Forsyth: 272 books
by Oli Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2019
Just tennis all day, whenever you want. Not many 13 year olds have that, do they? They're going to make you so good we won't recognise you.
Creating a tennis champion costs a lot; it requires time, dedication and, most importantly, cash. Nina and Ade decide early on that their daughter is worth...
The Art of the Affair
An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising.
Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted...
by Patrick Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Clear and distinctive written communications help project a favorable personal and corporate personality. Effective Business Writing will help readers formulate a systematic approach to writing that makes it easier and quicker to get the right words down, avoiding the dangers of bland and formulaic approaches....
by Patrick Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Staff are ever more demanding of their employers. They want to be consulted, appreciated and, more importantly, they want to enjoy their work. When staff are content they perform well; when they are motivated they perform even better. Managers are under increasing pressure to get results, and their...
by Frederick Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Christmas Eve, 1957: An RAF pilot needs a miracle to make it home as his fighter jet begins to fail, in a story by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
It is Christmas Eve, 1957, and there are cozier places to be than the cockpit of a de Havilland Vampire fighter plane. But for the...
by Kate Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
A new age dawns in the kingdom of Eileanan, but not without resistance. Now the Righ, Lachlan the Winged, overturns his dead brother’s decrees against witchcraft. But sixteen years of hatred and superstition have cloaked Eileanan in darkness. And though he has won the power of the Lodestar, Lachlan’s...
The Pool of Two Moons
Witches of Eileanen Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
It has been 16 years since the Day of Reckoning, when magic and witchcraft were outlawed throughout all of Eileanan. And though rumors say that she is dead, the Arch-Sorceress Meghan of the Beasts still lives. Traveling with her are the true heir to the throne and the red-haired warrior Iseult. Their...
by Frederick Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
For decades, the West has been fighting the cocaine cartels-and losing- until the president decides enough is enough and asks one man to take charge. His task: to destroy the cocaine industry. His name: Cobra. It is the ultimate secret war. But only one side can win...
Constructing Suburbs
Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems...
The Etymologicon
A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example,do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these...
Tropical Nature
Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest.
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats,...
A Land Like None You Know
Awe and wonder in Burma on the road to Mandalay
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Burma (or Myanmar as it is now called) is in the news for all the wrong reasons. It has been ruled for many years by a ruthless, repressive junta, it suffers regular earthquakes and the cyclone of May 2008 left more than a hundred thousand people injured, homeless or dead. Yet this is a magical place:...
Other People's Money
The Rise and Fall of Britain's Boldest Credit Card Fraudster
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Elliot Castro was a gifted outsider, a working-class kid with ambitions who wanted to live the high life but lacked the money to do so. Until, at the tender age of sixteen, he worked out how to use the credit card system to his advantage. Identifying the banks' security weaknesses, utilising his intelligence...