Product Description: St. Francis of Assisi is arguably the most popular of all the saints. He is claimed by Christians and non-Christians alike as a spiritual focus for groups and people concerned with the sanctity of creation, ecumenism, with inter-faith matters, and animal rights...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: BBC producer Michael Robson, brings to life an age of high adventure, of empire-building, treachery and trade. The narrative centres on a single commodity initially smuggled, and later legally traded, in 19th century China. The story begins in the poppy fields of Bengal - where the potent poppy is still cultivated - and traces the development of a trade that made fortunes for both mandarin and merchant prince and laid the foundation for the phenomenal growth of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong...read more

Text and photographs introduce the topography, history, society, economy, and governmental structure of New Zealand