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Between Friends: Perspectives on John Kenneth Galbraith
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Fifteen original essays by eminent personalities in public life, journalism, economics, and the arts, written to honor the ninetieth birthday of one of the world's most famous economists The wide...
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714
During this period modern English society and a modern state began to take shape, and England's position in the world was transformed. The Century of Revolution tries to penetrate below...
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here...
Star Dust Falling
A.V.M. Bennett, much decorated in the war for his exploits flying Lancaster bombers, was appointed to run British South American Airways (BSAA) straight after the war, using converted Lancasters as...
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain."- The...
The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film
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During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of...
A Good Year
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A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Max Skinner has recently lost his job...
Too Loud A Solitude
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Hant'a - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor...
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ' Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt...
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
Overexposed to the distortions and hypocrisies of Christian churches, Philip Yancey set out in search of a life enhanced by faith instead of diminished by religion. Having struggled to forge...
Wanderlust: Real Life Tales of Adventure and Ro
A collection of stories of travel and adventure by some of the most feted travel writers of our time.'We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find...
Post Keynesian Economics: Debt, Distribution and the Macro Economy
This work provides a statement of post-Keynesian macroeconomic theory, focusing on the significance of privately created inside debts and income distribution for the determination of economic activity. It highlights the...
The American Revolution
This book traces the development of the United States from the 1760s to consolidation of the federal government during the 1790s. Its prime focus is on those internal processes that...
The Godless Boys
If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been...
The Secret of 'The Secret': Unlocking the Mysteries of the Runaway
Revealed in 2006, 'The Secret' is an international phenomenon, giving people the power to live happier, more prosperous lives through the Law of Attraction. In the same vein as 'Breaking...
Rebel Hearts
"Rebel Hearts" is a detailed and revealing account of the psychological underworld of Irish Republicanism. Kevin Toolis has investigated the lives of men and women who, for the 25 years...
Harry: Love, Loss, and Life
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From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded toddler, Prince Harry has captured the hearts of royal enthusiasts around the world. In Harry , Britain's leading expert on the...
My Ideal Bookshelf
The books that we choose to keep - let alone read - can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In THE IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens...
One Good Dog
Adam March is a self-made Master of the Universe. He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But there is a price to...
Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II
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When Charles I was beheaded, Charles II escaped to Europe where he lived a life of incredible poverty, bedded a wide variety of women and sparred with his mother before...
Every Day
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY Celebrate all the ways love makes us...
The Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel
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Vanessa Michael Munroe-the fearless heroine of the New York Times bestseller The Informationist-returns in a gripping new thriller. Eight years ago, five-year old Hannah was spirited out of school and...
Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman
In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's...
In Search Of England
From the travel writer whom Jan Morris has called "the much-loved master of the genre, often imitated but never matched." H. V. Morton peerlessly evokes the sights, the splendors, and...
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor's life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known...
Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to
One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama-as of psychoanalysis- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea,...
SAS at Close Quarters: Great Battles of the SAS
What is it like to operate in a four-man team for months at a time behind enemy lines, to infiltrate Argentinian defences on the Falklands, to "take out" an IRA...
A-Z of the SAS
This is an alphabetically-arranged reference to the unit's 50-year history with over 600 entries. All the regiment's battles and campaigns are listed. The weapons, equipment and techniques used by the...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have...
The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders
When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were...
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a...
Over Sharing: The hilarious and sharply written new novel from the
THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about the perfect life on social media Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own flat....
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from
The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost - as witnessed from the fields of a small Lake District farm As a...
My Very First Bible Stories
A beautifully illustrated collection of 14 favourite bible stories, from Noah's Ark to the birth of Jesus. My Very First Bible Stories is perfect for parents and carers to share...
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them. Most of us don't know it, but...
City
'CITY is an important title for me, because it expresses what this book has always been in my head. A city. No particular city. An impression of a city rather....
Chinese Cuisine: Recipes and Anecdotes from Chinese Gastronomic
In China, our authors say, one is saluted in any venue with the question, "Have you eaten?" This simple phrase suggests how deeply anchored nourishment is in Chinese daily life....
Exploring the Sky by Day: The Equinox Guide to Weather and the
Winner of the Children's Roundtable Literature Information Book Award. Ideal for inquisitive children and adults alike, astronomer Terence Dickinson's classic guide Exploring the Sky by Day offers fascinating insight into...
The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation
In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans...
On Justice
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The aim of this book is to give a single coherent account of the concept of justice. The Theory of Games is used to reveal the rationale of justice, and...
Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide
Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these...