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A Discover magazine Top Science Book Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite...

Recounts a bygone age when links to Britain were strong and the public service played a vital role in post-war Australian reconstruction. The book contains entertaining vignettes of many distinguished...

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures. Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by...

The multi-million copy bestseller and an extraordinary memoir about the transformative power of education THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER A BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK Selected as a book of the year...

This book is the first comprehensive history of Australian education systems, programs and policies of the period since 1960. The narrative of changes in schooling, training and university life is...

Peter's mum and dad are worried. Over the last twelve months, they've noticed ferocious changes taking place in their son. It's not just the mumbling and the cloud of melancholy...

In scope and spread this book deserves to become a standard text for policy-makers, practitioners, those in training and their tutors. I welcome this book for its coverage of typical...

Engage * Create * Reflect * Teach * Learn This is a book about the principles and practice that underpin teaching and learning in the arts. It enables primary school...

Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality.

The jarring emptiness following the loss of a loved one, the expansive out-of-body sensation of sensual touch, the lassitude of melancholy and the ecstatic receptivity to sunshine. His ability to...

In their aesthetic quality and psychological content they are only comparable to the paintings of van Gogh and Cezanne.

Edward Thomas wrote most of his poems during active service in World War 1 - poems which search for the true self, and affirm the oneness of all experience.

Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to Austria...

In this holiday favorite, it's time for Halloween in a board book that's all treat and no tricks from the one and only Sandra Boynton. Strange things are happening. One...

Two victims. One bullet. One lives. One dies. A dark, ingenious, rocket-paced serial-killer thriller from a major new British talent A young couple wakes disorientated, trapped and without food or...

When problems arise within any organization, they can often be traced back to a breakdown in communication. Often the most effective way to communicate is in writing. Clear and succinct...

An updated edition of a classic handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert. Effective Cycling is an essential handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert, whether daily commuters or weekend...

The core of John Forester's concept of effective cycling is that bicyclists fare best when they act, and are treated in return, as drivers of vehicles, with the same rights...

Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found...

The egg hunt is on! An interactive wheel hides brightly-coloured Easter eggs amid a variety of spirited scenes, from inside baskets to under flowers, behind rocks, and even in hands!...

Altdorf's earliest poems, written during military service and as a prisoner of war, reflected on nature, poetry and art. Beginning a new life, post-war, as an artist, Altdorf explored how...

Backed by five years of research, David Marcum and Steven Smith's 'Egonomics' informs readers that the key to great leadership is understanding exactly what ego is - and what it...

The two staples of ancient Egyptian life were bread and beer, both products of the abundant grain hartest of the fertile Nile valley. Bread was so important that over forty...

One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...

A big, bright book full of simple craft activities to celebrate Eid. This big, bright book is full of crafts for little children to enjoy making as they prepare to...

The Abrams Trail Tale series takes readers on unforgettable holiday-themed adventures. This new tale, written and illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel, follows a brother and sister as they make their way...

A recently orphaned girl meets her extended family-including seven rambunctious cousins-for the first time in this charming novel from Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women ! Thirteen-year-old Rose Campbell...

This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always...

From the best-selling author of Mindfulness in Plain English ! In his classic and engaging style, Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into the noble eightfold path, the Buddha's most profound teaching...

An unforgettable journey through the experience of time and desire, where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who...

Eight strangers-looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher-are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to...

Eileen Ramsay was at the centre of a unique period in yachting history, and this wonderful book, featuring her classic photography, celebrates an extraordinary woman and her extraordinary subjects. Eileen's...

While the world hailed Einstein's genius, his private life was collapsing around him. His marriage to the beautiful, tormented Mileva had failed and he had launched into affairs with a...

At its height, Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an extraordinary one - a colleague and often fierce adversary, Mileva was brilliantly matched with the scientific genius. Dennis Overbye seeks to...

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic...

Cutting-edge astrophysics that builds on Einstein's theories to find the unseen matter that fills the Universe. Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their...

An updated edition of a classic of popular science. Leading science writer Nigel Calder, author of Magic Cosmos, wrote Einstein's Universe to mark the centenary of Einstein's birth in 1979....

Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol...

In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years...

El Equipo de Mazzanti has its headquarters in Colombia where it has been operating for over 25 years, promoting architecture with a strong social value. This approach, attentive to collective...

El Mas Grande is the story of Argentina's biggest and most successful football club, River Plate. From their humble origins in the southern districts of Buenos Aires, River grew into...