This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. This uplifting col ...
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A broad and deep survey of American intelligence from before the Revolution to the present Every nation has an intelligence apparatus―some means by wh ...
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An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality "This brisk everyman's guide-straight-talking and free ...
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"The first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs."- William Faulkner on Mark TwainThis beautiful hardcover collection brings togeth ...
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How can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air?How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers?And when does a soundtrack take ...
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"All of her subjects, no matter how down and out, looked straight back at Ms. Mark, and her camera never flinched. With one fearless project after another, ...
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Like a great piece of rock music, an artful photograph is part harmony and part unexpected chaos. Mark Seliger is an artist who chronicles the music world and t ...
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Commercial whale-watching began in 1955 in California, when a San Diego fisherman started taking people (for a dollar a time) to see Grey Whales migrating along ...
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Mark Ryden’s Yakalina Secrets is the wondrous second installment in the artist’s incredible gallery of creatures. Foreword by Takashi Murakami In his Pacific No ...
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A gorgeous retrospective volume that celebrates the work of one of the most in-demand portrait photographers of our time ...
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A comprehensive collection of Mark Twain's earlier writings, now in an affordable new edition from Signet Classics. This richly entertaining and comprehensive c ...
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Autobiografie Marka Twaina byla poprvé publikována v roce 2010, tedy sto let po jeho smrti. Spíše než o klasickou autobiografii jde o soubor anekdot, „pomluv“ a ...
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For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American wr ...
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Mark Twain war weit mehr als der Erfinder von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn. Was der vielgereiste amerikanische Schriftsteller sah und erlebte, fasste er in p ...
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A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-the tax system. ...
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What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious ...
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What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching ...
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brou ...
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Gordon (Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester) Campbell
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh ...
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The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence ...
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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the ...
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Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific w ...
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