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  • Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook

    Over 55 hands-on recipes covering the key aspects of a successful App-V deployment

    by James Preston ...
    Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWith an ever-increasing number of applications being deployed in the workplace, Microsoft App-V 5 enables administrators to abstract these applications from clients, in turn reducing the time taken to complete the software deployment lifecycle. Part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, App-V 5 centralizes the management of applications with a variety of ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kent's Transport Heritage

    by James Preston ...
    Kent is strategically located, lying on the approach to London and being the shortest route to and from continental Europe. As a result the evolution of its means of transport has left its mark. Roads were turnpiked in the eighteenth century, creating toll houses, coaching inns, milestones and bridges, while the motor car age saw the rise of filling stations. Kent claims the world’s first all ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Kent's Industrial Heritage

    by James Preston ...
    Kent is thought of as the ‘Garden of England’ and has been described as a county of ‘hops, apples and cherries’. This may be true of a large part of the county, particularly after the Weald lost its important broadcloth and iron industries, but north Kent bordering the Thames and Medway became in the nineteenth century the most highly industrialised area of south-east England outside London. Kent, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Malting and Malthouses in Kent

    by James Preston ...
    Before the late nineteenth century ale and beer, brewed from malt, were widely consumed due to the lack of affordable, safe alternatives. North Kent was well placed for growing and malting barley to supply local and London brewers. While the malting process was to remain unchanged until after the abolition of the Malt Tax in 1880, the organisation of the industry shifted from small independent ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Aveling & Porter: An Illustrated History

    by James Preston ...
    Thomas Aveling, a farmer and self-taught engineer, became the ‘father of the traction engine’. This resulted from efforts to improve agricultural machinery. After success with steam ploughing, his conversion of the portable steam engine, making it self-propelling, produced the first commercially successful traction engine. Establishing a factory in Strood, Kent in 1861, Aveling’s need for finance ... Read more

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  • Criminal Pursuits: This is Me

    by Samantha Lee Howe, Maxim Jakubowski, Raven Dane, Caroline England, Bryony Pearce, Michael Wood, Preston Grassmann, James Grady, Paul Magrs, Rhys Hughes, Noelle Holten, Benjamin Adams, Steven Smith, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth ...
    Fourteen stories. Fourteen terrifying journeys.† A suicidal man waits on a high building for the perfect moment †† A young woman discovers that the past is a different place †† A victim searches for her killer in the most unexpected location †† A serial killer seeks retribution for his press nickname †† A young man explores noir and sex in Paris †† A woman scorned tries to rebuild her life with ... Read more

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  • Harlequin Historical July 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

    An Anthology

    by Sophia James, Janice Preston, Virginia Heath ...
    Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection!RUINED BY THE RECKLESS VISCOUNTby Sophia James(Regency)Viscount Winterton unintentionally ruins Florentia Hale-Burton's reputation when he abducts her to protect her from harm! Now, years later, Florentia must face ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Crashpad

    by James R Preston ...
    “It was arterial spray from her roommate Becky that saved Mary Jane’s life. There was so much blood he must have thought she was dead too.”So begins Crashpad, a story set in the turbulent war year of 1970.Skirts are short, hair is long; we’ve invaded Southeast Asia and the British have invaded us. College campuses everywhere are erupting with protests; Goldie Hawn go-go dances in a bikini and body ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Buzzkill

    by James R. Preston ...
    “Am I going to die?”Eighteen-year-old Mary Jane Bailey is sprawled on her back in a weed-choked field, bleeding from a cut on her forehead, when she asks that question to the man in a sharkskin suit standing over her holding a straight razor.It is 1968. Jane is both a student and snitch. A federal agency asks her to keep her eyes open and report on potentially violent activities at Cal State Long ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Sailor Home From Sea

    by James R. Preston ...
    Sailor Home From Sea from the journals of T.R. Macdonald: Westwood, CA. A UCLA Teaching Assistant is killed in a hit-and-run accident. But it's not an accident. It's murder. Chicago, IL. A therapist at a prominent mental health clinic kills his girlfriend and then turns the gun on himself. O'Hare International Airport. Mary Shaw, aka Kandi, and the love of my life, is fleeing the scene of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs

    Eyewitness Memoirs of Soldiers, Sailors, Commanders, and Civilians from the Union and Confederacy

    by Ulysses S. Grant, Heros von Borcke, John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, J. W. Gibson, William Howard Russell, Samuel S. Hildebrand, Joseph Warren Keifer, John A. Sloan, Thomas North, George Perkins, Jacob D. Cox, Henry Bascom Smith, W. H. Morgan, Henry B. James, Louis Richards, Preston Lafayette Ledford, Henry Martyn Kieffer, Charles A. Fuller, Thomas Coleman Younger, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel R. Watkins, John Singleton Mosby, James Longstreet, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, James Madison Page, Alonzo Cooper, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Isaac Hermann, Richard Taylor, Leander Stillwell, Charles Anderson Dana, Raphael Semmes, James Harvey Kidd, John Beatty, William Watson, Carlton McCarthy, Hampton Sidney Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, Frederick L. Hitchcock, James R. Carnahan, J. Wilkinson, Joseph W. Grant, Daniel P. Smith, Richard J. Fulfer, John Lockwood, Henry C. Meyer, Richard L. Maury, Samuel Scoville, James Carson Elliott, H. Clay Trumbull, James Madison Stone, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Stanton P. Allen, Allen Ripley Foote, Alfred J. Vaughan, Thomas Kirwan, Henry Lane Stone, E. H. Clement, Edward Mott Robbins, Luther W. Hopkins, Martin A. Haynes, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John G. B. Adams, Ansel D. Nickerson, Warren Olney, Daniel Avery Langworthy, John Porter Fort, Joshua M. Addeman, Eugene Winslow Watson, Samuel Dana Greene, John Lorimer Worden, H. Ashton Ramsay, Bradford Ripley Jr. Wood, Frank A. Rollin, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, John Milton Hubbard, John Watson Foster, Rufus H. Peck, R. E. McBride, Charles Carleton Coffin, Wickham Hoffman, George T. Ulmer, Thomas D. Duncan, Edward Alexander Moore, John Call Dalton, Henry H. Meacham, David E. Johnston, William A. Canfield, Abner Doubleday, John M. Batten, George Cary Eggleston, Lawrence Van Alstyne, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, David W. Stafford, James H. Wood, Charles C. Nott, William Meade Dame, S. Emma E. Edmonds, John Levi Maile, Edward M. Boykin, D. H. Fletcher, Samuel H. Fletcher, William N. Tyler, John Azor Kellogg, James Pike, Lot D. Young, Francis Warrington Dawson, David Lathrop ...
    100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of ... Read more

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  • FaceOff

    by Lee Child, Michael Connelly, John Sandford, Lisa Gardner, Dennis Lehane, Steve Berry, Jeffery Deaver, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, James Rollins, Joseph Finder, Steve Martini, Heather Graham, Ian Rankin, Linda Fairstein, M. J. Rose, R.L. Stine, Raymond Khoury, Linwood Barclay, John Lescroart, T. Jefferson Parker, F. Paul Wilson, Peter James ...
    An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and “a thriller reader’s ultimate fantasy” (Booklist), this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pair their series characters in an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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