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The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary beesWhile social bees such as honey bees and bumble bees are familiar to most people, they comprise less than...

Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, The Sweet Spot by pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our...

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential...

In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates. As their...

'The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome... The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern...

From the bestselling author of "Of Paradise and Power" comes a major reevaluation of Americas foreign policy from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th century.

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that...

This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly...

'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the...

Dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era.

p>This is the first field guide to the identification of the birds of the islands of the tropical Pacific, including the Hawaiian Islands. Fiji. Samoa. Tonga, southeastern Polynesia, and...

Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of...

Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally...

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for...

A new book in Bryan Talbot's award-winning science fiction graphic novels series, starring the legendary character Luther ArkwrightThe Adventures of Luther Arkwright, first serialised in 1978,...

How America's vulnerable frontier allies--and American power--are being targeted aby rival nationsFrom the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an...

LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii), die Analyse der Sprache und der Unkultur des Nationalsozialismus, ist sowohl Geschichtsschreibung als auch ein Dokument ersten Ranges von der Selbstrettung eines...

A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide--the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Britain and IrelandA bestselling guide...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers aby Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Desire by Haruki...