Search Results: Authors starting with W from DASHbooks

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Most people take their surnames very much for granted, and yet they are one of our most personal and interesting possessions. Your surname can tell you quite a lot about your ancestors. Were they red-headed, or bald, tempermental or jovial? What did they do for a living? Where did they live? What were their parents' names? Your surname can reveal information like this. Not all names are what they at first sight seem to be: if your name is Farmer, then an ancestor was a tax-collector; if it is Alabaster, then you are descended from a crossbowman. Strong in your convictions? Then perhaps your name is Firmin, or if the opposite is true maybe it is Shuttle. The original Knowles lived on a hill, the first Nash near an ash tree, and Stubbins by the cleared land. Your name may be of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, or Norman origin, and in this book Welsh, Scottish and Irish names each have a chapter… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A fast-paced military thriller about a Top Gun graduate who sets up his own flying school in the Nevada desert and fighter pilots who train at his school and go on to launch a military attack on a US nuclear plant in India.

In good condition - has markings from use - highlighting - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is the book for anyone wishing to enter the rapidly growing field of event management. Event management is quite different from ordinary business management. Most business managers can make and learn from mistakes. Not so event managers. Events typically have high costs and high risks. Events must be right first time. There are no second chances, and there are no opportunities for the manager to plan, organise, train, coach, empower and delegate over an extended period.Business projects and new product developments now culminate in events, while high-level business meetings, seminars, conferences and exhibitions are viewed as events. Senior managers realise that special skills are required for the planning of these expensive and often one-off occasions. And, of course, there are thousands of festivals and many thousands of weddings, parties, celebratory and sporting… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'This is the way the world ends...'When the savagely beaten body of a Muslim student is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle, tensions rise to breaking point. Blame falls on the far right National Unity Party - but for once they appear to be innocent.Not the best time for Trevor Whitman, ex-70s radical, to return to his native north-east. Haunted by his violent past, Whitman is tormented by disturbing anonymous calls alluding to the murder of a policeman thirty years before. He calls in Donovan's team to investigate.But, following the death of a supposed suicide bomber, what should be a routine investigation takes a more dangerous turn as the team find themselves the target of a ruthless killer unlike any they have faced before. A killer who will do anything to ensure an explosive thirty-year-old secret remains buried. Anything - no matter who stands in the way. Anything… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing to pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In this volume are set side by side the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana and the Phaedrus of Plato, two of the earliest classical texts from East and West on the subject of love, which have powerfully influenced the course of thought on the place of sex in the two civilisations.They are introduced by Kenneth Walker, who has unique qualifications for discussing these works against their background and their cultures and what they represent in terms of different viewpoints in the approach to sexual experience and knowledge. Mr. Walker has combined his profession of surgeon - he is Emeritus Surgeon, Royal Northern Hospital and was a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons - with a life long study of Eastern thought and religion. His active concern with social problems is reflected in the subjects of his books, which, apart from technical publications include The… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Dr Jaynat Patel started work at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland in 2003. In the years that followed he was linked to the death's of over 100 patients and was dubbed 'Dr Death'. He then fled to the US and escaped prosecution.Virginia Walker, a qualified registered nurse, worked closely with Dr Patel in the years he worked at the hospital and Dancing With Doctor Death is her personal account of this period.She catalogues the day-to-day stresses and horrors of working in a health system that seemed more obsessed with money and budgets than people and their health.This is a startling story of one of the saddest periods in the history of the health system in Australia.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The return of Essington Holt.When he inherited a fortune, moved to the south of France, and settled down, Essington promised his wife there'd be no more art forgery. But being rich is boring, and he couldn't help selling property developer Stan Kriticos a small collection of modernist masters, Kandinsky, Matisse, Delaunay, that sort of thing.But it emerges Kriticos is a killer and he's just learnt the art on his walls is fake. He comes after Essington and his family and the killing begins. Essington flees home and holes up in a Sydney high-rise, his world collapsing around him as he tries desperately to avoid the vengeance of an insane and powerful enemy.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid, his private and professional life begin to fall apart. The family of the dead man discovers McLaughlan's identity, and abducts his young son with the intention of luring McLaughlan to his death. But McLaughlan is a man with a secret and, long estranged from his own father, he ultimately has no option but to turn to the man he despises, for only he can possibly help him.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Germany 1941.It was the most incredible plan. No one gave them a chance. British officers Hugh Hartley and Malcolm Royce achieved what some believed to be impossible and escaped from the infamous Oflag IVc - Colditz Castle. But as they are about to cross the Swiss border Royce is shot. He begs Hartley to save himself and, wracked with guilt, Hartley leaves his friend behind.London 1973.Hartley is a senior MI6 officer and a shadowy contact tips him off that Royce could still be alive and being held in Colditz - now a lunatic asylum. Desperate to know what really happened to his comrade, Hartley sets out on a perilous mission. He's back in Colditz, and about to discover that Royce may have been involved in something far more sinister than trying to escape...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is 1918, a year when the War will end, but an even greater killer will arise.On the bloody fields of the Western Front and the battle-scarred desert plains of the Middle East, Tom and Matthew Duffy are facing the enemy. Even as they are trapped on the front lines, they must also find the courage to fight for the women they love when all hope is lost.Back in Australia, George Macintosh is outraged by the stipulations of his father's will that provides for his despised nephew, and is determined to eliminate any threats to his power. And in a sacred cave in the far Outback, old Wallarie forsees a tide of unspeakable death sweeping through his homeland.As all nations come to terms with the devastating consequences of the Great War, a new world will be born. But not everyone will live to see it.Beyond the Horizon continue the much-loved saga of the Duffy's and Macintoshes, told with Peter… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In The Meaning of Luck, former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh explores the concept of luck, based on his experience in the worlds of sport, business and philanthropy. Steve begins by recalling the potentially devastating event that rocked his life in 2006, when his wife Lynette suffered a life-threatening brain bleed. Today, Lynette describes her illness as a 'stroke of luck', which she can do only because she fought so hard to regain her health and strength. She is lucky because she chose to be. Lynette is the first of a number of characters in the book who have triumphed over adversity.Also featured are cricketers, coaches, business and community leaders, and some of the brave children and families Steve has come into contact with through his charity work in India and Australia. There are tales from Ashes Tests, World Cups and the Olympic Games. The stories in The Meaning of… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Always the BridesmaidAmy's life is not working out like she imagined. She's about to turn the dreaded 3-0, her career is going nowhere fast and her love life is not exactly flourishing. But things seem to be coming together for everyone else in her life...Visiting her friend, Jodie, Amy finds that she and Jack, the man she once thought she might marry, have spent the night together. Her younger sister Suzi has just arrived home, fiancê in tow. And now Amy discovers that her best friend Beth is also tying the knot, and Amy is asked to be bridesmaid. With a sinking heart, she remembers that old saying: always the bridesmaid, never the bride...Surely it can't be true?It Had to Be YouIn the Irish village of Burnaby, life is about to change for three very different women.Molly is the long-suffering manager of the Happily Ever After bookshop. She can't stand Milo Jones, the super-smooth… Read More

