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After the tragic death of her father, Bryony Ashley returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Ashley Court with its...

This work tells the story of a global resource - blood - and exposes the workings of a secretive industry. Its backdrop encompasses the history of the advanced nations, from...

Yotsuba is a strange little girl with a big personality! Even in the most trivial, unremarkable encounters, Yotsuba's curiosity and enthusiasm quickly turn the everyday into the extraordinary!

On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...Ellie is in a dying marriage. She knows this. After...

Following a terrifying encounter, a beautiful young woman flees her quiet English countryside in search of a new life. She adopts the initial M as her name and embarks on...

When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare...

Just in time for the 2014 Fifa World Cup, Magic Tree House #52- Soccer on Sunday will take Jack and Annie to a soccer field in Mexico where they must...

Promising historical novelist Lori Benton plunges readers into the tumultuous Colonial South with an epic novel of adventure, romance, and faith. Frontier dangers cannot hold a candle to the risks...

The Metal God, himself, Rob Halford--lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically acclaimed and reader-beloved autobiography, Confess --delivers yet again, now with the bible of hard rock...

This text explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise and spread. The book is an expansion of the article from "Scientific American" which discussed developments...

Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to...

How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter...

Isaac Bell is on the hunt for the killer of some of America's finest minds . . . 1908. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer kills himself, his grief-stricken...

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then...

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders'...

Eight years ago, while still at university, Robert Swan became possessed by the idea of a journey on foot to the South Pole. No such attempt had been made since...

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had...

This study is an exploration of the collective values and activities of lay society in Western Europe between the tenth century and the thirteenth. Arguing that medieval attitudes and behaviour...

A reference book to the writers and genres of French literature from about 400 AD until the Second World War. It also ranges beyond the strictly literary sphere to cover...

An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From...

In this ambitious study, Richard Wendorf establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost completely...

This interdisciplinary anthology, which brings together the research of a prominent group of Australian feminist scholars, reflects three dominant areas of feminist thinking today: the concept of woman as adaptor...

Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control...

Michel Faber is not only a master storyteller but a daring innovator as well. Here are the pitch-perfect prose, indelible characterizations, and deep empathy for which he has been highly...

No training could have prepared Frank for a dangerous coastwatching mission against the Japanese in this award-winning WWII novel by David Hill David Hill's tense, exciting war adventure inspired by...

It is a warm and chatty autobiography about Sheila growing up as a "horsey" girl in Wales and marrying Laurie Laxon in New Zealand in 1983 and how she became...

The guide assesses the quality and value of over 1000 wines, each featuring tasting notes and information on the maker, releases, best vintages, and price. There is also advice from...

An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . ....

McIntyre traces Joshua Reynolds' journey from his humble origins as the seventh child of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds in Devon to the splendour and pomp of his funeral at St...

James Boswell died a disappointed man, considered by his contemporaries to be a "foolish failure". Yet today his "Life of Johnson" is esteemed as the template for modern biography and...

The brilliant sequel to the prize-winning Enlightenment. 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and...

This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.