Product Description: A Role Playing Game set during an economic collapse. The Uncivil War is set in a fictional city, Lewiston. The characters must survive and discover the cause of the collapse. The Uncivil War uses it's own rules system to resolve combat and non combat events...read more

Product Description: The authors, both Yorkshiremen, saw active service with the British Army during the wartime years, have described in meticulous detail the fascinating story of the campaigns fought by the Yorkshire regiments in the various parts of the world during the Second World War...read more

Product Description: Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 171 The last 10 years have seen major advances in the scientific understanding of ADHD. This book builds on them to provide a practical, comprehensive and evidence-based approach to clinical work with ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder, and to similar problems in people with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities...read more

Product Description: Operation Millennium was an extraordinary feat of organization involving 1,048 bombers, over 6,000 aircrew, and 53 British airfields. To ensure the success of this first strike of the Allied blitz, maximum effort was the order and the Royal Air Force waged a merciless campaign against any airmen who showed faltering commitment, ruthlessly trying them by court martial as "lacking moral fiber...read more

Product Description: Wartime Nurse recounts the amazing exploits of nurses working in battle zones spanning wars from the Crimea to Korea—years when such nurses struggled for official recognition. Florence Nightingale's nurses defied male prejudice and the conventions of the age by caring for soldiers in hospitals seething with cholera...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An exploration of the heroism and dedication of British nurses in World War II, which describes the often dangerous conditions under which many nurses had to work, with accounts of the struggle to treat wounded soldiers and civilians on home ground and enemy territory.

The story of the World War II is the story of ordinary men and women performing extraordinary feats. Women played a part in the Allied conflict as spies, as ATS soldiers, as Waafs and Wrens, but their contribution has not been fully recognised. In this study, the author records the experience of many valiant women including Joanna Stavridi, "the Nightingale of Crete", Claire Phillips, the American "Mata Hari of the South Pacific", nurse Margot Turner who survived a Japanese POW camp, and Squadron Leader Diana Rowden who served as an SOE agent in Nazi-occupied France and was executed at Natzweiler. Drawing on first-hand accounts and dozens of face-to-face interviews, the author explores the heroism and motives of women at war. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Una guía esencial para los padres para comprender y ayudar al niño hiperactivo. ¿Cual es la diferencia entre un niño alegre y vital y un niño hiperactivo? ¿Cuáles son las causas de la hiperactividad? Este libro ofrece información adicional sobre el llamado síndrome de falta de atención...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents the fascinating wartime experiences of well-known stars of stage, screen and radio, as well as exciting and amusing recollections of the servicemen and women who took part in amateur theatricals, both in the forces and in POW camps...read more

Product Description: In World War II the West Yorkshire and the East Yorkshire, the York and Lancaster and King's Own Light Infantry, the Green Howards, the Duke of Wellington's, the Yorkshire Hussars, the East Riding Yeomanry and the Yorkshire Dragoons all fought, died and won over three continents in a dozen different countries, ranging from the Falklands to Fiji...read more

Product Description: Eric Taylor chronicles the diversity and dangers of British women's operational roles in World War II. Thet took part in the D-Day landings, flew four-engined bombers, worked behind enemy lines and suffered the horrors of POW camps...read more

Product Description: Most previous research work on antisocial conduct disorders in children has not separated children with hyperkinesis caused by dysfunction of the brain from those whose hyperkinesis stems from psychosocial problems. Using an entirely fresh approach, this work develops methods to assess hyperactivity and other behavioral problems, and to measure disturbance of attention and neurological development...read more

Product Description: Many Western composers, including Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, and Britten, have found inspiration in South East Asia's ancient musical traditions. Contact with a different musical language prompts many questions; this book is an attempt to set the scene and to answer the most essential of these, in as non-technical a way as possible...read more