About The Book What's the worst another drink could do? In this dispiritedly sobering book, John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only …
A lively, authoritative, and up-to-date look at the world of rhyming slang, from its origins in London's 19th-century underworld to the buzzwords of 21st-century popney. Arranged…
Drawing characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and his boys, in a world where…
About the Book : The extraordinary story of the warrior Saigo Takamori, whose death marked the end of the Samurai era. The name 'Samurai' is synonymous…
Every office has someone who's no fun to be around. But getting along with that person--and managing them effectively--can make both your jobs easier. "Difficult People,"…
When the bullet-ridden body of a Silicon Valley billionaire washes up on shore, assistant D.A. Dismas Hardy finds himself the prosecutor in San Francisco's murder trial…
Subtitled, }The Delusions Of Global Capitalism{. New edition, with a new chapter on the events of the past 5 years. Sharply criticises the greed and unsustainable…
No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he recognises Ken, his…
Trenchant and wide-ranging work of contemporary philosophy that challenges some of the deepest-held beliefs in Western culture. "}Straw Dogs{ is that rarest of things, a contemporary work of philosophy devoid of jargon, wholly accessible, and profound…