Miscellaneous

Britain's leading personalities reminisce about their school and college days in this heartwarming, hilarious collection.

One of the most well-known and provocative ministers in America, who has spent more than 50 years leading San Francisco's Memorial Glide Church towards profound social change, shares the lessons he learned to help readers embrace themselves and those around them. 40,000 first printing.

An experimental biography of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century physician, philospher and writer

Forget television, ipods or the latest computer game; Pythagoras's Theorem or the irregular french verbs that kept you awake at night, you can revise them all with these amusing, entertaining but also highly informative exercises that have all been adapted for a British readership.

In 1979, a journalist met a murderer, MacDonald, and decided to write the story of his crime, claiming that it would work in his defence. However, the resulting story was an indictment of the crime and the mind of its perpatrator. This book tells of the lawsuit which followed in 1984.

Features reality animations that bring to life the magic of Santa's world. This title features illustrations that show how Santa prepares for the big day - how his elves make presents in the toyshop, reindeers pull Santa's sleigh, and fairies sprinkle fairy.

He went to college, found love, got married, fathered two children, and made a new start - and then watched in almost-silent awe as the vengeful past caught up with him, right at his own front door.As, one by one, the homes of other famous New England writers are torched, Sam knows that this time he is most certainly not guilty.

Another Point of View is a collection of twenty-two of the hugely popular and critically-acclaimed talks from the programme, on subjects as wide-ranging and topical as commuting, national identity, Christmas, Latin, knife crime, the mortgage crisis and the credit crunch.The book contains drawings by Nick Wadley.

Whether as a concept or a physical place, home represents a key site of personal development. This journal focuses on the understanding of the domestic sphere across timeframes and cultures. It addresses a range of topics, including: the relationship between body and building; consumption, material culture and the meaning of home; and more.

This volume takes us through the bizarre landscape of late-20th century culture. It considers topics as diverse as Elvis worship, the erotics of cyberspace, fantasies of the millennium, multiple personality syndrome and the molecular logic of insect DNA.

His second book of criticism, with a new introduction by the author