The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative. It focuses on the linkages between social origins and life experiences.[...]

Join Balbini as she shares with us the history, wildlife and geography of her beautiful country.

Growing up in a small seaside town, Marcie Brooks dreams of owning a Mary Quant mini-skirt, the Beatles, and escape. Instead she's stuck in a dead-end job selling candy floss to tourists and with a crazy family. Despite it all, she adores her father, but Tony's light fingers and hard man reputation [...]

Even a small town girl can have big dreams...Marcie Brooks has returned to her home town with a baby and a ring on her finger. But for all her grandmother's insistence that she's a young widow, the truth is the only boy Marcie has ever loved tragically died before he could make good his promise to [...]

David Loogan is living in a small town with his detective girlfriend. He's settled into a quiet routine as editor of the crime magazine "Gray Streets" - until one day he finds a manuscript outside his door. It begins: "I killed Henry Kormoran". Anthony Lark has drawn up a list of names - Terry Dawtr[...]

Born and bred on the estates of east London, the author's early life was marked by neglect and abuse, and his childhood gift for drawing was stamped out by the tough realities outside his front door. This title tells the true story of how one man turned his life around through the companionship of h[...]

Unabridged. Two cassettes, 2.5 hours.

Read by Sinead Cusack, Ciaran Hinds, Eileen Atkins, Paul Jesson and Sir John Gielgud[...]

Bold and original. Daniel Kahneman, PhD, bestselling author of "Thinking Fast and Slow"
There are a slew of books on the market dictating programs for achieving happiness, but "Happiness by Design "is the first to explain that happiness ultimately depends upon our experience of pleasure and purp[...]

A unique resource created for the new AQA Use of Mathematics A-level, covering techniques and topics students need to flourish in their studies. Clear, focused explanations, examples and exercises give students skills and confidence to successfully answer the many practice questions, including two r[...]

Why is it useful to look at theatre and performance through the lens of sexual identity? How has commercial theatre embraced gay and lesbian work? Theatre& Sexuality introduces critical methods and artistic practices that link drama, theatre and performance with minority sexualities in both the U.S.[...]

Marc Dolan traces the cultural, political and personal forces that shaped the music of Bruce Springsteen. Beyond his constant stylistic adaptations, Springsteen developed from being the voice of a guy from working class New Jersey to writing about the larger issues facing America. Dolan draws on a r[...]