Books with author A. M. Williamson

The Age of the Dictators presents a comprehensive survey of the origins and interrelationship of the European dictatorships. All the regimes are addressed, with ample coverage of the period 1939-45, and analysis of the Soviet government up to Stalin’s death in 1953. Exploring their ideological and political roots, and the role of the First World War in their rise to power, David Williams identifies the dictatorships as products of their time. He examines the Soviet, Italian Fascist and Nazi dictatorships, as well as the authoritarian regimes in Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, providing an analysis of each as an entity, of how they evolved and related to one another, and to what extent they were a common response to life after the First World War. Mindful of historiographical issues, the textbook attends to the arguments of key historians, and includes a list of relevant sources to assist students in their study of the period. Combining an accessible, succinct writing style with a broad historical scope, The Age of the Dictators is an illuminating and thorough account of a fascinating period in world history.

With the end of an era comes chaos and danger of the worst kind. The great stag who had led the roe deer of the deep forest to safety and peace so many years before is now nearing the end of his reign. Ulex, a stag with some very dangerous idea's is the only real contender for the job. His chance finally comes with the arrival of Buttercup and Fred, a cow and calf escaped from a local farm earlier in the year. Now as chaos breaks out the only hope for the herd is to find help and a worthy replacement before the herd pays the ultimate price. With impending battle you can be sure Sederic the surgeon seagull (from 'Awing to the wild') will be on hand to ply his very special trade. Only the greatest of great stags can unite the deer herds of the deep forest and return peace for the generation to come.

She isn’t dead—but she might as well be.Parties aren’t Madeline’s thing. Being social isn’t her thing. She’s a five-foot eight-inch industrial-strength loser. She’s invisible. She’s no one. She could drop dead in class and no one would notice. So why does she accept an invitation—from someone she barely knows—to the party of the year?Certainly not because Mark Alister is going. Popular, attractive, universally desired Mark Alister. A boy like that would never even look at a trainwreck like her.But . . . he does! He talks to her! They fall in love! And they live happily ever after. The end.Yeah, not a chance. Maybe if she lived in a Disney movie. In reality, Madeline has walked straight into a trap—one which no amount of wishing on stars can save her from. Mark is going to make her face everything she’s been hiding from for the past seven years. He’s going to make her take a hard look at the scars on her arms. And facing the truth about Madeline Parker could either end up fixing her, and make her worthy of being loved . . . or it could kill her.Or both.Equal parts light-hearted and heartbreaking, Life Lost and Found is the story of one girl’s fight to escape a life of isolation, bullying, and self-harm—and into something brighter.All sales are donated to charityThis book was written with a single goal: to help. Which is why 100% of all sales are donated to charity, in particular the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. (No affiliation, it’s just a good cause. Learn about them at afsp.org) Head over to the book's website at www.lifelostandfound.com for current supported charities, as well as bonus content.

The spirit of Christmas is in serious danger.A towering Christmas tree that once stood tall in the city has been missing for the past eight years. Without the tree, the city has slowly forgotten the magic that is Christmas.Everyone except for one little girl.Nicki Noel loves two things: trucks and Christmas. She’s always felt drawn to them, despite being told that girls can’t drive trucks.But when her mother needs to leave town for work, and Nicki goes to stay with old friends of her father’s, the mysteries of her past begin to unfold in front of her.Can a little girl drive a truck? Can the magic of Christmas return to the city? Or will it finally be lost, forever?Nicki Noel and the Curious Christmas Truck is the debut children’s novel of a Big Five-published hybrid author who wanted to write a book he could share with his son. It’s written for ages 8 – 12 as the intended audience, but can be enjoyed all ages.

It’s 1802, and Jack finds himself surrounded by spoilt aristocrats in a mysterious training camp on the South coast of England. Once more he is drawn into an unexplained murder mystery, and with the dead man’s family baying for blood, someone is going to pay, regardless of their guilt or innocence. Could a mysterious French ship stalking the English coastline be in some way linked to the killing? Able to outrun anything the English navy puts against it, the need to catch this enigmatic vessel becomes vital to the war effort, its very survival highlighting England’s weaknesses. As the body count grows, the rules of both war and honour become secondary to the necessity to win at any price. As ever in the Major’s world, nothing is quite as it seems and everyone is expendable for the greater good. Jack is the ultimate underdog, with nothing to lose. A lowly peasant dragged into a dangerous world of spies and spy catchers, where the privilege of seeing a new day is a prize to be fought for.

One family, three sisters.GRACE, the oldest: straight-A studentAUDREY, the youngest: future Olympic swimming champion.And MIA, the mess in the middle.Mia is wild and daring, great with hair and selfies, and the undisputed leader of her friends – not attributes appreciated by her parents or teachers.When Grace makes a shock announcement, Mia hopes that her now-not-so-perfect sister will get into the trouble she deserves.But instead, it is Mia whose life spirals out of control – boozing, boys and bad behaviour – and she starts to realise that her attempts to make it All About Mia might put at risk the very things she loves the most.

A loving look at what our feline friends really do all day, with heaps of humour and CATtitude. "I am a cat, and I have a busy, busy life. Looking after my family is a full-time job. They just couldn't do without me!" The hugely talented Jo Williamson has created a joyful picture book packed with peek-a-boo boxes, quick cat-naps, stretching on keyboards... and hating baths!

Spiders (request Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with teeth ready to infuse venom. They are the biggest request of the 8-legged creature and rank seventh in absolute species decent variety among all requests of living beings. Spiders are discovered worldwide on each landmass aside from Antarctica and have turned out to be set up in almost every living space with the special cases of air and ocean colonization. As of November 2015, no less than 45,700 arachnid species, and 113 families have been recorded by taxonomists. Nonetheless, there has been dispute inside mainstream researchers with respect to how every one of these families ought to be characterized, as of confirming by the more than 20 unique orders that have been proposed since 1900. Anatomically, arachnids vary from different arthropods in that the standard body fragments are melded into two tagmata, the cephalothorax, and stomach area, and joined by a little, tube-shaped pedicel. In contrast to creepy crawlies, insects don't have to receive wires. In all with the exception of the crudest gathering, the Mesothelae, creepy crawlies have the most unified sensory systems all things considered, as all their ganglia are intertwined into one mass in the cephalothorax. In contrast to most arthropods, spiders have no extensor muscles in their appendages and rather expand them by water-powered weight. Their mid-regions bear members that have been altered into spinnerets that expel silk from up to six sorts of organs. Spider catching networks shift broadly in size, shape and the measure of sticky string utilized. It currently creates the impression that the winding sphere web might be one of the most punctual structures, and creepy crawlies that produce tangled webs are more plenteous and differing than circle web insects. A spider-like 8-legged creature with silk-delivering nozzles showed up in the Devonian time frame around 386 million years prior, however, these creatures evidently needed spinnerets. Genuine creepy crawlies have been found in Carboniferous rocks from 318 to 299 million years back, and are fundamentally the same as the crudest enduring suborder, the Mesothelae. The fundamental gatherings of present-day insects, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, first showed up in the Triassic time frame, before 200 million years back.