Lucy Fisher: 5 books

This is a collection of received ideas: faux facts, weird wisdom and ludicrous lore that we love to believe in. Were the desks at Eton College made of ships from the Spanish Armada? Did the Victorians put petticoats on piano legs? Do we use only 10% of our brains? Did Stone Age Man hunt dinosaurs? What do you think?

Emily Wilding Davison was the most famous suffragette to die in the battle for women’s rights, after colliding with the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, but who was she, and how did she end up dying for her cause? Her notorious final act of protest has for decades obscured her extraordinary...

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...

The 800-plus pages of this four-color book mark a milestone in European travel writing. It was Arthur Frommer who first set off an avalanche of travel to Europe, and whose subsequent writings and commentary have constantly expanded that market. And now Arthur Frommer has himself edited (and written personal...