Every owner wants to do the best for their dog. This easy-to-follow guide to grooming and caring for your pet dog will help you to do just that, showing you how to achieve a professional-looking trim at home. Various breeds and styles are covered, as well as how to use equipment safely and correctly. The importance of preparation is explained, with guidance on de-matting, washing and drying correctly prior to cutting. A health check is included in the book to help readers identify and deal...

In "Melba: A Biography," Agnes G. Murphy embarks on an illuminating exploration of the life of the iconic Australian opera singer, Nellie Melba. The biography is rich in detail, revealing not only Melba's extraordinary career that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries but also the cultural and artistic milieu that shaped her. Murphy employs a lyrical yet scholarly prose, weaving in historical context and personal anecdotes to illustrate Melba's influence on the world of opera, thu...

Emily Brontë is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of cancer. At the age of six she joined her three sisters briefly at the Clergy Daughters' School, where privations and abuse contributed to the deaths of two of them. Her elder sister, Charlotte, immortalized this terrible place in "Jane Eyre." In 1846 Emily Brontë, under the pseudonym Elli...