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Style City: How London Became a Fashion Capital
London now ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital, and it has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella...
Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the
This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...
High-Frequency Financial Econometrics
High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing...
Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government--the commune--arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking...
Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians
Entering Islam through the same biblical door Muhammad did, this book introduces readers with Christian or Jewish backgrounds to one of the world's largest, most active, and - in the...
Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South
As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy...
Mastering the Art of Reinvention: Adapting to Life, Ai and Other Big
Gary Waldon, author of best seller Sort Your Sh!t Out, is back to help you Master the Art of Reinvention at a time when we need it the most. Life...
Duck YEAH
"Duck YEAH!" isn't just another cringy self-help guide; it's a cheeky journey through a poem and fowl-mouthed essay that humorously yet insightfully navigates the messiness of modern life. This book...
Work Backwards: The Revolutionary Method to Work Smarter and Live
Something's about to break, and if we don't change direction soon, it's going to be us. It doesn't matter in which industry or where: too many of us are overworked,...
The Outsider
Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To...
Avalon
Bran's Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother abandons her and joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her 'common-law stepfather' on Bourdon Farms - a...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had...
Who am I, again?
A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a...
Empire of the Clouds: The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the...
Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story
Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch,...
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly...
The Mill for Grinding Old People Young
In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85 years old and with failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great...
On Playing the Flute
Long recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice, this re-issue includes a new introduction by Professor Reilly. In spite of its title, it is...
Bow Porcelain
The book titled Bow Porcelain by the author Elizabeth Adams. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 4, 1929-1931
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following...
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922
With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and...
Crusader Castles
This is a general account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch between 1099 and 1291, the...
Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide
Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey...
Conrad: Nostromo
Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently...
Statistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Life Scientists
An understanding of statistics and experimental design is essential for life science studies, but many students lack a mathematical background and some even dread taking an introductory statistics course. Using...
Jihad in the West: The Rise of Militant Salafism
Militant Salafism is one of the most significant movements in politics today. Unfortunately its significance has not been matched by understanding. To begin to address this knowledge deficit this book...
Message - Beth Derbyshire
The book titled Message - Beth Derbyshire by the author Louise Ed Hayward. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Highland Clans
'Full of character, combining proper research with a sure eye to what attracts and sustains an audience's attention' Scotland on Sunday The story of the Highland clans is a gripping...
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the
This fascinating book continues the story begun in the bestselling and critically acclaimed book The Mind in the Cave . Drawing on the latest research and recent discoveries, the authors...
London A to Z
First published in 1953, the year that saw thousands descend on London to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, London A to Z is a lexicon of the city's...
Burma: The Alternative Guide
Elena Jotow and Nicholas Ganz's candid guide to troubled but beautiful Burma offers a refreshing, often trenchant insight into its turbulent history and presents struggles as well as its most...
Creative Haven Butterflies Flights of Fancy Coloring Book
Graceful winged creatures from every corner of the globe - including Africa, Asia, and North and South America - flutter across the pages of this breathtaking coloring book. Rendered in...
William Cowper: Everyman Poetry
A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce
Harriet's Daughter (Caribbean Writers Series)
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Margaret - a second generation West Indian immigrant - and Zulma - fresh from Tobago - become friends in this novel that challenges stereotypical notions of strong, matriarchal black mothers...
Antigone
The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to...
Twelve Angry Men
New York, summer 1954 Criminal Courts Building A man is dead The life of another is at stake A "guilty" verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the...
Top Girls
Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella...
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the...
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" ( Time ). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual...
The Greek Way
In The Greek Way , Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" ( New York Times ) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century...
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can...
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own This is the first volume in a bold new series that...
The Last Soul Among Wolves
The Last Soul Among Wolves is the dazzling second instalment in Melissa Caruso's bestselling Echo Archives series, a whip-smart fantasy adventure packed with murder, mystery and mind-bending magic. All Kembral...
The Isle in the Silver Sea
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea , a heart-shattering romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries....
Savage Blooms: the Sunday Times bestselling gothic fantasy romance
'A drizzly, moody, and lustrously carnal rendition of a storybook tale, Savage Blooms is the holy grail for lovers of dark academia and faery magic alike. By the time I...
Born of an Iron Storm: Book Two of the Age of Wrath
Born of An Iron Storm continues the epic tale that started in A Tide of Black Steel ; a compelling fantasy saga of bloody retribution, deadly intrigue, and desperate courage...
Red Sonja: Consumed: The exhilarating swords and sorcery novel
'Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable' FELICIA DAY 'An epic debut novel from one of the most entertaining writers on the planet' TOM...
The Damned King
'STRIKINGLY INTENSE. . . IMMERSIVE AND THOROUGHLY COMPELLING' SFX The revolution continues in the thrilling third novel of Justin Lee Anderson's epic Eidyn Saga, perfect for fans of Anthony Ryan...