Gervase Phinn, school inspector, begins his third year with a spring in his step for in April he will marry Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School. But before then he has to suffer the
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The battles fought on the Eastern Front were decisive to the course of the First World War. As well as reconstructing these events, Norman Stone explores the factors that influenced their outcome and
We are seeing an extraordinarily powerful intersection of accelerating changes to our planet and its inhabitants, all traceable, the author says, to the steam engine's invention 300 years ago. This bo
A collection of humorous quotations. It features quotations from Anon to Woody Allen ('Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber at weekends'), Miss Piggy and Dorothy Parker, to Mae West ('t
Theo and her young, irresponsible mother seem trapped in their miserable, poverty-stricken life. Theo dreams of belonging to a “real” family, and her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously
Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century Bad writing can't b
Explores the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and discovers the nature of reality. Seeking an answer to the fundamental puzzle of why our universe seems so mathematical, this book proposes a radical i
