Religion, Religious Organisations and Development
This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religion and religious organisations can be 'used' to achieve development objectives, or that religiously i...
Urban Livelihoods
One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor. This takes account of their opportunities and assets and the sources of their vulnerability. Based on recent an...
Petroleum Taxation
Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and contin...
Petroleum Taxation
Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and contin...
West Germany and Israel
By the late 1960s, West Germany and Israel were moving in almost opposite diplomatic directions in a political environment dominated by the Cold War. The Federal Republic launched ambitious policies to reconcile with its Iron Curtain neighbors, ex...
Forensic Identification and Criminal Justice
This book provides an account of the development of forensic identification technologies and the way in which this has impacted upon the legal system. It traces the advent of forensic identification technologies, focusing on fingerprinting and for...
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Anc...
Chocolate Lovers' Christmas
THE BESTSELLING SERIES FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY-SELLING AUTHOR Can friendship overcome all for The Chocolate Lovers' Club this Christmas? Christmas is just around the corner, but the women of The Chocolate Lovers' Club have more to worry about ...
The Cake Shop in the Garden
Fans of Jill Mansell and Milly Johnson will love Carole Matthews.
Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol
Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the i...
Britain and the Balkans
An incisive analysis of Britain's decision-making role in the Yugoslavian conflict of the 1990s and in the formation of its successor states. Tracing the evolution of British policy from the onset of war in Croatia and Bosnia to the NATO action in...
Sexual Contract
Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell o...
Happiness Journal
From the publishers of the bestselling The Wellbeing Journal comes the follow-up, The Happiness Journal. Filled with empowering quotes and affirmations along with practical exercises and tips, this journal will encourage you to reflect upon the mo...
Syria in Crusader Times
Presenting numerous interconnected insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, this book covers a wide range of themes relating to Crusader-Muslim relations. Some chapters deal with various literary sources, including little-known ...
Defending the Rights of Others
When the Cold War ended between 1989 and 1991, statesmen and scholars reached back to the period after World War I when the victors devised minority treaties for the new and expanded states of Eastern Europe. This book is a study of the entire per...
Crusades
At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of them...
Natural Woman
A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist. From her ma...
The Silence Project
The Silence Project
T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us
Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behavior of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone is empowering for all. Since antiquity--from the eunuchs in the royal courts of ancient China to the booming market for 'elixirs of youth' in nineteenth-century Europe--humans have understood that typically masculine behavior depends on testicles, the main source of testosterone in males. Which sex has the highest rates of physical violence, hunger for status, and desire for a high number of sex partners? Just follow the testosterone. Although we humans can study and reflect on our own behavior, we are also animals, the products of millions of years of evolution. Fascinating research on creatures from chimpanzees to spiny lizards shows how high testosterone helps males out-reproduce their competitors. And men are no exception. While most people agree that sex
Beyond Sixty-Five
Beyond Sixty-Five
Summer Daydreams
The glorious summer rom-com from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller What if you had always dreamed of something more . . . ? Nell McNamara has a happy life: her boyfriend Olly adores her, their four-year-old daughter Petal is the c...
Calling Mrs Christmas
Curl up with this uplifting, escapist rom-com from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller Cassie Smith has been out of work for a while but she has an idea. Drawing on her love of Christmas, she begins charging for small things: wrappi...
Participation and Democratic Theory
Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.
Build Your Own Motorcaravan (2nd Edition)
Designing and building your own motorcaravan gives you the freedom to create a distinctive holiday home tailored to your needs - and also enables you to control the cost. Whether you want to fit out a van, renovate a camper, revive an old model or...
Chocolate Lovers' Club
THE BESTSELLING SERIES FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY-SELLING AUTHOR For Lucy Lombard, there's nothing that chocolate can't cure. From heartache to headache, it's the one thing she can rely on - and she's not alone. Fellow chocolate addicts Autumn, N...
Whiff of Scandal
The riotously funny novel from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller 'She's had men popping in and out of there all day. They're more regular than our cuckoo clock.' When Rose escapes from London and her handsome and charming ex-lover...
More to Life Than This
ESCAPE WITH A FEEL-GOOD READ FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Kate Lewis is thirty-five and feeling restless. She's fed up of worrying about the ironing and would like her husband Jeffrey to pay more attention to her than his golf clubs. The...
It's a Kind of Magic
The perfect rom-com from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller Emma and Leo have been together for ever, but their relationship seems to have lost its sparkle. When Leo turns up to Emma's thirtieth birthday dinner unforgivably late an...
Welcome to the Real World
The funny, uplifting novel from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller Fern has the voice of an angel but as an underpaid barmaid and pub singer, she's going nowhere fast. Then she enters the TV talent show Fame Game and this could be ...
Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses
Katie Fforde calls Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses 'A gorgeous novel that will delight' A heart-warming and poignant novel of romance, family and second chances, Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses is Sunday Times bestselling Carole Matthews at her outs...
Million Love Songs
MILLION LOVE SONGS is a Sunday Times bestselling sensation from the queen of laugh-out-loud, feel-good fiction. ********************** Ruby Brown is ready for a change. She's single for the first time in years and she's going to dive into this bra...
Sunny Days and Sea Breezes
The perfect feel-good, escapist read for the summer, from bestselling author Carole Matthews - the queen of fun-filled and life-affirming fiction
Wrapped Up In You
***A classic Christmas Carole with a brand-new look*** 'A cosy tale that's brim-full of Christmas spirit' Sunday Express Includes a BONUS follow-up story, PLUS the first chapter of Carole's new book Sunny Days & Sea Breezes ****** Janie Johnso...
Sunny Days and Sea Breezes
THE BRAND NEW BOOK FROM BESTSELLER CAROLE MATTHEWS Jodie Jackson is all at sea, in every sense. On a ferry bound for the Isle of Wight, she's leaving her London life, her career, and her husband behind. She'd like a chance to turn back the clocks,...
Difference a Day Makes
The moving, uplifting novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sunny Days and Sea Breezes One day she had everything - the next it was gone. William and Amy love their busy city life, but when Will collapses on his way into work he decide...
With or Without You
A story about running away and finding more than just adventure, from the Sunday Times bestseller When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster. Her immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait for J...
Christmas Party
The sparkling festive rom-com from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas for Beginners Louise Young is a devoted single mother whose only priority is providing for her daughter, Mia. Louise has a good job in a huge international corpora...
Place to Call Home
An uplifting, emotional story about new beginnings and finding love, from the Sunday Times bestseller In the dead of night, Ayesha takes her daughter, Sabina, and slips quietly from her home, leaving behind a life full of pain. Boarding a coach to...
Sexual Contract
Thirty years after its initial publication, The Sexual Contract remains a seminal work that challenges the standard view of the implications of the idea, deeply embedded in Western thought, that we should think of the state as if it were derived f...
Mother Code
'The Mother Code is a dystopian tale for all, which is scarily relevant right now' Press Association What it means to be human-and a mother-is put to the test in Carole Stivers' debut novel set in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ...