Dorkius is annoyed when he has to move with his family to Pompeii for the summer. He has to leave behind all the joys of Rome for a boring small town. He finds the people of Pompeii to be even more superstitious than his mum, and watches in disbelief as they base all their decisions around animal in[...]

A biography that brings to life one of England's greatest writers against the backdrop of Victorian London and all its complexities.[...]

The Chinese political system is the subject of much media and popular comment in part because China supports an economy with an apparently inexorable dynamic and impressive record of achievement. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to China's political system, outlining the major feature[...]

With his newfound vampire powers and his girlfriend Chloe, Nigel Mullet is finally happy and popular as the school year begins. But then a new guy, Jason, appears at school. All the girls think he's better looking than Nigel. He's definitely stronger and faster than Nigel. And he's just stolen Nigel[...]

A groundbreaking historical documentation of the secret history of pre-Pharonic Egypt and the race of angels that built it. -By the author of "From the Ashes of Angels" and "Gateway to Atlantis" (more than 30,000 copies sold in the United Kingdom). -Unlocks the secrets of how the Great Pyramids and [...]

The peculiarities of materials at the nanoscale demand an interdisciplinary approach which can be difficult for students and researchers who are trained predominantly in a single field. A chemist might not have experience at working with cell cultures or a physicist may have no idea how to make the [...]

Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensify[...]

He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for both the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate protest folk singer and a tireless promoter of political and humanitarian causes all across the world. His life encapsulates so much about his generation.[...]

(Horizons Piano Education). 9 songs, including: All I Ask of You * The Music of the Night * Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again * and more.[...]

Research on adolescent relationships has rapidly expanded during the past decade. Keeping apace with research advances is a difficult challenge. Harder still is integrating the literature into a coherent whole. This volume is designed to guide the reader through the research on close relationships b[...]

Provides convincing evidence that angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predating humanity, spoken of in the Bible as the Nephilim.
- Indicates that the earthly paradise of Eden was a realm in the mountains of Kurdistan.
- By the author of Gateway to [...]