What if there was a way of eating that may help us live healthier for longer and protect the future of our planet, too?The good news is that evidence now shows a plant-based diet may offer us exactly that – and straight-talking nutritionist Simon Hill has done the hard work translating the science into actionable advice for everyday life.Before transitioning to a plant-based diet Simon held many of the common misconceptions. But instead he experienced incredible improvement...

Our health is in crisis and so is our climate.What if there was a way of eating that may help us live healthier for longer and protect the future of our planet, too?The good news is that evidence now shows a plant-based diet may offer us exactly that - and straight-talking nutritionist Simon Hill has done the hard work translating the science into actionable advice for everyday life.Before transitioning to a plant-based diet Simon held many of the common misconcepti...

It's being said that Romania has the worst streets in Europe. To find out the truth Jeremy, Richard and James are making their way through Wallachia a place very close to Dracula's home Transylvania. It doesn't take long and the three adventurers face worse things than only bad streets.

Learn the alphabet with pretty illustrations of your favorite animals, food, and more!This book will introduce your preschooler or toddler to the ABCs in a fun and playful way that will leave a lasting impression.

Stimulating Emerging Story Writing! Inspiring Children aged 3-7 offers innovative and exciting ways to inspire young children to want to create stories and develop their emerging story writing skills. This practical guide offers comprehensive and informed support for professionals to effectively engage ‘child authors’ in stimulating story writing activities.Packed full of story ideas, resource suggestions and practical activities, the book explores the various ways profess...

Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. From Pompeian skulls on a writer's desk, to religious paraphernalia in churches, new photographic images of the Holy Land and the remaking of the cityscape of Jerusalem and Britain, Goldhill explores the remarkable way in which the nineteenth century's sense of history w...

′This is a fantastic book which provides creative and practical suggestions of how to engage all children in writing′- Sarah Martin-Denham, Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, University of SunderlandThis book is a practical guide designed to stimulate story writing in the early years and primary classroom. It offers a collection of novel and effective Ideas which can be used by educators to energise, excite and motivate children to willingly write stories...

Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. Since the nineteenth century, the city has been a premier tourist destination, not least because of the countless religious pilgrims from the three Abrahamic faiths.But Jerusalem is more than a tourist site—it is a city where every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, ...

Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors ...

Stimulating Story Writing! Inspiring Children aged 7-11 offers innovative and exciting ways to inspire children to want to create stories and develop their story writing skills. This practical guide offers comprehensive and informed support for professionals to effectively engage ‘child authors’ in stimulating story writing activity.Packed full of story ideas, resource suggestions and practical activities, the book explores various ways professionals can help children to d...

"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind."So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm—the prime minister once wondered whether she was "the cleverest woman in England or in Europe." Th...

Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – including personal diaries and letters – the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of camaraderie and relationship. Goldhill examines too the huge influence that these individuals ha...