Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life.'At the time of have-not, I look at...
THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an...
Look at the owland the pigand the bearand the puppyand the rabbit.What do you think they're waiting for?Something wonderful?A visitor?A surprise?Maybe they're waiting for you!
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the...
One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and...
John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" żeby none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich...
The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, revised and updated edition, is the most complete, up-to-date, and accessible guide for the study of the Bible available today.
In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore--one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning...
Ohne Kei droht die Verteidigung der Karasuno im letzten Satz des Spitzenspiels völlig auseinanderzufallen. Die Krähen sind zwar fest entschlossen, ihren Schwarm zusammenzuhalten, aber die weißen...
In these ten arresting stories filled with exuberant imagination and emotional depth, debut author Russell takes readers to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades.
Aladin, ein sonderbarer junger Bursche mit einer geheimnisvollen Flöte, trifft auf den mittellosen Träumer Ali Baba. Zusammen machen sie sich auf zu einem verheißungsvollen und gefährlichen Abenteuer.
This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities...