Gareth Williams

The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement, but scientists working in Britain played a vital role in its development. Including Nobel Prize winners and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, these scientists have long since been forgotten. Without...

The Viking Ship is one of the most iconic images of the Vikings, and the longship in particular has been central to our understanding of the Viking Age. The Vikings used their shipbuilding skills to command the sea, and their famous ships permitted the exploration, colonisation, and the raids for which they are best known. This book explores the evolution...

Fans of cars, trains, and construction vehicles will love this bedtime board book about a little bulldozer who won't go to sleep. All kinds of vehicles take breaks, naps, and snoozes—but not bulldozers! Dozers don't need to go to bed, at least that's what the bulldozer who narrates this humorous book thinks. The self-assured dozer brags that it doesn't need...

Between the late 8th and late 11th century, Viking warriors had a massive impact not just in northern Europe, but across a huge arc from the western Mediterranean, through northern Europe and the Baltic, to the Middle East and Central Asia. Their success depended in part on their skills in battle, their unique sense of strategic mobility, and on the...

Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another. Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and...

Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another. Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and...

Every page is a new adventure filled with fun things for kids aged 3-5 to search and find. Discover everything you could want out of search and find books for kids. Fun to Find! invites little ones to go on an amazing journey to all kinds of places packed with things to see and explore. Whether they're searching for a...