Whilst in Ireland for an International Song Competition, Tony Hawks was amazed to see a hitch-hiker, trying to thumb a lift, but with a fridge. This seemed amazingly optimistic - h...Hawks, TonyEbury Pressmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
Addressing the moral, social, and political questions raised by the Human Genome Project, a scientific and philosophical study considers such areas as genetic therapy, genetic disc...Kitcher, PhilipFree Pressmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
The International BestsellerWinner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2013Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012Shortlis...Tan Twan EngEditors Varismartes, 21 de enero de 2020
Crusades, Jihads and ModernityDepicts the author's viewpoint about the warring Muslim and Christian "fundamentalist" nations post-September 11, drawing conclusions on American ideologies and promoting a new enl...Tariq AliVersomartes, 21 de enero de 2020
India?s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ?want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops?. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a sup...Mark TullyLondon : Penguin, 1992, c1991.martes, 21 de enero de 2020
Britain and the First World WarThe popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that th...Gordon CorriganCassellmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts OrganizationsPractical advice (supported by extensive case studies) for fixing troubled arts organizationsMichael M. KaiserEditors Varismartes, 21 de enero de 2020
A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyA brain scientists recounts her experiences after suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and...Jill Bolte TaylorVikingmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
"When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my old stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept allof it - every bus tic...Sue PerkinsPenguinmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed ove...Matt HaigEditors Varismartes, 21 de enero de 2020
An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times Bestselling and Man Booker Long-Listed author of My Name in Lucy Barton. Anyth...Elizabeth StroutPenguinmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead...Ian McEwanVintagemartes, 21 de enero de 2020
A second collection of short stories that once again establish Hemingway as a novelist of exceptional power. Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drink...Hemingway, ErnestArrowmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
In a powerful historical novel set in Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, arrives to join the crusade against Com...Thomas MallonVintagemartes, 21 de enero de 2020
"Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone say...Scott HawkinsBantammartes, 21 de enero de 2020
Disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp wanted to jump off the top of a tower block, because he pissed his life away. He plans to end it all on New Year's Eve. Because first single-mum...Hornby, NickRiverhead Booksmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and sh...Whitehead, ColsonFleetmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative ca...Marilynne Robinson,Virago Press Ltdmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, brin...Johann GoethePenguin Books Ltdmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Hant'a - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process...Bohumil Hrabal,Abacusmartes, 21 de enero de 2020
A NovelLives of the Circus Animals is a brilliant new comedy about New York theater people: actors, writers, personal assistants, and a drama critic for the New York Times. They are male,...Christopher BramNew York : William Morrow, c2003.martes, 21 de enero de 2020
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