Hugh: 1441 books

Ever wondered how many dimples there are on a golf ball; or why the shipping forecast is broadcast on 198 kHz long wave? Find yourself puzzling over what is really going on in the 273 seconds of John Cage’s most famous composition? Then this book of mind-boggling number facts is for you. The...

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students...

Nothing much has ever happened to Rev Arnold Drive, the meekly quiet vicar of St Tobias's. Feeling safe only within the walls of his church and the gentle rules of his faith, Arnold is ironically a man utterly without drive; a man content that nothing much ever happens. Nothing, that is, until...

​​​Each dermatologist that was board certified after 1992 is required by the American Board of Dermatology to take a recertification exam every ten years. One of the major components of the exam is to be able to identify clinical photographs of approximately 200 skin diseases, and while there...

First published in London 1922. A well researched chronicle of many of the remarkable and record bags of the various species of game which are met with in the British Isles, together with some account of the evolution of the sporting gun, marksmanship and the speed and weight of birds. The illustrated...

Doctor Dolittle loves animals. In fact, he loves animals so much that his cozy cottage in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is bursting with pets: goldfish in the pond, rabbits in the pantry, white mice in the piano, a squirrel in the linen closet, a hedgehog in the cellar, not to mention a horse, chickens and...

An eye-witness account of the sex experiments between college students by the student whose pad was an "open-house!" a subjective documentary! A first-hand account of the campus where coed morality was cracked as often as a book was opened--and the results of a semester of carnal knowledge where only the sexually precocious survived!

A curse lingers over the Eversol mansion — a voodoo curse, born of evil, steeped in blood.  The tormented family who lives in the house of horrors is beset by insanity, visions . . . and death.  They have shut themselves off from the world, allowing no one to trespass on their blighted property....

A work of historical fiction, In the Realm of Yang concerns an event that occurred in Ch’ang-an, the capital of ancient China, when an emperor gave his daughter to the leader of the northern barbarians to establish peace. It is the story of a father’s betrayal, the struggle of a Chinese princess...

Marcus has found the love of his life. Tami is everything he could ask for and more and he can’t wait to settle down and start a family in Willows, the small suburban town they were both raised in.  Their plans are derailed by Tami’s secrets. Secrets that turn their quiet suburban existence...

Contents Among the River Pirates Lost Mine of the Amazon Prisoners in Devil's Bog

Jeremy is the story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle; told with affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.