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When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats and cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This...

The book titled Freddie: A Diary of a Cot Death by the author Sarah Key. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sensitive Midwifery by the author Caroline Flint. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Presents biological arguments against and in support of the claims of feminis and discusses the importance of biological factors in the current position o women in society.

The book titled Human Embryo Research: Yes or No? by the author CIBA Foundation Symposium. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

About the practices and politics of place and identity formation -- the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are -- this book exposes...

In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of...

The Risorgimento was a turbulent and decisive period in the history of Italy. Lucy Riall's engaging account is the first book of its kind on the upheavals of the years...

Recently there has been an upsurge of interest in research on women's health. Some of the issues to be addressed are clear, though the methods and problems involved may not...

From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation , E. Ann Kaplan considers how...

First published in 1971, provides sociological and psychological perspectives on a broad-based study of various ecstatic traditions. In this second edition, Professor Lewis offers a new introduction in which he...

This Dictionary gives a comprehensive survey of the whole range of ancient Near Eastern architecture from the Neolithic round huts in Palestine to the giant temples of Ptolemaic Egypt. Gwendolyn...

Sarah Robinson is Senior Research Fellow, Nursing Research Unit, King's College, London, England. Ann M Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, School of Nursing Studies, University of Manchester and Director,...

This book discusses the anticipation of pregnancy and parenthood by both parents and looks at the role of the professional during pregnancy. It considers the readjustments to relationships necessary within...

This work looks specifically at research relevant to the care provided by midwives for childbearing women and their families. The studies encompass many areas of midwifery practice, education and management...

This is the second book in a topical new series looking specifically at research relevant to the care provided by midwives for childbearing women and their families. This volume brings...

As an intelligent woman, you are probably used to learning as much as you can before making major decisions. But when it comes to one of the most important decisions...

It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this...

Women weren' t supposed to take their lives into their own hands, light out by themselves, have independent, off-the-beaten-path adventures. Nonetheless, throughout history there have been women who cast off...

In her best-selling story collection, "Birds of America" ("[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" --James McManus, front page...

Babymaking exists to help the estimated 50,000,000 people worldwide who are affected by infertility. It includes test-tube conception; surrogacy; swapping eggs, sperm and embryos; and freezing, dissecting and transferring embryos....

The book titled Miscarriage by the author Margaret Leroy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America...

Arriving in Naples as a naive young intern at the American Consulate, Katherine is set up on a blind date - at least that's what she's expecting. Instead, Salvatore brings...

Written by a leading authority on the subject, the first comprehensive guide to thyroid disorder explains the illness and its physical and emotional effects and offers a practical program for...

While serving as a juror on a high-profile murder trial, Dr Rennie Newton finds herself defending the rights of the accused, a psychopath named Lozada, and consequently he is acquitted....

The book titled Trial & Retribution #1 by the author Plante La. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book brings together recent theories and research in the study of organizations to provide a new perspective on the central role of organizations in modern societies. Particular attention is...

'A magnificent achievement, a masterpiece of the historian's art.' Guardian 'It is a brilliant achievement.' Sunday Times August 1914 recounts the insane, uncontrollable plunge into war and the bloody catalogue...

`They are terrible. They are like the demons of old . . . They must be stopped, and you are here to bring that about, where everyone else has failed....

Lesley Anne Ivory's new book combines her dual interests in astrology and cats, while the theme provides her with a wealth of imagery suggested by the rich pictorial symbolism of...

With their father away in the military and their mother working overtime to support the family, the March sisters have to rely on one another to make it from day...

Tired of ghosting, gaslighting, guessing games, and going nowhere in love What if the key to lasting love wasn't swiping h arder--but dating smarter In 10 Dates to Your Soulmate...

One woman's story of reaching the crossroads of life--and finding happiness in the last Shangri-La, Bhutan Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and...

This text traces the growth and development of two related disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. Locating these disciplines within the intellectual climate of the 19th century, the study...

Built in 1610 during the reign of James I and remodeled in 1637-39 by the future first Earl of Dysart, Ham House and its gardens have endured through centuries of...

This beautiful publication narrates the romantic biography of an architecturally significant country residence and its rescue from decline. Dating from the mid-15th century, Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was home to a...

Exploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winckelmann, Ruskin, Pater, Gombrich, and Baxandall), as well as artists...

This essential guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter. At its core are Westminster Abbey, Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the great...

In the exciting book Peter J. Wilson takes domestication as the starting point for his continued inquiry into human evolution. Wilson argues that settling down into a built environment was...

Country life was idealized by the Victorians into a rural idyll. 19th-century artists sought to perpetuate this image and their work found its greatest expression in images of cottages and...

The sequel to Bernard Tschumi's best-selling Event-Cities, documenting his recent architectural projects and updating his thoughts on architectures and cities. In Event-Cities (MIT Press, 1994), Bernard Tschumi expanded his architectural...

In this impassioned book, Arthur L. Caplan, one of our foremost writers on medical ethics, calls for an end to cynicism and mistrust in our approach to resolving health care...

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted...

An unexpected journey through Italy, led by the voice of a violin From the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told...