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John Carey is an acclaimed critic and editor of the bestselling The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Reportage. In his spellbinding new anthology he charts the...

At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour....

The paintings and engravings of William Hogarth, the subject of this biography, have always been popular, but outside art history little is known about his life. He moved in the...

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

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The book titled Chinese Whispers by the author Robert Sproat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Avidiy Kallistratov is a religious idealist with a mission. In his quest to get rid of evil, he begins by investigating marijuana production and witnesses abuse, alcoholism and corruption first...

The book titled Randall Jarrell's Letters by the author Randall Jarrell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Fast, Fresh and Fabulous" is much more than a collection of recipes from Britain's most respected vegetarian author. With a wealth of interesting facts and inspiration, Rose shares the secrets...

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush , the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf's...

A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...

Raymond Priestley was the first salaried Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. It was a time of great upheaval, as Australian universities reshaped and reasserted themselves after the Great Depression....

The book titled Far From Where? by the author Finnane Antonia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Reflects the growing awareness of the relationship between the expansion of empires and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. It provides a comparative historical approach to the impact of...

Not since the landmark publication of Handbook of Human Intelligence in 1982 has the field of intelligence been more alive than it is today. Spurred by the new developments in...

This book, first published in 2006, is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the...

This is the only book, Russian or Western, that provides a comprehensive survey of developments in Russian prose over the last fifteen years of the Soviet regime.

Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women,...

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...

In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed...

Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness , Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity...

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Described as a 'masterly study' and 'an outstanding volume' on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and...

In this revised and expanded introduction to the Maya, Professor Coe incorporates the latest ideas and research in a fast-changing field. Spectacular tomb discoveries at the city of Copan reveal...

Hieroglyphs, the ingenious picture writing of the ancient Egyptians, are not only a beautiful and fascinating record of a bygone civilization, but also a treasury of puns, double meanings and...

Art-loving armchair travellers, as well as the more devoted kind, will delight in this book as much for its intelligence and sensitivity as its detailed descriptions both of the travails...

The book titled Small Craft Advisories: Critical Articles, 1984-88 by the author Robert Craft. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways,...

Eminent feminist critic Gillian Beer's work on Woolf, George Eliot, and Victorian scientific discourse are well known and admired. As the essays in this collection affirm, Beer has an extraordinary...

A perfectly poured history of the world's greatest beer. "Joseph Conrad was wrong. The real journey into the Heart of Darkness is recounted within the pages of Bill Yenne's fine...

This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...

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The book titled Hunter: the Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson: The Strange by the author E. Jean Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Alone. Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle almost anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting...

Francis Tucket and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy, are heading west in search of Francis's parents on the Oregon Trail. But when winter comes early, Francis turns south to...

The book titled Not Prince Hamlet: Literary and Theatrical Memoirs by the author Michael Meyer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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The book titled Spirit of England: Edward Elgar by the author Jerrold Northrop Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book is a sustained leftist critque of communication conglomeration, and the ways in which corporate think limits public expression and public understanding. As a critic of corporate imperialism, Schiller...

John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century, made a unique contribution to public affairs and to Britain's cultural life. Drawing on an unrivalled knowledge of Keynes,...

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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds shocking connections between two seemingly unrelated deaths in this #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series. The first victim is a local...

The book titled Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold by the author Nigel Nicolson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by the author Anthony Heilbut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Oscar Wilde by the author Richard Ellmann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Highly recommended as an authoritative text on incest and its treatment" and "essential reading for all therapists," Healing the Incest Wound was a groundbreaking book that put incest studies and...