A book of unabashedly British baking by London's foremost bakers The Fluffy Vanilla Fairy Cakes with Chocolate Fudge Icing take you straight back to childhood. Retro throwbacks like Fig Rolls and Jammy Dodgers are perfect for elevenses. And traditional teatime treats like Victoria Sponge and Treacle[...]

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance - if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept by people all over the world for pleasure, sp[...]

Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school an[...]

The Efficient Market Hypothesists is the fourth book in a series of discussions about the 'great minds' in the history and theory of finance. While the first three volumes in the series examined the Life Cyclists, the Portfolio Theorists and the rise of the quants, respectively, in this fourth book,[...]

Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make to society are at a new high. This book, now in paperback and with a major new foreword exploring the impact of the UK government's 'Big Society' agenda on volunteering, brings together in one volume what is known about the volunteering [...]

Show me the money! This is the frantic cry of the "old guard" of senior executives as they desperately struggle to deal with commoditizing markets, the loss of their differentiator and the inevitable impact on profitability.
At the same time the new breed of enlightened, customer-focused executi[...]

Offers an account of the structure of the government of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-seventeenth century. This book features a chapter on taxation as well as a Bibliography.[...]

Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself. Classical pragmatists, such as John Dewey and[...]

Football supporters are the lifeblood of the national game. Battered by escalating admission prices, executive boxes, corporate hospitality, swanky out of town stadiums and blanket television coverage dragging footie far from its working class roots, the fans still turn out in their masses to sing t[...]

This invaluable resource by one of the world s leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929 1939 and Volume 2: 1940 1958) and[...]