Percy: 428 books

This is a complete update of the first edition of Level Crossing Methods in Stochastic Models, which was published in 2008.  Level crossing methods are a set of sample-path based mathematical tools used in applied probability to establish reliable probability distributions. Since the basis for solving...

In an age of mobile phones and electronic gadgetry, the two car family, modern kitchens with televisions and labour saving devices it is difficult to remember an age when a watch was a luxury. And yet a short fifty years ago in the mid fifties, there was purchase tax set at a very high level on luxury...

A stunning story which won the NABE award for best fiction, it is set in the 1970's and opens with a murderous event in the Balkans but what has that got to do with the horrible happenings in a quiet small town in Southern England? The young teenage girl just starting out in life, after being...

"Adonais" represents the height of artistic achievement for nineteenth-century Romantic poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley's book-length elegy in the pastoral style mourns the loss of fellow poet John Keats in 495 remarkably accomplished lines. Shelley himself regarded "Adonais" as the best of his work, and...

Hunting stories, like traveller's tales, are proverbially dangerous to reputations, however literally true they may be ...' So wrote J Percy FitzPatrick of his perennial best-seller, never out of print in the century since its first publication. Here is the story of the 'Boy' who went to seek his...

This eBook edition of "The Third Officer" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "Burgoyne, however, was one of the luckier ones. Forsaking the lure of gunnery, torpedo, and engineering, he was specializing in navigation...

Be prepared to question the human condition and discover how the universe really works... The real world is heading towards economic and societal collapse; a catastrophe of human suffering that is being deliberately orchestrated by those with control in the afterlife. One man will...

The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks that tells the story of Hugh Carver, a student at a fictional men's college called Sanford. With contents that covered or implied hazing, smoking, drinking, partying, and "petting", the book sold well enough to be the second best-selling novel...

Wahres Yoga beginnt jenseits der Matte. Denn Yoga ist eine Lebenseinstellung, die unseren Umgang mit anderen Menschen prägt, die Art wie wir denken und fühlen, lachen und lieben und mit unseren Sorgen umgehen. Percy Johannsen lebt diesen Lifestyle unlimited. Nach einem schweren Unfall konnte er...

In den verschneiten französischen Alpen findet sich James Bond im Fadenkreuz eines Killers wieder, der andere Killer tötet. Das ist nur das erste Rätsel in einem größeren, adrenalindurchtränkten Verwirrspiel, das Bond um den halben Globus führt. Er dringt in die Unterwelt vor, riskiert alles...

In the snowbound French Alps, James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of an assassin who targets other assassins. This is the first puzzle piece in a larger adrenaline-fueled mystery that will send Bond across the globe to infiltrate the underworld, risk everything in high-stakes casino gambling,...

Sale with the iconic pirate-villains and outlaws, experience great sea adventures and dangerous treasure hunts! You will find it all in this passionately edited collection: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces...

Now in one volume, two novels from the National Book Award winner that follow the life of a Southern man searching for love and connection. In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections...

National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this “brilliant” novel by the author of The Moviegoer (Time). Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections...