In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become western feminism's leading icon, a stature that has obscured her actual historic significance. Examining in detail Wollstonecraft's writings, Barbara Taylor provides an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Her feminist principles are shown to have arisen within a revolutionary program for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in...

Takes you on a journey through the frozen world of these flightless birds, with more than 200 pictures. This title helps you find out all about these intriguing creatures and their stunning habitat. It offers an information on how penguins survive and behave, such as hunting for food and raising young.

Helps you learn how elephant bodies work, from the many uses of their versatile trunks and big flapping ears, to their 'conveyor-belt' teeth and mighty tusks. This title comes with images by top wildlife photographers, as well as illustrations and detailed cross-sections. It is suitable for home and classroom use by 8- to 12-year-olds.

In the swamps of the world's tropical regions dwells a group of primitive but fearsome predators - the crocodilians. This book investigates every aspect of their lifestyles, and the differences between alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials. It reveals the gentle, nurturing side of crocodilian nature, as well as their lethal hunting skills.

From the misty mountains of Africa to the dark rainforests of Southeast Asia, the great apes dwell in ever-decreasing numbers. This book investigates every aspect of their lifestyles and looks at the similarities and differences between gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on...

Discover what lies behind the massive stones of an ancient castle's walls, beyond the iron gates and over the deep, dark moat. Practical projects show you how to construct a model castle, dress like a medieval lady, make your very own coat of arms, and become a juggling jester.

In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association.
Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary...