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The Blackhouse (Paperback): Peter May The Blackhouse (Paperback)
Peter May; Read by Peter Forbes
R337 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.

A MURDER

Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.

A SECRET

Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.

A TRAP

As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted.

The Picador Book of Wedding Poems (Paperback): Peter Forbes The Picador Book of Wedding Poems (Paperback)
Peter Forbes 1
Sold By Readers Warehouse - Fulfilled by Loot
R79 R62 Discovery Miles 620 Save R17 (22%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days

The Picador Book of Wedding Poems is not just a pocket-sized Cyrano de Bergerac for the romantically tongue-tied: it is a veritable dictionary of all the ways in which love can be declared. If you're in the first throes of new love, need to put a relationship to the test, or have reached the point of a great affirmation or commitment, you'll find a poem here beautifully fitted to the occasion. This is an ideal book when a speech - whether public or private - has to be made, an instant cure for love-letter writer's block, and the perfect companion on those lonely evenings when we need our strongest emotions put into words - written by the greatest poets in the language.

Friendly Houses - By Peter Forbes (Hardcover): Peter Forbes Friendly Houses - By Peter Forbes (Hardcover)
Peter Forbes
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Out of stock

In the early 1980’s with the customary dearth of commissions for a young architectural practice Massimo Vignelli had designed a series of prototypical houses. These were specifically affordable houses, houses that could be built inexpensively, but without the onus attached to “cheap housing.” Fundamental to the design was the notion that these dwellings should have resonance with what is deeply recognized in all peoples as “house.” Massimo noted that the concept, indeed, the word “friendly” as applied to an object was unique to the English language and that these houses with their simple geometry and pitched roofs embodied the idea, from which was born this book.

The Gecko's Foot - How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book (Paperback): Peter Forbes The Gecko's Foot - How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book (Paperback)
Peter Forbes 1
R259 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R27 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A cutting-edge science book in the style of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'Chaos' from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing. Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider silk or the surface of the gecko's foot. The amazing power of the gecko's foot has long been known - it can climb a vertical glass wall and even walk upside down on the ceiling - but no ideas could be harnessed from it because its mechanism could not be seen with the power of optical microscopes. Recently however the secret was solved by a team of scientists in Oregon who established that the mechanism really is dry, and that it does not involve suction, capillary action or anything else the lay person might imagine. Each foot has half a million bristles and each bristle ramifies into hundreds of finer spatula-shaped projections. The fine scale of the gecko's foot is beyond the capacity of conventional microengineering, but a team of nanotechnologists have already made a good initial approximation. The gecko's foot is just one of many examples of this new 'smart' science. We also discover, amongst other things, how George de Mestral's brush with the spiny fruits of the cocklebur inspired him to invent Velcro; how the shape of leaves opening from a bud has inspired the design of solar-powered satellites; and the parallels between cantilever bridges and the spines of large mammals such as the bison. The new 'smart' science of Bio-inspiration is going to produce a plethora of products over the next decades that will transform our lives, and force us to look at the world in a completely new way. It is science we will be reading about in our papers very soon; it is the science of tomorrow's world.

A Handmade Life - In Search of Simplicity (Paperback): William Coperthwaite A Handmade Life - In Search of Simplicity (Paperback)
William Coperthwaite; Photographs by Peter Forbes; John Saltmarsh
R743 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Save R139 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer, and writer who for many years has explored the possibilities of true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Helen and Scott Nearing, Coperthwaite has fashioned a livelihood of integrity and completeness-buying almost nothing, providing for his own needs, and serving as a guide and companion to hundreds of apprentices drawn to his unique way of being."A Handmade Life" carries Coperthwaite's ongoing experiments with hand tools, hand-grown and gathered food, and handmade shelter, clothing, and furnishings out into the world to challenge and inspire. His writing is both philosophical and practical, exploring themes of beauty, work, education, and design while giving instruction on the hand-crafting of the necessities of life. Richly illustrated with luminous color photographs by Peter Forbes, the book is a moving and inspirational testament to a new practice of old ways of life.

The Black House (Paperback): Peter May The Black House (Paperback)
Peter May; Read by Peter Forbes 1
R315 R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Save R133 (42%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From acclaimed author and television dramatist Peter May comes the first book in the Lewis Trilogy--a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a formidable and forbidding world where tradition rules and people adhere to ancient ways of life. When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that has the hallmarks of a killing he's investigating on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his own troubled past. As Finn reconnects with the places and people of his tortured childhood, he feels the island once again asserting its grip on his psyche. And every step forward in solving the murder takes him closer to a dangerous confrontation with the tragic events of the past that shaped--and nearly destroyed--Fin's life.
"The Blackhouse" is a thriller of rare power and vision that explores the darkest recesses of the soul.

The Sleeper and the Spindle (Vinyl record, Unabridged edition): Neil Gaiman The Sleeper and the Spindle (Vinyl record, Unabridged edition)
Neil Gaiman; Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adjoa Andoh, John Sessions, Michael Maloney, …
R161 Discovery Miles 1 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Gecko's Foot - Bio-Inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature (Paperback): Peter Forbes The Gecko's Foot - Bio-Inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature (Paperback)
Peter Forbes
R609 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R66 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn't envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature has indeed yielded such inventions for those scientists and engineers who heeded the architect's words. The cutting-edge science of bio-inspiration gives way to architectural and product designs that mimic intricate mechanisms found in nature. In Peter Forbes's engaging book we discover that the spiny fruits of the cocklebur inspired the hook-and-loop fastener known as Velcro; unfolding leaves, insect wings, and space solar panels share similar origami folding patterns; the self-cleaning leaves of the sacred lotus plant have spawned a new industry of self-cleaning surfaces; and cantilever bridges have much in common with bison spines. As we continue to study nature, bio-inspiration will transform our lives and force us to look at the world in a new way.

I'll Keep You Safe Lib/E (Standard format, CD): Peter May I'll Keep You Safe Lib/E (Standard format, CD)
Peter May; Read by Peter Forbes, Anna Murray
R2,326 R1,608 Discovery Miles 16 080 Save R718 (31%) Out of stock
The Killing Room (Standard format, CD): Peter May The Killing Room (Standard format, CD)
Peter May; Read by Peter Forbes
R2,448 R1,701 Discovery Miles 17 010 Save R747 (31%) Out of stock
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