When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk. It's a unique band that can land...
The Rhodesian War of 1965- 80 is the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe. The former British colony of Southern Rhodesia rejected British moves towards majority rule and on 11 November 1965...
A study of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1945 film about a young woman whose life is changed żeby her stay in the Scottish Highlands, in the BFI Film Classics series.
The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton's writing in the full range of genres he mastered. Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century,...
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish...
Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on...
This revised edition contains over 5,000 terms used żeby air traffic controllers, pilots, cabin crew, maintenance crews, ground staff and other airline personnel. Designed for those specialising in...
A new series of short books about the much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Each book focuses on one album, providing fresh and original perspectives on the music rather than biographical facts.
This title is one of a series of books which focus on epic albums of our time. Here, Andrew Hultkrans looks at Love's album "Forever Changes".
The Kalashnikov AK-47 is the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world, with more AK-47s and its variants in use than any other individual small arm. Created by Senior Sergeant Mikhail...
Focuses on the album that initiated Lou Reed's commercial success and the ways that it demonstrates the artist's position as an ambiguous cultural icon during this period.
Inspired żeby the scandalous true story of Ernest Boulton - the infamous Victorian cross-dresser - this original production from one of Britain's most individual theatre-makers is a highly...
The World Crisis is considered żeby many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War,...
AstroNuts Mission Two: The Water Planet is the second book in the laugh-out-loud series aby children's literature legend Jon Scieszka. The book follows a new mission, where AstroWolf,...
States Versus Markets shows that globalization is not a novel phenomenon but a recurrent process whereby markets have, since the sixteenth century, periodically redistributed economic activity....
On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days...
A supplement for Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, giving players rules for creating elite units of warriors known as battlesworn and charting their progress from battle-to-battle.In the horror...
John Chryssavgis explores the sacred dimension of the natural environment, and the significance of creation in the rich theological history and spiritual classics of the Orthodox Church, through...
Fully illustrated with a mixture of dramatic archive photos and manufacturers' images, this volume covers the little known history of the riot control vehicle. It explores the world of these...
In 1415, the judicial murder of the religious reformer Jan Hus sparked a major uprising in Bohemia. His death led within a few years to the 'Hussite' revolution against the monarchy, the...