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A beautiful and practical desk jotter of 60 tear-off sheets decorated with images of exotic flowers and birds from the world-famous RHS Lindley Library, and with plenty of space to...

London now ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital, and it has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella...

This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...

The book titled From the Cockpit: Spitfire by the author T.F. Neil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Armada!: The Planning, the Battle and After by the author Robert Milne-Tyte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this account of the origins and development of the RAF, the author offers evidence of its organization, strategy and preparedness for the Battle of Britain. Drawing on the facts...

The book titled The Kents: A Royal Family by the author Audrey Whiting. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Victims by the author Hugh Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Valiant Company marks the 50th anniversary of Australia's most significant Korean War engagement, the infamous Battle of Kapyong. Ben O'Dowd, a Lieutenant Colonel, was in the thick of the...

The book titled By the Seat of Their Pants: More Great Australian Air Stories by the author Terry Gwynn-Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled On a Wing and a Prayer by the author Terry Gwynn-Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Essentials of Psychoanalysis by the author Sigmund Freud. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Having escaped her overbearing family in Mexico, Tatiana settles in Berlin and cultivates solitude while distancing herself from the city s past. Yet the phantoms of Berlin seeping in through...

A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems...

From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. While many...

This is an anthology of poetry, with one or two prose excerpts, which explores the world on nonsense, fantasy and satire from the Middle ages to the present day, revealing...

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders,...

High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing...

Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...

Entering Islam through the same biblical door Muhammad did, this book introduces readers with Christian or Jewish backgrounds to one of the world's largest, most active, and - in the...

As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...

In this depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII...

Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...

Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. To many, he is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable and...

The book titled Safety of Objects by the author A. Homes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe's Art Treasures by the author Sylvia Hochfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The Birth of Pleasure by the author Carol Gilligan (New York University). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn by the author Martha Gellhorn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing , flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson's acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I'm...

What do we mean when we refer to our "identity", and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our live? Is "identity" a sustained private core,...

In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection...

Anne Hollander begins with the great masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries-Van Eyck, Durer, Bruegel-and progresses through the history of European art to the advent of film in the...

Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of...

Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by...

Discusses the images of women in art, films, and literature, social attitudes towards women, and changing perceptions of sexual roles.

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...

Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new...

This practical guide addresses how to write effective and perceptive essays about film - a fundamental requirement of any course involving film history or criticism. It first explains why writing...

The book titled Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West by the author Dee Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The Eagle Has Flown: A Novel by the author Jack Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of a small boy's obsessive fantasy life and how it brings together four unlikely people in an afternoon spent unravelling each other's lives - past, present and future...Ted's...

In the theatres and the restaurants of the celebrated City of Kisses, timid actor Felix Dern is famous and admired...for his looks...for his voice...and for his unblemished private life. But...

The book titled A Change in the Lighting by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Very Model of a Man by the author Howard Jacobson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It is this evolution of Kali, from her origin as a Tantric Goddess to her metamorphosis into a divinity in maistream religion, that the author captures brilliantly in this book.