Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture
In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and t...
Disability
Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disabili...
Disability
Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disabili...
Entrepreneur Revolution
Create a great business and a better life In the newly revised third edition of Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works, serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley delivers an inspiring and pr...
Disability and the Life Course
Disability and the Life Course, first published in 2001, explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. The book explores how disabling societies impact on disabled people's life experiences, and highlights the wa...
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
Mingus
It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a composer, teacher, band leader, and iconoclast reached...
Chasin' The Bird
Charlie Parker has been idolized by generations of jazz musicians and fans. Indeed, his spectacular musical abilities--his blinding speed and brilliant improvisational style--made Parker a legend even before his tragic death at age thirty-four. No...
The History of Gibbeting
The Murder Act - In 1752 The Murder Act was passed. Before this, how we punished criminals was decided by authorities in each community, and often this included gibbeting, or hanging in chains'.
An Inspector Calls
"Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary...she'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out..." ¿ Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daugh...
Freeze
Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone ? When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some b...
Love Factory
2022 Winner of the Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research - Association of Recorded Sound Collections ARSC It has long been acknowledged that Berry Gordy Jr and his Motown Empire put Detroit on the International musical map but...
Still Water
The sighting of a mysterious figure leads to a horrifying revelation for evacuee Rosie in this chilling WWll ghost story. Evacuated from London at the outbreak of war, Rosie is taken in by kind Mrs Taylor and her daughter Mary. But all is not as i...
An Essay on the First Principles of Government
An Essay on the First Principles of Government