Product Description: Drawing on real life examples and anecdotes from neurosurgery and neurobiology, this engaging introduction to brain function and dysfunction is ideal for those interested learning more about the brain in an accessible way. Ian Mitchell brings biological psychology to life with examples of real life applications of the theory...read more

Product Description: The Justice Factory is the book the judges tried to ban. It lifts the veil on the personality of the senior judges in Scotland, while explaining how they relate to the American and English traditions of judging. The reason for the attempted ban is that this is the first book to be published in the English-speaking world about the personality of judges and the practice of judging which relies for its primary source on the judges themselves...read more

Product Description: REDUCING AND RECYCLING WASTE IN SCHOOLS. This book will make a valuable contribution to your science and citizenship work with KS2 (Ages 7-11) pupils. It will help children to develop a different attitude to waste and litter and save your school money! Children will learn about the origins of the materials they use; whether they are renewable or finite; which biodegrade, can be recycled or reused...read more

Product Description: Focusing on children’s interests, this edited volume takes an unflinching look at the practice of third-party human reproduction from the perspective of the child created. By investigating the problem of secrecy about a child’s donor, conception, and anonymity regarding the donor, this account proposes reasonable solutions for legislators...read more

Product Description: What happens when a secret socialist sympathizer from Scotland travels to East Berlin to study history, meets a beautiful Bulgarian student, begins to covertly operate against the Stalinist GDR regime and is all the while being watched by the Brits and the Germans? Take a trip to 1980s East Germany where Ian Mitchell reinvigorates the historical novel in this thrilling tale of intrigue, espionage and forbidden loves...read more

Product Description: Spare, dark, and cinematic, The Tortoises describes life in the Nazi reign of terror. A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations...read more

Product Description: A beautiful, classic book to be given as a special gift for a child’s first holy communion. The themed arrangement of Bible passages and classic prayers makes it easy to use and enjoy. The book also includes a keepsake element to fill in as a personalized record of the day.

Product Description: Both a keepsake album and a gift book celebrating the event of confirmation, this book offers space to record details of the day and provides food for the journey—reflections, prayers, and words of wisdom from people who have walked their own journey with God.

Product Description: Isles of the West describes a three-month voyage made in the summer of 1996 around the Hebrides. The author's aim was to explore the major issues peculiar to the islands as the century dawns. How does land reform, for example, look from the point of view of the islanders? Does nature conservation actually help the environment? Is the commercial promotion of 'heritage' a blessing or a curse? Interwoven with the beauty of the islands and the seductive feeling of freedom which comes from making long voyages in small boats is the nagging worry that alien forces, both Scottish and European, sentimental and mercenary, are distorting the indigenous society by imposing outside ideas on communities which are valued in part because they are so free of external pressures...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Outdoor Writers GUld Award for ExcellenceIn this new book on pre-mountaineering ascents and near ascents in the Highlands, we have at last a work which does justice to those who lived and worked, travelled and fought in the Highlands before Walter Scott...read more

This novel, based on the life of Christian Weber, a friend of Hitler and titular president of Bavaria, ridicules the National Socialist movement during the Nazi era