Author: Tom Griffiths
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:True Stories - Discovery, Historical & Endurance
Category:Travel - Regional - Polar Regions General
Category:Travel - Travel Writing General

In the summer of 2002-03, accalimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. Interweaves his own diary entries with rich and engaging essays on Antarctic history, science and culture.

Author: Tom Griffiths & Tim Sherratt Libby Robin
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Science - Earth Sciences
Category:Science - Environmental Science
Category:Social Science - Human Geography

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. The weather, our daily experience of nature, affects the way we feel and act. It can change lives, particularly in Australia, a continent of extreme, unpredictable and ...

Author: Tim Bonyhady & Tom Griffiths
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Literary Criticism - Regional English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Category:Reference - General
Category:Science - Environmental Science

Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways in which we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterize Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and tre ...

Author: Tom Griffiths
Binding: Video - DVD

The "Lifeguard Vigilance Training" DVD helps ensure lifeguards meet the challenges of staying alert and prepared while on the job. For the first time ever, two videos, "Disappearing Dummies: Why Lifeguards Can't See" ...

Author: Tom Griffiths
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:History - History
Category:Science - Environmental Science
Category:Science - Geography
Category:Technology - Engineering Environmental
Category:Travel - Regional - Polar Regions General

Listen to a short interview with Tom Griffiths Host: Chris Gondek ] Producer: Heron & Crane

From Scott and Shackleton to sled dogs and penguins, stories of Antarctica seize our imagination. In December 2002, envi ...

Author: Philippa Pearce
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure
Category:Childrens Fiction - Classics
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven ...Twelve ...Thirteen. Thirte ...

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Classics General

The story follows the life and vicissitudes of Uncle Tom, and portrays the humanity of an enslaved black people and the moral evil of their enslavement.

Author: Colin West
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Comics & Graphic Novels

The second set of four in this lively new series of comic strip novels for younger readers now available in paperback. Comix are aimed at 7-9 year olds, particularly though not exclusively boys, and children who find rea ...

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Fiction - Classics General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel. Declared worthless and dehumanising by James Baldwin in 1949, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has lacked literary credib ...

Author: Sue Graves
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction -

Carefully graded, fun stories developed to support the teaching of reading through synthetic phonics.

Author: Michael Morpurgo
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Animals

No one believes Tom when he says he has seen a lion strolling through the orchard with a string of sausages dangling from its mouth. No one, that is, except Clare, the cleverest girl in Tom's class. Why does Clare believ ...

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Binding: Book
Category:Fiction - Classics General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
Category:History - General

In a intense story that enlightened people to the inhumane cruelties of slavery, Harriet Beech Stowe changed the world with this classic.

Author: Enriched Classics
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Classics General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Harriet Beecher Stowe's scathing indictment of slavery in the Old South, a novel that has become a landmark of American literature.

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDI ...

Author: Jonathan Emmett
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

When Tom, a young toymaker, offers to rid the kingdom of a ferocious dragon, the king just laughs in his face. But then Tom meets Lizzie, and together they come up with an extraordinary plan. They build a clockwork drago ...

Author: Philippa Pearce
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - Classics

Tom's Midnight Garden is one of the best-loved works of children's literature of the last century and to celebrate the book's 50th anniversary Oxford University Press is proud to be publishing this special hardback editi ...

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Classics General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

This edition is based on the book published in 1852. The background section covers the Fugitive Slave Act and the ideals of the abolitionists, and the contemporary criticism section gives an indication of the huge acclai ...

Author: Thorndike Classics
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Fiction - Classics General

Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Supposedly, when Stowe met President Lincoln ten years later, he j ...

Author: Josephine Donovan
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Literary Criticism - Regional American
Category:Literary Criticism - Regional European
Category:Social Science - African American Studies
Category:Social Science - Feminism & Feminist Theory

Exploring themes of oppression in Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the author attempts to draw an analogy between the novel's subject and contemporary struggles, especially feminism. She exp ...

Author: Sue Graves
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Language Arts

A title filled with warmth and wit.

Author: Tom Kime
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Cooking - General
Category:Cooking - Methods Celebrity Cookbooks
Category:Sports & Recreation -

Author: Norton Critical Editions
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Literary Criticism - Regional American

Based on the original 1852 book, this text includes explanatory annotations to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions.