Product Description: Peak Oil is that time when there will be no oil available at any price and arguments abound over whether or not Peak Oil will ever be reached.   Some say we have enough oil to last us forever if we just keep drilling for it while others say that Peak Oil will happen in their lifetime...read more

Product Description: Who killed Mad Man Margolis and why would the sexy owner of the Miami Dolphins pay Detective Anderson a premium rate to find out the answer to that question? Who is the Prime Cut Killer and why is he shooting people at random then hacking off parts of their bodies? Even more puzzling, who would ever want to kidnap a Notary Public? The solutions to these mysteries plus seven more await you in “On Borrowed Time: The Detective Anderson Mysteries”...read more

Product Description: 10 gripping stories of mystery, murder, and mayhem!  Reads like a novel as characters recur throughout the book.  

Product Description: Woman in Black is an eclectic collection of short fiction, and one small play, that I have written over the course of several years. When I write, the story always comes first while the genre is almost accidental. If a story is best told as a hard edged science fiction tale, such as the signature story of this book, then that is how it is told...read more

Product Description: What do Elton John and Fred Sanford (of Sanford & Son) have in common? Why did David Jones change his name--twice? And where in the world do you come up with a name like the Goo Goo Dolls? Answers to these trivia questions and over 130 more are provided in the fascinating rock & roll trivia book...read more

Product Description: An illustrated guide to bass fishing, this book covers both shore and boat fishing, close inland and far out to sea. The book includes advice on equipment, bait, techniques, fishing with lures, and where to look for the fish.

Equal opportunities for girls is the subject of this far-reaching and topical study. The author analyses educational provision in the decades following the passing of the Sex Discrimination Act, and asks whether the school curriculum is male-orientated. Are women still presented as the second sex? Are they, as has been suggested, almost invisible? Is the language of the classroom sexist? Despite many apparent handicaps, however, girls actually achieve more examination passes than boys. There is therefore a problem of squaring up the disadvantages shown up in girls' experiences of schooling and the measurable outcome of that process - a conflict which this engaging text seeks to address.

Product Description: 'I recommend John Darling's book to everyone interested in education today' - Times Educational Supplement, Scotland 'It represents an important contribution to the study of curriculum at a time when that study is being seriously eroded, and is especially to be welcomed because that contribution seeks to keep alive the progressive alternative' - Early Years 'The book has much to offer...read more