About The Book Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist. China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically …
The award-winning author of "The Mulberry Empire" presents a sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by both the subtleties of everyday experience and…
"The British Polity" is an engaging and comprehensive survey of the structure and process of British government. Offering an insider's analysis, Philip Norton examines the debates…
This is a wonderful new episode from the world of Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy, His Dark Materials, to be published in November 2003. In Lyra's Oxford the reader will share the huge excitement of discovering a small bundle of material that has…
A classic Pullman tale reissued in a stunning format. }Clockwork{ won the Silver Smarties Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. …
Subtitled, }An Ethiopian Romance{. Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with…
The largest group in American religious life may be the disillusioned--people who have been involved in the church, respect Jesus, but question what Christianity has become.…
About the Book : Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary…
About the Book : Three books in one: Awful End, Dreadful Acts, Terrible Times When Eddie Dickens's parents go yellow, crinkly around the edges and smell…
With over 30 million copies sold since its original publication in 1960, Psycho-Cybernetics has been used by athletes, entrepreneurs, college students, and many others, to achieve life-changing goals--from losing weight to dramatically increasing thei…