Moving away from the family setting of her best-known works, Louisa May Alcott explores both her own personal conflicts as a woman, as well as those experienced by her contemporaries in the...
This memoir, written entirely żeby Costello, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented...
Seventh edition with entries on over 1,200 painters, periods, ideas and movements, and information about galleries that exhibit relevant works. "Detailed, abreast of current thought and...
The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behavior. Since then it has become widely used as an introductory textbook of social psychology. It...
The first Western autobiography since Augustine's "Confessions," the "Monodies" is set against the backdrop of the First Crusade and offers stunning insights into medieval...
Ferrari means red. It means racing. Excellence, luxury, and performance. Less well-known is the man behind the brand. For nearly seventy years, Enzo Ferrari dominated a motor-sports empire that...
Violet Venable ist Witwe und ihr Sohn Sebastian ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Als dieser verschwindet, erfährt Mrs. Venable kurz darauf von seiner grausigen kannibalistischen Ermordung. Zusammen mit ihrer...
Christmas is coming! A delightful collection of stories for Yuletide żeby some of the finest writers for children which makes a perfect stock-filler Christmas gift. The Puffin Book of Christmas...
Ahmad's] "introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth." --Parul Sehgal,...
A HILARIOUS, BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE PHENOMENAL LADYBIRDS FOR GROWN UPS SERIES FOR AUTUMN 2017A Ladybird First Grown-Up Picture Book - a nugget of wisdom from bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and...
In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized aby pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity,...
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation. 'Magnificent,...
According to business guru Ram Charan, the process of selling is broken. Demand for competitive pricing is ever on the increase, and customers want more than great products at great prices; they...
Hank, the star of this easy-to-read series by "New York Times"-bestselling authors Winkler and Oliver, is back! This time, he has to learn the nuts and bolts of making a robot--and making a...
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam....
Equality at work expert Ann Francke reveals how to understand and tackle the damaging consequences of gender imbalance in the workplace Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue....
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long...
The swoon-worthy second book in TikTok`s favourite Victorian fantasy romance series `Incredible! Sensational! Fantastic! So charming your inner Lizzie Bennet will swoon` 5***** Reader...
A comprehensive collection of the poetry of a presiding genius of American literature While best known for such novels as his monumental "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville was also an...
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the...
From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average...
Now in paperback, the self-disciplined and glacially poised Bridget is back with another year's worth of unflinching self-analysis, as she lurches through self-help books, struggles with mad...
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid...
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the...