Merde in Europe (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback)

Merde in Europe (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback)

An Englishman, Paul West, goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. There he gets an insider's view of what really goes on in the massive madhouse that is the EU Parliament. With the referendum on the horizon, things are even more hysterical than usual. When the Brexit result comes in, Paul has to

Merde Actually (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions:_________________What is the best way to scare a

Year In The Merde (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

What are the French really like?Paul West, a young Englishman arriving in Paris to start a new job, is about to find

Merde Factor - How to survive in a Parisian Attic (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback)

Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe (Norris Stephen M.)(Paperback)

French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a

Traces (Baxter Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for

Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart (Moss Stephen)(Paperback)

A sumptuous BBC TV tie-in chronicling a year in the life of the landscapes and wildlife of Europe's greatest wilderness: the Scottish Highlands. In the very north of Britain, far from the bustling cities and picturesque countryside to the south, lies Western Europe's greatest wilderness: the

Queer Exceptions: Solo Performance in Neoliberal Times (Greer Stephen)(Paperback)

A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity

The Complete Merde (Genevive)(Paperback)

A saucy guide to survival in everyday French. With chapters on insults, sex, drink and those expressive Gallic gestures, this book reveals the necessary vocabulary, explains its proper use and gives examples and exercises for the eager

Light of Other Days (Baxter Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since

The Forgotten Christ: Exploring the Majesty and Mystery of God Incarnate (Clark Stephen)(Paperback)

Black Europe and the African Diaspora (Hine Darlene Clark)(Paperback)

The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of

Paris Revealed - The Secret Life of a City (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know

The Great Fire of London (Porter Stephen)(Paperback)

The Great Fire of London was the greatest catastrophe of its kind in Western Europe. Although detailed fire precautions and firefighting arrangements were in place, the fire raged for four days and destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, and 44 of the City of London's great livery halls. The great

Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback)

In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as

Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr (Shearer Stephen Michael)(Paperback)

Hedy Lamarr's exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria's munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini's who hid his Jewish heritage to become an honorary Aryan at the

Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come (Clark T. J.)(Paperback)

In this latest work, now available in paperback, respected art historian T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painters have depicted the dream of God's kingdom come: heaven descended to earth.Clark goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance--to Giotto in Padua; Pieter

Evolution (Baxter Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

The natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke dramatises the epic story of evolution. A novel that tells the story of life on

Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition (Greenblatt Stephen)(Paperback)

In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall

Queer exceptions: Solo performance in neoliberal times (Greer Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivity

More Great Walks in the Chilterns (Clark Andrew)(Paperback / softback)