Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives (Allen Stephen)(Paperback)

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics - Leonard Mlodinow

An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position in popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and their friendship,

Fifty Fifty: Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters (Marsack Robyn)(Paperback)

Fifty Fifty celebrates fifty years of publishing by one of the UK's most distinguished and distinctive independent presses, through correspondence between 50 authors and their

Rape and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Waples Megan)(Paperback)

Rape and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives examines the legal history of rape to understand why modern audiences continue to disagree about the nature of the crime, why society as a whole often fails to believe and support victims, and how we can change our understanding of and

Classic Reprint : The Story of the Rangers - Fifty Years of Football 1873 to 1923(Paperback / softback)

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Jolly Emma)(Paperback)

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors gives a fascinating insight into the history of the subcontinent under British rule and into the lives the British led there. It also introduces the reader to the range of historical records that can be consulted in order to throw light on the experience of

Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 - 1950(Paperback / softback)

This exhibition catalogue highlights the work of a cross-section of women artists, active during the first half of the 20th century, whose work deserves more critical

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Allen Robert C.)(Paperback)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He

Bleak House (Dickens Charles)(Paperback)

Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal system As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by

Fifty Freakin' Years of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Shelton Gilbert)(Paperback)

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (Calonne David Stephen)(Paperback)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg's

A Contemporary Perspective on Gwr Signalling - Semaphore Swansong (Jackson Allen)(Paperback)

For over 150 years Britain's railways have relied on a system of semaphore signalling, but by 2020, all semaphore signals and lineside signal boxes will be gone. A Contemporary Perspective on GWR Signalling provides a unique record of the last operational mechanical signalling and infrastructure on

Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain (Oppenheimer Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor Colin Renfrew, University of

The Chronicles of Narnia - Pauline Baynes, Lewis Clive Staples

The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in C.S. Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory for adults and children alike

Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV (Bourne Stephen)(Paperback)

A long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel

London Buses a Living Heritage - Fifty Years of the London Bus Museum (Smith Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World (Trombley Stephen)(Paperback)

Thedevelopment of modern thought is tracedthrough a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavor since 1789No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention in this history: the German idealists Kant,

The Land of Osiris (Mehler Stephen S.)(Paperback)

Egyptologist Stephen S. Mehler has spent over 30 years researching the answers to these questions: Was there a advanced prehistoric civilisation in ancient Egypt?; Who were the people who built the great pyramids?; Who carved the Great Sphinx?; Did the pyramids serve as energy devices and not as

The Art of Wooden Boat Repair: How to Save Wood Boats (Taube Allen Cody)(Paperback)

This book presents the experience and insights gained by Allen Taube through 40 years of boat building, owning and sailing wooden schooners, marine surveying and wooden boat repair. His original book, 'The Boatwright's Companion,' published in 1986, became the wooden boat owners' bible. This third

Battle (Toland John)(Paperback)

The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of

What the Solicitor Says About... Starting Your Business - A Practical Guide Through the Legal Maze of the Early Years of Business (Allsopp Gwyneth)(Paperback / softback)

Miscellany 50: Fifty Years of Sunday Miscellany (Anluain Clodhna N)(Paperback)

Beginning in 1968, fifty-five personal essays and poems reveal the power of Ireland's finest writers to delve into the details of Irish life with warmth, sincerity and wit. Here, side by side, are stories around the first moon landing, the eruption of violence in the North, the visit to Ireland by

Wagons of the Final Years of British Railways - A Pictorial Study of the 1962-1968 Period (Larkin David)(Paperback / softback)

The Cultural Construction of the British World (Thompson Andrew)(Paperback)

The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial

Stephen Ferris: Man and Ball: My Autobiography (Ferris Stephen)(Paperback)

SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'When I came into the Ulster team, ' Stephen Ferris says with typical candour, 'we were crap'. It was, however, preferable to his day job of paving driveways, and that day in 2005 saw the start of an incredible journey for