The naughty step is the place where Sam has to go when he has done something he knows he really shouldn\'t have. Then one day someone else sits down bedside him. It\'s Captain Buckleboots - a pirate who has been very very naughty indeed and needs some help to work out how to say

The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval Ireland and its people, provided one knows how to read the evidence of their architecture. This book helps the reader make full use of that evidence. It presents a comprehensive and fully referenced account of the cultures

A renowned Renaissance poet\'s homage to Naples makes its debut in modern English translation. Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced literary works in

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Basil Bunting\'s work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting\'s often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence.

Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) is a comprehensive guide for the practicing physician and medical physicist in the management of complex intracranial and extracranial disease. It is a state-of-the-science book presenting the scientific principles, clinical background and procedures, treatment planning, and treatment delivery of SRS and SBRT for the treatment

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One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit

Tom is a boy from England who dreams of being an adventurer. Everyone tells him he\'s crazy, so he decides to prove them wrong by going around the world on his

A collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to Shakespeare\'s poetry. Printed in a high quality cloth edition, this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive

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After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his loss of critical esteem. But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the

Our obsession with being healthy and living forever has driven us to push our bodies to the absolute limits, but still every year we\'re being told how unhealthy we are as a population. Despite a wealth of information at our fingertips, there are still so many things we get wrong about food and health. The No Need To Diet Book explains the reasons why diets and over-exercising don\'t work; the problems

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This book guides readers by gradual steps through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley shows how seemingly abstract philosophical issues are relevant to important aspects of scientific practice. Structured in two parts, the book first tackles the central concepts of the philosophy of science, such as the problem

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