This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship, second languag[...]

Too long hidden away in dark movie theatres, popcorn is a treat that's ready to take a leading role! And on hand to give this humble kernel a star makeover is the wonderfully creative Hannah Miles who shows how popcorn can be dressed up in a riotous variety of fabulous flavours! Sweet treats range f[...]

While in recent years the trend has been for cakes to be encased in icing and decorated in a fancy style, there is a new trend for stripping cakes back, and decorating them very simply with fresh edible flowers and vibrant berries or using pastel shades to make the cake itself the star attraction. T[...]

Documentary sources suggest that from c 1821-53 up to 33,000 burials may have taken place in the commercial Nonconformist burial ground at New Bunhill Fields, Southwark. Excavation of 827 wooden coffin burials in 2008 allows comparisons of the use of the burial ground, coffin furniture and burial fi[...]

An account of Sun Shuyun's journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history: the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism.[...]

A fascinating and accessible historical picture book about commerce, trade, and cultural exchange, perfect for classroom use and research.Silk has long been considered a symbol of wealth and luxury. But thousands of years ago, the production of silk cloth was one of China's most prized secrets. So h[...]

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Britain has 80 per cent of northern Europe's most ancient trees and a remarkable array of woodland types, in particular the huge variety of manifestations and combinations of our native species. Our trees are a defining feature of the British landscape and one of the best-loved aspects of our island[...]

Meet Pete Razanskas, 22-year veteran homicide cop and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood. They're an unlikely partnership whose job it is to attempt to close some of the hundreds of murder cases that happen every year in the gang-infested streets of South-Central LA. Crime re[...]

Uses individual drugs to explain molecular actions. This book presents logical structure reflecting the state of pharmacology and translational research, starting with receptors and finishing with target molecules. It covers such intricacies as drug resistance and cell death.[...]

Richard Miles' "Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization" charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage and Rome. In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy of[...]

The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." ("The Economist ")Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to ex[...]

In Elizabeth Gaskell's seminal biography The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell makes extensive use of Charlotte's correspondence with her closest friend, known to readers of that work simply as 'Dear M.' 'M.' was later identified as Mary Taylor, whom Charlotte met as a teenager at boarding school ([...]