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An understanding of nature's final laws may be within our grasp - a way of explaining forces and symmetries and articles that does not require further explanation. 'This starting point, to...

In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an...

Paris, August 23rd, 1572. What do you do when your wife disappears. In the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European history and you know she is about to give birth to your only child? Three...

One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and...

Eine Geschichte einer obsessiven Liebe, ein Roman, der aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln erzählt und schon nach wenigen Seiten eine faszinierende Sogwirkung entwickelt.

A powerful and well argued reassessment of the Victorian Age, which reveals it to be a much more dynamic, radical and innovative era than is generally believed to be the case. "Matthew Sweet...

This is edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer and with a new foreword by Andrew Marr. Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper...

Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as "The Searchers", "Stagecoach" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"....

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and...

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be--or how damning. For as we...

The original edition, published in 1986, of this study of Seamus Heaney's poetry was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". Written with Heaney's co-operation and with...

Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka: a brilliant study of the gods in literature that restores reading to an exalted position.In charting the...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Żeby their choice of poems and żeby the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors...

Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent...

In 1980, Lady Caroline Blackwood was commissioned żeby The Sunday Times to write an article on the aging Duchess of Windsor, who was said to be convalescing in her French mansion in the Bois de...

Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale aby the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Benjamin Myers (narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch...

John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich...

'A great deal of wit and playfulness... An entire universe of disorder is distilled', (Guardian) In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of...

Trade paperback. Fully updated up to and including }Bad Education{ and available for the first time in paperback, the great Spanish film-maker in a career-long conversation.

Essays, poems and short stories.

more than the score is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Debussy, right up to John Cage. Each...

"The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be...

Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set...