Eleven-year-old Rebecca Randall is quite a handfuland now shes leaving her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with her well-to-do elderly aunts and get an education. But they were expecting Rebeccas quiet, hard-working older sister instead. Can the brig...

One boy, penniless and in rags, forced to beg in the street. The other, a kings son, coddled and given all he could want. What happens when the two boys change clothes and places and learn how the other half lives? Mark Twains satirical and suspensef...

Find inspiration in over 2,400 years of history's great military victories. Sun Tzu was the most famous military scientist and one of the most able commanders in ancient China. Asian warlords and modern leaders as dissimilar as Mao Tse-Tung and Gener...

Leon Krier, theorist and reformer of modern traditional architecture and urbanism, reveals in this layman's manifesto why, in matters of democracy, architecture is far behind politics. The fact that modernism has never been a popular choice is not, a...

Learn the art of box making from one of the foremost experts of the craft. Through Doug Stowe's decades of experience, you'll learn the basic techniques to get started, as well as more advanced ways to approach and create finely crafted boxes. Proje...

Originally published in 1870, this amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Jules Verne invites readers to go below the ocean's waves in the first-ever submarine with Captain Nemo and a range of fantastic...

Parents, teachers, librarians and youngsters will welcome four new superb, unabridged editions of timeless children's favourites – complete with artwork by Scott McKowen. Each book features extraordinary jacket art, detailed spot illustrations, a thr...

What happens when a little orphan girl is forced to live with her cold and frightening grandfather? The heartwarming answer has engaged children for more than a century, both on the page and on the screen. Johanna Spyri's beloved story offers youngst...

Find inspiration for your next project in the pages of Furniture, a comprehensive survey of the best designs that have appeared in the pages of "Fine Woodworking". In the course of putting this book together, the editors of "Fine Woodworking" looked...