Product Description: We're gathered here: To select and celebrate the Steel City 500, the greatest athletes in Western Pennsylvania history. A few notes of explanation as you're getting your beer and preparing to argue with the choices. First, in the case of team sports, we're limiting our picks to those who competed here at either the collegiate or professional level...read more

Product Description: Iby Fraser, the daughter of one of the first keepers of Scotland’s Shinness Estate, shares her recollections in this fascinating memoir that provides a glimpse into early 20th century life in and around the Shinness lodge. This charming book offers insightful descriptions of everyday life—from cooking, framing, and game keeping to medicine, schooling, and childhood games—as well as of the events that had a profound effect on communities everywhere, including the emergence of the motor car and World War I...read more

Product Description: Discover the mysteries of rocks - can you find all the clues and become a rock detective? A wonderful story of a giant family and their pet dragon that lived on Anglesey before the Ice Age. Understand how the rocks formed and the clues to past environments...read more

Product Description: At twenty eight, Patrick "Manny" Mandelson had never been the ambitious sort. On any given day, you would find him to be a relatively content chap. He has a freelance gig as a columnist for a popular men's magazine, a relatively good day job, and Megan, his girlfriend of three years...read more

A lovingly illustrated survey of the greatest manuscripts of the English language takes readers on a fascinating tour of these influential texts, presenting reproductions of Beowulf, Sylvia Plath's collection of poems, Ariel, and Virginia Woolf's Dalloway, among many others. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: From the 10th-century manuscript of Beowulf to the work of such 20th-century authors as T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Angela Carter, this beautifully illustrated book presents a panorama of more than 1000 years of literature in English through original manuscripts from the British Library's unparalleled collections...read more

Celebrates the life and work of the English author whose novels reflect his own adventurous lifestyle and his experiences sailing around the world as part of England's Merchant Navy.