Peacock: 221 books

This book will show you how to make all your favourite sweet treats and provide ideas for packaging them to give away as gifts. With detailed techniques you?ll be amazed how easy it is to make your own sweets. There are recipes for fudge, toffee, chocolates and traditional treats such as Turkish Delight, as well as hamper favourites such as liqueurs and sweet sauces.

Al Qaeda terrorists have bought a cache of stolen weapons grade Plutonium from the Russian mafia. They plan to build a suitcase Nuke and level Washington DC. Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Office, Steve Harris has the unenviable job of finding the terrorists and their weapon. Which...

A clue hidden in an ancient Druid tomb, revealed by an earthquake, leads Archaeologist Karen Blakehurst on a frantic treasure hunt across Britain. Did the Templar Knights hide the Holy Spear of Destiny somewhere in England centuries ago? Does the Spear really hold the power legend claims? Does...

Through the ages, people have used homemade beauty treatments, from henna and kohl in ancient Egypt to the terrifying use of lead in face products in the eighteenth century. More recently, with the rise of the Hollywood film star, glamour has become even more important to women. Even prior to and...

Move closer to God one day at a time by reading the Psalms and practicing prayer in ways you may not have imagined before. This is a prayer book for every day of the year for people who don't usually think about using a prayer book. Drawing on a wide variety of resources—lives of saints and...

'A very useful introduction to the techniques of social accounting' Bankers' Magazine. 'Remarkable feat of compression and expositionit will surely remain for a long time the best summary of macro-accounting techniques' Accounting Research. This volume covers developments both in the...

Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films and onto English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes. This book looks at the rich...

Peacock's seventh and final novel, published in 1861, brought a mellow tone to the author's satire but found his discursive powers intact.  Included are several poems, a wedding for eighteen, comedy, philosophy, and satire. An 1896 review in the New York Times opined:  "Sentimental adventures, love...

Comment trouver la clé qui facilitera nos relations familiales, amoureuses et professionnelles? La méthode que préconise Fletcher Peacock s'appuie sur les forces et les ressources de chaque individu, lesquelles lui permettent de faire face aux perturbations de la vie. Au lieu de s'attarder à chercher...

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection. While such topics are often reserved for the darker mindscapes of the vampire subgenre within popular culture, they are equally integral elements of religious history and belief. Despite the cultural shift of presenting vampires in a secular light,...

Fame Fortune and Monsters is a quick-read biography of Lady Gaga one of today's most famous and outlandish celebrities. The book takes us through the history of Gaga from her school years right up to today. In addition to a general history of this world-famous music star the author also discusses...

Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the city's youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future for members of Cast, Space, the Lightning Seeds and giving fresh impetus to the idea of song as a saviour for the city. Foremost of the bands to emerge from...

Edgar Brim is a sensitive orphan who, exposed to horror stories from his father as a young child, is afraid of almost everything and suffers from nightly terrors. His stern new guardian, Mr. Thorne, sends the boy to a gloomy school in Scotland where his dark demons only seem to worsen and he is bullied...

When a girl is adopted from a Chinese orphanage, everything she knew about family, best friends, and sisterhood must change. Wen has spent the first eleven years of her life at an orphanage in rural China, and the only person she would call family is her best friend, Shu Ling. When Wen is adopted...