Its Doriss first day at school & unlike her big-mouthed big brother shes quiet & a bit shy. Turn it up Doris!" Boris tells her. But nothing can make her speak up until Boris falls down a hole on the way home. Then Doris surprises everyone when she saves the day by shouting for help. After that Doris is so much more confident & loud that Boris has to say " Turn it DOWN Doris!"" ...

With over 100 000 copies sold since first publication this is one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. It is a unique guidebook to the night sky providing all the information you need to observe a whole host of celestial objects. With a new spiral binding this edition is even easier to use outdoors at the telescope & is the ideal beginner's book. Keeping its distinct one-object-per-spread format this edition is also designed for Dobsonian telescopes as well as for smaller reflectors & refractors & covers Southern hemisphere objects in more detail. Large-format eyepiece views positioned side-by-side show objects exactly as they are seen through a telescope & with enhanced directions updated tables of astronomical information & an expanded night-by-night Moon section it has never been easier to explore the night sky on your own. Many additional resources are available on the accompanying website www.cambridge.org/turnleft. ...

Horseracing is a serious business generating GBP 10 billion in annual betting turnover & employing 100 000 people. It can make millionaires & bankrupt others in the flash of a photo-finish. However since joining the Daily Telegraph" Grand National-winning jockey Marcus Armytage
- with an eye & an ear for the ridiculous
- has been lightening up the Sport of Kings in his weekly columns & latterly in the leading equestrian magazine " Horse & Hound". " Turn me on Guv" brings together a further collection of hilarious racing anecdotes complemented by cartoons from leading caricaturist Mark Hutchinson."

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Jennifer White cant remember whether she murdered he best friend Dr Jennifer White a once brilliant surgeon is slowly losing her mind. Amanda her best friend is found stabbed to death. Four of her fingers have been expertly removed. Suspicion immediately falls on Jennifer. How can she prove her innocence when even she doesnt know if shes the murderer? ...

One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars & hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror & psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have been able to do -- a complete feeling of dread & uncertainty. ...

The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which Henry James is best remembered. Set in an English country house it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured & accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of the comedie humaine against the majestic setting of a Venetian palace. ...

A young inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles & Flora two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower & his face at the window. It is Peter Quint the masters dissolute valet & he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here
- Sir Edmund Orme Owen Wingrave & The Friends of the Friends
- The Turn of the Screw is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave or victims of the governesss infernal imagination which torments but also entrals her? The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous certainly the most eerily equivocal of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture filled with echoes of sexual & social unease? Or is it simply the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read? The texts are those of the New York Edition with a new Introduction & Notes. 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.

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A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora & Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more & more convinced that something evil is watching her. ...

She made a promise but can she keep it? When Lucy Patterson promises her dying mother that she'll leave the comfortable home they've shared with her mother's employer Stanley Jones to go & live with her Aunt Flo on the other side of the Mersey she has no idea of the terrible consequences. Life with the Flanagans in the slums of Liverpool & Lucy's new job in a factory are totally different from the world she has known. Mocked by her cousins & the women she works alongside & terrified by the brutality of her uncle & the unwelcome attentions of her cousin Frank Lucy is desperately unhappy. & then one day the worst happens & Lucy finds herself homeless friendless & destitute. It seems there's only one person in the world willing to help her. But can she break her promise to her mother? Or should she accept that there's only one place a girl in her situation can go.. .? ...

A dramatic shift in British & French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire" Adam Smith Edmund Burke & Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically & economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century however the most prominent British & French liberal thinkers including John Stuart Mill & Alexis de Tocqueville vigorously supported the conquest of non-European people. Pitts explains that this reflected a rise in civilizational self-confidence as theories of human progress became more triumphalist less nuanced & less tolerant of cultural difference. At the same time imperial expansion abroad came to be seen as a political project that might assist the emergence of stable liberal democracies within Europe. Pitts shows that liberal thinkers usually celebrated for respecting not only human equality & liberty but also pluralism supported an inegalitarian & decidedly nonhumanitarian international politics. Yet such moments represent not a necessary feature of liberal thought but a striking departure from views shared by precisely those late-eighteenth-century thinkers whom Mill & Tocqueville saw as their forebears. Fluently written "A Turn to Empire" offers a novel assessment of modern political thought & international justice & an illuminating perspective on continuing debates over empire intervention & liberal political commitments." ...