Product Description: Two seemingly unconnected events occur within 24 hours: The president of Mason-Wainwright, a New York investment corporation, is on a private jet heading for Washington DC carrying the burden of a secret that will undoubtedly destroy the firm he heads up...read more

Using a series of step-by-step exercises, this book shows the reader how to look at colour relationships in a way that closes the gap between theory and practice.

Product Description: Ludlow has been described as 'the perfect historic town'. Its first written accounts are monastic chronicles and the remarkable Fitzwarine Romance, a tale of knightly chivalry, much of which is set in Ludlow Castle. John Leland and Daniel Defoe are the best known of many topographers and diarists who have visited the town, and the book includes extracts from the works of John Milton and A...read more

Product Description: This graphic novel series is based on Raymond Chandler's legendary hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is about to tackle two dangerous assignments. Marlowe's clients: an ancient gorilla who sees his life threatened when he decides to leave the criminal world behind forever, and a millionaire, whose son has been taken prisoner by the gambling mafia...read more

Equipped only with courage, a talent for action heroics, and the inspiration of a half-remembered love, Ishmael--who had been marooned, rescued by pirates, and sold into slavery--must face the sinister tentacles of Hydracorp to win his freedom.

Presents a collection of tales, set during World War II, in comic book form.

In a not-too-distant future, Britain is ruled by a totalitarian regime and Evey, a young woman, is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante, who launches a one-man crusade against government tyranny and oppression.

Product Description: Skin problems in the horse are a common occurrence and can often be complicated and difficult to diagnose. With an increase in the amount of horses kept in the UK in recent years, there is a strong need for a concise, practical guide to equine dermatology...read more

A tree stood quietly in the sunshine. A big brown bear stepped up. 'Hello!' he said, very loudly. 'Hello! Hello!' come little voices, squeaky voices and deep-down voices from all over the tree. But when it begins to rain, what do you think they say?

Otherland is an incredibly complex and detailed virtual reality, home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares of its users and creators. The conspiracy threatens to sacrifice our Earth for the promise of this far more exclusive place. And, somehow, Otherland is claiming the Earth's children.

Product Description: Writing from a position of intimate knowledge as coach to the England team for three years, Lloyd offers his often outspoken views on why English cricket is at its lowest ebb. Accounts of his political battles alongside his remarkable frankness about key personnel provide a fascinating and at times damning picture of the strengths and weaknesses of cricket in England...read more

Product Description: "Ludlow, with its dramatic Norman castle, fine Tudor and Georgian buildings, towering parish church and bustling market square, is one of England's most beautifully preserved and yet vibrant small towns.In the Middle Ages the castle was a stronghold of the Marcher Lords and a thriving centre for marketing and cloth manufacture...read more

When a group of dogs of all shapes and sizes are brought together in a neighborhood park on a sunny summer day, the friendly greetings between the breeds soon gets carried away as each one is soon barking, sniffing, jumping, and hopping with delight.

Product Description: What is the agenda of postcolonial theory? Is there a peculiarly Irish postcolonial theory? If so, how does it relate to decolonizing projects elsewhere in the world, contemporary or historical? What does Irish postcolonial theory learn from other sites and what, in turn, does it contribute to the understanding of colonialism as a world-wide phenomenon? Is an Irish postcolonialism merely a stalking horse for nationalism? Or does it take up the critique of identity and the nation state in the attempt to find an alternative understanding of state formation and decolonization and of the historical processes that bring these movements into conflict? What are the historical myths that have governed modernity -- colonial, nationalist, and capitalist? Do they limit and obscure the heterogeneity of Irish culture and its apparently oblique relation to modernization? Are there other methods and theoretical approaches that might open up the field of Irish Studies to alternative perspectives and narratives?These are some of the questions addressed in the linked essays collected in Ireland After History -- essays that draw on a range of theoretical resources, from walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School to subaltern historiography and Marxist critiques of ideology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the end of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century, a remarkable convergence takes place in Europe between theories of the modern state and theories of culture. Culture and the State explores that theoretical convergence in relation to the social functions of state and cultural institutions, showing how cultural education comes to play the role of forming citizens for the modern state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This southern county has a varied range of fine buildings. Winchester, with its cathedral, castle, college and churches, has some of the finest medieval architecture in England. The countryside abounds in attractive villages and small towns with notable churches and houses.