A brief biography of Samuel Adams describes his activities in stirring up the revolt against the British and how he was finally persuaded to learn to ride a horse

How does an inventor set about designing a piece of machinery to make a particular product? Are they any basic principles to guide him? Glegg believes that there are and, in his short book, draws on his own wide-ranging experience as an inventor, consulting engineer, company director and university lecturer, to define them. Most books on engineering design are concerned with either mathematical analysis or some individual technique related to a narrow field. This book is neither: it defines the general laws which underlie all creative design, from the philosophy and psychology of inventiveness to the point at which an invention is commercially exploited. It thus cuts across the frontiers of specialised studies and specialised industries. Glegg finds engineering fun and feels that learning about it need not be dull. His book, with many illustrations from the battleground of industry, is both entertaining and profitable reading for engineering designers of the future and for those in general management responsible for design departments.

Product Description: A complete collection, in three volumes, of the classical articles and reviews of A. E. Housman. These papers were originally published between 1882 and 1936 in a variety of academic journals, many of which are now difficult to obtain...read more

Product Description: Boudicca's Revolt (Cambridge Introduction to World History)

Presents for the first time in printed form Darwin's original long manuscript on Natural Selection, from which On the Origins of Species was abstracted and which provides a fuller account of his views on evolution and all of his sources

The hardships of the winter at Valley Forge are seen through the eyes of a middle-aged sergeant and a young soldier

A British drummer boy witnesses the last moments of the battle of Yorktown.

In 1780 a young girl helps an American soldier pursued by the British to escape.

Relates in verse the battle between John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard and the British ships Serapis and Scarborough.

Translated extracts from Roman writers are brought together to provide a picture of the main areas of Roman life between the third century B.C. and the fifth century A.D

Reviews in non-technical terms current knowledge about the human brain and includes discussions of the philosophical questions of human consciousness and the evolution of thinking about body and mind

Portrays the life of King George the Third of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution

Product Description: For over a hundred years, Anglican church buildings in every part of the world were dominated by a single idea of what churches should look like and how they should be arranged inside. Only since Vatican II has the dominance of this idea been finally overthrown...read more