Hay: 418 books

In universities across the world, academics struggle to establish and sustain their careers while satisfying intensifying institutional demands. Drawing from the author’s decades of observation and experience in academia, this exceptional book responds to the challenges of fostering and sustaining a successful academic career.

‘Football is a game with 22 players, two linesmen and 20,000 referees.’ Bob Monkhouse Treat your mates to a hearty half-time chuckle with this mini-collection of football humour – the very best quips and quotes for lovers of the beautiful game.

It is the tale of an orphan left to the care of his misogynistic uncle – a retired Lt Col of the Indian Army, who suffered a Disappointment in his youth. The uncle spends his time soliciting money from credulous females by sending outrageously fraudulent begging letters and then disbursing the money collected, in a perfectly proper manner.

The second edition of this highly successful textbook analyses the structure of later medieval society in Europe, identifies its main groups and their political programmes, and examines their impact on the political, economic and social history of the major European states. There are many additions...

The contribution of tourism to climate change, and the likely consequences of climate change for key tourist destinations, has been well reported and discussed. Yet, there is a lack of evidence-based systematic practical advice as to how the tourism industry should respond to the challenge of climate...

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit...

Catherine Brace walked slowly from the mantel-piece to the open window and back again. Within the last hour she had done that many times, always to halt before the mantel and gaze at the oblong, grey envelope that leaned against the clock. Evidently, she regarded it as a powerful agency. An observer...

On the far side of the room was a door and beyond that door were Pole and Dowell, two of the men who had murdered old Sothoron and old Sothoron’s wife. He knew they were there. How he knew it he could not have explained. So far as his trained senses had been able to discover, there had come from the next room during his long wait the sound of neither voice nor motion...

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative...

Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.

Questo libro non “cura”, ma risveglia in te la capacità di contribuire al tuo stesso processo di guarigione. Per diventare integri e sani, dobbiamo riportare l’equilibrio tra corpo, mente e spirito. Dobbiamo quindi prenderci cura del nostro fisico, mantenere un atteggiamento mentale positivo...

Grazie al libro impari... - a sintonizzarti con il tuo intuito; - nuove incredibili affermazioni per affrontare in modo diretto ed efficace i problemi di salute; - a individuare i blocchi emotivi e a rimuoverli, - affinché non si manifestino nel corpo sotto forma di malattia; - a combinare la migliore...

La crescita, le relazioni, il lavoro, la spiritualità, il benessere... e le sfide che questi momenti della vita portano con loro. Scopri come affrontarli positivamente… per procedere lungo il cammino della tua vita. I tuoi pensieri sono come i semi che pianti nel tuo giardino. Le tue convinzioni...