Livingstone: 115 books

Includes 23 colour and black and white photographs. For Enid Blyton, Old Thatch was "a wonderful place to write stories in." From her 400 year old home to the surrounding Thames Valley, where she set her most celebrated mystery series, this book is a gateway to some captivating places. Along river pathways...

The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America’s Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods...

Three sparky little stories for Hallowe'en. Not so much spooky as fun. Perfect for your coffee break.

Why do we do it? Why do we push ourselves to the point of pain? Beyond pain! For earthly gain? Or for the glory that fills our souls? Hopes, Dreams & Medals - a book of poetry with an athletic theme, exploring the thoughts and hearts of those who strive to reach their dreams. For anyone who has a dream. 

"We both stare at the body crumpled on the floor, all unnatural angles and leaked fluids." A criminal's cleanup crew tackle all the messy jobs, while a university lecturer guides us through the quirks of other planets and a farmer still fights the war. This 58 story collection brings...

Harry Marples has to go to work for a very important meeting. After forgetting to feed his cat, Harry realises he's also forgotten his keys. Can Harry beat the photographers and a brush with the law to get to work?

A savage horde musters before the crumbling walls of a complacent town. Despair spirals towards hell until the arrival of a young stranger sparks hope in the ordinary townsfolk. Heroism, tragedy and realism mingle in a homage to epic poems such as Beowulf, but written in a modern style as it attempts...

Caroline Walker (b. 1982, Dunfermline) has established herself as one of the UK’s most exciting figurative painters of her generation working internationally today. By means of an elegant and seductive yet forthright use of paint, Walker makes paintings that explore ideas of gender in relation...

Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since Eve told God, "The serpent deceived me,...

This dynamic book, with a Foreword by His Eminence, George Cardinal Pell, tells the story of two remarkable Melbourne doctors who developed a method of natural fertility regulation in response to the needs of Catholic families in Melbourne which subsequently achieved its greatest success in the largest...

According to Ivar Berg's performance criteria, over half of the U.S. workforce is now underemployed. Using analysis based on U.S. and Canadian surveys of work and learning experiences and other documental data, author David Livingstone exposes the myth of the "learning enterprise" and argues...

Descriptions of four ciphers for encryption using pen and paper, easy to implement and reasonably secure.

First published in 1923, this book by Sir Richard Winn Livingstone “is intended for those who know no Greek, but wish to form some idea of its great writers and of what they wrote. It is meant for the ordinary educated reader, as well as for pupils at the universities and in the upper forms of schools,...

"An exemplary study of how media regulation works (and, by implication, how it could work better) set within a wider discussion of democratic theory and political values. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars but to people around the world grappling with the same problem: the...