Webb: 1583 books

John had given up on life when he lost his girlfriend and his job within days of each other. He decides to leap to his death from an old steel bridge in Oregon just as the autumn time change takes place. Fall back in the fall, that’s his plan. But instead of drowning, he falls back through time....

Following the disruption, hardship, and challenges of the Second World War, the postwar years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation’s schoolchildren through the two decades following the war years, recalling...

In the years leading up to the First World War, the United Kingdom was subjected to a ferocious campaign of bombing and arson. Those conducting this terrorist offensive were members of the Women's Social and Political Union; better known as the suffragettes. 

The targets for their attacks ranged...

There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until the late twentieth century, never had anything...

In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has its roots and in this book Simon Webb explores...

To explore the feeling of love and romance ,the simple everyday things aound us, to see life as the almighty meant for each of to experience. The sunshine, clouds, and morning rain, more then to see them, but to taste with the intersoul. To hold the hand or to look into the eyes of someone you love;...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Preface Chapter I The Revolution of 1834 Chapter II The Poor Law Commissioners Chapter III The Poor Law Board Chapter IV The Local Government Board Chapter V The Principles of 1907 Chapter VI The Majority Report...

The Webbs were major voices in British socialism, economic studies, and the scholarship of the cooperative movement. This influential work, published in 1894, details how the British trade union movement began and developed. It is a cornerstone of the British concept of the welfare society, incorporating organized labor into modern economic thought.

Danny has had a night out with his gay friend Luke, Luke's boyfriend having stayed in as he has a cold. Luke takes Danny back to his place and they both get a bit of a shock. All characters and terms including 'boy' 'lad' and 'girl' refer to people age 18 and over. This book contains explicit sexual material and is for adults only.

Candy has to spend another Valentine’s Day alone, but is she really alone? Who is leaving gifts on her doorstep? Will she survive this holiday?

What is it with Everest Base Camp?Why do so many people, every year, train for months and then trek to the base of the world's highest mountain?What is it like anyway? Is it only for mountaineers and tour groups?Everest Base Camp is just breathtaking. Both the view, the achievement...

Thinking he's safe from public view, 18-year-old Rickie goes down an alley round the back of McDonalds to do what boys usually do in the privacy of their bedroom. But then an old man comes walking down the alley. All characters and terms including 'boy' 'lad' and 'girl' refer to people age 18 and over. This book contains explicit sexual material and is for adults only.

It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which...