Product Description: Vibrantly and perceptively told, this is the story of one remarkable year―a vivid history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom...read more

Product Description: If society ignores the pleas for justice from those condemned to a lingering death by the gross negligence of history, revenge can be the only choice that remains. A spiral of vengeance escalates, claiming a child, a young woman, and a brother and sister...read more

Product Description: The TV Detective finds television reporter Dan Groves newly assigned to the crime beat, and in a state of angst about it. He needs a crash-course in police work; the solution is to shadow Detective Chief Inspector Adam Breen on a high-profile murder inquiry, which doesn't go down well with some members of the police force...read more

Product Description: A terrorist outrage in a sacred building shocks the country. But that is just the start of the scandal which is about to unfold. Television reporter Dan Groves lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Outside, Britain is transfixed by the bombing, a radical Islamic plot, a secret service double-cross, and a murderous cover-up...read more

Product Description: TV reporter Dan Groves and Detective Adam Breen are reunited to try to save a young girl who's been abducted by a psychopath, a once brilliant man tormented by war and the death of his best friend and utterly bent on taking his revenge on society...read more

Product Description: BBC Crime Correspondent, Simon Hall, blurs the lines between fact and fiction in this compelling thriller. A TV reporter turns detective to solve a baffling murder and catch a serial rapist.

"Hall's original and stimulating Peace and Freedom points out that the extreme fringes of the antiwar movement hurt the effort to end the war sooner."--History News Network "In Tocquevillian fashion, [Hall] offers his own 'outsider looking in' perspective. This is a work all serious students of the 1960s . . . should consult."--Peace and Change Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked themes: the civil rights movement's response to the war in Vietnam on the one hand and, on the other, the relationship between the black groups that opposed the war and the mainstream peace movement. Based on comprehensive archival research, the book weaves together local and national stories to offer an illuminating and judicious chronicle of these movements, demonstrating how their increasingly radicalized components both found common cause and provoked mutual antipathies. Peace and Freedom shows how and why the civil rights movement responded to the war in differing ways--explaining black militants' hostility toward the war while also providing a sympathetic treatment of those organizations and leaders reluctant to take a stand. And, while Black Power, counterculturalism, and left-wing factionalism all made interracial coalition-building more difficult, the book argues that it was the peace movement's reluctance to link the struggle to end the war with the fight against racism at home that ultimately prevented the two movements from cooperating more fully. Considering the historical relationship between the civil rights movement and foreign policy, Hall also offers an in-depth look at the history of black America's links with the American left and with pacifism. With its keen insights into one of the most controversial decades in American history, Peace and Freedom recaptures the immediacy and importance of the time. Simon Hall teaches history at the University of Leeds.

Product Description: A TV reporter gets a late night scramble call to a lay by, a man lying dead with a gaping wound in his chest. Crime Correspondent Dan Groves knows him, a local businessman with a changing personality. One day in the headlines as Bray the Bastard for his ruthlessness, the next the Angel of St Jude's after saving a hospice, then the Jeckyl and Hyde businessman when he spurns a plea to help a charity that organises holidays for disabled children...read more

This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the Middle Ages from the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century to the first voyages to the New World in the 16th century.

This new historical atlas, richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the world's earliest civilisations from the first farming settlements of Mesopotamia, via Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the civilisations of the Far East, Europe and America.

Provides a year's worth of light-hearted devotionals designed to be read at the beginning of each day, in a volume that includes readings that can accommodate hectic or slower-paced schedules. Original.

Product Description: This big, bright series takes daily Bible reading to a new, funkier, and much more relevant level. Daily Bible study is still popular with active Christians (about half a million of them), and there are various products on the market, but none that really appeal to the younger, trendy Christian scene...read more

A youth friendly version of the Bible, including questionnaires and ready prepared Bible study subjects.

Product Description: Written by Peter Cartledge, this companion to his best-selling Handbook of Financial Mathematics moves on to the more complex financial markets mathematics. Built around practical worked examples using the HP17B calculator, the text details the calculations necessary for interest rates, bonds, foreign exchange transaction, swaps, futures, options, forwards, annuities and amortisations, warrants and convertibles...read more