Books with author Steve Way

Many ‘fairy-stories’ relate a fanciful series of events that are often exaggerated and frankly unbelievable. This series allows you to find out what really happened… In this case in "Humpty Dumpty" find out why the story of this sad egg includes the line, "I'm not an angel but I am a sprout!" The farmer's wife may have cut off the tails of the "Three 'Blind' Mice" but what really happened and where do plates and pianos appear in the tale? Intrigued? The solution friends is one 'add to basket' tab away!

Many fairy-stories relate a fanciful series of events that are often exaggerated and frankly unbelievable. “The Real Story” series allows you to find out what really happened…In “The Three Billy Goats Gruff’” we reveal the true sequence of events, which don’t reflect as well on Little Goat Gruff and even Middle Goat Gruff as inaccurate re-tellings of the story might have you believe.In drama described “The Grand Old Duke of York’” we find out fishermen from Scarborough help the anxious Grand Old Duke repel the forces of The Grand Young Duke of Oldham and The Grand Middle-Aged Duke of Newcastle.

He doesn't know it but Simon's mum Mary is a spy. "A bit like 007, except that her code name was 012A, which wasn’t as catchy and her work was definitely not glamourous. Just very dangerous." Normally Mary keeps Simon and her husband Andrew safely unaware of her precarious profession. One day everything goes completely wrong and Simon unwittingly becomes the target of several spy networks, while Andrew arrives home with revolvers sticking into his back. With everything working against her Mary has to try to save her husband and her son.

25-year-old Jack Weatherby finds himself mysteriously transformed into a cat one day. His life as he knew it is over! Or is it?Pre-teens to adults will enjoy puzzling out with Jack how he might manage to maintain his relationships, his career, his household, and his identity after life throws him a major hairball.It's a bit like Disney's "The Shaggy Dog" meets Andy Weir's "The Martian", but with a cat.

One of the biggest challenges facing the world today is keeping people healthy. Disease, starvation, and war are major problems that people struggle with every day. Readers learn about these problemsfrom eating disorders to AIDSand also learn what is being done to conquer them. Doctors, humanitarians, and ordinary people are working hard to make the world a healthier place, and readers discover how they can do their part to help them.

25-year-old Jack Weatherby finds himself mysteriously transformed into a cat one day. His life as he knew it is over! Or is it?Pre-teens to adults will enjoy puzzling out with Jack how he might manage to maintain his relationships, his career, his household, and his identity after life throws him a major hairball.It's a bit like Disney's "The Shaggy Dog" meets Andy Weir's "The Martian", but with a cat. A harmless little adventure recommended for precocious ten-year-olds or grown-ups who are kids at heart.

Stephen Harriman Long was a U.S. army explorer, topographical engineer, and railway engineer. As an inventor, he is noted for his developments in the design of steam locomotives. He was also one of the most prolific explorers of the early 1800s.In his 1820 expedition, Long and 19 men traveled up the North Platte River to the Rocky Mountains. After finding and naming Long’s Peak, the expedition journeyed down the South Platte to the Arkansas watershed.In his report of the expedition, Long wrote that the Plains from Nebraska to Oklahoma were “unfit for cultivation and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture.” On the map he made of his explorations, he called the area a “Great Desert.” Stephen Long: Frontier Explorer is Number Eighteen in the Now You Know Bio series.

Endorsed by WJEC, this book has been written and edited by experienced examiners in order to support the USA 1910-1929 and Germany 1929-1947depth studies in the WJEC History GCSE specification. It combines the in-depth knowledge to give you a real understanding of the depth studies with a source-based approach designed to help skills development. In addition, in order to build confidence in exam technique, it contains step-by-step guidance on the different examination questions as well as practice in answering exam-style questions. All this combines to help students access the higher grades while giving a coherent, stimulating pathway throughout the depth study part of the course. Each chapter includes: an introduction outlining the key lines of enquiry from the specification full coverage of the content requirements of the specification a variety of activities to motivate all students model answers with questions and exam tips to aid exam preparation. Other titles in the series: The development of the USA 1929-2000 Welsh edition (9781444142518)