Product Description: "Brilliant miniatures. . . . Like the fables of Calvino, Millhauser, or W.S. Merwin. . . . Beautifully blends short story and prose poem. . . . Mermaids, subways, floods, cucumbers, magicians. . . .The book is a gallery of marvels...read more

Product Description: “Chilling . . . the perfect summer page-turner.” ―Chicago Tribune“Kafka would love The Beautiful Bureaucrat. . . . It’s a surprising revelation of a book from an uncompromising author as unique as she is talented.” ―NPR“Riveting ...read more

Product Description: Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature...read more

Product Description: Foundations Languages courses are tailor-made for Institution-wide Languages Programmes (IWLPs), languages options and electives, ab initio and minor routes in languages, and open learning programmes. Foundations French 1 features: • 10 units flexibly designed to fit the teaching year • Scripted and unscripted dialogues to provide a diverse range of audio material• Integrated pair- and groupwork activities throughout the book • Comprehensive self-study section for non-contact hours • Grammar and vocabulary sections within each unit as well as in a reference section • Extension work in reading and listening to provide a more demanding challenge for those students or courses needing it New for the third edition: • Fully revised and updated following extensive lecturer feedback• First time in full colour!• New photos and illustrations• New integrated video clips• Code for interactive ebook inside to allow easy access to video, audio and interactive exercises and great searchability• Extra online grammar and video exercises• New cultural notes Visit the companion website to find out more...read more

Product Description: Combine your passion for cross stitch with your love of gardens! Two popular pastimes come together in a beautiful new collection of designs sure to please all. Each subject--the rambling cottage garden, bountiful kitchen garden, topiary, parterres, knots, orchard, and more--features a full-size sampler, as well as smaller projects such as cards and pincushions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: All cross stitchers love to stitch for others and create designs that commemorate and affirm life's special moments - a birth, a wedding, a new home, an anniversary or other special day. This collection of bright, decorative samplers and cards contains something for everyone, from the bright new home sampler with flowers and nesting birds, or an Advent calendar filled with the promise of Christmas, to the colourful samplers that simply celebrate a friendship...read more

Product Description: This popular designer has succeeded in combining the two favorite pastimes of embroidery and gardening to present a beautiful new collection that ranges from a classic cottage garden to a well-stocked kitchen garden to the humble potting shed...read more

Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me, said this book is "brimming with surprises and grand adventure. Brave, smart, and full of heart, Madeline and Ruby are a gust of fresh air."    Mad's dad is the Bird Guy. He'll go anywhere to study birds. So when he's offered a bird-tracking job in Central America, his bags are packed and he's jungle bound.   But going bird tracking in the jungle and disappearing completely are very different things, and when the Very Strange and Incredibly Creepy Letter arrives, Mad can't shake the terrible feeling that her father is in trouble.   Roo, Mad's younger sister, is convinced that the letter is a coded message. And their mom is worried, because the letter doesn't sound like Dad at all. But Mad is sure it's a sign of something sinister.   The only way to get to the bottom of it is to go to Lava Bird Volcano and find their dad themselves. Though they never could have imagined what they're about to discover.   From new talent Helen Phillips, Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green is the story of what can happen when two sisters make some unusual friends, trust in each other, and bravely face a jungle of trouble all to bring their family back together.From the Hardcover edition.

This introduction to the 'Canterbury Tales' for students is accessible to first time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right. It gives full separate readings of each tale, together with clear expositions of the historical and literary backgrounds.

Product Description: This introduction to the Canterbury Tales is accessible to first-time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right. It gives full separate readings of each tale, together with clear expositions of the historical and literary backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of 20 essays looking at the mystical and religious medieval English traditions. The contributors look at topics as varied as the constraints of satire in Piers Plowman and elementary education techniques in later medieval English didactic writings.

Product Description: Sew a little love and give the gift of handmade with Vintage Modern Gifts!A bright contemporary collection of over 20 patchwork and sewn projects, designed to make readers smile and have fun with fabric from Helen Philipps - a popular craft designer whose highly desirable style is a cross between Cath Kidston and Tilda...read more

Product Description: Four of the 23 contemporary sampler designs offer new interpretations of the 17th century spot sampler, originally used by embroiders to record the stitches they employed. Each of these four introduces a seasonal chapter brimming with delightful designs to keep today's embroiderer happily stitching throughout the year...read more