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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he...

Talk Triggers is the definitive, practical guide on how to use bold operational differentiators to create customer conversations, written by best-selling authors and marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin....

A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth. With the coming of the Great Flood-the mother of all disasters-only one family was spared, drifting on...

Ray Parkin's classic POW trilogy, originally published in the 1960s, has been out of print for many years. Now eagerly sought after, it will be available for the first time...

"A Distant Field of Murder" tells the story of a frontier - south-western Victoria during the 1830s and 1840s. It describes how one culture, that of the original possessors of...

Australian Cinema After Mabo is the first comprehensive study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the...

Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of...

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth shows the vital role played by legal imagination in the formation of the international order during 1300-1870. It discusses how European statehood arose...

What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with...

The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided "mind" of America during the Depression and popular stage works of...

Victorian women were exhilarated by the authoritative voice and the professional opportunity that, uniquely, the theatre offered them. Victorian men, anxious to preserve their dominance in this as in every...

This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's...

An organization shrouded in myth and secrecy, the Freemasons are an ancient brotherhood with members including some of the most influential people in history and in the world today. Some...

A fabulous look -- with incredible four color, on-scene photography throughout -- of the power of weather, including hurricanes, twisters, thunderstorms, and cyclones, devastating places around the globe.

The night visions of the Venetian lagoon are the theme of this glorious collection of photographs by Luca Campigotto. His moody, empty landscapes speak of an Italy far removed from...

'Pocket handkerchiefs are optional, but I always wear one' Frank Sinatra When, where and how should a gentleman wear the perfect pocket square? This guide features the essential 22 pocket...

I've an Uncle Ivan is a free-wheeling rhyme illustrated in a nostalgic 1950s style that introduces readers to Uncle Ivan, his extended family and 14 different modes of transport. Ivan...

The Biography of a Building tells the remarkable story of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, built to contain Sir Robert and Lady...

Chanel is a fashion word that everyone knows: the epitome of taste, glamour and style. Founded in the '20s by the legendary Coco Chanel, the House of Chanel continues to...

Produced by the advisors to the Nobel Peace Prize and the 1984 Olympics, this book offers practical event management and marketing advice flavoured with various anecdotes in one easy-to-read format....

"Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith, and perseverance to create a brand."-David Ogilvy In today's ultra-competitive world, the average supermarket has 40,000 brand...

A clear, practical approach to making your organization more responsive to change Response Ability: The Language, Structure, and Culture of the Agile Enterprise helps companies keep up with an ever-changing...

In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in...

The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize "The Ghost Road" is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy....

An autobiography by Ronnie Barker taking the reader behind the scenes of his career and discusses his background. His stories include how he advised Maggie Smith to give up acting,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Over 7 million copies sold in 30 languages! Simple Abundance is a book of evocative essays - one for every day of the year -...

When the powers-that-be succeeded in ignoring and then silencing the nations widespread dissent over war, one man stood on an Oscar stage and, in front of a billion people, outed...

Moshen and his wife, Zunaira, met at the university and once looked forward to a happy and prosperous life together. But Moshen's dream of becoming a diplomat, halted by the...

Born in Ireland in the 1840's, Eliza Lynch left the country as a young girl, fleeing the potato famine with her parents. As a young woman, she became one of...

Even an experienced forensic pathologist like Jessica Coran is shocked when she learns that a woman has been killed-and her spine has been removed from her body. Complicating the case...

King Arthur is often written off as a medieval fantasy, the dream of those yearning for an age of strong, just rulers and a contented kingdom. Those who accept his...

A portrait of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov, fighting for his work and his life in a society riven with fear of Stalin's tyranny Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in...

Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's disingenuous excuse of production...

In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random...

From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery. Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell...

Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare, in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. The "Big Three" are a trio of inmates locked up in...

In The Book , Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on...

The Apple Lover's Cookbook celebrates the beauty of apples in all their delicious variety, taking you from the orchard to the kitchen with recipes both sweet (like Apple-Stuffed Biscuit Buns...

It is twenty years since Jean-Baptiste Poncet, through his apothecary skills and daring diplomacy, cured the ailing Negus of Abyssinia and saved that country from the political ambitions of the...

Written with exclusive full access to Virgil Thomson's papers, here is the first full-scale account of Thomson's experiences as a composer, influential critic, and gay man. This biography shows how...

The political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era. April 1973: snow falls thick and fast...

Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney's extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate...