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A gift volume with padded cover featuring four original Beatrix Potter tales, with their classic Beatrix Potter illustrations. Includes The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The...

The War of Independence was one of the founding events of today's world, but it has been simplified into a myth of liberty against oppression, right against wrong. A recent...

The first full memoir from one of the world's most famous singers In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording...

Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs takes an unprecedented look at the work of Steve McCurry, one of today s finest and most daring imagemakers. This is the...

The business world is facing a new era of turbulence. How can individuals thrive now that all the roles are changing? how can they develop the initiative required to make...

'An outstanding debut - ingenious, fast-paced and unpredictable.' HARLAN COBEN'An atmospheric, icily tense thriller.' Telegraph'Geneva is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. And I've read quite a few.'...

The story of the first Christmas in the words of Luke (KJV). Classic illustrations accompany this great story of God's love.

Rick Stein discovers great dishes and small delicacies among the tidal estuaries, shingle banks and rocky shores of Britain. The book is orderd geographically with each chapter covering one of...

Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution and its aftermath, ROUGH CROSSINGS is the gripping, astonishing epic of the struggle for freedom by tens of thousands of slaves who...

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realises how much she still has to learn. The world is going to...

Traces the rise and fall of the Toltec civilization, and describes what has been learned about their culture from the excavation of Tula, their principal city.

The period 2000 - 2002 will witness the single greatest change in global economic and business conditions ever-the realignment from traditional corporate structure to Internet-leveraged styles of brand-owning, customer-focused companies....

Since their discovery in caves in the Judean Desert by the Bedouin in the 1940s, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the cause of much religious, scholarly and political controversy....

This is the life story of that legendary Englishman and entrepreneur, Arthur Daley, star of the ITV programme "Minder". It is published to coincide with a new 13-part series. Arthur...

Writers from Chimamanda Adichie and Rashida Jones to Alice Waters and Jason Wu celebrate Michelle Obama in a collection of dazzling essays inspired by the unforgettable tribute "To the First...

From actor and comedian Joel McHale comes the most important celebrity-penned book of this, or any, generation. Part shocking tell-all memoir, part aspirational how-to guide, and mostly all book, this...

A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly entertaining, Agatha Christieinspired mystery of murder and mayhem set in nineteenth-century Poland"An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime."--Olga Tokarczuk,...

A modern take on that universally fascinating subject - plagueAs Ed Marriott discovered while researching this brilliant new book, plague is a powerful subject. As well as being a seriously...

Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt...

Neurotic over-achiever Jules McCallister-Morgan has her senior year all planned out: become the editor of her prestigious LA private school's revered and long-standing newspaper, and get into Brown. But on...

A collection of forty tales, including "Thumbelina," "The Princess and the Pea," and "The Ugly Duckling," as well as such less well-known works as "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep,"...

Describing 900 genera and over 8000 plants, this A-Z gardening encyclopaedia also introduces a way of identifying plants from their appearance alone. Hundreds of synonyms and common names are cross-referenced,...

From prehistoric times to the 21st century, the compelling story of world history may both surprise and inspire This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in...

Comprehensive photographic guide to the animal kingdom receives update Now in a new edition, this landmark photographic encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is revised with new species, images, and the...

An extraordinary showcase celebrating the history of cycling From wooden bicycles and spoon brakes to recumbent bikes and carbon fibre rims, take a visual journey through the beautiful engineering history...

All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to sociology "Exploring more than 80 of the big ideas and key theories in the field of sociology...

Take your passion and make it happen with The Idea In You by Martin Amor and Alex Pellew Do you have an idea in you? A hobby, a project, a...

Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to...

The Nature of Marketing describes the power of social and consumer networking, and demonstrates the tangible benefits of building brand experiences that leverage this phenomena. In order to build sustainable...

While working on his book The Life of Arthur Ransome, Hugh Brogan chanced upon the unfinished scrip of a thirteenth 'Swallows and Amazons' story in Ransome's desk in the Abbot...

Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities...

For more than 2000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for every age. This text provides an up-to-date and authoritative...

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each succinct yet insightful...

A literary anthology celebrating every variety of animal life from microbe to mouse, eagle to elephant, in verse and prose from ancient times to the present, including imaginary monsters and...

Is it cost-effective to add staff in a given area? Does a training program have a positive impacton costs and sales? In this era of increasing cost and budget justification,...

"Demanding and magnificent." -- London Times An enormously compelling and ambitious novel from the author of The Dream Room, The Great Longing , and In Babylon, In a Dark Wood...