Now you may not think a cornflake can be special…… but you would be wrong. Connor is different, very different. He is strong, brave, fearless, a cereal version of James Bond and a really cool dude. But having been thrown in the rubbish, he soon realizes that he is special, but his first mission is to escape the jaws of a four-legged foe who thinks it's snack time. Join Connor the Cornflake and the Mighty Variety team of cereal superheroes on a fast paced, action-packed adventure as they tr...

Dreams can be anything you want them to be, but imagine flying through space doing cartwheels, flying past a giant floating doggy biscuit, or realizing that planet Mars, was in fact a giant chocolate bar. But this is just part of the story. Connor used to be such a happy little boy, but world events had made him sad and confused. Despite the best efforts of his mum and dad, and all the people who loved him, to cheer him up, nothing seemed to work. A new plan was needed, but would it work? ...

A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day.We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civi...

How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shi...

The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives offers the most comprehensive collective overview of Locke's political thought in over fifty years. It brings together research essays by political theorists, historians of political thought, and intellectual historians to survey Locke's political writings in their immediate historical and intellectual contexts and in the longer perspective of the history of their reception up to the present. Locke's Two Treatises of Govern...

From the best-selling creators of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, rediscover the fantastically fun picture book of Mr and Mrs G's run-in with pirates!'Oh, yes!' exclaimed Mrs Grinling. 'We'd love to be pirates. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.'The lighthouse is 200 years old and to celebrate the town decides to throw a fancy-dress party! Mr and Mrs G dress-up as very scary pirates, but - oh no! - on the way to the party they're stopped by a crew of

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing how the development of the United States has always depended on its transactions with other n...

A brilliantly funny and heart-warming picture book about adventure and kindness - the second in the Lighthouse Keeper series.Together they ran down the steep, winding path to the beach below.And then they stopped. There it lay on the sand, a great, black, shiny whale.Looking out of the window one evening Mrs Grinling spots a whale on the beach and - oh no - it's stuck! Mr and Mrs Grinling realise they can't possibly move the whal...

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Enlightenment, explores peace in the period from 1648 to 1815. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, p...

Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.

About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader international context one of modern history's bloodiest conflicts over secession. The cont...

Join your favourite lighthouse keeper in the newest picture book in the beloved classic series.Deep down below, all was not well. Lobster's claw was caught in a baked-bean can.Shark had chewed an old lilo and now it was stuck in her sharp teeth.Mr Grinling has a puzzling mystery on his hands: someone is dumping rubbish into the sea! His nephew George thinks it might be pirates... but could the culprit be someone closer to home?