Most Popular Books by David Miles

Explore a new and exciting way to learn about creatures that live in the ocean with this interactive Slide-N-Seek book. You''ll see colorful images transform before your very eyes with the turn of a wheel and discover hidden images throughout each page. Kids will love this fun and educational format while learning about beautiful creatures along the way.

Get ready to splish, splash, and learn your colors! In this adorable bath book, kids will learn their colors with amazing, color-changing illustrations! Dip the pages in water, and illustrations of the basic colors, color-mixing, warm and cool hues, and more magically appear. When the book dries, the artwork disappears--ready to be used again! Even better, the squishy, vinyl bath book is waterproof and can be easily cleaned with a soapy cloth.

An exploration of one of England’s great ancient monuments: the 360-foot-long chalk White Horse at Uffington. The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape—a prehistoric, nearly abstract figure 360 feet long, carved into the green turf of a chalk hill. Along with Stonehenge, the Horse is widely regarded as one of the Wonders of Britain. For centuries antiquarians, travelers, and local people have speculated about the age of the Horse, who created it, and why. Was it a memorial to King Alfred the Great’s victory over the Danes, an emblem of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers, was the Horse an actor in an elaborate prehistoric ritual, drawing the sun across the sky? Archaeologist David Miles explores the rich history of the ancient white horse, as well as the surrounding landscape, in order to understand the people who have lived there since the end of the Ice Age. As Miles tracks the possible origin of this English landmark, he also illuminates how the White Horse has influenced countless artists, poets, and writers, including Eric Ravilious, John Betjeman, and J. R. R. Tolkien. The White Horse is one of most remarkable monuments of England, not least because it is still intact. People have cared for it and curated it for centuries, even millennia. Ultimately, Miles, using an archaeological framework, roots a myth for modern times in scientific findings.

Ninety-nine percent of this book consists of my father''s own words, and a similar proportion of the cartoons, maps and pictures contained herein, he himself either clipped from his issues of Stars and Stripes and Yank Magazine, or he snapped with a buddy''s camera. Dad was an excellent writer - concise, entertaining, informative. As a radio operator in a half-track squad of the Radio Section of HQ and HQ Company of the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fourth Infantry ("Ivy") Division, Ralph''s very personal account offers a unique perspective of the War. However, as Dad wrote more than once, he knew little about the "big picture" or grand strategy of the war. He hardly knew where he was or where he had been, let alone where he was going or the reasons behind any of it. That is why he kept a diary, and when he had the chance, "liberated" kids'' geography books along the way and devoured every military news sheet he could find, in an attempt to piece together what he could of his whereabouts and movements. Ralph spent the years between 1945 and 1950 entering his war memories and memorabilia into a single volume. That album crumbled and frayed badly with much handling over the ensuing twenty years. In 1972, he painstakingly transferred his narrative and other items into two, better quality volumes. Inevitably, Dad''s limited view of things resulted in some gaps in the military picture. To remedy this, I have inserted at strategic points in the book supplementary information, maps and photos intended to provide the reader with some clarifying context and background for Dad''s very personal stories. It has proved a challenging task to provide what I hope is helpful context and commentary, and, at the same time, ensure that my father''s own eloquent voice remains clear and dominant. The reader will have to judge as to how well - or even whether - I succeeded.

Actual text from the International Childrens Bible] along with full-color illustrations bring the entire Book of Genesis to vivid life, in this unique volume that encourages reading and learning in young readers.

A memoir in diary form, documenting the challenges that nearly broke a former teacher who dreams of transforming classrooms all over the world. Despite difficulties, he follows a vocation that threatens to consume his every waking hour.

This book is a political and personal memoir. In the book David Miles Connolly has drawn on family and historical influences which affected his trajectory in life. His early years were in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. During World War Two he was evacuated with his mother to Australia. Back in Ceylon, he saw the end of the British Empire in South East Asia. The book mentions his role in his time in the Australian Federal Parliament in (1970s-1990s), when the Liberal Party was in opposition and he served on various committees. After politics he was High Commissioner in South Africa during the time when Nelson Mandela was President and later accompanied him to the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Market_Desc: * Economists* Financial Analysts * Economic Students Special Features: * Discusses geographical and historical events in a global perspective* Contains more references for the purpose of advanced research* Examines the effects of consumption, investment, monetary policy, stabilization policy, equity markets, and bond markets on business cycles* Looks at real exchange rates, nominal exchange rates and global capital markets, currency crises, exchange rate regimes and single currencies* Describes fiscal policy and the role the government plays in the economy About The Book: The goal of this book is to help the reader understand how the global economy works and the way economists think. Completely up to date and full of international data, the second edition covers current events as well as many striking historical examples. The information will enable the reader to think more clearly about the economy and evaluate the arguments of economists.

The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred upon parts of the Upper Thames Valley within what is now the Cotswold Water Park. The report is based upon four key excavated rural settlements, the most extensive being that at Claydon Pike, which dated primarily from the middle Iron Age to the late Roman period. A number of middle Saxon burials were also found. The other Water Park settlements dated to the late Iron Age-Roman period and the 2nd to 3rd century AD. The report has incorporated the results of these excavations into a wider synthesis of landscape development in the region, including aspects of material culture, environment and the economy.

Revised and updated edition of a very successful macroeconomics textbook. Miles and Scott deal with sophisticated issues using advanced economic theory, but in a manner that is accessible to anyone taking a single course in macroeconomics. They begin with real-world economic issues, and describe why these matter, before embarking on economic theory, ensuring that readers emerge with a good practical understanding of the global economy and how economists think about it. This new edition has been completely revised and updated with current data, and features new material on key topics including globalization, aid and debt relief, and transition economies. Management Today, December 2001 .."a much needed textbook to help them stay interested...a great way to get serious about economics without losing yourself in equations.." Economic Outlook and Business Review, Issue 17, Vol 1, March 2002 .."an original and interesting macroeconomics text. It is a self-contained volume which any student and teacher of economics within the higher education sector will find extremely useful..."

Addressing the physical remains of Oxford''''s past this book concentrates on the confluence of the Thames and Cherwell, looking out into the countryside to explain the nature of early settlement and the changing pattern of urban life.''