From one of the world's leading child psychologists comes a new collection of wide-ranging essays in which he reflects on the people, events, and cultural influences that have shaped him and...
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and...
Charlotte Bront famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and with siblings whose astonishing creativity was a closely held secret....
An exploration of how philosophy can be be applied to the moral choices we make, focusing in particular on eighteen virtues, including prudence, humour, compassion and tolerance. "That rare...
Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process aby which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory. Chaitin's...
The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants: an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones
Aims To Tackle The Most Obvious Question That Anyone Has To Face, 'what Should I Do With My Life?' This Book Presents An Account Of Finding And Following People Who Have Uprooted Their...
Back in a new edition is Martin Amis's closet passion project: a compulsive gamer's guide to 1980s arcades and beating your younger self's high scoreIn this offbeat book, introduced aby...
Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! mines golden seams of goodness...
Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for...
Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers....
Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive...
Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives...
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and...
The first novel in a new trilogy starring veteran New Republic pilots On the brink of victory in a brutal war, five New Republic pilots transform from hunted to hunters in this epic Star Wars...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this shocking and fast-paced (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a...
The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" features Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, as the focus and...
Four years old when World War II began, the author grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. This title illuminates a period of...
Written in alternating chapters, "W or the Memory of Childhood" tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two...
A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged...
Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth aby one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers....
The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign....