Fowler: 595 books
The Water Room
A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
**“Traditional mystery buffs with a taste for the offbeat will relish British author Fowler's wonderful second contemporary whodunit featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit and its elderly odd couple, Arthur Bryant and John May.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
How can an elderly recluse...
Bryant & May on the Loose
A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May off the Rails.
The Peculiar Crimes Unit is no more—disbanded, finished, kaput. After years of defying the odds and infuriating their superiors, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May have finally crossed the...
White Corridor
A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection’s oddest—and...
Production-Ready Microservices
Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
One of the biggest challenges for organizations that have adopted microservice architecture is the lack of architectural, operational, and organizational standardization. After splitting a monolithic application or building a microservice ecosystem from scratch, many engineers are left wondering what’s...
NoSQL Distilled
A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The need to handle increasingly larger data volumes is one factor driving the adoption of a new class of nonrelational “NoSQL” databases. Advocates of NoSQL databases claim they can be used to build systems that are more performant, scale better, and are easier to program.
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NoSQL...
The Edible Garden
How to Have Your Garden and Eat It, Too
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In this timely new book, BBC star and Gardening World's thrifty and resourceful Alys Fowler shows that there is a way to take the good life and re-fashion it to fit in with life in the city. Abandoning the limitations of traditional gardening methods, she has created a beautifully productive garden...
The Renegade
Eleven science fiction short stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Some renegades are born rebels, some forced into it to survive, while others make the choice on principle.
The Renegade is an anthology of eleven science fiction short stories by writers from across the globe. It is part of the Newcomer series of scifi anthologies.
The stories are:-
Conscience...
by Karen Joy Fowler
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 22, 2015
PREMIO PEN/FAULKNER 2014 «UN LIBRO DAL GRANDE CUORE, INCREDIBILMENTE INTELLIGENTE, PROFONDO E AMBIZIOSO». KHALED HOSSEINI Non possiamo dirvi qui il fondamentale segreto di questo libro, che scoprirete leggendo. Possiamo però riferire quel che ne ha scritto la giuria del PEN/ Faulkner, uno dei più...
Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager Revised Edition
Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The co-author of the phenomenal New York Times bestselling classic The One Minute Manager® explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader in this essential work, now updated throughout.
Just as Ken Blanchard’s phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager gives leaders...
Steam Titans
Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History
The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic.
Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution...
by S. Fowler Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is one of the best-loved Scottish writers. Beginning with a series of poetry collections and nonfiction works, Scott quickly became known as a rising force in British letters. But it was with the publication of Waverley (1814), the first of a series of sixteen bestselling...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.”
- Dorothea Dix
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts:
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen.
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written...
Empires at War
The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...