Böcker av Michael Allen

Nature Tales is a charming collection of encounters with the natural world. Including beautifully drawn illustrations and a foreword from Sir David Attenborough, Nature Tales is a charming celebration of Britain's wildlife and countryside.

This New Casebook on Seamus Heaney follows the astonishingly rapid growth of a literary reputation. In particular, the Casebook shows how a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches have been brought into play as Heaney has become increasingly central for general readers of poetry, academics and students at school and university.

At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecrafts travelled into outer space. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. This work is an exploratory story of this cultural and political phenomenon.

Contemporary US Cinema examines important developments in American film-making over the past three decades, citing them as instances both of change and of continuity within the practices and processes of earlier phases of classic Hollywood cinema.