Product Description: From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe...read more

Product Description: While growing up within a loving African American family, a little boy develops a deep understanding of right and wrong and the responsibility that accompanies his choices. Some forty years later, Rohillio Jabel recognizes that it is only through God's grace and mercy that he has been successful in life...read more

Product Description: In 1493, Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the West Indies, brought cuttings of sugar cane from the Canary Islands, which at that time was Spain's chief supplier. The Spanish colonizers who followed Columbus brought with them a supremely confident belief in European right and power, and a formidable arsenal of cultural domination with which they proceeded to plunder the entire region...read more

Product Description: A critical survey of the recent history of National Curriculum English at the secondary level. Roger Knight draws on good classroom practice to show that neither the 1990 nor the Revised Order does justice to English as a moral enterprise with literature at its centre. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)