Rozbudowany tytuł niniejszej publikacji pasuje do tak nowatorskiej, wielowątkowej książki. Wskazuje na sedno badań, które autorka nie tylko klarownie przedstawiła, ale również poparła dowodami pierwsz...
Throughout the ages the worlds greatest thinkers have been stumped by the question, What on earth are bollocks really for? At last, here are 101 answers to that eternal question fully illustrated! Sti...
Setting up a still life may take no more than gathering a few objects on a table, but infusing its depiction with depth, texture, feeling, and even beauty takes great skill. The origins of the still l...
Dziennikarka śledcza Gina Kane otrzymuje niepokojące wieści: osoba o nazwisku C. Ryan ujawnia, że jako pracownica dużej stacji informacyjnej miała „straszne doświadczenia”. I nie jest jedyna. Jedna...
Bestselling Mitchard offers the harrowing tale of four women lost at sea and pitted against nature and a cohort of contemporary pirates. Tracy, Holly and Olivia have known each other since high school...
Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater criti...
Stick is a Civil War veteran, down on his luck and searching for his long-lost sweetheart. Whittle is an orphan on the lam who feels like he owes the world a favor. When they meet up out west, they be...
Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life she suddenly finds herself erot...
William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the dar...
New Year's Eve should be a time for celebrating. But for Detective Superintendent William Lorimer, this is one night he will never forget... Called to a house after gunshots are reported, the carnage...
Anna Christie's dilemma is what to do when your much loved boyfriend of ten years gets down on one knee and pops the question you've been secretly dreading? And options she had to stick - say yes, jum...
A sparkling new novel from the author of "Fresh As A Daisy". In her early thirties, Amy Croft thinks she's settled for life. She has Nick Burnley's engagement ring, and their three adorable little boy...
A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with ...
This sequel to the best-selling original is the same format, featuring more hilarious cartoons for angry fans everywhere! Lela Lee created a short video while studying at UC Berkeley that inspired the...
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and...
Rich the Romeo is finally getting hitched. But before he does, he’s whisking his three best mates off to the ski resort of Avoriaz for a fun-filled week. But is fun as easy-come-easy-go in your thirti...
Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him and learning shocking ...
"What can be done about the state of classical music?" - Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicte...
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Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist faces exploding corpses, kidnap, demonic possession and, obviously, a cursed pogo stick. Colin Cotterill...
For her entire life, Melanie Landon has hidden the fact that her half sister, Ann, is a shape-shifter, determined to protect her from a world that simply wouldn’t understand. When a man shows up askin...
The bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Keep Her Safe and “master of steamy romance” (Kirkus Reviews) delivers a sizzling novel about an ambitious and high-powered executive who reconnects with ...
From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his "Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademar...
". . . a narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through...
Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings of the laid table are rich with products of the trade that made the country's fortunes during this period - yet they are traditionally interpreted as moralizing aga...