Cold War: Sex, Spies and Nuclear Missiles is the story of Britain during the most dangerous years of the global nuclear standoff – when the nation stood beside the US against the might of the USSR.
At the height of Britain’s Cold War, the...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
"A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled...
The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world′s largest and most powerful particle–smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often...
Collins Cobuild, "Collins Cobuild English Grammar, 3rd Edition"
ISBN: 0007393644
This major new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learner-focussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and...
Based on the evidence of the 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus, this book is an invaluable guide to the English language as it is written and spoken today, in all areas of the world. It has been thoroughly updated, to take into account recent changes...
Designed to accompany the widely acclaimed Collins Easy Learning French Dictionary, Collins Easy Learning French Grammar offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of French.
Collins Easy Learning French Grammar...
This is the most accessible resource for finding the perfect rhyme. Other rhyming dictionaries often use obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order. This resource avoids such...
What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the...