Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Mak Geert)(Paperback)

Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Mak Geert)(Paperback)

A magnet for trade and travelers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the

An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village (Mak Geert)(Paperback)

A fascinating account from a highly acclaimed writerof the life and charming inhabitants of a typical countryside village, and how it must adapt and change in order to survive in the modern worldThe countryside is in crisis. The shops are closing down in the villages, there is no school for miles

In Europe - Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to

Amsterdam - A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Shorto Russell)(Paperback / softback)

This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's

A Walker in the City (Kazin Alfred)(Paperback)

Kazin s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to americanca -the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Drawings by Marvin

In America - Travels with John Steinbeck (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

Wild Thing - The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix (Norman Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Acclaimed biographer Philip Norman charts the brief life of a megastar in rock music's premier echelon, the legend and man that is Jimi

Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (Paterson Michael)(Paperback / softback)

From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of

Jane Austen: A Brief Life (Stafford Fiona)(Paperback)

An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists 'I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs to know about Jane Austen, and, best of all, leaves one wanting to read the novels once more,

Brief Life of Flowers (Stafford Fiona)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of wide-ranging essays on Britain's best-loved flowers from the author of The Long, Long Life of

Fat City (Gardner Leonard)(Paperback)

Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses

The Slow Work of God: Living the Gospel Today (Rausch Thomas P.)(Paperback)

Offers brief meditations on the mysteries of the Christian Life, inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius and Pope Francis, in the context of contemporary

Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages (Whittock Martyn)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the

George Washington: The Wonder of the Age (Rhodehamel John)(Paperback)

'The only Washington biography you need. . . . As a brief account of Washington's life, it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years.'--Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal 'A masterpiece, a concise, fluidly written and well-grounded biography. Rhodehamel . . . has executed an accurate and

Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Kirk Connie Ann)(Paperback)

The brief life and meteoric career of Sylvia Plath have been the subject of fascination since her suicide in 1963 at age thirty. This concise, well-researched biography recounts the facts of her troubled life based on the latest updated research. Biographer Connie Ann Kirk has consulted the Plath

Rome - Eternal City (Addis Ferdinand)(Paperback / softback)

A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year

Oxford Scene - A view of the University and City (Andrews Chris)(Paperback / softback)

A book of colour photographs showing the University City of Oxford: Colleges, buildings, life and

Brief Candle in the Dark - My Life in Science (Dawkins Richard (Oxford University))(Paperback / softback)

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he

Exploration Fawcett (Fawcett Percy)(Paperback)

The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z. The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. In 1925, Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a lost city; he had set out with

City of Friends (Trollope Joanna)(Paperback)

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new--one without

The Uncontrollability of the World (Rosa Hartmut)(Paperback)

The driving cultural force of that form of life we call 'modern' is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world - only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has

Can Science Make Sense of Life? (Jasanoff Sheila)(Paperback)

Nearly seventy years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful new vocabulary has emerged to express science's growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are

A Brief History of the House of Windsor (Paterson Michael)(Paperback)

This Brief History tells the story of The House of Windsor. Starting with George V and going through Charles, Prince of Wales, all the way to Queen Elizabeth II. Plus it will touch on the next generations of the monarchy, with Prince William, Duchess Kate, and their son. The book will shed light on

Dr Johnson's London (Picard Liza)(Paperback / softback)

The everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, by the author of the bestselling Elizabeth's