First Century After Beatrice (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

First Century After Beatrice (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its

Samarkand (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping historical novel set in 11th century Persia, about the poet and philosopher Omar

Disoriented (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

A big, exquisite novel about friendship, betrayal, nostalgia, culture, politics, and

Ports of Call (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback)

Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Israel, Ossayne is forced to go to Beirut. The border with Israel closes behind him and he becomes separated from his wife with tragic

On Identity (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of

Rock Of Tanios (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child of the mountains, who one day in 1840 disappeared from the rock that now bears his

Balthasar's Odyssey (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, and merely to know this most secret hundredth name will, Balthasar believes, ensure his

Disordered World - A Vision for the Post-9/11 World (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

Tranlsated from the French by George MillerA dazzling and ultimately hopeful exploration and analysis of our disordered and volatile post-9/11 world by one of the leading international writers and thinkers of our

Adrift - How Our World Lost Its Way (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

Breathtaking analysis of the current global crisis from one of the Arab world's most respected

Morris Minor (Newell Ray)(Paperback / softback)

Well over half a century after it first appeared in 1948, the Morris Minor has become a much-loved classic car. This book traces the evolution of the Minor through the different phases of its development to its demise in the

Leo Africanus (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback)

'I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come

Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War(Paperback / softback)

Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Amin Samir)(Paperback)

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism - a long transition that

Environmental Policy - New Directions for the Twenty-First Century(Paperback / softback)

Torture Garden (Mirbeau Octave)(Paperback)

'A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent journey into the Far East accentuates connections between love and death, sex and depravity, fastidiousness and

Indelicacy (Cain Amina)(Paperback / softback)

On A Magical Do-Nothing Day (Alemagna Beatrice)(Paperback / softback)

After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900 (Beiser Frederick C.)(Paperback)

Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half--when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline

Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century (Thompson John B.)(Paperback / softback)

How to Become a Virgin (Crisp Quentin)(Paperback / softback)

After half a century of metropolitan infamy, Quentin Crisp graduated to international fame when his widely acclaimed autobiography The Naked Civil Servant made him a household name, even in respectable

After Extra Time and Penalties - Memories of a BBC Football Correspondent (Ingham Mike)(Paperback / softback)

After almost a quarter-century as the BBC's Chief Football Correspondent, Mike Ingham MBE shares a candid, comprehensive and sometimes controversial account of how the world of broadcasting and football changed beyond recognition throughout his

Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles(Paperback / softback)

Offers sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in

Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition (Service Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Vagabonds (Jingfang Hao)(Paperback / softback)

AD 2201: Earth and the colonies of Mars attempt a reconciliation after a century-long Cold War. Can two mutually antagonistic cultures forget the past and embrace the