Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) a man of extreme passions & a playwright of immense talent is the most important of Shakespeares contempories. This edition offers his five major plays which show the radicalism & vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One & Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy & revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeares Richard II. Doctor Faustus perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil is here in both its A- & its B- text showing the enormous & fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York the texts of the plays have been newly edited & are presented with modernized spelling & punctuation. In addition there is a scholarly introduction & detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands setting up & running the field hospital at Ajax Bay where he & his Royal Marine & Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties of which only 3 died of wounds. The building itself was a derelict meat-packing factory hastily converted to treat incoming wounded
- both British & Argentine
- even though two unexploded bombs lay at the back of the building. Rick's diary of the campaign & its aftermath is a fast-paced & gripping account of war experience that covers the entire conflict from initial preparations & passage to the South Atlantic on the requisitioned liner Canberra to daily action reports & observations & interaction with the key players of the conflict
- Col. H. Jones Brian Hanrahan Julian Thompson & Max Hastings. Incredible human stories abound as Rick a trained commando dangles from the rescue winch of a Sea King helicopter saving lives on a daily basis. Yet he also confronts death in a thoughtful reflective & considered way helping others to deal with the trauma of war. Now revised & brought fully up to date this book is a unique first-hand narrative of a conflict that inspired individual & collective heroism among British armed forces inspiring great pride in 'our boys' by the public back at home but which also provoked
- & continues to provoke
- fierce debate.




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Monster Drawing Machine is a book for boys hosted by the master of flattened freaks
- Dr. Frankensketch! The book comes loaded
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Authors OKeefe & Macdonald have studied Underhills grand defence & yeoman service to meet a medical challenge unique in our history. Their timely story comes exactly one century after Underhill was appointed Vancouvers first medical health officer & in the lingering shadow of SARS an ominous indicator of how vulnerable we remain to new viral diseases. With a proven record of grand storytelling Betty & Ian celebrate the public-health achievements of one man while giving contemporary meaning to an 85-year-old mystery. This is a compelling read that may both educate & scare the hell out of you. ...

Theres an emergency phone-call at Kiss-it-Better Hospital. Its Tom Cat.. .hes hurt his leg! Can Doctor Miaow & Ambulance Driver Woof please come straightaway? Of course they can! Doctor Miaow & Ambulance Driver Woof are always there to help others & save the day & children are invited to follow the gentle reassuring drama of the exciting yet caring world of Kiss-it-Better Hospital. ...

ENVY REVENGE & RETRIBUTION IN THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE GREEK DETECTIVE SERIES My first question must be why do you want no investigation? If some malicious person has robbed you
- as you believe
- of your precious sight why do you not want that person caught tried & punished for their crime? A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach a local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard
- trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a government minister. Fortunately where theres trouble theres Hermes Diaktoros the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always pristine & whose methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must solve a brutal crime thwart the petty machinations of the towns ex-mayor & pour oil on the troubled waters of a sisters relationship
- but how can he solve a mystery that not even the victim wants to be solved?...



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Doctor Proctor has finally created something to help him fulfil his dream of becoming a famous inventor
- a super-strength fart
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Everyone is hooked on the hottest singing competition on TV The Noro Vision Choral Throwdown! Everyone that is except for Doctor Proctor Nilly & Lisa who are far too busy having fun to watch TV. But when people start acting oddly the three friends begin to suspect that theres more to the show than meets the eye... Can it really be hypnotising everyone in Norway? With crazy inventions disappearing socks half-men half-frogs a moon chameleon invasion & of course plenty of super-sonic bottom burps this is going to be the gangs most explosive adventure yet! Can they stop an alien invasion in its tracks or is this actually the end of the world? ...

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor couldnt stop there. Next up: a Time-travel Bath Bomb. Throw the Bath Bomb in the tub lather up & imagine where youd like to visit. The battle of Waterloo? No problem. The French Revolution? Lets go! Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. Years ago he lost his true love Juliette Margarine & now he wants to change the past & win her back. But when his plan goes awry its up to Nilly & LIsa to travel in time & save the day. ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Doctor Thorne" by Anthony Trollope. You must give up this mad idea Frank.. .there is but one course left open to you. You must marry money. " Doctor Thorne" considered by Trollope to be the best of his works is a telling examination of the relationship between money & morality. It recounts the story of the son of a bankrupt landowner Frank Gresham who is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne despite her illegitimacy & apparent poverty. Franks ambitious mother & haughty aunt are set against the match however & push him to make a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Marys loving uncle Dr Thorne knows of the fortune she is about to inherit
- but believes she should be accepted on her own terms. The third book in the " Chronicles of Barsetshire". " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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