American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Flores Dan)(Paperback)

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Flores Dan)(Paperback)

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes,

Animals of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Kennedy Adam Scott)(Paperback)

Containing 146 stunning color photos, Animals of the Serengeti is a remarkable look at the mammals and reptiles most likely to be encountered in the world-famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater. With an eye-catching layout, accessible text, and easy-to-use format, this detailed

American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History (Blush Steven)(Paperback)

American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture--Paper magazineSteven Blush's definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics-distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006

Animals in the Great War (Moore Lucinda)(Paperback)

Animals in the Great War throws a spotlight on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse

Level 2: The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper James Fenimore)(Paperback)

Classic / American English Uncas is the last of the Mohican Indians. He is with his father and Hawkeye when they meet Heyward. Heyward is taking the two young daughters of a British colonel to their father. But a Huron Indian who hates the British is near. Will the girls see their father

Camelot's End: The Democrats' Last Great Civil War (Ward Jon)(Paperback)

From a strange, dark chapter in American political history comes the captivating story of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter, told in full for the first time. The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to

Song of the Lark (Cather Willa)(Paperback / softback)

The second novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. 'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from

Granta Book Of The American Short Story - V. 1 (Ford Richard)(Paperback / softback)

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest

Last of the Outsiders: Volume 1: The Collected Poems, 1968-2019 (Grapes Jack)(Paperback)

Last of the Outsiders offers a sweeping view of prolific American poet Jack Grapes' fifty-year career. Presenting the core of Grapes' poetic work, the collection ranges from poems originally printed in 1968 to work written in 2019.The collection's title, Last of the Outsiders, reflects both

Hunter of Stories (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback / softback)

The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American

Charles the Bold: The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy (Vaughan Richard)(Paperback)

Charles the Bold (1467-1477) was the last of the great Dukes of Burgundy. This historical and biographical work assesses his personality and his role as a ruler, and discusses his relationship with his subjects and his neighbours. It describes and analyses his policies, giving particular attention

Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Paperback)

'One of the most important works in American literature -- and, to many, the great American novel.' -- Time. 'I want to write something new, ' F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor, Maxwell Perkins, 'something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.' A century later,

Dan Carter: My Autobiography (Carter Dan)(Paperback)

Dan Carter's last game as an All Black culminated with him declared Man of the Match following the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham - an unforgettable ending to the career of the greatest fly-half of all time.But along with the triumphs of his signature World Cup win, his performance

The Big Book of Ragtime Piano (Hal Leonard Corp)(Paperback)

(Piano Solo Songbook). A great collection of more than 60 classic ragtime solos, including: American Beauty Rag * Bethena * The Easy Winners * The Entertainer * Harlem Rag * Kitten on the Keys * Maple Leaf Rag * Something Doing * Tiger Rag * Twelth Street Rag * Wild Cherries Rag * and

Former People - The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy (Smith Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The last great untold story of the Russian

Unwinding - Thirty Years of American Decline (Packer George)(Paperback / softback)

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*'A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks...do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?' The TimesAmerica is in

Big Bang (Singh Simon)(Paperback / softback)

The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe

The Usborne Big Book Of Big Animals - Hazel Maskell

A fabulous book filled with enormous animals, from the mighty elephant to the amazing colossal squid and the blue whale. Huge fold-out pages reveal some of the tallest, longest, fastest, heaviest and most dangerous animals in the world, with facts and measurements. Includes internet links to

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Lemann Nicholas)(Paperback)

The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education. What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people,

Penguin Book of American Short Stories (Cochrane James)(Paperback / softback)

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of

Operation Morthor - The Death of Dag Hammarskjoeld and the Last Great Mystery of the Cold War (Somaiya Ravi)(Paperback / softback)

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (Euripides)(Paperback)

Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. 'Euripides,' the classicist Bernard Knox has written, 'was born

The Big Man (McIlvanney William)(Paperback)

The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity