Acclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.''Popular history at its best.'' Daily TelegraphHelen Castor…
Examines the essential role that magnesium plays in human health, explaining how the nutrient can be used to help prevent and alleviate heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis,…
''Her first full work of the charged Modernism that would come to define her'' Paris ReviewJacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of…
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In Basil''s secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper''s sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the…
''One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature'' ANITA BROOKNER''Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining'' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER''Any one of her…
Meet Harper the Confidence Fairy, the first fairy with Down''s syndrome, who helps people to find and grow their inner confidence. Harper helps people to feel confident with the…
''Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same'' GLORIA STEINEM''Her evocative, often troubling, novels…
Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical…
Master Key Stage 2 mathematics in just 10 minutes a day with the activities in this essential home learning maths workbook from Carol Vorderman. 10 Minutes a Day Maths is an at…
''Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?'' W. B. YeatsThis anthology traces…
Explores Early Modern Southeast Asian warfare, blending war elephants, firearms, sieges, and cultural traditions.Elephants and Gunpowder presents for the first time a…
Full of senior sagacity and elderly erudition, this hilarious survival guide is on hand to show you that it really is the life in your years that countsNow that you''re a senior,…
Tuffy doesn''t feel wanted at home any more. His owners just don''t appreciate him. So what if he broke the new TV? Got fur on all Dad''s clean clothes? Ate Tinkerbell the kitten'…
The story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and the ancient python Kaa, and who…