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Geology has been taught at what became the University of Manchester since 1851 when W.C. Williamson was appointed as the first Professor. (He was also Professor of Botany and Zoology in the early years and a medical doctor specialising in ear surgery!) Beginning with Williamson, this book outlines...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font: 8.5px Helvetica} A gift book for anyone who has experienced the misery of commuting by rail. A laugh out loud rant about the horrors of the daily rush-hour. SARAYIRRELL spent 17 years of her life sharing...

Rhyming Ballads is an intriguing and enjoyable collection of poems, each written in rhyming couplets to engage the reader. Many of the poems are based on true facts and stories allowing for an informative read. Other poems are based on ancient Greek myths and legends such as Eurydice and Orpheus,...

Abused by Therapy debunks an enduring myth dating back to Freud, that certain conditions are nearly always caused by childhood trauma. Therapists believing this will use recovered memory therapy to search for this hidden cause behind current problems. They may find it – but what exactly are they...

After losing his home and savings to his lying son, widower Robin Bentley has a breakdown and is consigned to a care home for the elderly. He’s deeply depressed and has lost himself. As his health improves, he feels imprisoned and decides he must escape.  While sneaking away, his path is...

1934 follows the lives and families of men who served in the Great War and have kept up the friendships forged by the shared experiences of that time. John Hurst, village schoolmaster, is a staunch supporter of the League of Nations Union in London and a sometime delegate to Geneva; John is an optimist....

Set mainly in Scotland during the early part of the last century, When Dark Clouds Pass revolves around the lives of two brothers born into a close-knit mining community. The protagonist, Iain Baird, despises his younger sibling, Alastair, and is jealous of the alleged favouritism he receives. Following...

Tim Cawkwell’s knowledge and experience of the cinema has been poured into his writings about it. Originally published in 2004, this new edition sees some substantial revisions: some previous material has been dropped and a lot of new material has been added, especially on more recent films. The...

Matt Bird is an international leader, speaker, author and broadcaster. He is the founder of Cinnamon International whose vision is to see communities, cities and nations transformed by the life and love of Jesus. He is also the founder of the company Relationology International, which believes the...

Solstice charts the progress of a person determined to fight the exhaustion of unresolved mental issues and looming life challenges, using the movement of the seasons as stabilising focus, starting from the dark of Winter to the light of Spring. Whilst life must continue with high professional and...

Can the British laugh in the face of death and funerals? Do they really want to know what happens when they hand their body over to the men in black? You are a short time alive and a long time dead! Go on, risk it; read this irreverent fictionalised tale of real and astonishing events beginning in...

Does the idea that we have free will serve to foster our cruelty to one another? Richard Oerton has already dismissed the idea of free will as incoherent and illusory, doing so in The Nonsense of Free Will, a book described as “wonderfully clear – and very clever” by the New York Times bestselling...

He stood quite stationary, then a tremble ran through him and almost in slow motion he pitched sideways into the narrow passage. He lay among the puddles and rubbish, twitching. Then there was a final shudder and a narrow stream of blood ran onto the cobbles and was washed away in the rain. Chambliss...

Based on authentic love letters, written to the author by a hapless bullfighter Discover post civil war Andalusia, with its Moorish past through the language and culture of local people Compares 1950s Ireland with Franco’s Spain in the same period, both in the grip of unbending Catholicism Take...