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The Americas, both North and South, have been in motion with elections and political shifts that Noam Chomsky explores here with his characteristic independence and insight. "Popular activism has repe

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In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' rete

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Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated account of of Tove Jansson's life and art The definitive biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator

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In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-q

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band

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On 22nd January 1996 Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medallist and wrestling's golden boy, was shot in the back by John E. du Pont at the famed Foxcatcher estate in Pennsylvania. That started a two day sie

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"Thick and Thin" is the follow-up to Sarah Harte's hit debut, "The Better Half", and it is a gripping story of what happens between life-long friends when their world is hit by a bomshell. It's combin

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen’s wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark, country road. For the next t

Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-vo

From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author's life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed

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In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised

In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the émigré writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus Aurelius and studies of Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Horace and others.The second volume of essays following Less Than One, this collection includes Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture, 'Uncommon Visage'.

A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time- between a hidden society and heaven's darkest creatures "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. In Dublin, a newspaper editor is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on the dead man's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a

*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Norman Lebrecht won the Whitbread First Novel Award for 2003 with The Song of Names. Born in London, Norman Lebrecht is Assistant Editor of the Evening Standard and pr

What's going on in your head when you go to bed? We talk about sex, but when it comes to our private fantasies it's often a different matter. The author examines the little-known world of our sexual i

*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。There is a growing trend of anti-politics, manifest in falling turnouts and party membership, and an assumption that politicians represent the worst venality rather th

*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was a literary sensation in her lifetime, admired by the likes of Johnson, Byron and Sheridan. She was also a pro

Spanning the last twenty-four years of Euripides’s career, this volume includes The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis.

Travelling throughout the Middle East and Europe, the author talks to men and women in bazaars, schools and alleyways, as well as the world's leading political figures, developing and refining his per

Paul Ginsborg’s bestselling account of contemporary Italy chronicles this most recent and dynamic period in the country’s history. He examines the role of the family in Italian society and economy (a

*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 The vivid, impassioned, writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations'

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Interest in world music is at its peak. Listening to non-Western music in concerts and on radio, television, and CDs has become an important part of our musical experience, yet the general tendency is

From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an ex

Tells the history of how the West 'won' the Cold War. In this book, the author offers a perspective on events, from Vietnam to glasnost, and draws on his own experiences - such as his time in a Slovak

A man without honour is no man at all . . . France, 1636. The Thirty Years War rages across Europe, and a bloody and brutal campaign begins as Spanish armies flood into Picardy. In their way lies the

Juliet, Nicole and Yasmin. Best Friends Forever. Stunning, sexy and anything but sensible. Yasmin is a straight-talking game player who's got no-strings sex down to a T. So why is she suddenly craving

India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path. In this book, the author takes us into the new India th

Rumpole and the Primrose Path - six hilarious crime capers starring John Mortimer's iconic character 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D James, Mail on Sunday 'I thank heaven

The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. Thi