About The Book A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Snow Falling on Cedars, published aspart of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listIn 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his…
Filling the gap for an extensively illustrated history of modern design, this introduction provides a balanced chronological survey of decorative arts, industrial design and graphic design…
Journalist Magee explores Toyotas past and present in order to reveal how this car company has sustained such tremendous success. The lessons that Magee explains here…
"Literary Theory: A Reintroduction" introduces the current state of theory by placing it in its social, historical, and institutional contexts. Focuses on the period preceding the…
"A Companion to Charles Dickens" concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens's world. Puts Dickens's work into its literary, historical, and social…
About The Book
Shortlisted for International Man Booker Prize
A Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year
The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a c…
A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and…
About The Book SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to…
Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as…