Product Description: In August, 500 years ago, Richard III lost his life and the Plantagenet name came to an end. This volume provides the background to the Battle of Bosworth - of the war and politics in the previous years and the various combatants. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How quickly can love and greed turn a respected Metropolitan police officer into an armed and dangerous criminal? How quickly can a beautiful blonde woman fall in love with such a man? Bent is the story of Jack Keane, a Detective Constable in London's Metropolitan Police, and Rachel, the woman he falls head over heels in love with...read more

Product Description: Today, more than ever, the use of denial and deception (D&D) is being used to compensate for an opponent's military superiority, to obtain or develop weapons of mass destruction, and to violate international agreements and sanctions...read more

"An arresting book that juxtaposes major and minor antebellum texts to develop its own democratic discourse. Michael Bennett writes with verve and brio, and offers some juicy surprises."—David Leverenz, University of FloridaEver since the hallowed statement, "All men are created equal," was penned in the Declaration of Independence, it has become a historical tenet that freedom and equality were brought to American shores by the so-called Founding Fathers.In this path-breaking study, Michael Bennett departs from tradition to argue that the democratic ideal of equality and the actual ways in which it has been practiced are grounded less in the fledgling government documents written by a handful of white men than in the actions and writings of the radical abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Bringing together key texts of both African American and European American authors, Democratic Discourses shows the important ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Bennett offers fresh new analysis through unusual pairings of authors, including Frederick Douglass with Henry David Thoreau, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper with Walt Whitman, and Margaret Fuller with Sojourner Truth. These rereadings avoid the tendency to view antebellum writing as a product primarily of either European American or African American influences and, instead, illustrate the interconnections of white and black literature in the creation and practice of democracy.Drawing on discourses about race, the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this unique study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the United States today.

Product Description: From the sailing whales of Patagonia to the neurotic attack dolphins of Brazil, a behind-the-scenes view of the making of many of Flip Nicklin's National Geographic magazine stories of the last few decades (and other assorted craziness)...read more

Product Description: Designed for amateurs interested in the restoration of antique or period wooden furniture, this handbook provides step-by-step explanations of techniques and methods. It gives advice on how to date furniture, how to restore damaged structures and surfaces, and how to apply finishing touches...read more

Product Description: Empowerment in Chicago asks and answers the hard questions about Chicago's early experience with the EZ process. It provides an overview and history of the Empowerment Zone initiative as an economic development strategy. It provides a wealth of information about economic growth, job development, quality of life, and citizen participation in Chicago's Empowerment Zone, Enterprise Communities, and other communities in the Chicago metropolitan area...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of short stories includes contributions from Ernest Hemingway, D.H.Lawrence, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf and Dylan Thomas.

Product Description: Football Dreams is a book of digital paintings, portraying 100-plus of English football's major figures in scenarios that suit their personalities. These include Wayne Rooney as a streetwise scouser huddling with his mates in a burger bar; David Beckham crucified in front of a tower block estate after his 1998 World Cup sending-off; Roy Keane as a "Big Brother" contestant; Jurgen Klinsmann as a German soldier proffering a football as a peace offering in the First World War Christmas truce; and Ron Atkinson frantically dancing in the street at the Notting Hill Carnival to atone for his sins...read more

Product Description: Have you ever seen a paint job so impressive you wished your home could look that elegant? The formula, says Master Painter Michael Bennett, is combining knowledge, quality workmanship, premium products, and the right attitude. Calling upon his more than three decades of experience, Michael has created this intermediate-level instructional and reference guide for interior painting...read more

Product Description: Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. This new collection of essays sharpens the focus on the nature of cities by exploring the facets of an urban ecocriticism, by reminding city dwellers of their place in ecosystems, and by emphasizing the importance of this connection in understanding urban life and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Why do counsellors and psychotherapists practice? What is the purpose? What real benefit does the client gain and what benefit accrues to society as a whole? Do liberal and postmodern values leave counselling and psycho-therapy vulnerable to being devalued by consumerism, individualism and relativism? This unique text subjects counselling and psychotherapy to a proper and thorough moral and ethical analysis...read more

A collection of essays exploring black female self-representations across all media includes such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker,and Lucille Clifton. (view table of contents)

A collection of essays exploring black female self-representations across all media includes such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker,and Lucille Clifton. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is a full-length study of the last years of Richard II's reign and the circumstances of his overthrow by Henry of Bolinbroke in 1399. This title is suitable for anyone interested in history and the monarchy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An in-depth, full-color, step-by-step guide to the new golf swing that has taken the PGA Tour by stormThe traditional golf swing requires a level of coordination that few golfers have. So it's no surprise that, despite huge advances in club and ball technology, the average golf handicap in America has dropped by only one stroke since 1990...read more

Product Description: From an early age, Vincent Roth kept a detailed account of his experiences, often illustrated with sketches and later by watercolors. It was from these handwritten journals that his son-in-law edited this book. The first volume covers his early yeas as a child abandoned to relatives in France, Scotland, and London...read more