Palgrave Macmillan

This is an inside view of real engineers working in a modern engineering environment. The book describes what aerospace engineers like to write and talk about, describing authentic communication tasks and the texts that result, in particular: engineering specifications and requirements, proposals, and executive summaries....

In a thoughtful and detailed study, Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism considers the ways in which women poets, biographers, and historians used medieval motifs and settings to enable them to comment on controversial contemporary issues. Broome Saunders#8217; illuminating discussion focuses on women working during the socio-political...

Why did the United States invade and occupy Iraq, and what happened when we did? "Soldiers" "and Citizens" provides a compelling series of answers. No matter how much you think you know about the Iraq war, this book will teach you more....

The complete story and original illustrations of THE EMPEROR OF ABSURDIA by Chris Riddell have been specially re-designed into an early reader format. Created with expert advice from a literacy consultant, this new version is intended to help and encourage children who are growing in reading confidence. Welcome to Absurdia: a strange and wonderful...

The complete story and original illustrations of THE PRINCESS AND THE PIG by Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene have been specially re-designed into an early reader format. Created with expert advice from a literacy consultant, this new version is intended to help and encourage children who are growing in reading confidence. There's been a dreadful...

What do policy-makers do when they think municipalities are too small for their tasks, metropolitan areas too institutionally fragmented or regional bodies too weak to take on new duties? These are issues of scale faced by national political authorities in most countries of the world, and they are not easily resolved. This book presents the...