In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta ' smaller than the Isle of Wight ' than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies cou[...]

Long ago when she was fresh out of high school and too young to know better, Awai Steele married a brutal man. Once she escaped him she created a new life for herself, vowing never to be dominated by any man. Now she runs a successful corporation and is known in business circles as a ball-buster, th[...]

Nominated for 2011 BMA Book Awards, this title is highly commended in surgical specialties. "Cornea", edited by Drs. Krachmer, Mannis & Holland, is the only truly comprehensive clinical reference available that covers external disease, anterior uveitis, and the expanding range of contemporary cornea[...]

War, weapon and superhero play has been banned in many early childhood settings. This book explores the development and application of a zero tolerance approach through the eyes of children and practitioners. It challenges the key rationale for linking aggressive play themes to violent behaviour.[...]

Skills of Clinical Supervision for Nurses: A Practical Guide for Supervisees, Clinical Supervisors and Managers aims to provide a practical and accessible, skills-based text on how to implement and engage in clinical supervision. Written in an accesible style, this book provides comprehensive covera[...]

Features worked examples, activities, investigations, graded exercises, key points summaries and discussion points. This book includes various exam questions, and warning signs to indicate common pitfalls. It offers support to schools through their network with newsletters, training days and an annu[...]

Part of the best-selling Access to History series, this title supports students studying the OCR A Historical Themes Unit.[...]

In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, sh[...]

Infamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented fact. Wandering in the mountains of Greece, the supreme sensualist is drawn to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave; soon he is utterly entranced, and his fate is se[...]

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastro[...]

This dreamy, soothing poem, now in a Little Golden Book, takes Tex and Rosie into the starry night. Full color.[...]

Eugene W. Holland provides an excellent introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus which is widely recognized as one of the most influential texts in philosophy to have appeared in the last thirty years. He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explo[...]