Dickens's favorite of all his novels, "David Copperfield is the story of a boy who loses both parents at an early age, and who escapes the torture of working for his pitiless stepfather to make something of himself and, with any luck, find true happiness.
"David Copperfield features an unforgett[...]
Vanguard follows their hit Frazetta: The Definitive Reference with Jeffrey Jones: The Definitive Reference. Legendary artist Frank Frazetta once called Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award winner Jones "the great living painter." Jones and Frazetta were the top two heroic fantasy book cover artists of[...]
Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology series, the Oxford Textbook of Neuromuscular Disorders covers the scientific basis, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of neuromuscular disorders with a particular focus on the most clinically relevant disorders. The book is organized into seven sect[...]
The myths and legends of four continents are vividly brought to life in illustrated encyclopedias that inform, delight and intrigue. The encyclopedia of classical mythology describes the central mythical figures of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Celtic heroes and the Nordic gods. The volume on the myt[...]
Sacred Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to achieve a condition of worldly perfection. In particular, the book focuses upon Islamism as a post modern political religion that considers violence both necessary and purificatory. It also exami[...]
"One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple."
-Psalm 27:4, KJV The Psalms are treasures from those who earnestly sought the face of God. They are h[...]
Does God care about the sin and suffering in the world today? Why doesn't he bring an end to war and violence? When our lives seem shattered by personal tragedy, is there any answer? Is there any place to which we can turn to find hope and peace and true happiness whatever our circumstances? The rin[...]
How can we ensure our strategy will succeed, especially in changing and uncertain times? The answer, as explained in "Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations", is to become a more responsive organization - one that captures its strategy in strategy maps, learns from that strategy and can adapt t[...]
In every era the church needs revival--certainly today as much as ever. And in the heart of every committed Christian there is the longing for personal revival--to know the quality and depths of spiritual reality, and the presence of God in one's personal life. This was the deepest desire of Dr. Mar[...]
This book covers the key concepts central to understanding recent developments in media and communications studies. Its index also provides further points of entry. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in style it sets out a useful, clear map of the important theories, methods and debates. The entri[...]
An engaging and straighforward series that uses textbook and CD-ROM to teach the OCR Gateway specification B. The Cambridge Gateway Sciences classbook includes self-assessment questions and concise summaries to tie everything together and show the students what they need to know for the examination[...]
Recent years have seen growing media and political attention to the issue of tourism and crime in a number of countries. Issues such as drugs tourism, sex tourism & alcohol-related crime and disorder have highlighted crimes and rule-breaking by tourists[...]
Just who does David Cameron think he is? In an engaging series of landmark interviews--that will define the would-be prime minister ahead of the next election--Dylan Jones finds out. David Cameron is asking the British people for the keys to Number Ten--but is he a smartly-dressed smoothie with all [...]
"Engineering Materials 2" is one of the leading self-contained texts for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering. The book provides a concise introduction to the microstructures and processing of materials and shows how these are related to the properties required in e[...]
This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors: a radical dualism, in whi[...]
The Andes are of unquestioned significance to the human story: a cradle of agriculture and of 'pristine' civilisation with a pedigree of millennia. The Incas were but the culmination of a succession of civilisations that rose and fell to leave one of the richest archaeological records on Earth. By n[...]
What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This Very Short Introduction investigates stories and speculations about angels in religions old and new, in art, literature, film, and the popular[...]