Louis Wain - the man who drew cats
Rodney Dale
Louis Wain (1860-1939) was known to his contemporaries as 'the man who drew cats'. He illustrated nearly 200 books, and his pictures were a favourite in innumerable nurseries.
Catland
Rodney Dale
Fifteen of the most beautiful, endearing and original pictures by Louis Wain.
The Manna Machine
George Sassoon and Rodney Dale
An exciting and provocative theory that the texts of the Zohar describe a machine for making the mysterious manna that sustained the Israelites in the wilderness.
The Tumour in the Whale
Rodney Dale
A collection of whale-tumour stories — the stories that the teller swears are true because 'they happened to a friend' — now called urban legends.
The Kabbalah Decoded
George Sassoon and Rodney Dale
A new translation by George Sassoon of part of the Zohar, originally written by a Spanish Jew, Moses ben Shem Tov, at the end of the thirteenth century.
Edwardian Inventions
Rodney Dale and Joan Gray
A profusely illustrated selection of the most entertaining fruits of ingenuity of early Edwardian inventors.
Understanding Mircoprocessors with the Mk14
Ian Williamson and Rodney Dale
A carefully structured introduction to the Science of Cambridge Mk14 programming in SC/MP (8060) Assembler language.
The Myth of the Micro
Ian Williamson and Rodney Dale
The Myth of the Micro takes you behind the extravagant theories to the heart of the technology itself.
The World of Jazz
Rodney Dale
A look at the whole story of jazz music from its earliest New Orleans period through to Modern Jazz.
It's True…It Happened to a Friend
Rodney Dale
A collection of what are now called 'urban legends' — tall stories recounted as the truth, though you can never pinpoint the peron to whom the event happened.
The Sinclair Story
Rodney Dale
The first full-length account of Sir Clive Sinclair's companies and the man behind them.
Walter Wilson: Portrait of an Inventor
A. Gordon Wilson
The story of Walter Wilson's exciting but often tempestuous and misunderstood career; his successes and failures; the many innovations which have not been bettered to this day.
Understanding AIDS
Dr John Starkie and Rodney Dale
Detailed description of the nature of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and of AIDS itself.
Louis Wain - the man who drew cats
Rodney Dale
In Louis Wain — the man who drew cats the development of Wain's career is traced from his early realistic cat illustrations to his outstandingly popular humanised cats and highly patterened drawings.
Machines in the Home
Rebecca Weaver & Rodney Dale
The story of the development of the household equipment which has revolutionised home life in the last 100 or so years.
Early Flying Machines
Henry Dale
An account of man's search for the secret of powered flight from the earliest times to the Wright Brothers' success.
The Industrial Revolution
Henry Dale & Rodney Dale
Harnessing natural power, especially steam; the extraction and development of new materials; the advances in textile machinery and agriculture; and the emergence of the all-important transport systems — all these advances changed out sociey from agrarian to industrial.
Timekeeping
Rodney Dale
The whys and wherefores of recording and measuring the passage of time.
Home Entertainment
Rebecca Weaver & Rodney Dale
From the simplest toys and games through talking machines and moving pictures to wireless and television.
Machines in the Office
Rebecca Weaver & Rodney Dale
A wide-ranging survey of the many inventions and technological changes that have affected the development of the office.
Early Railways
Rodney Dale
This survey starts with the very earliest tramways, and looks at the development of the steam locomotive and the spread of railways.
Early Cars
Rodney Dale
The development of the motor car.
About Time
Rodney Dale
The author's only work of fiction so far; time is the subject — time turned about (hence the Fern House colophon.)
Cats In Books – A Celebration of Cat Illustrations Through The Ages
Rodney Dale
A delightful collection of 1,300 years of cat illustration from the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells to Orlando, Sampson and Garfield. Over 100 illustrations, 75 in full colour.
Teach Yourself Jazz
Rodney Dale
Covers the history of Jazz, what and whom to listen to, the instruments of Jazz, and its musical structure.
Cats In Books
Rodney Dale
A Japanese translation of Cats in Books.
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms - 2nd Edition
Rodney Dale & Steve Puttick
This specially commissioned and up-to-date — and now updated — dictionary will inform and entertain both the serious enquirer and the casual browser.
Halcyon Days – Recollections of Vintage Motoring
Rodney Dale
Recollections of post-war vintage motoring.
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Culinary and Menu Terms
Rodney Dale
A rich diet of terms used for ingredients and recipes which are encountered in cuisine world-wide.
Puss In Boots
Rodney Dale
Rodney Dale's new verse rendering of the old story - written for National Poetry Day 2001 (4 October)
A Treasury of ESSENTIAL PROVERBS
Collected, Arranged and Introduced by Rodney Dale
A Treasury of LOVE POEMS
Collected, Arranged and Introduced by Rodney Dale
The Book of WHAT?
Compiled and edited by Rodney Dale
The Book of WHEN?
Compiled and edited by Rodney Dale
The Book of WHERE?
Compiled and edited by Rodney Dale
The Book of WHO?
Compiled and edited by Rodney Dale
Book of Urban Legend
Rodney Dale
A rich collection of tales to enthral and amuse both casual browsers and students of contemporary lore.
Dickens Dictionary
Rodney Dale
A mine of information for students of literature and invaluable by addicts of the quiz and crossword, as well as being an interesting browse in its own right.
The Wordsworth Book of Sayings – Usual and Unusual
Rodney Dale
Essential for your reference library