There are many different views as to how the family evolved in early modern England. This text offers a synthesis of the various arguments and provides answers to the questions they raise. Through documents and illustrations, it allows readers to begin to participate in the understanding of the history of family life.

It is six years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and the park is now closed, the island deserted and the dinosaurs destroyed. However, there are rumours that something has survived on another island. Could the nightmare be beginning again?

When Will Freeman looks for romance he finds a very different kind of relationship. Nick Horbys's amusing portrayal of Will's Friendship with an unusual twelve-year-old boy is a modern classic.