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R.F. Foster's The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland examines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes. In this provocative a
*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。 One of France's most influential love poets, Pierre de Ronsard embraced a variety of themes from politics, science, and philosophy
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Freud rarely treated psychotic patients (or, indeed, psychoanalysed people from their writings), but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition - revealed, most notably, in thi
The dramas Euripides wrote toward the end of his life are remarkable for their stylistic innovation and adventurous plots. Heracles stands apart in its stark portrayal of human suffering and the decep
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of chan
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Hotel World – shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001 – by Ali Smith, award-winning Scottish author of The Accidental, intimately explores the lives of five women connec
Border Crossing is Pat Barker's unflinching novel of darkness, evil and society. When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of th
Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising the X's son Grayer, keeping on top of her studies
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Morgan has discovered that she is a blood witch - that means the people she thought were her parents and her sister are not related to her, that she is adopted. Morgan
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 On the verge of womanhood, Pollyanna's philosophy of gladness is put to the test when Dr. Chilton dies and Aunt Polly falls on hard times
A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and
Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama. The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversi
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Nigeria is staggeringly diverse, its population is split into some 300 different ethnic groups and its geography ranges from the dense tropical jungles of the south to
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical stren
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shar
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。A portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry,
"I have a surprise . . . this class is going to do the Christmas play!"Maya longs to be in Mr Kelly's play! She can already see herself on the stage, waving her arms around and saying her words so lou
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)When Dakota Pink decides to find out the truth about Medusa's baby monster, it is the beginning of a quest that will lead Dakota and her best friend, Treacle, away from the
In the course of his forty-year career John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a Latinist poet who proclaimed the triumph of r
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 In his lifetime, John Dryden gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Crown and
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel is an old and familiar one which George Eliot invests with peculiar and haunting power.A bestseller
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*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製Includes the original screenplay, with its director's notes, and the narrative. This book follows from a previously undiscovered manuscript by the author that was found
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*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond) ‘This is the story Of Alison Hubble, Who went to bed single, And woke up double.’ Here, in verse, are the hilariously original stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abo
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this magnificent new collection, is concerned with England, a country that he found both endearing and frustr
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"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolv
What goes on in our heads when we have a thought? This book presents an empirically-supported theory of consciousness. It applies the resources and insights of modern neuroscience to experiments that
*注意:此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Ramesses II ruled over Ancient Egypt for six decades. As a general he fought campaigns against the Hittites, Syrians and the Sherden pirates; as king he built extrava
Abucket, a ladder and a cleaner? How about a pelican a giraffe and a monkey? Not the usual ingredients but this is a window-cleaning company with a difference. Join Billy as he makes friends with thre
The Riddle of the Sands is the first modern English espionage novel. Long before World War I, but in an atmosphere of growing mistrust between Britain and Germany, two English sailors stumble into a s