Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (Fischer David Hackett)(Paperback)

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (Fischer David Hackett)(Paperback)

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (Fischer David Hackett)(Paperback)

David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again,

Washington's Crossing (Fischer David Hackett)(Paperback)

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George

The Lotus Seed (Garland Sherry)(Paperback)

When she is forced to leave Vietnam, a young girl brings a lotus seed with her to America in remembrance of her homeland. 'Exquisite artwork fuses with a compelling narrative--a concise endnote places the story effectively within a historical context--to produce a moving and polished

British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler (Briggs Katharine)(Paperback)

In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance of beautiful princesses and stout stable

The Buchenwald Report (Hackett David a.)(Paperback)

In the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated in western Germany was Buchenwald, on April 11, 1945. Within days, a special team of German-speaking intelligence officers from the U.S. Army was

British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (Gilmour David)(Paperback / softback)

Division Of The Spoils (Scott Paul)(Paperback / softback)

BOOK FOUR OF THE RAJ QUARTETThe British Raj in India is in its final days. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their future must be made and final goodbyes must be said, all against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods of social change the world has

One Summer - America 1927 (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. This book brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre

Level 5: British and American Short Stories (Pearson Education)(Paperback)

Contemporary / British English These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There's the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair And there's the man who tries to catch a

Postwar British Politics in Perspective (Marsh David)(Paperback)

This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established

Counting the Cost: Kidnapped in the Niger Delta (Donovan David)(Paperback)

British missionaries David and Shirley Donovan were running a health centre in Nigeria when a pounding on their bedroom door tipped their lives upside down. Threatened at gunpoint, held hostage and ransomed for a billion naira, they tell of the grace that allowed them to witness to their kidnappers

Paradise (Morrison Toni)(Paperback / softback)

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives

Kiev 1941 (Stahel David)(Paperback)

In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and,

Taking Command (Richards David)(Paperback)

General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British

Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four (Peace David)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in the acclaimed Red Riding

Beneath the World, a Sea (Beckett Chris)(Paperback)

South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures with long limbs and black button eyes have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why

Sierra Leone - A Political History (Harris David)(Paperback / softback)

A new political history of the former British colony in West

Churchill (Johnson Paul)(Paperback)

From the 'most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America' (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winston Churchill In Churchill, eminent historian Paul Johnson offers a lively, succinct exploration of one of the most complex and fascinating personalities

Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet David)(Paperback / softback)

First staged in Britain in 1983, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. This Student Edition contains a

Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping Charts & Winning Grammys (Foster David)(Paperback)

After almost four decades in the music business, David Foster -- producer, arranger, songwriter, performer -- is finally ready to talk. In this compelling and outspoken memoir, Foster shares some of his incredible stories: the first time he met Barbra Streisand, as a young session player in Los

William the Conqueror (Bates David)(Paperback)

A landmark reinterpretation of the life of William the Conqueror--a pivotal figure in British and European history '[The] definitive biography of the man who forever changed England with his invasion of 1066.'--Tony Barber, 'Best books of 2016,' Financial Times In this magisterial addition to the

The Treatment (Nath Michael)(Paperback)

'Simply the best British novel I've read this century' David Peace'Will stay in my head forever...a fantastic book' The Tablet'A maverick project that defies comparison' Metro At a bus stop in south London, black teenager Eldine Matthews is murdered by a racist gang. Twenty years later, L Troop's