Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865-1945) was a leading and influential architect and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, who adhered to the philosophy that good design should be made available to everyone. Based on Diane Haigh's much praised and successful Baillie Scott: the Artistic House, which featured a charming and vivid ......
James Mason (1909-1984) was born to be an actor. He just didn't know it. A Cambridge graduate with a degree in architecture, he arrived in London at a time when nothing was being built. With few prospects, he turned to the stage, where his modest experience proved enough to land him a spot in repertory theater. Those early performances led to film ......
Fully revised, updated and rewalked, practical Scottish Highlands and Islands walking guide to over 90 hills and mountains. It covers Scottish hill walks, munros, corbetts and tracks including Ben Nevis walks and Cairngorms guide. This guide includes: 90 detailed walking maps: walking times, directions, tricky junctions, places to stay, ......
A Congressional Medal of Honor Account Extraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy's Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Charlie, and the heroism of South Vietnamese paratrooper, Major Le Van M?, who fought by his side. It is the true story of their battle to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central ......
Top tasks and approachesfor consolidating learning
We all know that practice matters in maths. But what kind of practice helps pupils truly understand what they're doing, rather than just answering questions by rote? Building on the success of his previous books, Peter Mattock explores how we can move beyond the teaching of methods and strategies to carry out calculations - the kind of practice ......
For ten years, we tested and kept a list of Kyotos most secret spots. Only 30 made the final cut. Here are the 30 unique and exclusive experiences that we believe reveal the soul of Kyoto.
This volume provides the first full length English translation of the commentary on the Book of Job by Didymus the Blind. One of the earliest line-by-line commentaries on Job to survive from late antiquity, it covers the entirety of the first sixteen chapters of the LXX text of Job with a few unfortunate lacunae. It represents the third commentary ......
For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called Habitat (her most recent book was Poppies in Translation in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose.
