Product Description: The Marsh Lions tells the story of a pride of lions in Kenya’s world-famous Masai Mara game reserve.  For five years, Brian Jackman and Jonathan Scott followed the Marsh pride and their progeny, recording the daily drama of life and death on the African plains...read more

Product Description: Most parents are terrified by the idea of talking to their young children about drugs and alcohol. That fear causes many to wait far too long to start the discussion. Now, there is a solution to the problem: The Mother’s Checklist of Drug Prevention...read more

Product Description: How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English - and then British - political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing...read more

Product Description: How can parents keep their kids safe and healthy when it comes to drug and alcohol abuse? "Not All Kids Do Drugs" is a hands-on, accessible, step-by-step guide that tells parents exactly how to get the job done. Part one deals with the issues surrounding teen use: Does it have to happen? Can you teach teens how to drink moderately and safely? Can we learn anything from how Europeans drink? What do parents need to know about school-based drug education? Part two is the heart of the book...read more

Product Description: "1001 Arabian Nights" is a beloved collection of folk tales and other stories. It is often known in English as "Arabian Nights," from the first English language edition (1706), which named the title, "Arabian Nights Entertainments...read more

Product Description: Big Cat Diary is a television phenomenon. From its inception in 1996 it grew steadily in popularity, until it attracted audiences of up to seven million. In autumn 2008, in the BBC Natural History Unit’s most ambitious outside broadcast ever, it went live for the first time and recorded two million visitors to its website in the course of transmission...read more

Product Description: The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment or simply Arabian Nights is the English name of One Thousand and One Nights. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it) became widely known in the West during the nineteenth century, after it was translated - first into French and then English and other European languages...read more

Product Description: The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment or simply Arabian Nights is the English name of One Thousand and One Nights. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it) became widely known in the West during the nineteenth century, after it was translated - first into French and then English and other European languages...read more

Product Description: The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment or simply Arabian Nights is the English name of One Thousand and One Nights. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it) became widely known in the West during the nineteenth century, after it was translated - first into French and then English and other European languages...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English history to re-evaluate the character and significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English history to re-evaluate the character and significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution...read more

Product Description: Examining works which supported the abolition of monarchy and its replacement with a republic, Jonathan Scott ventures beyond existing studies of individual authors or specific themes to offer the first general account of an influential body of writing...read more

'Explores Hughes's intellectual method and its relation to social activism. Examines his involvement with socialist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and contends that the goal of overthrowing white oppression produced a 'socialist joy' expressed repeatedly in his later work, in spite of the anticommunist crusades of the cold war'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: A la manera de los primeros naturalistas, viajeros incansables que se valían de descripciones científicas de aspectos biológicos y de comportamiento de los animales, así como de anécdotas y relatos de viaje cargados de emoción y asombro, Jonathan y Angela Scott presentan en este segundo libro de la serie Diario de grandes felinos, ahora dedicado a los leopardos, una visión completa de estos hermosos animales...read more

Product Description: Éste es el primero de una serie de tres libros sobre felinos africanos y, si bien retoma los fascinantes relatos de la vida cotidiana de los personajes de la famosa serie de televisión del mismo nombre, va más allá, pues presenta un panorama más completo: aborda la historia, biología, comportamiento, conservación y supervivencia de los leones africanos...read more

This companion to the successful BBC1 Big Cat Diary series, goes beyond the day-to-day footage to explore the bigger picture of the lives of cheetahs in Africa. Following the huge success of Big Cat Diary week in January this year, the big cat team are now preparing their sixth series for the BBC. Having lived in the Mara for 30 years, Jonathan and Angie Scott are widely respected experts on all of Africa's three big cats. Big Cat Diary: Cheetah is the third in a series of three books designed to complement the BBC TV series, and provides a complete picture of the lives of the cheetahs that live in the Masai Mara and beyond. As well as a detailed examination of biology and behaviour, the book provides an historical perspective of the cheetah families featured in the series, including the well-known Queen and Kike. Jonathan and Angie Scott look outside the Masai Mara Game Reserve, to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Ngorongoro Crater, and Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. They explore how we can conserve the big cat populations and ensure they can maintain breeding populations. Cheetahs are graceful and beautiful as well as being among the fastest creatures on the planet. With award-winning photography and fascinating stories, Big Cat Diary: Cheetah ensures that Big Cat lovers will not be disappointed.

Product Description: These beautiful books are companion volumes to the popular Animal Planet television series, Big Cat Diaries, which explores the history, biology, behavior, conservation, and survival of big cats inside and outside Kenya’s 600-square-mile Masai Mara Game Reserve...read more

Product Description: These beautiful books are companion volumes to the popular Animal Planet television series, Big Cat Diaries, which explores the history, biology, behavior, conservation, and survival of big cats inside and outside Kenya’s 600-square-mile Masai Mara Game Reserve...read more

Product Description: Discover the practical tips to make you an effective, customer-oriented manager!Focusing on the pervading belief that everything a manager does must be customer oriented, The Concise Handbook of Management: A Practitioner’s Approach gives you an overview of everything you need to know about managing in one practical, concise book...read more

Product Description: Discover the practical tips to make you an effective, customer-oriented manager!Focusing on the pervading belief that everything a manager does must be customer oriented, The Concise Handbook of Management: A Practitioner’s Approach gives you an overview of everything you need to know about managing in one practical, concise book...read more

Product Description: In the century following his execution for treason in 1683, Algernon Sidney became one of the most widely influential political writers - in both Europe and America - that England had ever produced. This is the first full-scale study of Sidney for more than a century, and the first ever study of his political thought...read more

Product Description: The second of three books accompanying the major BBC television series, featuring the leopard families of the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. Perhaps the most graceful and adaptable of all cats, leopards are also the world's most numerous big cats...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A companion volume to the successful "Big Cat Diary" television series, which goes beyond the day-to-day footage and explores the bigger picture: history, biology, behaviour, conservation and how lions survive outside the Masai Mara...read more

Product Description: By the 19th century, connoisseurs from the British Isles had assembled the richest collections of classical antiquities outside Rome. The galleries they created to house the spectacular Greek and Roman statues, ornaments, vases, bronzes and gems were in many instances designed to be as magnificent as the artworks themselves...read more