Basil: 239 books

An erotic 'who-done-it' with a plausible story-line that will tick most boxes for thinking men and women. And ladies, when, in the not too distant future you see advertised: 'A novel treatment for a variety of common aches and pains associated with aging', remember - you saw it here first!

Lexi's world is turned upside down when her best friend disappears. When it transpires that Mandy had become a victim of a criminal gang Lexi must decide if she is willing to assume the role of an avenging angel. Action shifts from Vancouver to New York to Florida and Kent in England. A little known...

The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks is a classic overview by noted Cambridge scholar Basil Hammond. A table of contents is included.

A misanthrophic English teacher stumbles through life in a foreign city.

This work is loosely based on an incident when, while traveling through Europe as a naive medical student, the author and a hitch-hiking couple were apprehended at the Czechoslovakian border. Encountering major Olaff and his radical remedy for treating misguided youngsters was something never to be...

This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific...

Learn numbers and counting in Spanish with this fun book! Pedro & Pete teach young readers how to say words in Spanish and palabras en ingles. Like Spanish apps, each page uses a split screen so readers learn how to speak the Spanish language by seeing the English to Spanish words at the...

Mexican history, food, and culture for kids! Take a Mexico trip with Travel Bug! The book is interactive like educational preschool apps. Travel Bug asks young readers questions so they feel part of the adventure. From the foods of Mexico to the country's exciting history, Travel Bug will explain...

Diverses circonstances concoururent à me donner de très-bonne heure ce qu’on appelle « le goût de la mer. » En premier lieu, ma mère me mit au monde au bruit d’une tempête. Telle était la violence du vent, la pluie battait les murailles et le toit avec une telle force, qu’on se préparait...

My small experience in the conquest of fear can be condensed into these four words: Calmly resting! quiet trust! That amid the turmoil of the time and the feverishness of our days it is always easy I do not pretend. Still less do I pretend that I accomplish it. I have said, a few lines above, that I tried. Trying is as far as I have gone; but even trying is productive of wonderful results.

Voltaire and the other eighteenth-century philosophers, who held religions to be the invention of priests, have been scorned as superficial by later investigators. But was there not something in their view, after all? Have not we, of a later and more critical day, got into so inveterate a habit of digging...

This book, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a lucid account of the most recent developments of this code theory and, importantly, shows the close relation between this development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise. Pedagogy, Symbolic...

The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns of language use and the primary socialization of the child. 'Bernstein's hypothesis will require [teachers] to look afresh not only at their pupils' language...

NIUÉ, more commonly known as Savage Island, lies 1,000 miles N.N.E. of New Zealand, and 300 miles S.S.E. of Samoa, in the loneliest spot in that part of the Pacific. Its iron-bound coasts tempt no vessels to call for supplies. At rare intervals great four-masted timber-ships pass in the offing; more...