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Understanding the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Updated fourth edition
In the wake of the Cold War and perestroika, the New Russia is finding its place in the global world. No longer a superpower, but still a nation with great influence, Russia remains an enigmatic and mysterious land. Like earlier editions, the new fourth edition of From...
Where the Wild Winds Are
Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Selected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator
"Travel writing in excelsis." -Jan Morris, author of Venice
"A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder." -Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun
Nick Hunt sets off on...
by Karim Miské
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan neighbourhood where multicultural citizens live, love and worship alongside one another. This peace is shattered when Ahmed Taroudant's melancholy daydreams are interrupted by the blood dripping...
Unrooted Childhoods
Memoirs of Growing Up Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The experience of growing up without the opportunity to ever "put down roots"
A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods...
Head Over Heel
Seduced by Southern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"Gets right under Italy's skin. Few books about living in foreign climes are written as entertainingly, beautifully or romantically." -- Sydney Morning Herald
WINNER OF THE GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION PRIZE
When Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life was about...
Cast Iron
Enzo Macleod 6
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER.
'A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable' Mail on Sunday
'A masterly plot twister' Sunday Herald
THE GIRL IN THE LAKE
In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen...
Why the Dutch are Different
A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.
In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length...
by Derek Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous.
But...
by Peter May
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER**
**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK**
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BLACKHOUSE, CAST IRON AND I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE**
MILLION-SELLING PETER MAY MIXES MURDER, MYSTERY and MEMORY . . . AND MARKS HIS RETURN TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES
A man stands bewildered on a deserted...
Understanding Arabs, 6th Edition
A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The definitive guide to understanding Arab culture for three decades.
For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of...
by Elia Barceló
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unwittingly invites him to the festivities. There they...
50 Philosophy Classics
Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality.
From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats...
The Timbuktu School for Nomads
Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
"A passionate paean to the Sahara." -- New York Times, Season's Best Travel Books
The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia....
50 Politics Classics
Freedom, Equality, Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
We live in politically charged times, but little of what we contend with today is new and much can be learned from history.
From Abraham Lincoln to Nelson Mandela, and from Aristotle to George Orwell, 50 Politics Classics distills the essence of the books, pamphlets, and speeches of the major...