranch du Pont is finally captured. It wasn't supposed to end that way. This book is a portrait of the relationship he and his brother had with du Pont.

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Being human is a disadvantage in post-apocalyptic America ...Since a devastating, morphing plague swept through human and zombie populations, almost everyone who survived is an 'ex' these days. Ex-human. Ex-zombie. Both creatures crave flesh, have the strength and speed of predators - and what seems like immortality.

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Collects writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Bringing together her powerful speeches, letters and interviews, this collection gives a voice to Burma's 'woman of destiny', whose fate remains in the hands of her enemies.

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Mimi Fleming is fast realizing on her return to Notting Hill that there is no greater hell than the W11 neighbours with whom she shares an exclusive communal garden. They're busy not just turning back the clock but also their homes into palatial iceberg houses - with basement swimming pools. But Mimi's troubles are just beginning.

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A follow-up to the author's memoir, "From Dun Sion to Croke Park", here, the author brings us along on his travels around the world, and to the villages, townlands and sporting fields of the four provinces of Ireland. He recalls the great days at the races and in sporting stadiums big and small, and great nights in the dance halls.

Just as Emma Hamilton and her husband James become parents of an eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they find out that Emma is pregnant. Which is a bit of a shock since they had come to terms with not being able to have children. This title tells her story as she embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she and her husband can't conceive.

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Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art, entwined with its cultures of music and religion. This title tells the history of Brazil through its sporting passion.

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When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life,' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to me now'. Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an ageing prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous.

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Explores the many facets of Gandhi's life and struggles. This book is drawn from many sources located in archives across four continents. It features personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi.

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The final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who started in the first of the Niccolo series as an 18-year-old apprentice. Now in his 30s, his flair for numbers means he could find a place almost anywhere in 15th century Europe. But first he has to return to Scotland where men wait to kill him.

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The author has three children: the two oldest, George and Sam, are autistic; the youngest Jake is not. In this book, she describes the circumstances of their birth, behaviour, diagnosis, treatment - and conveys what daily life is like for a family with autism. It is suitable for those with an interest in childhood and child development.

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Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and jealousies, and the police make their brutal investigations.

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Using details from the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for "Hamlet", this tale brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother.

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Before rising to fame on the BBC's "Dragons' Den", the author spent thirty years setting up and running recruitment companies, placing hundreds of thousands of candidates in the jobs they really wanted. In this book, he brings his experience to bear to help everyone from recent graduates to CEOs in their hunt for their dream job.