Product Description: Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie―the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are...read more

Product Description: New York Times bestselling writer Garth Ennis, writer of The Boys, Preacher and Battlefields, selects his favourite stories from the seminal 1970s British boys’ comic Battle. Included in this fantastic volume for the very first time is the complete HMS Nightshade, and the never-before-reprinted The General Dies At Dawn...read more

Product Description: Time Runners: The children travel back to Ancient Rome for another amazing adventure. Tyler: His Story: We find out more about the children's new friend, Tyler, and his life in 19th century England. A Jack and Three Queens: The children drop in on Shakespeare in Elizabethan England to foil another Viran plot...read more

Product Description: The Strange Box: The children have grown up. They buy an old box but a strange man tries to take it off them. Mr Mortlock, the school caretaker, zaps the strange man and they all run through a doorway that appears on the horizon. Beyond the Door: The children are on the other side of the doorway, in the Time Vault...read more

Product Description: For a century and a half Preston was the archetypal Lancashire cotton town, with mills and terraced houses for the workers. Behind the economic might of firms such as Horrocks, there was hardship and squalor: Charles Dickens used Preston as the darkest face of Victorian industry in his novel "Hard Times"...read more

Product Description: This book is part of the TreeTops Non-Fiction series which are full of fascinating facts and have been produced with stunning artwork and photography in a lively and modern design sure to attract all young readers. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading...read more

The Fox News military analyst and author of They Just Don't Get It sheds new light on the war in Iraq, the protection of civil liberties at home, the training and support of American troops, illegal immigration, home and border security, terrorism, and other topics of concern, in a no-holds-barred study of the War on Terror. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religious attitudes and values in Rome and his view of the Persian Magi. The contributors engage especially with the concept of self-identification. They address the tension of Ammianus' dual role as both 'outside' external narrator and at the same time and 'insider' to the contemporary experiences and events which make up his surviving history.