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Douglas Petty is a man who enjoys his reputation as an unreconstructed male with a penchant for too much wine and too many women. Inheriting his father's eccentric estate and...

Relaxing at home one sunny afternoon in 1995, Kirk Douglas suddenly felt a strange sensation in his right cheek. When he tried to describe what was happening, all that came...

The essays in From Oslo to Iraq: And the Roadmap were written between the end of 2000 and early 2003. They offer Edward Said's commentary on the deepening crisis in...

The book titled Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy by the author M.H. Zool. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From The Grass is Singing...

Crisis and Change Today provides a solid introduction to Marxist social theory. The work's unique voice is expressed in its Socratic-dialogic approach, structured around forty questions that students have about...

"Required reading for all interested in the present precarious situation." - North & South

The book titled Ian Burn: Minimal - Conceptual Work: Minimal Conceptual Work by the author Mel et al Rasmden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

During the early years of her literary career Dorothy Parker wrote more than 300 poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Many of these were collected...

Simon Baron-Cohen shows that, indisputably, on average male and female minds are of a slightly different character. Men tend to be better at analysing systems (better systemisers), while women tend...

The book titled Earls of Creation: Five Great Patrons of 18th Centiry Art by the author James Lees-Milne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled The Hacker's Handbook III by the author Hugo Cornwall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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

*One of The Village Voice 's Favourite Books for 2012* This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and...

Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn...

Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as...

"The New Yorker" is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era it occupied an almost unique niche of...

The book titled When Giants Learn to Dance: Managing the Challenges of Strategy, by the author Rosabeth Moss Kanter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled A Dark-adapted Eye by the author Barbara Vine. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife, beautiful Palestinian Isra. The discovery plunges the...

A play which tells a story of love and adventure at the time of the decline of Imperial Rome, as Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, makes a stand for independence against...

The book titled Fifty Poems by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Are Computers Alive?: Evolution and New Life Forms by the author Geoff L. Simons. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

New edition, new introduction Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party. New introduction on why good policy matters and why books debating big policy...

This introductory study argues that a broadly based nuclear criticism ought to be a component of cultural studies in a post-Cold War period characterized by fewer nuclear weapons and more...

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, painters, novelists, playwrights, and theorists of architecture seized on the interior as a metaphor for selfhood, vision and spatiality. This book shows how...

Continuously in print since 1945 and several times updated, The Handbook of Dates is now available from Cambridge University Press. This book is the recognised essential tool for establishing historical...

Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place...

Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces...

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...

This collection brings together a group of Wallace Robson's most important essays, both published and unpublished, and carries an introduction reviewing the practice of criticism and critical theory today. The...

Awhina's People is the moving story of a strong Maori woman living in pre-European New Zealand. Awhina does her best to protect and nurture her family in a world where...

With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest George Eliot scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, text summary, selected criticism and...

The book titled The Hazard of New Fortunes by the author Benjamin DeMott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Second World War is over and among the millions of refugees, young Emil Brod returns to the capital city of his country to live with his grandparents and take...

The book titled The Psychology of Happiness by the author Michael Argyle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book constitutes a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, as seen from the perspective of New Institutional Economics - one of the most influential new schools of thought...

Evelyn Waugh was not only one of the foremost novelists of his generation, he was also one of the last great practitioners of the art of letter writing. This previously...

In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger, "a vivid, sinuous, profound, and entirely beguiling venture." -Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times. Set in the beautiful landscape and rich history of...