Language: reference and general

The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law.

The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years.

The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe.

One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century.

A wide-flung archipelago lying between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Indonesia is the world's most populous Islamic country.

Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908.

Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy.

What if your parents weren't who you thought they were?

For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth's land surface and one-fifth of its population.

Malawi, established as the British protectorate of Nyasaland in 1891, gained its independence in 1964 and moved immediately into three decades of one-party rule.

As long as there have been wars, there have been peace processes to settle them.

The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China have gone through dramatic change since 1949.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers.

Writing in Bereavement is a practical creative handbook that will assist counsellors, volunteers and others in their work with bereaved adults.

Rumpole and His Rivals examines comic legal fiction and the role it plays in the public's understanding of the legal system.

Rumpole and His Rivals examines comic legal fiction and the role it plays in the public's understanding of the legal system.

If you are a writer of fiction, this practical handbook will teach you how to acquire your own writer's tool-box.

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway's who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself?

Write Yourself is the ideal introduction to how to facilitate groups and individuals in finding inspiration for their creative personal writing voices.

This practical guide to effective public speaking for professionals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) provides tailored advice on using your Asperger strengths to your advantage and overcoming areas of challenge to find your public speaking voice.

Witchcraft has proven an important, if difficult, historical subject to investigate and interpret over the last four decades or so.

The Chinese Communist Party, as the political leader of the world's largest country and second largest economy, plays an undeniably important role in global politics.

The current European Union (EU) has existed since 1 November 1993.

Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 covers a wide swath of literary analysis and achievement, from Old High German lays and ecclesiastical encomia to Middle High German epics, sagas, and love lyrics.

The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations.

This stimulating workbook is aimed at committed writers and students of creative writing who want to engage with ideas about writing and develop their craft and practice.

In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights - such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I.

With updates to every chapter, this new fourth edition serves as the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services.

It has never been easier to publish a book, but publishing a book is never easy.

To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights' creations are not simply words on a page.

For Lewis Carroll, a deacon in the Church of England, faith in Christ and belief in a loving God stood at the core of his being, but little has been written about what the church or faith meant to the celebrated author of the Alice books.

Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches.

African women's history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50 countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations.

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth, and skill-building.

With updates to every chapter, this new fourth edition serves as the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services.

This book is a practical guide to creative writing, providing advice on style and form, and help with developing work to be read or heard and how to get published.

In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights - such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I.

A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide for college students and high school seniors considering law school.

An essential guide for pre-service and in-service English language teachers.

On the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2013, the inhabitants of Slovakia celebrated a major milestone in their history: two decades of democratic government and personal freedom.

The overriding theme of this work is that women's struggles, human rights, myths, and literary expression are indispensable to an understanding of the modern culture and socio-political development of the Middle East region.

Shows students how to make their writing effective and grammatically correct.

Although relatively small, the northern countries of Scandinavia have made a disproportionately large contribution to world cinema.

Jazz is a music formed from a combination of influences.

Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the "e;land of the upright people,"e; is a medium-sized land-locked country with no less than six neighbors, some of which periodically get into trouble.

The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world.