12 beautiful huia birds play and sing in the forest. But is that a canoe arriving? A rat sniffling? A ship on the horizon? One by one, the huia sta...

Fourteen sculptures of the distinguished Central Asian artist Erkin Mergenov constitute the subject matter of this book. The creative force of the ...

In Constantinople, empires are about to collide, lovers are about to depart, and the world is about to change for ever. Beyazit Akman’s epic, 1453:...

This beautiful tangram kit includes the original fifteen-piece set along with a beautifully illustrated instruction guide. The tangram has a very l...

This book is a celebration of all that is good in the sporting world. For the 25th anniversary of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports ...

You have heard the many slogans of Palestinian propaganda. They sound something like: Palestinian terror is a logical result of the occupation, Isr...

This volume focuses on the special historical moments of the third oldest University Psychiatry in Germany, which has been existing in Gottingen si...

St Bede's Catholic Church in Pyrmont Street is the oldest, continuously functioning church on the Pyrmont peninsula. The Sydney Morning Herald arti...

Douglas Glover's collection of stories mezmerizes like no other. A sheer tour-de-force, the collection features eleven new stories that demonstrate...

British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban comma...

The games and exercises in this book are designed to be used as warm-ups at the beginning of a theatre class. They have been used successfully with...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies Category This anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects ...

With the rapid expansion of global markets, managers in business enterprises are struggling to balance the need to think globally and act locally. ...

On 12 March 2009 a helicopter carrying workers to offshore oil production platforms in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland crashed int...

Sir Alex Ferguson said that his brief as Manchester United manager was to "knock Liverpool off their f*****g perch". After over 2,000 games and 25 ...

Released just in time for Oscar season, 1939 commemorates the most amazing year in American movie history, a year that saw the release of some of t...

Hitler talked about his ‘Fortress Europa', but it was a rampart ‘without a roof'. Above all the western allied air fleet relentless bombed Nazi-Ge...

The story of a decade-1947 to 1957-that made and unmade IndiaThe first decade after India's independence, 1947-1957, was probably the most crucial ...

This title gives a good description of the camping and fishing facilities of the lakes of the Fraser Valley, from Vancouver to Stave Lake. A great ...

The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's...

As humanity progresses into the 21st century, the needs of the future can sometimes be uncertain. There is one thing that is certain: we will still...

Radiobiology has made great steps forward in the last five years in the development of new mechanisms forming the basis of various radiation effect...

It is commonly believed that Great Transformation -- the process of post-socialist changes leading from the system of more or less reformed central...

The story of the mighty submarine Nautilus and the fearsome captain Nemo, who travels the world’s oceans and explores the marvels of the seas.

This is a revision and learning aid that contains the 200 single best question and answer topics in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Questions cover topics ...

This book examines the changing social political and economics landscapes that continue to shape and define the Britain and America that we know to...

A presidential transition is a unique time in America and holds the promise of opportunity, as well as a possible risk to the nation's security int...

The Bureau of the Census Director's constitutional mandate to enumerate the U.S. population every 10 years has been summarized with deceptive simpl...

Many households in the United States have been tested by the Great Recession. Large-scale financial strain at the household level ultimately fed in...

On 1 March 2013, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President ordered an across-the-board cancellation ...

Practitioners of obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine and consultants in other branches of medicine who help provide excellent care to pregnant pati...

Experts broadly agree that stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere to avoid dangerous GHG-induced climate change could be...

The October 2014 session of the Synod of Bishops looked at the modern family through a pastoral lens, focusing in particular on situations where th...