Set in a mythical, feudal Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, this intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, famine and treacherous alliances.[...]

'Their realm is held in balance by their union ...Break that union and the Three Countries will fall apart.' Otori Takeo and Kaede have ruled the Three Countries peacefully for over sixteen years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori. They have three daughters: Shigeko, fifte[...]

Under no circumstances are girls EVER to be allowed anywhere near dragons. THE PENALTY FOR ANY GIRL CAUGHT BREAKING THE FIRST LAW IS DEATH. Kira is twelve, and strong willed. The daughter of a retired dragon knight, she yearns for adventure and dreams of following in her father's footsteps astride [...]

From war-torn Olympus to stormy New York City, mythology and reality collide in a breathtaking adventure.

When Pegasus, the majestic winged-stallion, crashes on to her roof in the middle of a storm that blacks-out New York City, 13-year-old Emily's life becomes that of legend: epic batt[...]

From Robert Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and William Makepeace Thackeray's "Rose and the Ring" to Kenneth Grahme's "Reluctant Dragon "and J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, "here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them a[...]

The underlying theme of this edited collection is gendered citizenship, as well as the challenges and limits that confront the gendering of citizenship. It critiques the notion of the genderless nation-state citizen - in both analytical and policy terms and contexts - and necessarily engages with at[...]

The workbook maintains the same structure as the Pupil's book and provides reinforcement and consolidation of the language developed in the core lessons. The activities build on a variety of learning strategies and techniques such as comparing, drawing, classifying, matching, colouring, etc.[...]

English Adventure uses familiar Disney characters that children know and love to motivate and encourage pupils to learn.[...]

"Powers of the air, be here now. So mote it be."
Nell is a wild child. Conceived on May Morning, she is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is the village cunning woman's granddaughter: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife...and, some say, a w[...]

'This exceptionally interesting study provides an up-to-date and integrated perspective on organizations, violence, gender and sexuality. It pays particular attention to the power wielded by hierarchies of heterosexual men, and the ways in which this produces violence in different, carefully analyz[...]

Addressing the problem of men's violence to known women, this book considers the scale of, and critically reviews the theoretical frameworks used to explain this violence. From the perspective of 'critical studies on men', Jeff Hearn discusses issues, challenges and possible research methods for th[...]

Kwaidan translates as "weird tales," and that describes perfectly the haunting stories collected in this unforgettable volume. Author Lafeadio Hearn writes in prose so simple and direct it crawls like goosebumps up the reader's spine. The weird, ghostly legends collected here emit perfectly the chil[...]

When Cuba's centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritag[...]