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Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is a rare travelogue of an adventurous Charlestonian that highlights the rich intellectual life of the antebellum South. Privately published in...

Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition...

Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It seems at first commonplace:...

Author: Paul Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling, far-reaching...

Author: Roddy Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry Watch for Roddy Doyle's new novel, Smile, coming...

Author: Eric Jaffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From an "illuminating and entertaining" (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men...

Author: Aaron Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by...

Author: Michael Sims Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320Critically acclaimed author Sims sets out to open readers eyes to the miraculous events that occur in the passing of a single...

Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and]...

Author: Mi Gyung Kim (Associate Professor, North Carolina State University ) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 613 In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public...

Author: Lijia Zhang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month for the...

Author: Andrew Britton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Of all the major Hollywood stars, Katharine Hepburn was the least conventional, conforming to none of the stereotypes of female superstardom....

Author: Julie Rodrigues Widholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Mexico City has emerged as a thriving center of contemporary art. Escultura Social features recent work by a group of...

Author: . Ciammitti (ed) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life,...

Author: Richard Vine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 228 Dogan ay's drawing , watercolour, fumage, collage, and mixed media are surveyed with an eye to illuminating the unique combination of...

Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...

Author: Stephen L. Harp (Department of History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 One of the world's largest tyre makers and an international corporation with interests in countries around the...

Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...

Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...

Author: Anke Bernau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Virgins haunted the medieval imagination; in those days only virgins were thought capable of taming a unicorn. To the most devout...

Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following...

Author: Carlos Rojas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas's imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art...

Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for non-commissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland....

Author: Allan Marett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs,...

Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...

Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder...

Author: Meteorologist Joe Moran, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the...

Author: Gwynne Dyer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have...

Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...

Author: Wim Klooster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and...

Author: Martin Derry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, "Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939" chronicles many of the RAF's aircraft...

Author: Paul Preston (London School of Economics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history...

Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...

Author: Jay Chladek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 520 The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to...

Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...

Author: Hyun Ki-Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 330 An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, "One Spoon on this Earth" stands a sort of digest of contemporary...

Author: Bryan Sykes (Oxford Ancestors) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan...

Author: Gillian Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Why do compass needles point north--but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's...

Author: Jung Mi-Kyung Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 219 At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven...

Author: Jon Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It's the missing link between the birth of our universe--as...

Author: Jung Young-Moon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 294 Originally published in Korean as Moksin ui otton ohu by Munhak Tongne, Paju, 2008--Title page verso.

Author: Frans de Waal (Emory University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling...

Author: Freeman Dyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic...

Author: Park Wan-Suh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 252 In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore --...

Author: Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A true story of love, separation, and rediscovery in a time of cultural and spiritual upheaval in Tibet. In the...

Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...

Author: Kamala Tiyavanich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and...

Author: Simon L. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of...