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Arlington Park
$35.00$12.95 (Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company )
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the... More »
God's Grace
$23.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company )
"God's Grace "(1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood-a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's prota... More »
The Hidden Assassins
$39.95$15.95 (Hardcover book / Harcourt )
As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a faceless corpse unearthed on a municipal dump, Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. An apartment block is destroyed, and when it′s discovered that its basement housed a... More »
Conquest Of Nature Water Landscape And The Making Of Modern Germany
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
"A modern-day German magically transported back 250 years would barely recognize his own country, says Blackbourn, a professor of history at Harvard. Where today manicured fields, straight canals and windmills dominate, ... More »
Triumph Of Numbers How Counting Shaped Modern Life
$35.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity (tax collection, head counts for military service) but not until the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century did social numbe... More »
Robert Motherwell
$45.00$16.95 (Paperback book / Reaktion Books )
Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of... More »
Lost For Words: The Hidden History Of The Oxford English Dictionary
$34.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr )
Examining the vast archive of the text proofs of the OED, the author provides fascinating new perspectives on the arguments and controversies that surrounded the creation of the first edition in 1928 and on its creators,... More »
After Such Knowledge
$27.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Public Affairs )
As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects ... More »
Pathfinders A Global History of Exploration
$55.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
With characteristic flair, Felipe Fernández-Armesto gives us an entertaining and insightful history of world exploration. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pa... More »
Respect The Formation Of Character In A World Of Inequality
$49.95$17.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect. In Respect in a World of Inequality, distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett explores the need for respect—and the consequences of disrespect—in a highly competitive a... More »
Max Beckmann
$99.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Museum Of Modern Art )
This book accompanies a retrospective of Max Beckmann's painting organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. That exhibition turns out to be the first Bec... More »
Paradise A History Of The Idea That Rules The World
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Constable & Co Ltd )
This is the story of the human quest for perfection. Brought up by parents who belonged to and were expelled from a fundamentalist Christian sect, Kevin Rushby learnt when young that promises of paradise are not always w... More »
Towards The Light The Story Of The Struggles For Liberty Andrights That Made The Modern West
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling places the liberation of the individual at the centre of the story of Western development between the Reformation and the late 20th Century. The Modern West, he argues, was formed by a... More »
Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Over the course of that day, Spector spoke with extraordinary candour about his life and career; his mercurial rise to become the most successful record producer of the sixties; the genius which had been both a blessing ... More »
Promises Promises
$29.95$6.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. More »
Imperial Vanities
$29.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
This is the entwined story of three Victorians. Two of these men were brothers - Sir Samuel Baker, the irrepressible explorer; and Valentine Baker, reckoned to be the leading cavalry officer of the British Army before di... More »
The Great Italian Painters From The Gothic To The Renaissance
$39.95$29.95 (Paperback book / Scala Group )
Over 600 pages of text and illustrations in a delightful small format. More »
Mighty Fortress A New History Of The German People 100 Bc To The 21 St Century
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Granta )
An award-winning historian gives us the fullest portrait possible of the German nation, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization - one that has been alternately Western Europe's most successful and most perilous. Ta... More »
Bodies Politic Disease Death And Doctors In Britain 1650 1900
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Cornell Univ Pr )
In ths work, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-17th to the 20th century. Porter's key assumptions are ... More »
Patrick Obrian The Making Of A Novelist
$54.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Century )
To many, Patrick O'Brian was the greatest British novelist of the twentieth century. The fifteen volumes of the series set in the Royal Navy of the beginning of the nineteenth century and featuring Aubrey and Maturin hav... More »
Box 18 The Unpublished Spike Milligan
$65.00$29.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
The two previous anthologies‚ ′The Essential Spike Milligan′ and ′The Compulsive Spike Milligan′‚ brought together the very best of his stories‚ cartoons‚ poems and correspondence‚ and reminded his fans how deserved his ... More »
Mr Golightly's Holiday
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
The new novel from the best-selling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and Instances of the Number 3. Mr Golightly is much in need of a holiday. As successful as Golightly Enterprises has been, it has also taken up all his ti... More »
Trouble At Willow Gables And Other Fictions
$59.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
The book opens with works written under the pseudonym 'Brunette Coleman', including the two novellas, Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, and the poem sequence Sugar and Spice.The remainder of the... More »
IOU: Story Of Debt And Why We Must Diffuse It
$29.95$7.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalizati... More »
Shrimp And The Anemone
$22.95$9.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepo... More »
Like A Rolling Stone
$29.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
For the fortieth anniversary of the recording of 'Like a Rolling Stone' - the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and overnight changed the rules of the possible in popular music ... More »
Winston Churchills Speeches
$39.95$16.95 (Trade paperback / Pimlico )
Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his... More »
World On Fire
$79.95$25.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
We are running a race with Bolshevism and the world is on fire' - President Wilson, 1919 Paris Peace Conference While the Western leaders in Paris were drafting a peace treaty that would punish German militarism and 'mak... More »
The View From Castle Rock
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advanta... More »
A Fringe Of Leaves
$27.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Great Wall
$35.00$0.00 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
The Great Wall of China is a wonder of the world. Hundreds of thousands of tourists every year take the five-mile journey from Beijing to climb its battlements. It is instantly familiar to millions more from the myriad p... More »
Dance of the Happy Shades
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. Described by one of her peers as going around with a 'delicate, rueful smile and a wicked pen', she says of herself: 'I guess that maybe... More »
Turning Back The Clock
$55.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. Publisher Marketing: The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghan... More »
The Moons Of Jupiter
$22.95$12.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
This is a collection of 11 stories, in which women make discoveries about love, men. relationships, families and life in their contemporary Canadian small- town. Reviews 'How does one know when one is in the grip of an, ... More »
Body The Complete Human
$69.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / )
Ideal for families, students, and anyone who's interested in maintaining good health, Body engagingly reveals the complex and fascinating systems of the human machine; from head to toe, cells to skin, inner workings to o... More »
The Twyborn Affair
$27.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many ... More »
Cosmic Imagery Key Images In The History Of Science
$65.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
Certain key images embody our understanding of life and the universe we inhabit. Some, like Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world, or the stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, were ma... More »
Uncensored
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse an... More »