The Fall of Constantinople - The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium

Byzantium was the last bastion of the Roman Empire following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It fought for survival for eight centuries until, in the mid-15th century, the emperor Constantine XI ruled just a handful of whittled down territories, an empire in name and tradition only. This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the history of Byzantium, the evolution of the defenses of Constantinople and the epic siege of the city, which saw a force of 80,000 men repelled by a small group of determined defenders until the Turks smashed the city's protective walls with artillery.

English for Negotiating is an ideal short course for professionals who regularly need to negotiate in English at work.

English for Negotiating is part of the Express Series. It is an ideal course for students in employment, who want to communicate better in English.
This short, intensive course can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly.
English for Negotiating can be used as a stand-alone course, for self-study using the interactive MultiROM, or alongside a coursebook such as International Express.

Before The Dinosaurs

Unique coloring book focuses on 45 fascinating creatures that predated the well-known dinosaurs. Finely detailed illustrations depict such formidable creatures as nothosaur, a slender 10-foot-long animal that lived on land and in the sea; edaphosaurus, a large herbivorous reptile with a great sail on its back; and 43 other amazing animals. Fact-filled captions identify subjects portrayed in realistic habitats.

Audubons Birds of America Coloring Book

Forty-five illustrations rendered for coloring by Paul Kennedy: red-winged blackbird, painted bunting, wood duck, great blue heron, ruby-throated hummingbird, purple finch, blue jay, many more. Original plates reproduced in full color on covers. Common and scientific names and current range are included

Survival of the Fittest

Jonathan Kellerman - Survival of the Fittest

Legendary L.A. psychologist-turned-novelist Kellerman raids real life when inventing the adventures of his psychologist sleuth, Dr. Alex Delaware, and some of the scariest parts of Survival of the Fittest are historical. Eugenicists lurk behind a murder spree Alex must solve, and he notes that the eugenics movement involved one elite U.S. college professor who advocated castration of ethnically lesser men, a forced sterilization ordered by Supreme Court Justice Holmes that Hitler used as a precedent to sterilize millions, and the pre-Holocaust coinage of the phrase "final solution."