Rupert: 375 books

A practical, full-color guide to optical manufacturing Featuring more than 300 full-color photos and illustrations, Optical Technology describes the basics of optics and optical materials and the methods and applications of optical manufacturing and assembly. Important procedures for the production...

Hell hath no fury like a stepsister scorned... Elizabeth Miller has brains, a trust fund and an unreliable fiancé. Rachel Hope is a young aspiring actress: beautiful, talented, seemingly sweet. Under normal circumstances they would never have met, but their parents' marriage makes them reluctant...

Originalmente lançado no Facebook, os cartuns de Sem coleira ( Off the Leash), com observações brilhantes, francas e repletas de sensibilidade, têm conquistado seguidores em todo o mundo, que os acompanham diariamente, nas redes sociais. Este livro reúne os melhores desses cartuns que ilustram...

Schoolteacher Clara lives a peaceful, solitary life when she's away from the school house. That is, other than the nights when rich, powerful landowner Courtland Raymond comes to call. Court makes Clara do and feel things she'd never before dreamed of. He is forceful and dominant, and he...

The author of Titanic and Stalingrad presents a comprehensive examination of Hitler’s military strategies during World War II—includes photos. As Führer of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler was responsible for deciding the German war aims in 1939. As head of the armed forces from February...

"The title of this book is not ambiguous, but as it relates to a subject rarely thought about by the generality of people, it may save some misapprehension if at once it is plainly stated that the following pages are in vindication of a dietary consisting wholly of products of the vegetable kingdom,...

First published in 1903. Biographical chapters cover Liszt, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Purcell, Gluck, Wagner, Tschaikovski, Schumann, and others.

FIFTH AVENUE at flood-tide was a boiling surf of automobiles. But at nearly every corner a policeman succeeded where King Canute had failed, and checked the sea or let it pass with a nod or a jerk of thumb. The young army officer just home-come from the Philippines felt that he was in a sense a policeman...

The good ship Lyon had been sixty-seven days outward bound from the port of Bristol, in England, when she dropped anchor early in February, 1630, at Nantasket, near the entrance of Boston Harbor, in New England. The ship had met with many winter storms, and passengers and crew were glad to see the...

A privateer was leaving Genoa on a certain June morning in 1461, and crowds of people had gathered on the quays to see the ship sail. Dark-hued men from the distant shores of Africa, clad in brilliant red and yellow and blue blouses or tunics and hose, with dozens of glittering gilded chains about their...

In the rural town of Las Flores, Texas, Petra Dominguez's small tortilla factory is threatened by competitive business woman Tina Tamayo's repeated underhanded and devious efforts to run her out of business. Meanwhile, the new priest's good intentions will further fan the flames between...

Christmas classics short stories are a collection of renowned Christmas tales which are admired throughout the world. Start reading to unlock the Christmas magic.

Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion. Christine Fairbrother is a high-powered barrister, the scourge of the divorce courts. Christine has ambitions to become a QC—to "take silk"—after her next big case. Her talented daughter, Isabelle Cisse, is a design...