This is the best book for simply celebrating chess in the western world. Innumerable black/white and colour illustrations including cartoons as well as photos. Publisher: The Abbey Library, London Year: 1972,...
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Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively...
This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It...
This book introduces the reader to the serious study of Greek history, concentrating more on problems than on narrative. The topics selected have been prominent in modern research and references...
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's...
12-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. Karim longs...
Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. The results are shown annually on television. Yet for the children who grow...
With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work...
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. A Midsummer Night's...
This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the...
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Third Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It...
A full-colour wrokbook with audio CD for reinforcing the content of À plus - 2/A2 - Livre. It includes also preparation for DELF examinations at A2 level. L’outil idéal pour consolider...
Our new collection for 12-16 years is ideal for having fun while learning!The strengths of the A Plus 2 A2.1 Livre d'Eleve & CD: A truly action-oriented approach with clear...
Play about a teenage drunken rape-murder following a party of NSW Higher School Certificate students in a Sydney industrial suburb. Winner of the Australian Writers' Guild 1993 AWGIE awards for...
William Faulkner has a reputation as a difficult author -- but he doesn't have to be! With this new guide, As I Lay Dying can be easy to understand. Included...
The series, A Sense of History uses a combination of narrative and unusual sources to tell good stories well. It invites teachers and pupils to explore the past together and...
The complexities of the Italian Renaissance are explained here through individual artists and the places and times in which they lived. The breadth and beauty of the artistic flowering that...
A complete resource for National Curriculum programmes of study. Develops pupils' analytical and communication skills by encouraging them to make their own historical judgements based on the evidence provided. The...
Nader ('Peyman Moaadi' ) and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to...
Our worldview acts as the lens through which we view the world. We might not look at the lens, but we do look through it, and will largely determine what...
Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama and a wide range of established classics, in value-for-money hardback versions. The series has been specially developed...