New Releases by Peter Dennis

This is a highly illustrated series that builds vocabulary through matching words and pictures. Each book includes ten thematically linked scenes which children can pour over for hours. The interactive approach of finding hidden details has strong appeal to all children, even those reluctant to read.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate''s fortune.

Describes and illustrates the features of each layer of the ocean, from shore to the deepest abyssal zone. Describes the plants and creatures found in the sea, and activities connected with the sea.

Pour les chrétiens et les musulmans, Jérusalem est un lieu saint de pèlerinage, alors ville musulmane. Quand les musulmans en interdisent l''accès aux pèlerins chrétiens, la pape Urbain II appelle à la première croisade (1095). Cette guerre sainte permet de prendre la ville et d''y établir des ordres de chevalerie.

DK brings history to life for young readers with dramatic eyewitness accounts in this unique nonfiction series. Each volume is packed with detailed and accurate information, featuring cross-sections, exploded views, pull-outs, and cutaways designed to illuminate each subject. Extraordinary and evocative storytelling combined with DK''s unique visual presentation create an outstanding library of children''s reference books.

Describes castles of the Middle Ages as well as various aspects of the life of the people who lived in them.

"Emergency and Confrontation is the first sustained and scholarly account of Australia''s military involvement in the Malayan Emergency, waged against the armed forces of the Malayan Communist Party between 1948 and 1960, and in Confrontation, an undeclared war initiated by Indonesia to destabilise the emergent Federation of Malaysia and fought largely along the common border in the northern part of Borneo between 1962 and 1966. In each case the conflict was determined by the wider movement for decolonisation in Asia, and by the context of Cold War competition which saw Western forces pitted against Communist, or Communist-backed, movements." "As part of the British Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve, Australian soldiers engaged in protracted operations in northern Malaya and along the Thai border, while Australian airmen flew bombing sorties against suspected enemy concentrations, usually in deep jungle. With the Emergency concluded, Australian forces saw service again in the 1960s as part of a Commonwealth force in Borneo. Operations in both campaigns were gruelling, drawn-out, and often inconclusive, but their overall success helped to protect the emergent democracy of post-colonial Malaysia, while they also provided valuable experience for Australian soldiers in the skills of jungle warfare, counter-insurgency and small unit action." "Australia''s involvement in the Emergency and Confrontation forms part of the prologue to the more assertive and self-reliant engagement with its region which has come to characterise Australian policy in Southeast Asia in the 1980s and 1990s. The defence of Malaya/Malaysia from internal subversion and external threat was a success - and an important one in the subsequent development of the ASEAN states."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Territorial Army was established by R.B. Haldane in 1907, the British expression of the continental concept of the nation in arms. study examines the changing status of the Territorial Army within the British military system and its place in British defence policy in the twentieth century. Dr Dennis Traces the early difficulties of the Territorials, their experience in the First World War, the controversies of post-war reconstitution, the continuing debate over their role, and the problems of recruiting at both local and national levels. He provides a fascinating picture of one element in the British military system, the demands made upon it by the War Office and its efforts to protect itself.