Product Description: Beyond Grief explores high-style funerary sculptures and their functions during the turn of the twentieth century. Many scholars have overlooked these monuments, viewing them as mere oddities, a part of an individual artist's oeuvre, a detail of a patron's biography, or local civic cemetery history...read more

Product Description: The quiet English village of Upper Marstone was reeling from the news: one of their own, Jack Morne, had died mysteriously on the road linking the village with the nearby town of Caterham. Then more shocking information was revealed...read more

Product Description: Haunted by the deaths of her brother and her fiancé, British Army nurse Louise Whiting is posted to France during the horrors of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916. Her choice to nurse the most difficult head wound cases brings a comatose soldier with no name to her ward...read more

Everything mammals ever wanted to know about the theory of evolution-but were afraid to askThis important new book by award-winning science writer Cynthia Mills clearly explains one of the most crucial, and most misunderstood, concepts of modern science-the theory of evolution. After examining Darwin, his precursors, and how the theory of evolution developed, Mills answers key questions, including: How successful is the theory at explaining the natural world, and what does it fail to explain? What are some of the competing ideas and theories about the origin of the species? How will the theory of evolution likely hold up over time, as our understanding of genetics grows?Cynthia L. Mills (Portland, OR) is an award-winning science writer and veterinarian. Her article ""Breeding and Discontents,"" originally published in The Sciences, was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001, guest-edited by E. O. Wilson. Also in the same series: The Big Bang Theory (0-471-39452-1) by Karen C. Fox

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Product Description: The appearance of the cream-coloured envelope from the War Office struck fear into many British households during World War One. In 1916, when such a telegram arrived at the Morne household in the small village of Upper Marstone, it sets in motion events that culminate nearly twenty years later with the unravelling of lies, deceptions and the true fate of the missing soldier, Robert Morne...read more