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A Dictionary of Proverbs
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 14.99This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs... more...
XPath and XPointer
O'Reilly Media 2009; US$ 23.99Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack: how do you differentiate the information you need from everything else? XPath and XPointer are two closely related languages that play a key role in XML processing by allowing developers to find these needles and manipulate embedded information.... more...
XPath and XPointer
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2007; US$ 23.99Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack: how do you differentiate the information you need from everything else? XPath and XPointer are two closely related languages that play a key role in XML processing by allowing developers to find these needles and manipulate embedded information.... more...
Preservation of Near-Earth Space for Future Generations
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 50.00The questions that must be asked as man-made space debris in the near-Earth environment becomes a critical problem. more...
Strange Places, Questionable People
Pan Macmillan UK 1998; US$ 18.03For over thirty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter, to escaping summary execution in Beirut, flying into Teheran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini, and narrowly avoiding entrapment by a beautiful... more...
News From No Man's Land
Pan Macmillan UK 2002; US$ 18.03On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a campaign that Simpson had covered from the beginning, despite appalling difficulties and, often, great danger. In this, his third riveting volume... more...
A Mad World, My Masters
Pan Macmillan UK 2000; US$ 18.03There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people,... more...
Not Quite World's End
Pan Macmillan UK 2007; US$ 18.03A new volume of memoir and traveller's tales from John Simpson, in the vein of his bestselling A Mad World, My Masters John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately believe that the end of the world truly... more...
The Wars Against Saddam
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 7.66This riveting account is the summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq: a major work of serious reportage and essential reading for us all. 'By far the most comprehensive and readable account to date . . . Simpson remains a reporter who cares' Sunday Times 'Well-paced and well balanced . . . The Wars Against Saddam impresses... more...
Days from a Different World
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 7.66?I have already touched on my childhood in Strange Places, Questionable People. But the further through life I get the more I want to revisit it. I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family.? This is not a mere exercise in nostalgia, rather it is a journey through the England of the late 1940s in all its shabby... more...









