A clear, concise and vivid account of the process of photosynthesis.

Award-winning historian Michael D. Bess writes in vivid prose, drawing on illustrative historical examples. Eleven fictional vignettes describe concrete scenarios for future approaches to confronting the top four mega-dangers facing humankind. This book offers the general reader an exciting combination of breadth, rigor, and accessibility.

Designing sequences of work for language students.

This book explores the increasingly coordinated effort that is underway in botanic gardens around the world to find and apply the best methods of halting the steady erosion of plant diversity and saving wild plant species from extinction.

This book, first published in 2000 is a vivid and accurate rendition of Plato's classic work of political thought.

Designed to make poetry in English accessible to upper-intermediate and more advanced students.

A revisionist 1999 account of the career of Elizabeth I's 'favourite', the 2nd Earl of Essex.

A new introduction surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and social sciences that the original essay on the phenomenon of politeness stimulated.