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The vastness of China and the antquity of its culture have both fascinated and troubled the West since their earliest contacts. This text explores Western attitudes as they developed over...

The book titled WINNING WITH THE BENKO by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaberation but to finding scapegoats for the nation's...

The inside story of sanctioned murder in America as seen by the men who design the machinery of execution and by those who are to be executed. For many months...

The British links with St Petersburg date back to the very year of its foundation and have continued almost unbroken to the present day. Anthony Cross narrates the story of...

Chris and Carolyn Caldicott run the famous World Food Cafe in London's Covent Garden, where they serve vegetarian food from recipes collected on their travels. This sequel to the acclaimed...

Based on the author's specialised knowledge of the many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia. This detatched perspective presents a new and...

The book titled Social History of Rome by the author Geza Alfoldy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled New World and Pacific Civilisations: Culture of America, Asia and the by the author Weldon Owen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

In October 1991, one of the most controversial cases in recent years unfolded in the US Supreme Court - the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, a disturbing series of hearings which...

The book titled An Idea of Europe by the author Richard Hoggart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes...

Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...

Chronicles the life of the Russian Jew and World War II correspondent for the Soviet Army who became a passionate critic of the new regime.

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stir--but then...

The wild ride of Chet Baker, the most romanticized icon in jazz, is thrillingly recounted in this first major biography ever.From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young...

The book titled Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart by the author Steven Bach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Gore Vidal called him the century's "greatest English-language critic". Anthony Burgess hailed him as "our best literary critic". Now, at last, all of Pritchett's best literary essays are collected here...

Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams , his letters-more intimate and...

As parent, reading partner, and social science observer, Shelby Wolf documented countless moments during the preschool and early grade-school years of her two daughters. "The Braid of Literature" interweaves her...

The book titled The Intruders by the author Stephen Coonts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With Flight of the Intruder, Final Flight and The Minotaur, Stephen Coonts has established himself as one of the nation's premier novelists of technological suspense thrillers. Following the Summer '90...

The book titled A New York Life: Of Friends and Others by the author Brendan Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Cities by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled "Interzone": Anthology: 2nd by the author John Clute. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Robertson Davies, one of North America's most beloved and critically acclaimed novelists, added an impeccable sense of style to all his diverse writings. Now, in this exciting publishing event, there...

Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...

Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in...

"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies

The book titled Davies Robertson : Murther & Walking Spirits(Us) by the author Robertson Davies. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Two girls are head over heels in love with the same boy. Which girl does he love best. Only Laurie knows for sure.

The book titled The Sorrow of Belgium by the author Hugo Claus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Petain: Hero or Traitor? the Untold Story by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This work covers feminist art history. It tells how the depiction of women in art defined and confined their role in Victorian Britain. It offers an analysis of the regulation...

The book titled Andropov by the author Zhores A. Medvedev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Jilly Cooper's latest, raciest novel, Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage in the cut-throat world of flat racing. Rupert is consumed by one obsession- that Love Rat, his adored grey...

The book titled Oro by the author Cizia Zyke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Langrishe, Go Down by the author Aidan Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Watermelon Moon and Other Stories will appeal to junior secondary students. Featuring main characters who are teenagers or younger, the stories come from a wide range of genres and countries....

This volume discusses the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the social and political context of the world and time in which he lived.

This series takes up the challenge of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of seminal modern readings of key authors, genres and critical approaches. Rachel Bowlby's anthology of aricles on Virginia...

Death is nasty and not a little inconvenient. Being dead even more so. Especially when you're tied to an amulet that has its own evil designs on the world. For...

'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention. ' New York Times 'The forerunner of an entire school of African...

Ulysses continues to be one of the central books of the twentieth century and this is an audacious new take on it. It was never meant to be an abstruse...

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major...