Jody is a bubbly 10-year-old girl with the unfortunate habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Desperate to find her missing brother James, Jody’s vivid dreams take her to Tamila, a mysterious land inhabited by magical wizards, mischievous pixies, nasty witches and helpful fairies. There, Jody falls foul of Hugo Toby, an evil wizard who - along with his vile brother Augustine the Awful - makes the quest to find her brother even more tricky. Thankfully, not everyone in Tamila is ...

The collection of images in this book portray the presence of Rolls-Royce in Crewe from the heady days just prior to the Second World War. It was decided then that a factory to manufacture desperately needed Merlin aero engines to power Spitfires and Hurricanes in the defence of these islands would be erected in the town. Images of both production and destruction chart the progress of the struggle with fascism until peace was won, allowing normal life to begin again. It was then that RR ma...

Across every age and shoreline, from the cradle of Mesopotamia to the highlands of Peru, one story has risen again and again like the tides themselves: the flood. These waters do more than destroy—they cleanse, transform, rebirth. And now, in The Great Deluge: Flood Myths Across World Cultures, acclaimed author and visionary scholar Tony Yustein has delivered a masterwork that sails boldly through this ancient, global current of myth, memory, and meaning.This is not just a compilat...

Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astronomical data with the purpose of enabling navigators to compute their longitude at sea. Nevil Maskelyne in the 18th century organised the work of computing tables for the Nautical Almanac, anticipating later methods used in safety-critical computing systems. The 19th century saw influential critiques of Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculating en...