Whales represents an impressive body of knowledge, reflecting thirty-five years of personal observations by the energetic, globetrotting Captain Cousteau and his crew members. The result is a magnificent tribute to the world's most intriguing creatures.
Tara Road, is the story of two women one Irish, one American, both struggling to overcome personal tragedies who agree to swap houses for the summer. Ria and her husband, Danny, live in a magnificent old house they have restored together. But her posh Dublin address loses much of its charm when Danny leaves her for his young, pregnant girlfriend.
In the nineteenth century, English mathematician William Shanks spent fifteen years calculating the value of pi, setting a record for the number of decimal places. Later, his calculation was reproduced using large wooden numerals to decorate the cupola of a hall in the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. However, in 1946, with the aid of a mechanical desk calculator that ran for seventy hours, it was discovered that there was a mistake in the 528th decimal place. Today, supercomputers have determined the value of pi to trillions of decimal places.
It is a collection of fascinating vignettes of Manhattan in the 1920s. This covers everything from Jimmy Walker to gangsters to Texas Guinan to William J Wilgus, the architect of Grand Central Terminal, to beauty entrepreneurs to Fred F French & Irwin S Chanin to Walter Chrysler and his beloved skyscraper. Also included are "Roxy' Rothafel & his magnificent movie palace & the radio boys, Sarnoff & Paley, Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney, Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig, Duke Ellington & Flo Ziegfeld.
She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his presumptuous airs, Caroline was determined to win his lasting love. But Bradford would bend to no woman — until a deadly intrigue drew them enticingly close. Now, united against a common enemy, they would discover the power of the magnificent attraction that brought them together…a desire born in danger, but destined to flame into love!
