Paul O'Grady shot to fame via his brilliant comic creation, the blonde bombsite Lily Savage. In the first two parts of his bestselling and critically acclaimed autobiography, Paul took us through his childhood in Birkenhead to his first, teetering steps on stage. Now, in "Still Standing", for the fi[...]

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Matching folio to the self-titled smash hit album, including: I Want You * To the Moon and Back * Truly Madly Deeply * Break Me Shake Me * Santa Monica.[...]

Savage Exchange" explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE 220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ( Silk Road ) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political group[...]

The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. "Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves" explores how that history of slave[...]

How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of t[...]

The second race-against-time thriller from the author of ROTTEN GODS, in the tradition of le Carre, Ludlum and Clancy. The second race-against-time thriller from the author of ROTTEN GODS, in the tradition of le Carre, Ludlum and Clancy. Intelligence officer Marika Hartmann captures an extremist fo[...]

This text confronts a controversial and often taboo area of human behaviour: suicide. It embraces both the cultural attitudes and the development of theoretical studies, giving a broad basis for the examination of suicide through the standpoint of literature.[...]

Discover the exciting world of the toad, from a garden pond to a remote woodland - explore some of the different habitats that are the toad's home. Could you tell the difference between a toad and a frog? Do you know what a toad looks like when it is 8 weeks' old? Have you ever seen a toad catching [...]

This is a novel told through the voice of a rat. Firmin is born in the basement of a ramshackle old bookstore but because he is the runt of the litter, he is forced to compete for food and ends up chewing on the books that surround him. Firmin soon realizes his source of nourishment has endowed him [...]

What happens when society finds a wild boy alone in the woods and tries to civilize him? A true story from the author of "The Fairy Ring."
One day in 1798, woodsmen in southern France returned from the forest having captured a naked boy. He had been running wild, digging for food, and was covere[...]

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio.He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were sc[...]