Wittgenstein’s Football Tactics & Other Poems Tim Hopkins Purchase: About: This is the second poetry collection by former teacher, Tim Hopkins. In addition to poetry for adults and children, Tim Hopkins has published two novels for teenagers, and written humorous material for comedians and cartoonists. He has also composed songs that have been performed and […]
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Poems for the Young at Heart Tim Hopkins Purchase: About: This is the third poetry collection by former teacher, Tim Hopkins. His teaching in primary schools gave the author a sense for the kind of poems that children enjoy. In the first place, formal verses which rhyme are preferred to free verse, and in terms
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Poems for the Young at Heart Tim Hopkins Purchase: About: This is the third poetry collection by former teacher, Tim Hopkins. His teaching in primary schools gave the author a sense for the kind of poems that children enjoy. In the first place, formal verses which rhyme are preferred to free verse, and in terms
Understanding England’s Cathedrals Dave Hennis Purchase: About: The ancient cathedral was the pinnacle of medieval society’s spiritual and cultural life employing the best designers, artists, craftsmen and materials that available money could buy. They developed into enclaves of worship, learning, hospitality, art, music, agriculture and medicine in an often chaotic and violent outside world. A
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Redrawing the Map of the Future Digitisation, Industry 4.0, AI, E-Mobility, and the Circular Economy Mats Larsson Purchase: About: In this visionary book, the author argues that in order to drive the development of technology and sustainability forward there is a need for considerable investment and collective action. The need to drive large-scale development and
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Mexico on Film National Identity & International Relations Dr Armida de la Garza Purchase: About: Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward and contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main arena
The Curse of the Great Train Robbery Jon Fordham Purchase: About: In the early hours of 8 August 1963, a crime took place which simultaneously captured the imagination of the general public, and shook the British Establishment to the core, in a way that no criminal event had ever done before. The Great Train Robbery,
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Singapore and the Thailand Burma Railway Alfred E. Knights Purchase: About: This book presents one of the most vivid descriptions of day-to-day life in a Japanese POW labour camp to have appeared so far. The story follows the experiences of the Norfolk Territorial Regiment from 1942 to 1945, under the command of Lt. Col. Knights,
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A Childhood in Bohemia And the Flight to the West Erika Storey Purchase: About: A Missing Chapter of World War II History Comes to Light In the aftermath of World War II, approximately 15 million Germans were expelled from Eastern European countries where their families had lived for centuries. Among them were 3 million Sudeten
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The Chill from Siberia Danuta Gray Purchase: About: This is a moving tale about mid-19th century Poland, based on the experiences of the author’s forebears, during the time when her country was under the yoke of Tsarist oppression. The story is about a young noblewoman, Kamila, in the struggle to retain her inheritance, following the
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