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Modern life is often described as an iron cage from which there is no escape. But popular culture venerates leisure and travel as authentic escape routes from routine and monotony....

A selection of papers from the volumes "Sexual Divisions and Society" and "Exploitation in Work and Marriage" produced almost a decade ago at a conference in Aberdeen.

Today's challenge to the great divide between mass culture and modernism goes by the name of the postmodern. Huyssen argues that postmodernism itself cannot be regarded as a radical break...

This series aims to introduce the reader to major 19th and 20th century dramatists, movements and new forms of drama throughout the world. This book is an examination of the...

Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George. Here Brenda Maddox brings...

The book titled Perfect Love by the author Elizabeth Buchan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of Chico Mendes, self-taught environmentalist and leader of a people fighting to save their way of life in the rainforest, who was gunned down outside his home in...

How far will a father go to get back his only daughter? And how will he survive in a legal system that crushes those who can't afford to fight back?...

On the quiet cul-de-sac of Cedar Circle, where neighbors are close friends, fierce winds of circumstance threaten to sweep one couple away. Their Down's Syndrome pregnancy is shattering news for...

New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock seamlessly blends suspense and emotion in the gripping conclusion to the Second Chances series where a man and woman are drawn together in...

To most people, Piper Sail looks like a rich girl with little potential, but she surprises everyone, including herself, when she starts investigating her best friend's disappearance. Perfect for fans...

Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin's theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the...

The book titled Collected Poems by the author Robert Graves. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Until recently though scientists have been reluctant to accept these stories, dismissing them as romantic anthropomorphism. But things are changing as more and more scientists uncover examples of insects, birds...

There is a forgotten castaway one an island in the thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean. He writes his story in a battered paperback novel, covering the space between...

A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944. Operation Bagration- the greatest defeat ever suffered by the...

The book titled The Other Side of Silence by the author Margaret Mahy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Collecting together 30 pieces written about Muhammad Ali, the boxer's story is told in this book by an array of authors, athletes and social commentators. In addition to pieces by...

As the title suggests, this is a thoughtful and deeply personal collection. It is in one sense a backwards glance over the last few years, at journeys taken and places...

The book titled "The Man from Snowy River by the author A. B. Paterson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Taxidermist's Dance by the author Richard Lunn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a comprehensive source of information on presentation skills for all university students studying geography and environmental sciences. It provides students with an insight into the expectations of the...

The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge...

While women's experience encompasses all that is human, while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time, until very recently they have been largely excluded...

Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles--most of them written especially for this volume--Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist...

Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimk'e (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career,...

The moral dilemmas raised by modern medicine--test-tube babies, the mechanical prolongation of life, the prescription of contraceptive pills to underage girls, the nontreatment of handicapped newborns--are no longer the concerns...

The 10 British film directors included in this collection of interviews and essays demonstrate the diversity of the British industry. Complete with filmographies, bibliographies, stills and production shots, this study...

Old men and comets have been revered for the same reasons, said Swift - their long beards and their pretensions to foretell the future. And, in the case of old...

This book is intended for all those with a love of the sea and all things nautical

'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never...

When Dylan suddenly finds out that he is adopted, and that his real mother lives in Swansea, he leaves home on the spur of the moment to try to find...

Children's writer and Carnegie medallist Jan Mark has selected 44 stories which include moral tales, fairy tales, ghost stories, adventure stories, and school stories; they are inhabited by good and...

The book titled Mammals of Australia by the author Terence Lindsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A hilarious and heart-warming novel about the true meaning of 'for better or worse' - both in marriage and in friendship. 'Marriage isn't always a bed of roses. And there...

A classic revised- the new edition of this monumental and much-loved book features its biggest update ever. A wonderful celebration of New Zealand's extraordinary and diverse birdlife. A classic revised-...

Is it an animal with an engine? Or a car with floppy ears and a wet nose? In a far-off desert world, remarkably similar to outback Australia, evolution has taken...

Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers a new appreciation of the enduring power...

Jane Clifton has been big-game hunting in the corridors of power for more than 25 years as a political journalist, columnist and commentator. Here she looks back with characteristic wit...

Tarena Shaw has just finished her law degree but isn't sure she wants to be a lawyer after all. What place does a black lawyer have in a white system?...

The novel of war, childhood, courage and memory that has taken France by storm. A country that has been occupied during war has its secrets, and France is full of...

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd...

The book titled Windows by the author Ted Greenwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.