This stunning collection includes four of the best and favourite Bottersnikes and Gumbles stories chosen from the original beloved classics...Deep in the Australian bush live some very strange creatur
Could a tiny mouse actually help the king of the jungle? That's what a trapped mouse promises to do if his lion captor sets him free. The lion laughs–and lets him go. But when hunters trap the scared
Little Red Riding Hood has to deliver goodies to grandma—but when the hungry Big Bad Wolf spots the girl in the woods, he decides to trick her into becoming dinner. “What a big mouth, you have, Grand
In Expect A Miracle, Wakefield starts with miracles in his own life - an improbable recovery from a near-fatal car accident during college and his middle-age recovery from desperate alcoholism - and t
A little over a year ago, Darcy Wakefield was a single, 33-year-old, athletic, workaholic English professor, a vegetarian who had never had a serious health problem or injury. Then she was diagnosed
Christianity in America has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics and — courtousy of Mel Gibson — a brutally sadistic version of the religious experie
Science writer Wakefield describes Edmond Halley's greatest achievement, which was not predicting the course of the comet that bears his name, but accurate navigation involving the determination of tr
Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences—a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed
The outbreak of war in 1914 was greeted with euphoria by many in Europe, and it was widely believed that the conflict would be 'over by Christmas'. In the event, millions of men and women were destine
