"There's no getting away from it; I've eaten some pretty extreme things in my time - live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung, you name it. In a situation when your life...
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works żeby the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
The only resource you need for travel to Japan This award-winning guide puts the whole country in the palm of your hand. With a large pull-out map and tips on all the best sights, travelers can be...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
Batik occupies a special place in Indonesian culture. Each fabric has a rich story to tell--as a reflection of the nation's religious beliefs, sophisticated court cultures and cosmopolitan...
Imagine a world where you were as sexually confident, physically uninhibited and as intensely orgasmic as you have always wanted to be...Now, acclaimed sex therapist Dr Barbara Keesling tells you...
Korean in a Flash Kit Volume 2 continues the learning-tool advantage for people interested in learning Korean quickly and easily. Flash cards are a great way to practice your ability to read...
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz has long been considered to be among the best of musical autobiographies. Like his massive compositions, Berlioz (1803-69) was colorful, eloquent, larger than life....
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the...
Let's Learn Vietnamese Kit is an introductory Vietnamese language learning tool especially designed to help children from preschool through early elementary level acquire basic words, phrases,...
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky....
Tomoko Fuse has been one of the world's premier origami artists for more than 35 years. This beautifully photographed book examines the three-dimensional geometric designs she is famous for....
How do you define yourself when others have already decided who you are? Six years ago, when Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba,...
The unfettered exuberance of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, ' the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane...
it considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories...
Ronan O'Gara has been at the heart of Munster and Irish rugby for the past fifteen years. Now, as he comes to the end of a glittering playing career, it is time for him to reflect on those many...
Book 4 of "The Malloreon", the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspired generations of fantasy writers - from...
Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States. Following Zen Masters of...
Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through...