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These 31 stunning, full-page illustrations offer a modern spin on a variety of classic tattoo themes. The beautifully detailed designs include anchors, dragons, pinups, roses, skulls, snakes, swallows, and more....

This acclaimed work marked the debut of one of the 20th century's most brilliant and important authors. Virginia Woolf's captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness parallels a shipboard...

According to legend, runaway slaves could attain a sort of freedom by breaking off a branch - the Golden Bough - from a sacred tree. If the runaway could kill...

A masterful work that recaptures the spirit of 18th-century English life, Tom Jones was an instant sensation upon its 1749 publication. The mock epic traces the adventures of its lusty,...

At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English...

The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country's leading experts on poverty. In this book he describes...

New from the best selling author of Generation X GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people...

This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies and literary studies.

With fascinating inside and personal accounts of Blair, Brown, key cabinet members and top civil servants, this title reveals how real progress was made on 17 key targets in public...

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.

During this period modern English society and a modern state began to take shape, and England's position in the world was transformed. The Century of Revolution tries to penetrate below...

During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of...

A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Max Skinner has recently lost his job...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ' Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt...

Overexposed to the distortions and hypocrisies of Christian churches, Philip Yancey set out in search of a life enhanced by faith instead of diminished by religion. Having struggled to forge...

A collection of stories of travel and adventure by some of the most feted travel writers of our time.'We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find...

If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been...

Revealed in 2006, 'The Secret' is an international phenomenon, giving people the power to live happier, more prosperous lives through the Law of Attraction. In the same vein as 'Breaking...

"Rebel Hearts" is a detailed and revealing account of the psychological underworld of Irish Republicanism. Kevin Toolis has investigated the lives of men and women who, for the 25 years...

From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded toddler, Prince Harry has captured the hearts of royal enthusiasts around the world. In Harry , Britain's leading expert on the...

Adam March is a self-made Master of the Universe. He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But there is a price to...

When Charles I was beheaded, Charles II escaped to Europe where he lived a life of incredible poverty, bedded a wide variety of women and sparred with his mother before...

Looking for something to keep your kids busy over the holidays and make the season merrier Filled with over 250 hilarious clean and kid-friendly jokes as well as tongue-twisters and...

God can handle your most difficult questions and use them to deepen your relationship with him. Am I the only one who has these doubts What if my friends, family,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY Celebrate all the ways love makes us...

Vanessa Michael Munroe-the fearless heroine of the New York Times bestseller The Informationist-returns in a gripping new thriller. Eight years ago, five-year old Hannah was spirited out of school and...

From the travel writer whom Jan Morris has called "the much-loved master of the genre, often imitated but never matched." H. V. Morton peerlessly evokes the sights, the splendors, and...

One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama-as of psychoanalysis- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea,...

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have...

When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were...

THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about the perfect life on social media Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own flat....

The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost - as witnessed from the fields of a small Lake District farm As a...

Winner of the Children's Roundtable Literature Information Book Award. Ideal for inquisitive children and adults alike, astronomer Terence Dickinson's classic guide Exploring the Sky by Day offers fascinating insight into...

In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans...

The aim of this book is to give a single coherent account of the concept of justice. The Theory of Games is used to reveal the rationale of justice, and...

Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these...

In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark volume demonstrates...

Authors in Context examines the work of major authors in relation to their own times and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive...

For over 16 centuries, women have been undertaking great journeys and writing about their experiences, yet the traditional image of them is still that of an intrepid Victorian lady vigorously...

This book is an examination of the way in which Einstein's general theory of relativity - the theory of gravitation and of space-time, has held up under today's exacting scrutiny...

Surfing the net during a lightning storm has amazing consequences for a group of teenage friends. Superhero powers are theirs at the click of a mouse! Trouble is, they don't...

In 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of...