Whittles Publishing: 120 books
Life with Birds
A Story of Mutual Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Life with Birds uncovers the fascinating story of our interdependence with birds. The author weaves an amazing web of inter-relationships, from the Parsi funeral in Mumbai where birds of prey eat the dead; to collecting eider down from nests in Iceland and standing on the once body-strewn battlefield...
Gone Wild
Stories from a Lifetime of Wildlife Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Often amusing, sometimes romantic or fraught with danger, these 30 short stories are about local people, spectacular places and the special wildlife the author sets out to find. The stories include seeking out Arabian Oryx on the searing plains of the Saudi desert; eiderdown collecting in Iceland,...
The Ultimate Shipwreck Guide
Whitby to Berwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The author has acquired a vast wealth of knowledge, data and experience in boat angling, sport and wreck diving over a period of almost 50 years and has written various wreck books, including two volumes about shipwrecks off the north-east coast of England. However, this book is far superior. No other...
Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea
HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill’s deterrent Force Z, stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya...
The Farnes and Holy Island
A Comprehensive New Dive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Following the successful previous book, this new and expanded edition is the most informative and comprehensive book available, particularly for the diving fraternity, and will be essential for divers wishing to experience the rich underwater heritage around the 28 Farne Islands. However, it is not...
by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
A kayak trip in Greenland's Nuuk fjords through an area of amazing beauty Turreted fairytale peaks, glistening snowfields, waterfalls plunging over immense cliffs into the sea, a million tons of ice capsizing - this is the setting for Fallen Pieces of the Moon, an account of a kayak trip along the...
Polymer Science and Technology
for Engineers and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Polymers and composites are widely used for a range of applications in engineering and technology. Selecting the correct material which is fit for purpose is a critical decision faced by engineers and scientists who do not necessarily have an in-depth knowledge of the chemistry or physics of polymers....
Ate the Dog Yesterday
Maritime Casualties, Calamities and Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes – the battles that they waged, and all too often lost – against the hazards of the sea....
Money Talks
British Monarchs and History in Coins
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Money Talks is a fast-paced history of the humble British coin, the events which at times literally shaped it and the stories reflected in its creation. It has been used to barter and to bribe, to hold a cloak in place and to pay a king’s ransom, been an object of pride and a symbol of courage....
by Clifford Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This groundbreaking book contains a broad yet detailed coverage of the major aspects of fire engineering. As would be expected, such matters as fire extinguishers, flame-retardants and fire-fighting feature centrally, with descriptions, from the functional point of view, of fire appliances from selected...
by Dr Arthur L. Allan
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This important new book replaces the author's highly successful Practical Surveying and Computations and has been completely recast to accord with modern practices of geospatial surveying. Although much has changed in the profession of geospatial surveying, the same basic geometrical principles still...
A New Way of Living
Georgian Town Planning in the Highlands & Islands
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750. It pulls together the various strands that influenced the development of the North West Highlands after the disastrous risings and charts the government-backed attempts at establishing...
by Richard A. Pethrick, Taweechai Amornsakchai, Alastair M. North
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A valuable primer to help students and workers understand concepts and relationships which are developed more fully in other specialist texts on polymer molecular physics, Introduction to Molecular Motion in Polymers explains how molecular movement is determined by chemical structure, then how the...
The Caithness Influence
Diverse Lives of Distinction
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
With a small population, it is remarkable that so many people from the county of Caithness have had such a huge impact, not only in Scotland but worldwide. The sheer hard work and determination of people from the county, both past and present, has guaranteed their place in history. From scientists,...