East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi, Paperback - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Reducere. Written over 20 years, these stories are domestic tapestries of the emotional lives and psychologies of lovers, quarrelling married couples, weary ...

Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The classic novel from the Booker and Oscar-winning author of Heat and Dust, published by Abacus for the first time in a beautiful new edition.

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an I...

A haunting tale of the complex and perilous relations between two young cousins, Angel and Lara. A masterful novel which explores the dangers of lo...

Reducere. Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, ...

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management in the Middle East, held in Kibbutz Kera, Israel, 6-17 Fe...

Reducere. The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling w...

Reducere. There used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and ...

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Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, ...

At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering som...

Reducere. A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflictShortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ans...

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Novelist and traveller Jeremy Page takes a walk through the Lincolnshire fens and along the Norfolk coast, in search of something within himself, a...

The bestselling guides to Britain's canals and rivers for 50 years. For all users of the inland waterways including boaters, walkers, cyclists and ...

Greek Dodecanese islands and the Turkish coast from the Samos Strait as far east as Kas and KekovaPublisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson LtdAutho...

It's time for new policies based on changing U.S. interestsU.S. policy in the Middle East has had very few successes in recent years, so maybe it's...

Reducere. Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a Maine Guide for 20 years and a hunter and fisherman since childhood, Christian Potholm knows the woods and waters of Maine from the...

Reducere. Railroads were the first big business enterprises of America and made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together an...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishing IncAuthor(s): Hamit BozarslanNumber of pages: 170Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 18Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Today the Port of New York is where container ships and tankers park while waiting to reload and be on their way around the world. Long black tanke...

The transformation of China in the past three decades has been nothing short of spectacular. Now a cultural and economic player on the world stage,...

Reducere. The Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimage into the Orthodox ChurchVeiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an eni...

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A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century. This offers a viv...

Reducere. Do you have the key to building a billion-dollar business in an emerging economy?The entrepreneurs in this book do.Unlocking Unicorns features dive...

Reducere. A goldsmith's daughter who eludes the Prince of Darkness, three wandering brothers born from a walnut tree, the Princess of Fantasistan, the case o...

Publisher: Wardell PublicationsAuthor(s): Malavika TiwariIllustration(s): 75 colour photosNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 272 ...

Reducere. From bestselling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frane Lessac comes an alphabetical picture book tour of one of the greatest cities in the world, New Y...

Cornish tales of moor, coast and village, the result of a successful community project

A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.Winner of the National Book Award, 1976World of Our Fathers traces the story o...

This Element argues that high levels of institutional preparation, social cohesion, and global strategic reinforcement in a context of situational ...

East Coast surf culture from Montauk to Rockaway Beach and Cape MayUnbeknownst to many who live there and to the throngs of tourists who stop by ea...

Britain's clearest mapping from the experts at the AA, in a handy foldable map. Fully updated, the map combines clear design and an easy-to-read sc...

Reducere. The New York Times large Sunday crosswords are designed for a long, lazy day. So get comfortable, get set, and get solving with this fun compilatio...

The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011-12. It contains meticulous and...

Reducere. An ancient Daoist saying tells us "When you are sick, do not seek a cure. Find your centre and you will be healed." The centre it refers to is loca...