The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield. He is joined by Alec McCowen as Gloucester, Kenneth Branagh as The Fool, Harriet Walter as Gonerill, Sara Kestelman as Regan and Emilia Fox as Cordelia. This is the ninth recording of Shakespeare plays undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, and is directed by John Tydeman. It was released to mark the eightieth birth...

Dusty Miller thought he’d left the war behind him.But back on the streets of London with a dishonourable discharge ringing in his ears, when an old friend offers him a bodyguard job looking after a gangsters daughter, Dusty doesnt have much choice but to accept.Walking around with Margaret Mayfield looked like it was going to be straightforward, right up to the moment when the first shots were fired.As a gangland takeover erupts, Dusty finds himself...

An updated edition of the definitive handbook on the physical basis for learning for professionals involved in education and child development, written by the respected author of acclaimed titles in the field.A comprehensive overview of the relationship between neuromotor maturity and physical development on learning outcomes and behaviour in childhood and later lifeExplores why early reflexes are important, their functions in early development, the...

Gija is a traditional language of the East Kimberley in the north-west of Australia. It is a landscape of weathered hills hugged by spinifex, startling rocky outcrops, hidden waterholes and dry riverbeds that turn to raging torrents in the wet season. Gija country extends north of Warmun (Turkey Creek) in the upper reaches of the Ord and Dunham rivers, south to Halls Creek and west to Lansdowne and Tableland stations. The Purnululu (Bungle-Bungle – Boornoolooloo) National Park sits in Gija...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES**'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATORShortlisted for the HWA Nonfiction Crown AwardLonglisted for the Highland Book PrizeFrom Peter Marshall, winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize, Storm’s Edge is a n...

L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Towers of the Sunset continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Rather than accepting a marriage arranged by his mother, the powerful military matriarch of Westwind, Creslin chooses exile, setting out to find his own identity and developing his magical talents through conflict with the enigmatic white wizards of Candar.What Creslin doesn't know he stands in the way of thei...

Full-cast dramatisation of the hot-blooded historical romance set in 18th century Wales‘Jones has a talent for writing natural witty dialogue…’ Best SellersSworn allegiances, cruel punishments, broken hearts, shattered dreams and ancient magic make for an utterly spellbinding listen in this full-cast adaptation of Gareth Jones’s masterful novel.1745. 18th century Wales is a land that time forgot. The burden of squalid povert...

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150...

**Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.“An immersive account of America’s fierce debate about joining World War II.” — The Washington Post"Brands’s elegant account of the political...

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding."Gut-wrenching. . . . While acknowledging that the study of liberty and slavery in the Revolutionary era remains a 'partisan minefield,' Mr. Larson plunges in, sparing none of the era's most prominent revolutionaries from scrutiny." —Harold Holzer, Wall Street JournalNew attention from histo...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick” “American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New Yorker A revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus of Spanish colonization of North...

From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica.Although Silicon Valley likes to imagine that it has no past, the scientists of Simulmatics are almost undoubted...