How do sportsbooks make their lines? Which types of bets are the best? Can you beat the house?The Logic Of Sports Betting answers all these questions and more with a dash of humor and a whole lot of real talk about how it all works. Peek b
A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England's most celebrated knight, William Marshal--providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war
All-new, easy-to-read picture-clue riddles by Marzollo are paired with fun photographs culled from the bestselling "I Spy Treasure Hunt" for this fifth I Spy reader in the Scholastic Reader series. Full color.
A delightful version of the traditional card game with lots of mermaids to match. There are 52 snap cards (13 matching sets of 4), with labelled pictures showing mermaids looking at treasure, playing with seahorses and lots more. The game can be played with fewer cards to make it easier for younger players to join in. Autorid: Fiona Watt, Elzbieta Jarzabek
The First British Empire is an authoritative, highly readable and substantial account of the origins, growth and transformation of the British Empire from its European beginnings until the aftermath of the American Revolution. The First British Empire is an authoritative, highly readable and substantial account of the origins, growth and transformation of the British Empire from its European beginnings until the aftermath of the American Revolution.Taking a regional and chronological approach, and highlighting the dual drivers of profit and power, it shows that the early empire was a mechanism not for dominance but for survival. From the naval war against Spain to the Glorious Revolution to the wars against Napoleon, with a population perhaps one third that of France, England needed an oceanic empire to offset its European weakness. Expansion from mainland North America to the Caribbean and West Africa to the Indian sub-continent is seen in terms of the needs of the metropole, the narrower perspectives of settler societies, and the experiences of the colonised, the collaborators and the enslaved.Drawing on recent research, it demonstrates fragility of British power in India, that the loss of North America was neither inevitable nor complete, and that the first Australian colony was a strategic investment rather than a dumping ground for convicts. Above all, it shows that the long, painful and often haphazard rise of this first empire history is an essential key to modern British and world history.
