Fiona: 1484 books

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpoxFlorence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctorCarl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Confucius, the great Chinese philosopherSocrates, the great Greek philosopherAristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledgeWilliam Wilberforce who ended the British slave tradeKarl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for allCharlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane EyreMark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom SawyerJacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of EnglandSaladin, historic Muslim leaderGenghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empireCatherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empireAbraham Lincoln who stopped slavery in...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sunRené Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity worksCarl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’Charles...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to flyLouis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplaneCharles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic aloneAmelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the AtlanticAmy...

Really Easy Piano: Coldplay is the perfect book for beginner pianists who want to improve their playing and expand their repertoire. This book contains 20 great Coldplay songs, all arranged for easy piano, complete with background notes and playing hints and tips, to ensure you master the performance. Songlist: Fix...

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. D. H. Lawrence is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide which: * offers basic information on Lawrence's,...

Stopping the boats, blocking queue-jumpers, and proving who is a “real” refugee have become national obsessions. Misconceptions about refugees and asylum-seekers seem to be increasing, and governments and media continue to exploit anxieties in the community. This clear-headed book rejects spin...

The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée...

From understanding the concepts of research and gathering data, to writing it all up and sharing knowledge, this book will guide your students to become researchers by giving them: a confident start with clarity on core concepts and getting it right ethically step-by-step guidance at each point...

The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen would have been remarkable in any age. Today, her growing reputation as a composer of religious music has overshadowed the astonishing variety of her accomplishments and her part in the scientific, cultural, and theological revolution of the pre-Renaissance,...

Unter der Sonne Australiens kämpft eine junge Frau für ihr Glück Cathy Wisharts Job in einem Schafschur-Team ist hart, ihr Familienleben eine Katastrophe, und nach zu vielen Enttäuschungen hat sie den Männern vorerst abgeschworen. Bis der attraktive Lindsay in ihr Leben tritt, der nicht...

A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.' Woolf’s approach is to ask why, in the...