This text/CD-ROM provides a grounding in macroeconomics that undergraduates can understand while incorporating the major developments introduced in the last two decades. Material is presented from the viewpoint of general equilibrium theory, data is emphasized in every chapter, and ideas are introdu[...]

Each volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the period it covers. Although the emphasis is clearly on political history, the major issues affecting the economy, society, religion, culture and ideas are also given appropriate treatment. Sufficient detail is included to ensure that a sound basic k[...]

A third edition of this title, with a new accessible design, revised content and exam advice to allow all AS and A level students to develop the knowledge, understanding and study skills needed for exam success.[...]

A new title in the Access to History series, written specifically to cover the key content of the AQA and Edexcel 2008 AS specifications.[...]

The fourth edition of this bestselling title, charts the course of British foreign policy from the end of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles, to the social and economic effects of the Second World War.[...]

Two bewitching fantasies by J.R.R. Tolkien, beloved author of THE HOBBIT. In SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, Tolkien explores the gift of fantasy, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it. And FARMER GILES OF HAM tells a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale, where a dragon who [...]

In this high school-set psychological tale, a tormented teen named Evan starts to discover a series of unnerving photographs--some of which feature him. Someone is stalking him . . . messing with him . . . threatening him. Worse, ever since his best friend Ariel has been gone, he's been unable to sl[...]

Tracy Kidder's critically acclaimed adult nonfiction work, "Mountains Beyond Mountains" has been adapted for young people by Michael French. In this young adult edition, readers are introduced to Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a g[...]

Fans of Polly Horvath or Roald Dahl will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens.
Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they ve inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets [...]

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith--a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer--shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishi[...]

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of [...]