David Ross

From the world's favorite author, David Walliams—ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters! Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! Also featuring a special appearance from fan-favorite Raj! From Number One bestselling author David Walliams comes this collection of wickedly funny, deliciously mischievous tales.

The World s Most Powerful Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed and fought in the last 500 years. Beginning with King Henry VIII s flagship, the book covers all the main periods of battleship development, including the great sail ships, steam-driven warships, and the great battleships of the two world wars. Each entry includes a brief description of the battleship s development and history, a profile view, key features, and...

One of the philosopher's most studied works, the Nicomachean Ethics, is here made available in the same translation in the World's Classics. Notes of primarily textual importance have been omitted, leaving only those of more general philosophical interest the index has been adapted for this edition and there is a new Introduction by the translator. Though Aristotle at hisdeath left other ethical works, and this book is therefore called after its first...

The authoritative biography of the WWII ace fighter pilot, hero of the Battle of Britain and author of the classic wartime memoir The Last Enemy. As both a legendary flying ace and an accomplished author, Richard Hillary achieved a unique kind of immortality during his tragically short life. Born in Australia and raised in England, he attended Oxford University before joining the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of World War II. Flying Spitfires...

From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, with the possible exception of Robert's friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for one vital reason: they were winners. For them it was not enough to follow the progress made by others. They had to be the best. Colossal in confidence, ability, energy and ambition,...

Life is too short to waste on unproductive workshops and draining meetings. We've all sat through workshops and meetings that drag. Perhaps participants were overwhelmed by "zoom fatigue" or there were plenty of opinions but no agreed way forward. This book provides a fail-safe methodology to address these common pitfalls and design and host workshops and meetings that produce real business outcomes. Created by a leading workshop training provider,...

Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realized. In a bizarre brush with the light-entertainment business, Archie unwittingly saves the life of the UK's top showbiz star, Hank "Heady" Hendricks, and now dreams of hitting the big-time as a Popular Music Impresario. Seizing the initiative, he creates a new singing group with five unruly working-class kids from Glasgow's East End. Together, they make the finals of...

The deaths of a series of young Eastern European women in Glasgow leads to a stately home in the Scottish countryside, and back to the Second World War, where a group of young soldiers made their own, shocking rules... Saltire Prize shortlisted author David F. Ross returns with an extraordinary, dark mystery – first in a new series. ‘ David Ross carved out an enduring place for himself among contemporary Scottish novelists' Herald Scotland __________ Glasgow,...