Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favor as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favorites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (edi[...]

"Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food." --"The Washington Post"
Today's optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food[...]

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) was one of the most important and honoured American composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a great variety of musical forms - symphonies, concertos, operas, vocal music, chamber music - he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new [...]

Providing all the authority of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary in a user-friendly student's edition, The Student's Oxford Canadian Dictionary, Second Edition continues with the highly set standard of excellence for Canadian resources. Building on the successful first edition, this dictionary is suit[...]

Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works is the first publication to list the entire musical output of one of the most beloved and frequently performed American composers. In this exhaustive study, renowned Barber biographer Barbara Heyman chronologically lists and details more than[...]

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though their efforts to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, soon thereafter Sigmund Freud took up the heritage of h[...]

The secrets of successful government from Michael Barber, one of the world's leading experts on carrying out lasting improvements in public life. Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Political leaders struggle to honour their promises and officials find it nea[...]

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favour. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria an[...]

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world. The materials used and the sensory impressions the[...]

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favour. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria an[...]

Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly st[...]

Written and edited by the most respected authorities in forensic nursing and forensic sciences, this new edition provides the tools and concepts you need to collect evidence that is admissible in court, determine the significance of that evidence, and provide accurate, reliable testimony while admin[...]

Suitable for pre-registration nursing students looking for an accessible guide to drug groups, this title examines the next logical set of drug groups that nurses need to know. It includes Cardiovascular drugs, Gastrointestinal drugs, Drugs used in cancer, Drugs used in nausea and vomiting, Anaesthe[...]