Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, "The Looming Tower" is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-han
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When lonely divorcee Benjamin Ziskind steals a million-dollar painting during a singles' cocktail event at a New York museum. He is convinced that the painting used to hang on the wall of his family l
Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darknes
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 This volume contains the tetralogy of plays--'Richard II', 'Henry IV' Parts 1 and 2 and 'Henry V'--written by Shakespeare c. 1595 to c. 1599. Each play possesses its
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。There are few more compelling and more tragic issues in the world, than the bitter struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. This guide disentangles myths and realit
In the Cambridgeshire fens two corpses are found - both linking back to a terrifying event in 1966. More than a great story for journalist Philip Dryden, these murders may hold the key to a personal m
Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip D
For decades, the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. A
A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead - and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlro
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。 It's remote corner of the Roman Empire. For army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso, this overseas posting is no picnic. He has vast debts,
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Henri de Monfried is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This book is an accoun
First published over sixty years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing t
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製Whether describing the Turkish baths in Sofia or the London social scene, negotiating her marriage settlement or declaring her passion for a young Italian, Lady Mary Wo
The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. Suddenly, every moment is fizzing with what-if's, and it's up to David to outwit fate. Or try to. He changes his name and the way
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Richard Cook (with Brian Morton) of The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, takes the reader on a tour of the musical terrain, past and present. Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia i
A topic with ever-increasing appeal and scope, Media Studies is attracting more and more higher education students as well as the thousands of practitioners within its various fields. Written by two p
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Traces the conception, writing and publication of the author's book. This work offers psychological and literary insights which suggests nothing less than a short stor
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when he disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange
Ten millennia ago, the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the
Dublin and Kerry. They were the aristocrats of Gaelic football, with over fifty All-Ireland titles between them, but as the 1974 season dawned, the fans of these two great counties could not have gues
Fortunata and Jacinta is arguably the greatest novel to have come out of nineteenth-century Spain, and certainly one of the most important European masterpieces of its period. It is also strikingly di
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving future readers not only the chanc
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 A sequence of prose poems extracted from the autobiographical triptych, "Carrying the Elephant", "This is Not My Nose" and "In the Colonie". It covers a terrain that
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Provides a look at the life of the renowned writer Goethe to show the surprising ways in which we can learn from him, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. This
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。The Egoist (1879), George Meredith's best known novel, works witty variations on the traditional courtship plot. Exploiting the conventions of dramati
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Beckford's Gothic novel "Vathek", an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most suc
By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father d
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood 'An outstandingly original book' Sunday Times The current Lord Nanther
All is quiet in the Dinosaur Cafe until big bully Tyrannosaurus bursts in, demanding more than vegetarian fare! After he threatens to put all the herbivores into a dinosaur stew, they decide to retali
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride a
It was on a beautiful morning in June 1973 that eleven-year-old Miller McAllister's world fell apart...That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the tiny Sco
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)For nine years Adam has been the centre of his mother, Cara's, world. And, she thinks, she has been the centre of his. Until the day he disappears. When he is found in the
A novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Unlike the "New Woman" novels of the era which challenged the idea that the unmar
Stepping out into the dusk of a warm Moscow evening, esteemed art critic Anatoly Sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wife is beautiful and his children are clever. But th
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Dostoyevsky's narrator has been summoned to his uncle Colonel Rostanev's remote country estate in the hope that he will act as decoy and rescue Rostanev's former ward,
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)In Poland, in 1939, the secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Maciek's father disappears into the war's vortex, leaving the orp
