Miss Jean Brodie is a rare breed of teacher - passionate, independent-minded and romantically inspired, with not the slightest care for convention. She soon garners a devoted following of six young girls, who will become known as 'the Brodie set', and begins to shape them in her own image. But Miss [...]
Suitable for all professionals involved in maritime transport, including ship-owners, shipbrokers, freight forwarders, port authorities, average adjusters, and ship operators, this title contains concise definitions of maritime terms and phrases, including those used in liner, tramp and bulk shippin[...]
The definitive and authorised location guidebook for THE HOBBIT trilogy of movies.
'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent'A brilliantly psychological fugue' ObserverThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains as d[...]
Evelyn Brodie worked as an economist in government and the City, then as a live television journalist, Head of Financial Communications and strategic communications consultant, until undeniable experiences forced her to change her belief system. 'I had unconsciously adopted the role of Scary Corpora[...]
This comprehensive study and revision guide for A2 AQA Physics contains everything you need to achieve the A2 grades you want. With 160 pages crammed full of revision tips and practice, it's all you need for A2 AQA Physics![...]
This comprehensive study and revision guide for A2 OCR Physics contains everything you need to achieve the A2 grades you want. With 144 pages crammed full of revision tips and practice, it's all you need for A2 OCR Physics![...]
Written by experienced AS and A2 examiners, this comprehensive study and revision guide for AS & A2 Edexcel Physics contains everything you need to achieve the A Level grades you want. Crammed full of revision tips and practice, it's all you need for AS & A2 Edexcel Physics![...]
Written by experienced AS and A2 examiners, this comprehensive study and revision guide for AS & A2 AQA Physics contains everything you need to achieve the A Level grades you want. With 296 pages crammed full of revision tips and practice, it's all you need for AS & A2 AQA Physics![...]
Written by experienced AS and A2 examiners, this comprehensive study and revision guide for AS & A2 OCR Physics contains everything you need to achieve the A Level grades you want. With 296 pages crammed full of revision tips and practice, it's all you need for AS & A2 OCR Physics![...]
We are surrounded by information in the 21st Century: we are bombarded by advertising, attitudes, celebrities, news, wars, fashion, the latest fads...the sheer amount of information we have access to appears untameable, unworkable, and too much to gain sense from unless we pick and choose very caref[...]
This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Garden Florals showcases textiles and wallpapers that depict motifs derived from the natural world - the selection is mostly British and from[...]
The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark's most celebrated no[...]
Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of 'Middle-earth' to millions of moviegoers and JRR Tolkien fans the world over. Ten years later the phenomenon continues and this newly redesigned and updated guidebook prov[...]
Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of Middle-earth to millions of moviegoers and Tolkien readers the world over. This definitive full-colour guidebook updated in 2011 showcases the principal movie-set location[...]
Now in its fourth edition, "Fast Facts: Epilepsy" is a succinct and practical aid to diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of seizure disorders. The contents include: The diagnostic essentials - classification of seizures, conditions that can mimic epileptic seizures, clinical evaluation of the pa[...]
Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh with advanced ideas not only about the education of her charges, but also her own place in the scheme of things. Muriel Spark's wit and insight shine through this story of the 1930s, when Miss Brodie is in her pr[...]
Fast Facts: Epilepsy is a succinct and practical aid to the diagnosis and treatment of seizure disorders. Contents include: - The diagnostic essentials - classification of seizures, conditions that can mimic epileptic seizures, clinical evaluation of the patient and the latest brain-imaging techniq[...]
Bodie, California is the most well-preserved ghost town in the West. It is also a State Historic Park located at an altitude of 8,369 feet (a mile-and-a-half up), five miles from the California-Nevada border. The town reached a population of 10,000 in its heyday, from 1877 through 1882, and gold and[...]
At 17 Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, FL thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, AL. Instead the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, FL. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked some[...]