A book that unearths the facts about rubbish and recycling through the ages: from dustmen, mudlarks, toshers and rakers to litter on Everest; from George Clooney's pig pal, Max, to a dunny fit for a Chinese emperor. This is the fourteenth title in the fantastic It's True! series.
Discovery School - Great Books - George Orwell's 1984
The novel 1984 is a frightening prediction of the future with its references to privacy issues and totalitarian control. The characters Winston and Julia represent hope in a world of dictators. In this video, autobiographical information about Orwell reveals his disillusionment with revolution and his honest desire to change society.
Across Conventional Lines: Selected Papers of George A Olah (in 2 Vols)
In the course of his distinguished career spanning about half a century, George A. Olah, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has been exceedingly prolific and has published more than 1000 scientific papers and 15 books and holds more than 100 patents. This invaluable volume contains about 250 papers selected for their breadth and current importance.
(complete, unabridged) George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch, embodies through its various couples a nuptial kaleidoscope not matched since Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Conditions surrounding marriages in Victorian times for women were considerably different from what modern readers would surmise. Partly due to the deprivation of an equal opportunity to education, Victorian women were confronted with limited survival tactics. Beautiful English.