The Naked Woman builds on Desmond Morris' unrivalled experience as an observer of the human animal. In this, his latest book, ...

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, & Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols & coded manuscripts, & digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the over of night. A spectacular popular & critical success, The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages. ...

When Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, & perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick & Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom & Jerry, & their children
- glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak & shy little Tallulah
- are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing.

Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger & suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier...



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When Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, & perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick & Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom & Jerry, & their children
- glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak & shy little Tallulah
- are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing.

Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger & suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier...



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The Nanny Goat wants kids more than anything in the world. When she can't have any of her own, she adopts one instead, but he's different to the others. One by one, the other kids start to go missing, & everyone blames the Nanny Goat's Kid. Has he really eaten them? Or are the others just trying to make a scapegoat out of him? ...

Known collectively as the ' Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale & intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval & reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day. There is a mass of literature on Napoleon & his times. Yet there are only a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, & fewer still that place the conflict in any broader framework. This study redresses the balance. Drawing on recent findings & applying a 'total' history approach, it explores the causes & effects of the conflict, & places it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare. It reappraises the most significant & controversial military ventures, including the war at sea & Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-9. The study gives an insight into the factors that shaped the war, setting the struggle in its wider economic, cultural, political & intellectual

Dimensions.

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