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A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you'd least expect to find one Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. Their mum...

The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomises the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes. In the years just before and after the fall of the...

A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They...

Take a guided walking tour of the Freedom Trail in Boston, explore the rugged natural beauty of Cape Cod, experience the riot of gold, red and orange foliage in the...

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Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a...

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott...

"Impressive. . . . Rich in cultural history and imagination. . . . To Ball, mythic writing is where the conditions of irrationality, superstition, and enchantment persist: forms of wonder...

As Derrida and Habermas disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In...

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England a castle that was to cross the sea . At mealtimes, he is placed at the...

He'd cut his throat with the knife. He'd near chopped off his hand with the meat cleaver. ' It is off-season in a remote Highland sea-port- twenty-one year old Morvern...

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition....

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special...

A completely rewritten edition of Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers, which is currently in its revised thirty-ninth edition, The Oxford Guide to Style has been expanded to encompass modern...

Recognized as the standard work of reference on English place-name etymology, this edition gives the historical and modern forms of over 10,000 place names with explanations of their meanings.

This is a collection of over 7,000 quotations, arranged thematically from "Courage" or "Parliament", to topical themes such as "the Internet" or "Genetic Engineering". The quotations that stand together in...

This reference work provides an account of the wide range of folk beliefs that have survived into our own age. Arranged alphabetically by their key word, the superstitions are illustrated...

Most readers associate fairy tales with the work of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers, collectors of those traditional and much-loved folk tales retold to each new generation of children....

The four essays here collected show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that are still regarded as vital today - issues of the nature of...

The story of the Prime Minister's foreign policy convictions and calculations, from the Lowy Institute. When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted...

A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History eschews rhetoric and cuts to the true story of race relations in New Zealand. A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History...

What happens to a democracy when voters just won't do as they're told? Over the last decade, Britain has been rocked by a series of political revolts. The rise of...

One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed...

Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power, Knife Edge is the incredible second novel in iconic author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking four-part YA series, Noughts & Crosses. 'Devastatingly...

Primrose, Cassian and Daisy Darling are very bad children. Papa Darling and Mrs Darling (the children's mum scarpered long ago) both know that child-rearing is a task best performed by...

Reissued in Modern Classics to coincide with Hamish Hamilton's publication of Bedford's memoir Quicksands On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are...

"My heart has reshaped a thousand broken pieces, and for every moment I still want to heal him there are a thousand when I know he's perfect, exactly as he...

Fully updated for the paperback publication. What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century? Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the...

The book titled Public Speaking by the author Vivian Summers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Right Words: A Guide to English Usage in Australia by the author Stephen Murray-Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Dreamlike Welsh tales from the thirteenth century Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were written down in the...

Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both...

One spring day, 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person...

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A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern...

The author traces the history of the depiction of the human body from the earliest civilized times to the present day. Starting with the Greeks who used the nude to...

. EL PERFUME es una de las principales novelas europeas de los ltimos tiempos.

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Ryszard Kapuscinski has always displayed an aptitude for being in the right place at the right time. During his career as a foreign correspondent, he has witnessed 27 revolutions and...

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