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Joyful Infographics

A Friendly, Human Approach to Data

by Nigel Holmes ...

Series series AK Peters Visualization Series
In Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data, one of the leading graphic designers of recent times shows how a judicious use of humor can make infographics more understandable. Written in non-academic, easy-to-understand language, and with historical and contemporary visual examples presented throughout, this small book provides a short history of light-hearted graphics. The text ... Read more

$33.99 USD

In Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data, one of the leading graphic designers of recent times shows how a judicious use of humor can make infographics more understandable. Written in non-academic, easy-to-understand language, and with historical and contemporary visual examples presented throughout, this small book provides a short history of light-hearted graphics. The text
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The English

The top ten Short Stories of all time written by English authors

by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, D H Lawrence, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joseph Conrad, Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Nigel Lambert, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
Let’s Get Infografit

A Graphic Look at Exercise and Health

by Nigel Holmes ...

Series series AK Peters Visualization Series
What do belly dancing, pickleball, mountain biking, metabolism, the food pyramid, yoga, the Greek Olympiad, Charles Atlas, broccoli, and tongue twisters have in common? Answer: they are all explained in Let’s Get Infografit, drawn in graphic detail.The book has a quick and easy exercise program, but it’s also a how-to-show-it graphics manual, with examples from Greek vases through 19th and 20th ... Read more

$45.99 USD

What do belly dancing, pickleball, mountain biking, metabolism, the food pyramid, yoga, the Greek Olympiad, Charles Atlas, broccoli, and tongue twisters have in common? Answer: they are all explained in Let’s Get Infografit, drawn in graphic detail.The book has a quick and easy exercise program, but it’s also a how-to-show-it graphics manual, with examples from Greek vases through 19th and 20th
... Read more
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Rome and Attila

Rome’s Greatest Enemy

by Nick Holmes ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Series series Fall of the Roman Empire
Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

"A skilled storyteller . . . Holmes presents a riveting account of Rome's decline" —Kirkus ReviewsAttila is a household name. But his true character and impact on the Roman Empire have always remained elusive. Until now.In the first major work written about Attila in decades, Nick Holmes rewrites the story of Attila and Rome. Contrary to his brutal legend, Attila was a complex and captivating ... Read more

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"A skilled storyteller . . . Holmes presents a riveting account of Rome's decline" —Kirkus ReviewsAttila is a household name. But his true character and impact on the Roman Empire have always remained elusive. Until now.In the first major work written about Attila in decades, Nick Holmes rewrites the story of Attila and Rome. Contrary to his brutal legend, Attila was a complex and captivating
... Read more
The Enlightened Bracketologist

The Final Four of Everything

by Nigel Holmes, Richard Sandomir, Mark Reiter ...

Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation of viewers as few other sports events can. The reason? Bracketology. America eagerly watches as ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation of viewers as few other sports events can. The reason? Bracketology. America eagerly watches as
... Read more
Rivers

A natural and not-so-natural history

by Dr Paul Raven, Nigel Holmes ...

Series series British Wildlife Collection
Throughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance – yet as we see with increasing frequency they have the potential to wreak great destruction.This book describes the natural and not-so-natural changes that have affected British rivers since the last ice age and looks at the many plants and animals that live along, above and within them. Detailed case ... Read more

$36.99 USD

Throughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance – yet as we see with increasing frequency they have the potential to wreak great destruction.This book describes the natural and not-so-natural changes that have affected British rivers since the last ice age and looks at the many plants and animals that live along, above and within them. Detailed case
... Read more
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The Roman Revolution

Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome

by Nick Holmes ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Series series Fall of the Roman Empire
Unabridged

6 hours 10 min

It was a time of revolution. The Roman Revolution describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome. Out of this ordeal came new leaders, new government, ... Read more

$15.99 USD

It was a time of revolution. The Roman Revolution describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome. Out of this ordeal came new leaders, new government,
... Read more
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The Fall of Rome

End of a Superpower

by Nick Holmes ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Series series Fall of the Roman Empire
Unabridged

7 hours 32 min

A skilled storyteller, Holmes presents a riveting account of the wars, intrigues and personalities that contributed to Rome's decline, with entire chapters devoted to single battles.' Kirkus ReviewsWhy did Rome Fall?In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by ... Read more

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A skilled storyteller, Holmes presents a riveting account of the wars, intrigues and personalities that contributed to Rome's decline, with entire chapters devoted to single battles.' Kirkus ReviewsWhy did Rome Fall?In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by
... Read more
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The End of Antiquity

The Last Days of Rome and the Rise of Islam

by Nick Holmes ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Series series Fall of the Roman Empire
Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

How did a remote desert people change the course of world history?In the seventh century AD, the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed—defeated by the rising power of Arabia. How did this happen? And why then?In this gripping new history, Nick Holmes offers a fresh view of the end of the Ancient World and the rise of Islam—it wasn't just religion and war that shaped history, but a hidden force also ... Read more

$20.99 USD

How did a remote desert people change the course of world history?In the seventh century AD, the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed—defeated by the rising power of Arabia. How did this happen? And why then?In this gripping new history, Nick Holmes offers a fresh view of the end of the Ancient World and the rise of Islam—it wasn't just religion and war that shaped history, but a hidden force also
... Read more
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The Inheritors of Rome

by Nick Holmes ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Series series Fall of the Roman Empire
Unabridged

7 hours

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER ROME FELL?In The Inheritors of Rome**, Nick Holmes concludes his series on the Fall of the Roman Empire** with a bold and thought-provoking examination of the world that followed the fall.From the collapse of Roman civilization to the rise of Charlemagne's empire, from the explosive expansion of early Islam to the resilience of Byzantium, and from the devastation of the Vikings ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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WHAT HAPPENED AFTER ROME FELL?In The Inheritors of Rome**, Nick Holmes concludes his series on the Fall of the Roman Empire** with a bold and thought-provoking examination of the world that followed the fall.From the collapse of Roman civilization to the rise of Charlemagne's empire, from the explosive expansion of early Islam to the resilience of Byzantium, and from the devastation of the Vikings
... Read more
Social Work with Troubled Families

A Critical Introduction

by Sadie Parr, June Thoburn, Carol Hayden, Craig Jenkins, Anna Matczak, Ian Byford, Nigel Hall, Ray Jones, David Holmes ...

A critical introduction to the Troubled Families Programme (TFP), this book explores the roots, significance and effectiveness of troubled family approaches in social work.An important strand of government social policy, the TFP gives rise to a number of ethical and political questions about assertive outreach, choice, use of power and eliding the structural inequalities which, it is often argued, ... Read more

$36.89 USD

A critical introduction to the Troubled Families Programme (TFP), this book explores the roots, significance and effectiveness of troubled family approaches in social work.An important strand of government social policy, the TFP gives rise to a number of ethical and political questions about assertive outreach, choice, use of power and eliding the structural inequalities which, it is often argued,
... Read more
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Justinian's Empire

Triumph and Tragedy

by Nick Holmes ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Series series Fall of the Roman Empire
Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

IT WAS AN AGE OF GLORY . . . BUT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.The sixth-century AD witnessed a remarkable turn-around in the Roman Empire's fortunes. Justinian's general, Belisarius, recovered North Africa and Italy from the barbarians. An impressive new law code was inaugurated that would endure to this day. Astonishing building projects rivalled the great monuments of Old Rome.But rather than ... Read more

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IT WAS AN AGE OF GLORY . . . BUT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.The sixth-century AD witnessed a remarkable turn-around in the Roman Empire's fortunes. Justinian's general, Belisarius, recovered North Africa and Italy from the barbarians. An impressive new law code was inaugurated that would endure to this day. Astonishing building projects rivalled the great monuments of Old Rome.But rather than
... Read more

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