All devotees of early Keyboard music will welcome this attractive compilation of the best-known pieces from the classic Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a remarkable collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music. Although composed for the Virginal, these pieces can be played without difficulty on [...]

The larger-than-life, unapologetic bad boy of professional golf shares his philosophy of life and golf in a no-holds-barred memoir of the ups and downs of his personal and professional world, offering a rollicking account of booze, depression, weight problems, marital problems, and golf. Reprint.[...]

This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981. It is not a history of Anglo-American relations in the century; its theme deals with how the United States of America came to replace Britain as the primary world and oceanic power confr[...]

"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee's triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee's strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought the Con[...]

There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book, first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth and asks: who were the newcomers and wh[...]

Canyoneering - the descent of natural gorges by a mixture of hiking, scrambling, swimming and abseiling - is a spicy mix both for fun and for the adventurous. This is a guide to canyoning in the limestone areas of the western Mediterranean, stretching from the Costa Blanca via the Pyrenees to Proven[...]

A new edition of our bestselling A2 level Spanish coursebook to comply with the new specifications.