David James Smith is een geprezen non-fictie auteur en bekroond journalist. Zijn werk duikt diep in misdaad, gerechtigheid en menselijke levens, waarbij hij zich vaak richt op gerechtelijke dwalingen en de diepgaande impact daarvan. Smith's onderzoekende aanpak ontrafelt complexe verhalen met een scherp oog voor detail en een diep begrip van de motivaties van zijn onderwerpen. Door zijn schrijven verkent hij de duistere kanten van de menselijke natuur en benadrukt hij tegelijkertijd de kwetsbaarheid van waarheid en rechtvaardigheid.
In this second edition David James provides an encyclopaedic guide to the techniques and materials involved in upholstery. The book covers everything from traditional handwork to the latest industrial techniques, giving a complete overview of the upholstery trade. Five step-by-step projects follow.
The first English-language survey of Fichte's philosophy, examining all the central areas and stages of his work.
Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world. A historical account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Using newly available sources and older material, David James Smith brilliantly reinvestigates and reconstructs the events which subsequently determined the shape of the twentieth century. Young Gavrilo Princip arrived at the Vlajnic pastry shop in Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the morning of 28 June 1914. He was greeted by his fellow conspirators in the plot to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Archduke, next in line to succeed as Emperor of Austria, was beginning a state visit to Sarajevo later that morning. Ferdinand was not a very popular character - widely thought of as bad-tempered and arrogant and perhaps even deranged. To the young students he embodied everything they loathed about imperial oppression. They planned to kill him at about 11 o'clock as he paraded down Appel Quay to the town hall in his open top car. What happened in those few hours - leading as it did to the First and Second World Wars - is as compelling as any thriller.
Edwardian London in 1910, the notorious tale of Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve re-investigated by a prizewinning journalist. 'The definitive account of a crime which still intrigues, and to an extent baffles, aficionados of murder' P D James