Michael O Mara: 334 books
by Nicola Chalton, Meredith MacArdle
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A rich, complex and absorbing subject, it’s hard to find the history of the twentieth century in one accessible book ... until now. From two World Wars to astonishing scientific progress and social upheaval, the twentieth century saw unprecedented change. In this concise history of a century like no...
Letters from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War
A Soldier of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy,...
by Flic Everett
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
With an entertaining and informative tone, this guide is filled with handy advice and true stories from grandmas who have had to relearn those tricky parenting skills and acquire new ones for the digital age
"But I'm too young to be a granny!" After her children moved out of the...
The Science of Everyday Life
Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don't cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke Marty...
The Little Book of Big Ideas
150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history – from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art – each presented in brief, accessible form. ‘Big’ ideas are those concepts and theories that have radically transformed our...
The Language of London
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This beautifully presented and accessible guide is the perfect companion to learning the phrases of London's East End and the interesting origins behind Cockney Rhyming Slang - a language first invented as a secret code among the thieves of London's underworld. Organized thematically, rather than alphabetically,...
The Long and the Short of It
How We Came to Measure Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
We’ve always measured the world around us, from how big things are, to how fast they go, how much they’re worth and practically everything in between. But who decided how we do it, and why? The Long and the Short of It takes us back in time to discover the origins and evolution of a huge variety...
The Mysteries of History
Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon’. Noted down in historical documents, copied and widely repeated, it doesn’t take long for a version of the truth to become accepted as fact. But who invents these false accounts in the first...
One Bloody Thing After Another
The World's Gruesome History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Ever wondered why Tsar Ivan was the dubbed 'the Terrible' or how King Henri II of France perished in a jousting incident? Grisly and gruesome, this book details the vile history of bloodthirsty kings and queens, savage battles, torture and punishment, as well as deathly locations from the days of the...
The Story of English
How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
The Story of English" illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically...
Plato's Alarm Clock
And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn’t seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future … but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn’t know how to catch a fish...
Elementary
The Periodic Table Explained
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly...
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
Weird Ways to Remember Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Our memories are mysterious things. One moment we might remember a lengthy poem or the exact street address of a restaurant from our childhood. But the next moment we can struggle to recall where we‘ve put our keys down or the name of the person we have just been introduced to. The human mind is...
Egyptian Woman
A year in the life of a woman during the reign of Ramesses II
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Following the experiences of Nebetiunet - an Egyptian mother and wife living in the holy city of Waset (Thebes) during the fifth year of the reign of Ramesses II - Egyptian Woman offers a fascinating insight into a year in her busy and remarkable life. When Nebet was orphaned at the age of ten, she...