It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their...
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in south-eastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. Less...
R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story...
Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the...
This is the gripping story of the Tippecanoe campaign of 1811: "The prophet's battle." It was a conflict born out of festering tensions inscribed żeby the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville,...
Following their victory at Towton in 1461, The House of York continued to triumph. Żeby 1470, however, relations between Edward and his lieutenant, Eari of Warwick, had broken down and Warwick had...
The Dress Detective is the first practical guide to analyzing fashion objects, clearly demonstrating how their close analysis can enhance and enrich interdisciplinary research. This accessible book...
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year on Retirement and AgingLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionChicago Public Library's Best of 2019The New York Tim
In this major work Dr Mikkola reviews the 13 owls breeding in Europe and an additional four species in lands adjoining the Mediterranean in North Africa and the Middle East. The book has three...
'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the...
The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers. Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order...
This jaw-dropping, heartbreaking and hopeful novel from debut author Katya Balen will remind you we are all made of stardust. For fans of thought-provoking, moving middle grade from Wonder to Skellig
During the Middle Ages decorative floor tiles were used in abbey churches, royal palaces, parish churches and the homes of wealthy citizens. Tiles were durable and hygienic and added a new...
Doctor John Faustus of Wittenburg trades his soul to Lucifer for years of learning without limits and power without parallel. In this completely new edition of the play, Paul Menzer demonstrates...
"Reveals a political kierunek that threatens both our form of government and our species." - Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY"Riveting.... Want to understand how so many Americans...
In the last twenty years or so, numerous mainstream movies have drawn from the ideas and images of ancient thought to address the collapse of appearance and reality. These films have consistently...
In the early 1920s, a tiny group was formed within the SA to serve as Hitler's personal bodyguard. Originally labelled the "Stosstruppe Adolf Hitler", they later became known as the SS...
Named one of the Best Books of the Century aby New York MagazineTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men...