Product Description: Mike Osborne’s Floating Island revolves around a community bordering Utah and Nevada. Once home to an important World War II aviation training facility, the town is now a gaming destination with five sprawling casinos. Time Magazine describes Floating Island as “an eerie embrace of the present and past revealed only on dark, moonless nights...read more

Product Description: Nottinghamshire's position at the very heart of England has given it important strategic signifi cance throughout two millennia, underlined by the number of roads, waterways, and later railways, criss-crossing the county. An endless succession of armies have used the Great North Road: the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, the Lancastrians and the Jacobites...read more

Product Description: Throughout history, Cambridgeshire has figured in the conflicts shaping our nation. Doomed Roman legionaries marched from Longthorpe to defeat by Boudicca’s Iceni; Saxons and Danes fought over the edges of the Danelaw; the Normans came this way to crush Hereward’s Fenland resistance; in the Civil War it provided the defended frontier between Parliamentarian and Royalist; in the twentieth century its flat expanses provided airfields for the RFC and later for the bombers of the RAF and USAAF, and in the Cold War, locations for missile bases...read more

Product Description: The world’s most popular sport is made simple with this easy-to-understand guidebook. Color photographs and illustrations will teach kids the basics of controlling the ball, dribbling, passing, shooting, defending, and goalkeeping...read more

Product Description: The most dominant voices for university engagement emanate from the US, Australia, and countries in Europe. Nevertheless, community engagement has a long tradition in African universities, although that tradition has been constrained by the fluctuating conditionalities of development funding agendas...read more

Product Description: This story shows children how important it is to believe and follow their dreams. It uses fun rhyming text and creative illustrations that any child would enjoy! "May all your dreams come TRUE!"

Product Description: Cascading recklessly down towering cliffs, Yosemite Valley’s waterfalls bring inspiration and delight to millions of visitors each year. The Valley’s waterfalls are renowned throughout the world not only for their height and number but for their astonishing variety—from “ephemerals” that spring briefly to life after rainstorms to roaring “majors” such as Bridalveil Fall...read more

Product Description: With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions. Providing valuable insight into the management of place and the development of learning at a regional level, the book presents international research that underpins the development and implementation of policies and practices that improve the quality of living and working circumstances at both local and regional levels...read more

Product Description: Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education...read more

Product Description: From the USBORNE FIRST SKILLS series, an introduction and guide to developing the skills of soccer. Illustrated in full colour artwork throughout by Norman Young. Also available in paperback priced at 3.50, ISBN 0 7460 1384 1.

Product Description: This book examines the challenges facing those who make and implement social policy at a time when free-trade economics reign supreme. It draws on linked ideas of social capital and the management of place, and presents international perspectives from a diverse range of countries, to question the domination of the economic and call for a new balance in making policy and measuring what is achieved...read more

Product Description: As more countries move towards mass - or even 'universal' - systems of higher education, institutions other than traditional universities have an increasingly important part to play in its provision. A contested landscape explores these processes of change, reflecting on the shifting role of these institutions and their distinctive traditions, in countries throughout the world...read more

Product Description: Following the recent work by the Defense of Britain Project, this is the first extensive guide to the military structures of the 20th century. It explains both the form and purpose of the structures such as anti-invasion defences, airfields, naval installations, and barracks, all of which are well illustrated...read more

Product Description: Celebrate the charm of one of America’s most distinctive cities as it unfolds in nearly 150 dramatic color photographs in San Antonio Portrait. Mike Osborne’s camera captures the architectural and festive spirits of Spain and Mexico that have pervaded the city for nearly three centuries, as he takes a fresh look at treasured historic landmarks and at exciting contemporary additions to the scene...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the 20th-century defence of Britain as part of a series covering military archaeology in the United Kingdom. The project was a response to growing concern about Britain's recent defence heritage and about the rate at which many historically significant structures were succumbing to demolition or neglect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)