The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow - the records are plentiful, accessible and commonly used. But how do you go back further, into the centuries before the central registration of births, marriages and deaths was introduced in 1837, before the first detailed census records of 1841? How can you trace a family line back

Abandon the networking-for-networking\'s-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections. STOP NETWORKING. Seriously, stop doing it. Now. It is time to ditch the old networking-for networking\'s-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections. In Superconnector, Scott Gerber and Ryan Paugh

From the winner of the Guardian Children\'s Prize, comes a story of Medieval times, told from an entirely new

Henry doesn\'t understand why everyone in Rabbit Town loves books, he much prefers real life adventures. That is, until he discovers the Lost Book. The Lost Book keeps him company, makes him feel less homesick and leads him on an exciting adventure with a new

Delve the mountain deep! When the first dwarves reached the surface of Golarion, they built enormous keeps as a monument to their legacy and to serve as their new home. The mightiest of these keeps was Highhelm, a Sky Citadel deep in the Five Kings Mountains. While other Sky Citadels have fallen since the Quest for Sky, Highhelm holds strong, serving as one of the major centers of dwarven culture.

The instant New York Times bestseller and prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars. Return to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come. A windswept private island off the coast of

\"Be More Interesting\"Following on from her best-selling series of fact books, Jenny Kellett brings you the HUGE Book of Amazing Facts 2022.Chock-full of incredible, curious, and mind-blowing facts, you\'ll be able to impress your friends or simply improve your knowledge with over 800 of only the very best hand-picked trivia facts.The facts are divided into categories for easy reference. Whether you\'re

Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn\'t One Kind of Enlightenment - It\'s the Only Kind THE MARK OF A TRUE MASTER is that he can express a subject of the utmost complexity with uncanny simplicity. Jed McKenna is such a master, and spiritual enlightenment is his subject. His first book, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, was an instant classic and established him as a spiritual teacher

It\'s 1826, and Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish, incarcerated in the fortress of Badajoz. As he plans his escape, his thoughts return to the year 1812 when he was a cornet in Wellington\'s Peninsula Army. While Hervey paces his prison cell, and re-lives the bloodshed of battles past, friends rush to his

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of \'behavioural safety\' is overly person-focused. \'If you can walk on hot coals, you can do anything - so be safe\' needs to be dismissed out of hand, but also more advanced techniques based on coaching and empowerment fail to reflect the fact that, as \'Just Culture\' models show, the great majority of causes of unsafe

From New York Times best-selling author Judith Dupr (c)omes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world\'s most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art (Bustle). Technological advances, structural daring,

Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde, a stylish gentleman shows up in foggy London claiming to be Dr Henry Jekyll. Only Mr Utterson, Jekyll\'s faithful lawyer and confidant, knows that he must be an impostor. A brilliantly imagined and beautifully written

Will your organization be protected the day a quantum computer breaks encryption on the internet? Computer encryption is vital for protecting users, data, and infrastructure in the digital age. Using traditional computing, even common desktop encryption could take decades for specialized \'crackers\' to break and government and infrastructure-grade encryption would take billions of times longer. In

Crown on Camera traces the remarkable relationship between the British Royal Family and photography over the course of nearly 200 years. From Queen Victoria and Prince Albert\'s enthusiastic adoption of the emerging technology in the mid-19th century to the use of Instagram by the modern monarchy. Today, photographs of the British Royal Family remain some of the most widely distributed images across

The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai\'s steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of artisans; the samurai sword is generally considered to be superior even to the famed blades of Western Damascus and Toledo. The Samurai Sword Handbook is a precise exploration of the samurai

Meet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA. When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn\'t have anything better to do - plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe

Kinslayer is Book Two in Jay Kristoff\'s critically acclaimed Lotus War series that began with Stormdancer, featuring an unforgettable heroine and a stunningly original Japanese dystopian steampunk world A SHATTERED EMPIRE The mad Shogun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The toxic blood lotus flower continues to ravage

Exciting, funny, heartwarming, and mind-bendingly clever, Time Travelling with a Tortoise is the extraordinary, adventure-packed sequel to Ross Welfords beloved, bestselling debut, Time Travelling with a