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World record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur....

The man who changed the course of modern France In 1981, Francois Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led...

Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its...

The book titled Stalin's Prosecutor by the author Vaksberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...

Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, 'don't think, just shoot' pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously...

Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money and did the time. His family couldn't be more proud. He always was the smart one. Dom happens to be the cousin...

'Dear Mr Darwin ' You might find it presumptuous of me, if not a little macabre, that I should take up my pen and write to you more than a...

DEAD SOULS - A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus. An old school friend's son has gone missing,...

Their discovery doesn't remain a secret for long. A US Air Force UFO investigation team arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian billionaire who wants to steal...

When the police are called to a building on New York s Upper East Side, Detective Mike Chapman and Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper respond quickly. A resident, Tina Barr, is...

In 1988, carbon dating of the world's most famous Christian relic revealed that it was a mediaeval or Renaissance forgery. Yet many questions remained. How could a hoaxer of 500...

The unfortunate popular perception is that when someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia, they are immediately lost to themselves, to those who love them and to those they love....

This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the...

In Cython's underground slave camps, only the timid and obedient survive - but Tali is neither of these. In Cython, having magic means the death penalty, and Tali's gift is...

The book titled Classic Short Stories by the author Philip Gardner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes' is an award-winning book that takes the reader on a journey through the landscapes of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, describing the...

The book titled Silken Web: Natural History of Australian Spiders by the author Bert Simon-Brunet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With the imminent television adaptation of the Gormenghast trilogy and the reissuing of his books, interest in Mervyn Peake''s work has never been higher. This biography is the result of...

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and...

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives...

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...

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...