'How Musical Is Man?' explores the role of music in society and culture, and of society and culture in music. The author, and anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, draws examples from Western music an...
A beautifully nostalgic picture book about one grandfather’s younger days that shows you’re only as old as you feel! “In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the at...
Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Afric...
After his mother dies and his father falls into a deep depression, young Skiff Beaman knows that he will have to be in charge of the family and so sets out to make money by catching the giant blue fin...
Theodore Fleming's fieldwork on bats has taken him to tropical forests all over the world. This is a personal account of his many adventures, the animals and plants he has encountered, his relationshi...
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was one of America's foremost twentieth-century religious thinkers and social critics. As pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, he became deeply interested in so...
In the course of the twentieth century, there occurred a development unique in the story of humankind. States, which had defined themselves from Thucydides to Bismarck by their claims to sovereign ind...
The Gingerbread Man is a brilliant fun tale to read over and over again, this is a Level Two title for beginner readers who can read short simple sentences with help.
One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years.Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon s...
Praise for "Man of the People" - "Among the many legends who have made America great stands John McCain. "Man of the People, Revised and Updated" lyrically tells his quintessentially American story: a...
Rome. 110BC. A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla,...
With her keen insight, biting wit, and generous heart, Keyes captures the realities of contemporary women's lives with this novel of four women who fall for the (same) wrong man.
The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full ...
Explores the errors of judgment made by ancient and modern civilizations across the worldAnalyzes works from a scientific and historically-sensitive perspectiveHighlights the hydro-geological backgrou...
An early admirer and critic of Howarth's poetry indicated that he had commenced writing verse at the age of seven. He had apparently continued in this avocation, for in his first year at Fort Street h...
'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently' - Matt Haig 'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT our country would look if he was' -...
The mysterious disappearance of an old friend brings Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, to New York in search of answers, and a certain web-slinging ex-lover of hers is following the same trail. How long w...
Starring the ultimate anti-hero, and under the helm of writer Luke Lieberman, Matt Wolpert, and artist Diego Bernard, Man with No Name Volume 2 continues the epic saga based on Sergio Leone's modern m...
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett's classic tale of murder in Manhattan, became the popular movie series with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and both the movies and the novel continue to captivate new gen...
The New York Times 'Hannah, the protagonist of Sittenfeld's new novel, is a kind of female Charlie Brown: shy, hapless and downtrodden' The New York Times 'Sittenfeld proves herself once again to be a...
Drawing from more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Curt Gentry reveals how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible...
A Springsteen connoisseur's documentary of his rise to stardom
Alan Turing helped break the Nazis' Enigma code and became a champion of artificial intelligence. An openly gay man, he was sentenced to chemical castration and committed suicide. Leavitt portrays Tur...
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not ev...
What if the Allies had lost the Second World War ...? The Nazis have taken over New York - the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone existing between the two states an underground auth...
Dumas' famous musketeers return in another exciting swashbuckler. And this time, Aramis is embarking on the most perilous mission of all: to depose King Louis XIV and put his twin brother Philip on th...