In Alan Bennett's play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.An unruly bunch of...
This is Volume II only, a reprint of the original 3rd & 4th volumes of Macquoid's ' A History of English Furniture' published 1904-1905. With 1000 black and white illustrations and 8...
'This book calls upon the expertise of 13 specialists to tell fully, for the first time, the story of porcelain from its beginnings in the Far East to its present...
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a...
The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate, organised, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of European Jews. During the war, the Nazi regime and their collaborators systematically murdered over six million Jewish people....
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor. The great detective Sherlock...
Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920's, is battling insanity as she begins to write her great novel Mrs Dalloway. A wife and mother...
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike...
Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House on Mango Street is the story of Esperenza Cordera, a young girl growing in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For Esperanza, Mango Street...
This title is winner of British Medical Association Book Awards 2009 - Highly Commended, Basic and Clinical Sciences. Already known as the reference of choice for expert coverage on the...
Against all odds Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and...
The Hutchinson Chronology of World History Starting with the year 3000 BC, this volume traces the growth of civilizations and empires around the world - Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India,...
:The ICB Blessed Garden Bible is a beautiful way for little girls to carry the full text of Scripture with them. Its beautiful cover design with multiple foils and glitter will delight...
"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. "Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being...
Chapters include Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune--as they are in the twelve signs and twelve houses; Pluto as tranformer, the Sun as inner side of Nature, and the...
A remarkable and gripping story about one refugee boy on a desperate journey from Afghanistan, and the Australian boy who befriends him. WINNER: 2012 QLD Premier s Literary Awards Each...
A lavishly illustrated homage to the world of opera,Covers all topics such as filming and recording of opera, the great and obscure opera houses, and the pitfalls of the singing...
Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on...
Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship...
In Memoriam Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Commerative Edition Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is as old as the century. She was born nearly 100 years ago during...
This impressive volume was published to coincide with the centenary of the Zulu War in 1979. At the time it was not a commercial success and copies were being remaindered...
The leopard is the largest of Africa's spotted cats. A shy, predominately nocturnal animal, it presents few obvious opportunities for people to study it and, in its wild state, it...
John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St...