Although only children at the time, the Second World War had a permanent effect on the schoolboys who lived through the conflict. Watching a country preparing for war and then being immersed in the horrors of the Blitz brought encounters and events that some will never forget. Now in their seventies and eighties, many are revisiting their memories of this period of upheaval and strife for the first time. In this poignant book, the author shares vivid memories of his evacuation from war-torn London to the comparative safety of places like Newquay, St Ives and Redruth in Cornwall. From touching recollections of enjoyable days spent with loved ones to the dark moments of falling bombs, this is an honest account of a wartime child's formative years. Together with rare images and accounts from fellow evacuees who were sent to Cornwall to escape the ravages of war, this book reveals how these experiences are indelibly inscribed on the minds of wartime children.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850, and a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization - these and the other narrators of 'Cloud Atlas' hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. 'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...' A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanitys dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

Family Tree for Beginners Volume Three is a complete beginners' guide to starting out in genealogy. It offers 256 full colour pages as well as a free cd to help you create great family trees. This particular copy is in very good condition. Its exterior is clear and clean with just a few scuffs to its corners from shelf wear. There is a slight crease down the front cover. The interior is spotless - all pages are free of markings, writing and highlighting. It also comes with a cd which is in a protective plastic case in the back of the book. Overall, a lovely book which shows you the best place to look on the web for your ancestor's records and gives you the tools and advice to create your family tree.

Very good, tight, clean volume. Good text with many B&W and coloured photos. Height approx. 11.5 ins. “Period spanning birth of Christ was of crucial importance to Europe. End papers provide two genealogies: the Imperial Dynasty and the Descent of Augustus.”

This book deals with the neurological aspects of musical experience. The first part contains 16 chapters devoted to such topics as hearing, genetics, psychology of musical talent, musical memory and brain anatomy and physiology. The second part, 8 chapters, contains chapters concerned with illness and disability such as musicogenic epilepsy, deafness, mental illness in composers and music therapy. The book is intended to appeal to a wide audience, including but beyond those practising neurological medicine. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are clean and undamaged with just slight bumping to corners and top and bottom of spine. Pages are tight, clean and undamaged. There is an ownership inscription on the front free endpaper together with light pencil marking showing previous pricing. The d/w shows signs of shelf wear, mainly along the top edge. There is an open 3mm tear on the back and a worn 5mm tear on the top right front corner. It is not price clipped.

Margaret R. Somers

Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The New Companion offers comprehensive coverage of the criticism of Gothic writing...

GEORGE E MCCRACKEN

From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to become? How does it divide into the different cells, the separate tissues, the brain, the fingernail - every tiniest detail of the growing foetus? These are the questions that the field of developmental biology seeks to answer. It is an area that is closely linked to genetics, evolution, and molecular biology. The processes are deeply rooted in evolutionary history; the information is held in genes whose vital timings in switching on and off is orchestrated by a host of proteins expressed by other genes. Timing is of the essence. Here, the distinguished developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert gives a concise account of what we now know about development, discussing the first vital steps of growth, the patterning created by Hox genes and the development of form, embryonic stem cells, the timing of gene expression and its management, chemical signalling, and growth.

Stephen Slater