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They were Young and Romantic and their Marriage was the Happy Culmination of the Love Story of their Generation.
A visual record of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip with Charles and Anne that was a supplement in Women's Weekly dated 15 December 1951.
Royal Collectors Item

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A one-time mild-mannered bookstore clerk transformed into a hard-boiled private detective thanks to a head injury, Pete Ingalls decides to open up his own detective agency, taking Raymond Chandler as his model, and finds himself on the trail of a variety of shady characters, dealing with damsels in distress, and tracking a killer, with only his delusion to sustain him.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.If trouble strikes, there really is no place like home...When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips and strong opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has reinvented herself as the ideal politician's wife. Now, her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was 30 years ago and tending to her senator husband.Until Richard's extra-marital affair makes headlines. Humiliated, Sylvia agrees to stand by his side to confront the press. Then she makes for the beloved family beach house in Connecticut to face some difficult decisions.Her two daughters are at a similar crossroads in their lives. Diana, an ER physician, has the career, the family, the perfect home. But she is conducting her own secret affair. Meanwhile, Lizzie is rebuilding her life after a stint in rehab - but trouble always seems to know just where to find her.Inviting her daughters to… Read More

In good condition - markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid shame it will bring. Determined to raise her child, she flees into the night with only her mother's jewellery to support her.Twelve years later she is living happily alone in Cornwall, whilst her son attends an expensive private school. Hebe has harnessed her two great talents - cooking and making love - to make a living herself, but when the separate strands of her life become entangled the even tenor of her days is threatened, and her world changes forever.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the summer of 1796, Roger Brook, somewhat unwillingly, undertook a new secret mission for his master, Mr. Pitt. It brought him in contact with Rinaldo Malderini - a Venetian Senator, who was a disciple of the Devil - and his wife, Sirisha, a beautiful Indian Princess. The mission fizzled out but the damage had been done. Roger and the evil occultist had met; fate took charge with terrible results for both.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Rose's early life had been full of tragedy, so that she depends on her husband, Michael, to provide the love and stability that her own family lacks. All Rose asks of Michael is complete fidelity, and when she has cause to doubt him she devises a terrible revenge.Michael has planned an anniversary trip to Venice, but as they experience the sights of this most romantic of cities, Rose is racked with a secret jealousy. By the time they return, Michael will have become seriously ill - although not so ill that he cannot recognise the fact that something truly dreadful has happened to him.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Tai Randolph has had enough of the dark and dangerous and decides some time in Savannah offers an idyllic break. She can sell some of her gun shop's wares, attend a few battles, and even have a little romantic rendezvous with Trey - who has agreed to join her for a long weekend in her hometown. But her tattooed heartbreaker of an ex-boyfriend also shows up. He spins a tale of betrayal, deceit, and a stolen Civil War artefact that Tai agrees to help him recover. Suddenly, Trey's on the case too, representing a competing, rich client with eyes on the same prize. As the lovers square off against each other, Tai discovers that her complicated boyfriend makes an even more intriguing adversary...

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Cilla's beloved Aunt Lil died, it was a most unpleasant shock, when the terms of the old lady's will were revealed. Instead of the two girls sharing equally in a large fortune, everything - well, almost everything - was to go to Cilla. And not only that, for there were certain conditions as well. One was that Cilla should travel to the Seychelles; another that her affairs - and her money - were to be in the hands of two trustees. And worst of all, one of those trustees was to be the arrogant, argumentative Theo Randall, with whom Cilla had crossed swords the moment they met. What had Aunt Lil in mind?