"Listening to Van Morrison" represents Greil Marcus' quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968...
In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an...
"This book is a major treatise in mathematics and is essential in the working library of the modern analyst." (Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society)
A powerful and well argued reassessment of the Victorian Age, which reveals it to be a much more dynamic, radical and innovative era than is generally believed to be the case. "Matthew Sweet...
Eine Geschichte einer obsessiven Liebe, ein Roman, der aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln erzählt und schon nach wenigen Seiten eine faszinierende Sogwirkung entwickelt.
Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale żeby the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Benjamin Myers (narrated żeby Benedict...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer...
Evolutionary aesthetics is the attempt to understand the aesthetic judgement of human beings and their spontaneous distinction between "beauty" and "ugliness" as a biologically...
Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent...
The original edition, published in 1986, of this study of Seamus Heaney's poetry was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". Written with Heaney's co-operation and with...
Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as "The Searchers", "Stagecoach" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"....
Dieses Buch ist ein Leitfaden, wie die Kommunikation in einem Veränderungsprojekt strukturiert und geplant durchgeführt werden kann. Es weist auf mögliche Fallen hin und wie man ihnen entgeht. Es...
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*'Masterly...A signal achievement...Remarkable.' Guardian'A 1984 for our times.' Daily ExpressKavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall. If...
VI die dadurch bedingte Furcht, die Schrift werde doch niemals erscheinen konnen, können, haben meine Arbeit wiederholt unterbrochen oder gehemmt. So So ist ist das "nonum prematur in...
In recent years, Fetal MR has grown continually in importance, and the brain has become the main focus of investigation. However, we lack established standards and a good knowledge of the normal MR...
Trade paperback. Fully updated up to and including }Bad Education{ and available for the first time in paperback, the great Spanish film-maker in a career-long conversation.
more than the score is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Debussy, right up to John Cage. Each...
"The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be...
This is longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He's gone. And telling the truth won't bring him back...When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in...
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How...
His first published work of fiction (1934), "More Pricks Than Kicks" is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters,...
Fundamental Astronomy is an exhaustive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. It covers both overarching concepts and underlying principles. It provides a sound basis for more profound...
The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having...