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Try as he might, Arun simply cannot wriggle his way out of taking the maths test at school. Instead, he must learn to face his fears in this encouraging and...

Whether you're a diehard fan or new to the sport, prepare to be amazed by this fun-filled book of stories, facts and stats from the world of golf. With over...

A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...

This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his...

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time-the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion...

An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...

  From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a buzzy new novel about womanhood, winging it, and the wonders of female friendship **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Funny, relatable and incredibly entertaining,...

Hundreds of word lists, arranged thematically, to help with solving cryptic and quick crossword clues. The lists are sorted alphabetically and by length, and provide an invaluable reference for all...

The importance and meaning of home is explored in this thought-provoking new novella from Carnegie Medal winning author Katya Balen. Juno's furious about being sent to stay with her grandfather...

In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early...

'Had me in a chokehold from beginning to end... A true five star read' Lisa Jewell'Devious and dizzying, with twist after twist after twist - I loved it' Louise Candlish'Wonderfully...

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers.Because it defines...

Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History tells the fascinating story of...

The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point...

Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft. Explore how the critically acclaimed game evolved from a one-person project...

Introduce your baby to new words with the fun and colorful scenes in this giant book. Explore the different rooms in a home with your child as they learn about...

Use over 300 stickers to complete 22 awesome aliens and space warriors. Build 22 of the galaxy's fiercest warriors and most awesome aliens in this exciting activity book. From giant...

From BET Award-nominated singer and Ghana Music Award-winning artist MzVee comes an empowering and uplifting picture book that celebrates self-expression and the beauty of embracing your natural self.I love my...

Discover the new Paldea region with brand new Trainers, locations and adventures in this year's brand new, full-colour Pokemon Annual! Farshore are the #1 annuals publisher in the UK (Bookscan...

Yay! It's match day! Come on a fast-paced football adventure - while practising counting from one to ten. Grab your kit, do your warm ups and get ready for the...

The second book in a new epic fantasy trilogy by British author Jane Welch Silas has fled with the broken Chalice of OEnd, forcing the companions to flee into the...

The first book in a new epic fantasy trilogy by British author Jane Welch. Prince Rollo's world is shattered by the death of his mother, Queen Ursula. But even before...

From conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian's Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as...

K-9 Defender - Julie MillerCan one woman's K-9 convince her to trust a determined detective?After a betrayal that almost took his life, Detective Joel Standage is deskbound. A new assignment...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCan the political be way too personal What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole countryWhen Jesse...

Learn all about your body and mind in this dynamic new fact-filled children's book from #1 bestselling author and global fitness phenomenon Joe Wicks! From Joe Wicks - fitness phenomenon...

A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the...

Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression...

Lost In Little Havana - Caridad Pineiro Each brush with death makes their shared desire harder to ignore. Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez...

In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museums and expositions, these institutions were introduced by government officials...

Alfred Hitchcock: cultural icon, master film director, storyteller, television host, foodie. And as Jan Olsson argues in Hitchcock a la Carte, he was also an expert marketer who built his...

Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide...

The publication of Reading Capital-by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Ranciere-in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a...

The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without...

In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell-originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time-Emilio de Ipola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and...

Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover...

In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention...

In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....

The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by Jose de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new...

A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central...

As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle...

In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely neglected one of the intellectual...

Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates including Jospehine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the...

Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine,...

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India's Mughal monuments-including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal-are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the...

Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His...

In seventeenth-century Lima, pious Catholic women gained profound theological understanding and enacted expressions of spiritual devotion by engaging with a wide range of sacred texts and objects, as well as...

Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...