Alan Stewart: 45 books

As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed...

As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed...

Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was one of the most promising young men of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in Ireland, nephew and heir to her favourite, Leicester, he was tipped for high office - and even to inherit the throne. But Sidney soon found himself caught up in the...

Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland for the last 500 years and more. The 'Athens of the North' is the centre of Scottish banking, medicine, architecture, law and publishing. It is the home of Scotland's national museums and the location of the Queen's official residence in Scotland and of the...

The critical preparation you'll need to get into the Catholic high school you want McGraw-Hill's Catholic High School Entrance Exams is the core guide to the three exams required for admission to Catholic high schools nationwide. It offers complete coverage of the Cooperative Admissions Examination...

A thorough review of the all-important Analytical Writing section of the General GRE. Follow the 7-Step plan for crafting a high-scoring GRE Issue essay and GRE Argument essay. Learn advanced techniques for handling Issue and Argument Tasks, and brush up on your skills with a complete review of essay writing techniques.

A thorough review of the Verbal Reasoning section of the General GRE. Follow step-by-step plans for tackling analogies and sentence and text completion questions on the GRE. Sharpen your skills with extensive reading comprehension techniques, reviews of antonym strategies, and tips for building your vocabulary.

Peterson's provides an in-depth review of the GMAT Verbal Section. A 6-step plan for reviewing critical reasoning problems and a 4-step plan for reviewing sentence correction problems are included along with several examples and explanations. There is also a 7-step plan for reading comprehension problems...

Peterson's provides an in-depth review of the GMAT Quantitative Section. A 5-step plan for problem solving and a 5-step plan for data sufficiency problems are included along with several examples and explanations.

Review an extensive list of words most commonly tested on the General GRE, including word origins and sample usage sentences.

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges...

Peterson's provides an in-depth review of the number forms, relationships, and sets problems in the Quantitative Section of the GMAT. Percents, fractions, decimal, ratios, proportion problems, mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and geometric and arithmetic sequence examples and explanations are included.

A Practice Test is a full-length GMAT exam, including all three GMAT sections (the Analytical Writing Assessment, the Quantitative Section, and the Verbal Section) with detailed answer explanations.

Take a full-length practice GRE, including an Analytical Writing section (one Issue essay and one Argument essay), a 45-minute Quantitative Reasoning section, and a 30-minute Verbal Reasoning section. Pinpoint areas in which you're strongest and target those in which you may need improvement.