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First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dramatic reductions in the dollars available for public education require a new and systemic approach to balancing school district budgets. This manual provides numerous examples of successful budget reduction strategies based on a six-step process that has demonstrated its effectiveness in small,...

Originally published in 1979, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour. The Southwest provided the subject for much of Twain’s writing, but the roots of his style lay principally in north-eastern humour. In the mid-1800s the northern United...

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David...

The third short story in the ShadowKin tales.Earth lies in ruins, destroyed by an advanced alien race known as the ShadowKin. All that remains of mankind are the last few survivors, feeding off the corpse of a once-great civilisation. In a world of kill or be killed, a young man finds that...

In a world destroyed by zombie outbreaks and civil war, Lawman Patrick Quinn finds himself in Salvation, a small town on the edges of the People's Republic of America. As he struggles to keep his people safe from herds of zombies, he learns that the undead aren't the only monsters on the other side of the wall...

The Greek View of Poetry details critical theories and the appreciation of poetry by the ancient Greeks. Originally published in 1931, this text deals with a whole range of Greek critics from very early criticism to Longinus and his views on Homer in an attempt to provide a historical view of the importance of poetry to Greek society. This title will be of interest to students of Classics.

This is a short biography that looks at the founder of Islam and his life and teachings. From the intro: "Just as the character of Jesus is stamped upon the religion which originated in His Person, so is the character of Mohammed impressed upon the system which he, with marvellous ingenuity, founded....

This is a science fiction short story by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith") and illustrated by van Dongen. 'There has always been, and will always be, the problem of surviving the experience that any trained expert can handle ... when there hasn't been any first survivor to be an expert! When...

Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the twentieth century. First published in 1951.

The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live. Various vital processes...

Sequel to Just in Time Just Life: Book Four After ten years in an abusive relationship and a near-fatal knife wound, Jonathan Watson is finally free. Unused to being able to make even the smallest decision and smothered by family and well-meaning neighbors, he’s floundering in the real world....

Trois dragons meurtris par les épreuves qu'ils ont dû affronter pour devenir adultes. Ils sont parmi les derniers d'une espèce à l'agonie, son ultime espoir. Séparés au plus jeune âge, quand des nains prirent d'assaut leur antre, AuRon, un spécimen rare de dragon gris dépourvu d'écailles,...

Snaddra had but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground—underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society!