Britain has a hidden wealth of fascinating and important women peppered throughout its history, perhaps more than any other European nation. This book is an introduction to thirty-seven British women whom I believe are truly exceptional and, since the 1st century AD, their lives have dramatically influenced British history and culture. You will know some of them, but you may not know others. This is an introduction to them and it also includes a list of other women that you will find worth...

"Although I owned a boat, I had no sonar, metal detector or any practical method of surveying the ocean bottom. With an incurable illness, no prospect of financial reward, little chance of success, brain surgery looming, and one child in college with another about to start, I was not in a position to spend thousands of dollars on a search. Still, desperate for a distraction, anything to pry my focus away from the disease, I decided—the hell with Parkinson's. I'm doing it." - From The Lost ...

This is the last in a trilogy which began with Child of a Bygone Era, followed by The Growing Pains of a Colonial Boy and ending with this book, The Autumn Years of a Colonial Boy. They are all about my unique experiences as an advertising and marketing executive through the extraordinary decades from the 1940s to the present. These were the decades that revolutionized the way we live today. The old social structure created by the Industrial Revolution had been dominated by manufacturing a...

"To feel deeply is to fall deeply, not to stumble back to sunlight's superficiality, but to evolve in curious darkness, learning to shiver in the fullness of the moon." -From Beyond Identity.By age 43, Peter Hunt had lived an adventurous life as a Naval Aviator, commercial pilot, and shipwreck diver, so when diagnosed with Parkinson's disease he accepted the neurological disorder as simply a new challenge. There was a big difference; however, Hunt's previous tests had been by choic...

It’s 1985 in Sidebottom's Reach, a country town in New South Wales on the Balmoral River, several hours on the bus from Sydney.The townsfolk live in a state of controlled disharmony, until a mysterious celestial body falls from the sky and throws the township into a tailspin.An accomplished solicitor plagued by self-doubt. A Mayor at war with the local press. A British publican struggling to make her heritage-listed hotel profitable. An idealistic waitress yearning to leave...

Wir sind alle verrückt hier: 150 Jahre Alice im WunderlandZweifelsohne ist die Geschichte der kleinen Alice eines der verrücktesten Bücher der Welt und ein Meilenstein der Kinderliteratur. Genauso ungewöhnlich ist auch die Entstehungsgeschichte des Kinderbuch-Klassikers. Charles Dodgson alias Lewis Carroll, ein exzentrischer Oxford-Mathematiker, erfand die Grinsekatze, die Herzkönigin und das weiße Kaninchen eher beiläufig während einer Bootsfahrt auf der Themse.

Blue WaterNEARLY TWO DECADES AFTER a young-onset Parkinson's disease diagnosis, Peter Hunt discovers more to smile about every day as he searches for meaning in life's daily routine. According to Hunt, happiness is a choice, a coping tool to help humankind deal with pain and discomfort. He contends that when considered with an open heart and leveraged with the genuine kindness of helping others, even partial meaning can unlock a divine joy of presence that overshadows most human suf...

This is an introduction to 27 fascinating women that have influenced the whole of French history. France honours its famous people who have died by interring them in a mausoleum called the Panthéon in Paris. At the time of writing, there were 81 of these famous people interred there. After a visit, I suddenly realised that, of these 81 people, only 6 were women – Sophie Berthelot, Marie Curie, Genevieve de Gaulle Authonioz, Germaine Tillion, Josephine Baker and Simone Veil. This set me off...

Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often opposing arguments about the best course of action. The fifteen preserved assembly speeches of the mid-fourth century BC thus provide an unparalleled body of evidence for the way that Athenians thought and felt about interstate relations: to understand this body of oratory is to understand ho...

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and RomeThis book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of enslavement to the decline of slavery after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The book uses a wide spectrum of types of evidence, and relies on concrete and vivid e...

J.R.R. Tolkien is arguably the most influential and popular of all fantasy writers. Although his position and status have long been controversial, his popularity has not faded. His best-loved works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, have sold millions of copies around the world and continue to enthral readers young and old.This lively collection of original essays examines The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the light of children's litera...

Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. This edition has been expanded and includes over 50 new articles. New topics include Postcolonialism, Comparative Studies, Ancient Texts, Contemporary Children's Rhymes and Folklore, Contemporary Comics, War, Horror, Series Fiction, Film, Creative Writing, an...