David Alexander provides a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. The book introduces the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning.
Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi’s debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice.
The extraordinary and beautiful scenery of the Northern Scottish Highlands has been created by a geological... Læs mere
A comprehensive treatment of the glorious geology and scenery of Scotland. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, this is the complete account for the many for whom the geology and scenery of Scotland are special.
This book pits the imaginative sports of science fiction against our widespread suspicion of the monstrous athletic body. The biopolitical nature of sport... Læs mere
This is the first exploration of the British army to combine labour, political and military history. It analyses the... Læs mere
This volume holds a datelist of 476 radiocarbon determinations carried out between 2002 and 2004 in support of research funded by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.
By the mid-ninth century vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with... Læs mere
Perhaps nowhere else on Earth does so small an area as that of island of Cyprus provide such an excellent illustration of the dynamics of Earth processes.
Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. In relating this story Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic... Læs mere
Justus Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is one of the most important and interesting of sixteenth century Humanist texts.
The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts.