Sayer: 46 books

Is Humankind an intelligent species yet? This book immediately answers ”No!” and then covers many subjects such as the universe, language, self-awareness and evil, asking a wide range of questions. The author believes: a. that many of these questions are the most important that can ever face Humankind,...

The Christian Humanitarian Reading Initiative for Spiritual Theatre (or C.H.R.I.S.T. for short) are putting on a production of The Nativity Story. It's opening night and nothing is going to plan. Despite a collapsing manger, a deranged donkey, and a director on the brink of hysteria, the show must...

I looked out my window one morning and there she was, Gina Delgado, dressed up like a peacock in her high heels and all, standing between my front gate and a moving bulldozer, with her arms and legs apart in this sort of over my dead body pose, see? An inner-city community is under threat from...

The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca,  it documents how...

Behind every web transaction lies the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) --- the language of web browsers and servers, of portals and search engines, of e-commerce and web services. Understanding HTTP is essential for practically all web-based programming, design, analysis, and administration. While...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s...

Good evening, I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s...

Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s...

Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine...

This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated  in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing status of ‘hard of hearing’ people during the nineteenth century as categorized among diverse and changing categories of ‘deafness’....

The True Adventures of Richard Turpin tells the real story of the life of the most famous highwayman of all, Dick Turpin.Narrated by Jack Peaker, lackey to the Master Turnkey at York Castle Prison where Turpin is being held under an alias, the tale follows the man's exploits in Essex and London with...

Comprehensive in its coverage, the text examines the core areas of childcare practice, considering the various strengths and weaknesses of both policy and practice. With an emphasis on reflective practice, this text is insightful reading for all those studying childcare from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Die Ausgabe 1 der Flugschriften für neue Kurzprosa "Hammer+Veilchen" enthält Beiträge von 10 deutschsprachigen Autoren. Die Zeitschrift erscheint 4 Mal in Jahr, jeweils zum 15. März, 15. Juni, 15. September und 15. Dezember. Fällt einer der Erscheinungstermine auf Vollmond, verschiebt sich der...