Abominations. Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction, Hardback - Lionel Shriver

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Testament to the fierce intelligence of a writer who wants us to th...

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin The Times Best Books for Summer 2020

Reducere. Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is b...

'Hilarious... Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs... a very funny book' Sunday Times 'Thought-provoking, t...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seem...

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin

Reducere. DescriptionStill unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible--and untouchable. Return...

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Lionel ShriverNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 23Cover type: PaperbackRedescope...

Reducere. Named for Herman Daly, the champion of steady-state economics, The Daly News was published online by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady S...

From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the novel Lionel Shriver wrote directly afterwards. The Post-Birthday ...

Following the success of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from ou...

Reducere. Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological ...

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one...

Reducere. When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one...

The first collection of short stories from the }We Need To Talk About Kevin{ author considers our uneasy attitudes to our own possessions, and how ...

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin comes the most entertaining novel about illness and death one's ever likely to ...

Reducere. From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll ...

Reducere. Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at twenty-three, she's m...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and...

Reducere. DescriptionBeautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Qu...

"The Cassandra of American letters."-New York Times

A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times 'Hilarious... Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs... a very funn...

Reducere. Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the philosopher J. David Velleman. Although the essays we...

Reducere. American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence--u...

A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.

A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.

From the founder of the influential website Career Contessa, an invaluable career resource for women feeling stuck or unfulfilled that combines act...

Mark has an unusual history. After losing his hearing as an eighteen-month-old infant, the next six years were silent as he honed his way of watchi...

Reducere. Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling que...

Lionel Sims has produced an influential body of work that has challenged existing narratives about British prehistoric monuments and provided innov...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the warPublishe...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo SteinbergIllustration(s): 120 color plates, 124 halftonesNumber of pages: 264Collection: E...

Reducere. Many young, ambitious Christians are struggling to get noticed as new hires in the workplace today--not only young people, but those re-entering th...

DescriptionProfessional wrestler Al Snow delivers highlights from his onscreen antics and never-before-heard tales from the road in this high-flyin...

Publisher: Mount Orleans PressAuthor(s): Peter UptonIllustration(s): 130 b/w line drawingsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 237...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Bruce F. KawinNumber of pages: 230Collection: Anthem Film and CulturePublication date: 2013Dimensions: 161 x 237 ...

This volume presents a selection of John Broome's most important work since 2000 in an area of philosophy where he has led the way. Topics discusse...

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Albert CamusNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 213 x 138 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.Publisher: Profile Book...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M MontaigneNumber of pages: 656Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 204 x 57Cover type: HardbackRed...

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical--Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish cul...

The essays in this volume examine interreligious relationality, hope and doubt, human labour and mortality, structures of nature, movements of hist...

Reducere. With work that ranges from the laugh out loud funny to the silence of rage and loss, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction is a must...

This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of h...

Reducere. An oral history in the vein of Please Kill Me Leftöver Crack is a band of drug abusing, dumpster diving, cop-hating, queer positive, pro-choice, cr...