What does it mean to be a man? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the i...
The Third Man is Greene’s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious c...
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells‘s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth popul...
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers ...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft / Sprachforschung (fachübergreifend), Note: 2,0, Universität Erfurt, Veranstaltung: Laienlinguistik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ob in...
The product of a rigid upbringing, Brenna has grown into a sexy free spirit who does things her way. No possessions, no debt, no man, and no rules to tie her down. And if she has to work, what better ...
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of R...
The Third Man is Greene`s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his o...
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, AbrahamJoshua Heschel's "The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewishspirituality ever since its original publication--and has be...
The Unexpected Einstein tackles many unexpected and rarely covered aspects of Albert Einsteins relatives, colleagues, lovers, enemies, lifelong friends, and relative strangers. In their own words, the...
Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited...
This eye-opening, well-researched examination of mankind's oldest competitor is filled with weirdly fascinating information about the history of the rat and the way it consistently outsmarts man. Illu...
Featuring dozens of color photographs from Darwin’s original publication, this edition—issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth—makes this classic study newly accessible to modern...
A warrior‘s life, on and off the battlefield. From the Samurai of Japan to US rifleman, explore the dramatic experiences of soldiers who‘ve fought battles and paid the price of warfare. Experience lif...
Top Mafia hit man. Doting father. For 30 years, Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins ...
Frank Dempsey is back ? but this time as a father of a very different kind? Newly-wed Frank Dempsey, a former non-believing Catholic priest, can now luxuriate in the sublime joys of his wife?s arms an...
Born on August 5, 1930 on his grandparents? farm in Auglaize County, Ohio, Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong. His family moved several times before t...
From the first days of the US, a battle over money raged between the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests in the hands of a few, and the capitalists, w...
'If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on. I have read the "OED" so you don't have to!' Weighing in at 137 pounds, the "Oxford English Dic...
This collection of work by Henri Cartier-Bresson is the ultimateretrospective look at a lifetime's achievement. It brims with classicphotographs that have become icons of the medium, as well as rarely...
Man About the Kitchen is designed to introduce men of all ages to the kitchen and to transform them with minimal pain into competent cooks. Recipe 21: The Male Cook: This is becoming more popular, but...
On the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia of the origins of our ideas a...
Michael Coren offers a thought-provoking and entertaining story of the fascinating life of J.R.R. Tolkien. Readers will learn about the author's childhood in South Africa, his youth and adulthood in G...
George Soros’ web of influence is documented and exposed. No one else in modern politics has anywhere near the power and influence of George Soros, both domestically and internationally. Backed by th...
The dramatic events leading up to the appearance of white smoke over the Vatican and the public declaration from the balcony of St Peters- Habemus Papam- has been the most remarkable yet in the electi...
From a man with far too much time on his hands comes this collection of barmy correspondence, guaranteed to put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated customer services assistant. Whether hes ...