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With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...

When Marshal Guarnaccia is called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman, suspicions arise as to the motive. Guarnaccia is convinced that there s more to the family...

The Second World War is over and among the millions of refugees, young Emil Brod returns to the capital city of his country to live with his grandparents and take...

In this book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - teacher, feminist, cultural critic, literary theorist - addresses the crisis of multiculturalism. How are debates over the canon, ethnicity, Third World feminism, and...

This introduction to the Suez crisis covers the background, the invasion, and its aftermath. The text presents key primary sources, analysis of the significance of the sources discussed, and their...

In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable...

The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy....

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger, "a vivid, sinuous, profound, and entirely beguiling venture." -Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times. Set in the beautiful landscape and rich history of...

In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can...

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its...

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day...

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn. When she meets...

Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn't commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly - and equally...

SURVIVAL OF THE PRETTIEST is the simple title for a comprehensive book on this complex and contentious subject, from the factual details of what makes a face beautiful to the...

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy,...

Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.

Andrew grew up in the 1970s with his funny, loving but deeply unstable mother. Life with her was totally chaotic. She left him alone in motel rooms at night and...

The son of an Edinburgh merchant, Hope had a spectacular beginning to his career: at the age of seventeen, before he had even finished his legal education, he travelled to...

A humble laird from Largoshire, Andrew Wood's determination to avenge his father's murder by English pirates, led to his national renown as a pirate-slayer. This brought him to the attention...

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence -...

A lyrical and haunting new work of fiction by one of Ireland's greatest writers...Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in "a...

WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider...

Looks at the experiences of some of the first astronauts in order to ascertain what makes them tick and why they are prepared to put their lives at such enormous...

A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written" It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague,...

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture-from its religious use...

Did you know that anyone-- addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for We all...

In A History of Egypt , Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient...

The Robert Harris novel/film ENIGMA has popularised the subject of code-breaking and military intelligence as never before. Yet the ULTRA secret -- the Allied 'breaking' of the German 'Enigma' code...

One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991-along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this...

'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no color, no name and no flag, and where the only...

An anonymous letter had accused Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan of being a communist. George Smiley, assigned by the Secret Service to vet Fennan, had assured him he had nothing...

'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended...

A LitRPG adventure with magic, monsters and mystery It's not an easy career jump, going from retail assistant manager to interdimensional adventurer. Jason doesn't have much of a choice, though,...

This thrilling sequel to Riftborne, with its enemies-to-lovers romance and unexpected twists and turns, is perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses. This epic...

THE BRAND-NEW EXPLOSIVE SERIES FINALE - full of shocking twists, addictive puzzles and irresistible romance. ALL GAMES MUST COME TO AN END. In the stunning finale to the global phenomenon...

A vital resource that empowers readers to choose the best self-development strategies. What can you actually do to become happier and live a better life? This is the question posed...

A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of twentieth century literature \"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the...

The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of...

One of the most radical and influential essays on race and racism, now available in Penguin Modern Classics Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon....

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to...

This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story...

On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction-a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He...

The story of the Mannion family continues after the Bligh rebellion. As the young Mannions grow to maturity, so too the settlement at Sydney Cove develops into a town of...

Sydney Cove, 1799, and three years since Governor Phillip departed. Against a background of continuing convict settlement, hunger, rebellion and the terrifying force of a barely understood land, the saga...

This practical guide is designed to assist professionals with the problems involved in developing complex software systems, presenting a set of guidelines and tools to manage the technical and organisational...