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  • RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife

    Second Edition

    by Geoffrey Abbott, Mr Peter Holden ...
    Series series RSPB
    The updated edition of the popular RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife.This friendly handbook is full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden, and encouraging creatures to stick around, as well as expert tips on green gardening, seasonal planting and garden predators.Colour photographs illustrate hundreds of mammals, birds, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, flowers, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Amazing True Stories of Execution Blunders

    by Geoffrey Abbott ...
    The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker at the hands of lamentably inept executioners. With black and white illustrations, this book brings together a mixture of bungled executions, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife

    3rd edition

    by Mr Peter Holden, Geoffrey Abbott ...
    Series series RSPB
    A comprehensive single source of information on the plants and animals that live alongside us. This updated edition features new material on climate change, recycling and wild spaces in gardens.This friendly handbook is full of practical advice on attracting wildlife to your garden and encouraging creatures to stick around. A helpful introductory section includes expert tips on green gardening, ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Executioner Always Chops Twice

    Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold

    by Geoffrey Abbott ...
    A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day.Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without a trace. Or to be told that the condemned to the guillotine won't have a last drink for fear of "completely ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Execution

    The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

    by Geoffrey Abbott ...
    In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as "gone west" or "drawn a blank," as well as the jargon of the underworld. He covers everything from the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body. Execution is everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate penalty-- ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Torture

    Persuasion at its Most Gruesome

    by Geoffrey Abbott ...
    How did it feel to be faced with the prospect of being branded, pressed to death or boiled alive in oil?In this classic account of the history of torture, Geoffrey Abbott guides us through some of the worst torture methods known to man, from chilli powder punishment to needles under nails, with a style both chilling and full of dark humour. Prepare to be shocked to the core with this gruesome ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching

    Edited by Michel Moral, Geoffrey Abbott ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    An effective coach can help the business leader make sense of the challenges and complexities of modern international business, unlocking the potential of both leader and organization. This important new handbook offers the first comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of international business coaching, drawing on the very latest academic research, as well as real-world ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Public Executions

    From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul'-Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.16th-20th centurySocieties throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary

    by Kel Richards ...
    The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoirIf you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Plague and the Fire

    by James Leasor ...
    New York Times 'Could hardly be a more timely parable for our day' Evening Standard 'An engrossing and vivid impression of those terrible days' Sunday Express 'Absorbing. . .an excellent account of the two most fantastic years in London's history' This book chronicles the horror and human suffering of two of the most terrible years in London's long and vivid history. 1665 brought the plague and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ghosts of the Tower of London

    by G. Abbott ...
    Series series The Paranormal
    Tales of haunting from one of the world's most terrifying landmarks.The Tower of London's most horrific tragedies are well known; the gruesome deaths of the two boy princes in the Bloody Tower, Anne Boleyn's execution, the Jesuit priests and heretics who suffered the agonies of the rack and thumbscrew. Is it any wonder, then, that there are frequent reports of bloodcurdling screams and moans, of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisons and Prisoners in Victorian Britain

    by Neil R Storey ...
    Prisons and Prisoners in Victorian Britain' provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it - on both sides of the bars. Featuring stories of crime and misdeeds, this fascinating book includes chapters on a typical day inside a Victorian prison - food, divine service, exercise and medical provision; the punishments inflicted on convicts - ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus