Product Description: Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles...read more

Includes essays on a number of distinguished civil servants, as well as chapters on topics such as law, religion, education, folk tale collecting and literary connections between India and Ireland. This work also contains essays on Margaret Noble's career, who is unknown in her native Ireland, but is a legendary figure in India as Sister Nivedita.

Product Description: New essays on the work of Irish writer, Edna O'Brien.

Product Description:     Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, The Country Girls, award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. Praised for her lyrical prose and vivid female characters and attacked for her frank treatment of sexuality and alleged sensationalism, O'Brien and her work seem always to spawn controversy, including the past banning in Ireland of several of her works...read more

Product Description: Discover some of the great Canadian authors and titles you've been missing. This guide describes and organizes according to reading interests more than 500 of the best contemporary Canadian fiction titles available today.Canadian fiction offers a wealth of diverse pleasures to readers, from high-toned literary works to down-and-dirty genre fiction...read more

Product Description: Each book in this series of six titles focus es on one area of human rights, using the Universal Declarat ion of Human Rights as a basis for exploration. The series l ooks at how these rights became established and how they wor k in today''s society. '

Product Description: This is an examination of the controversial closure of Hackney Downs School in December 1995. The school, a boys' comprehensive in London, was moved from local authority control after an OFSTED inspection and became the first school to be run by an education association...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This concise overview written by a journalist who writes for "The Guardian" provides a summary of secondary schools in Britain from comprehensives to the 1988 Education Reform Act. It concentrates on the most recent developments in secondary education.