The General in His Labyrinth (Garca Mrquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

The General in His Labyrinth (Garca Mrquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

General Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Garca Mrquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to

Cien Aos de Soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garca Mrquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

'Muchos a os despu s, frente al pelot n de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buend a hab a de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llev a conocer el hielo'. Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias m

The Autumn of the Patriarch (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

One of Gabriel Garc a M rquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies

The Immortals of Tehran (Araghi Ali)(Paperback)

'A highly recommended literary page-turner worth a second reading; fans of Gabriel Garc a M rquez will delight in this fantastical--and fantastic novel.'--Library Journal, starred review Impactful . . . Araghi's skillful combination of revolutionary politics and magical realism will please fans of

The Shadow of the Wind (Zafon Carlos Ruiz)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show.--The New York Times Book Review One gorgeous read. --Stephen KingA New York Times Bestseller Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book

Horrocks: The General Who Led from the Front (Warner Philip)(Paperback)

Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks was a legend in his lifetime. He leapt to fame as a Brigade, Divisional and Corps Commander during the Second World War where his dashing style, good luck and easy manner won him huge respect and great success. He was happiest in the front-line and yet his

Elements of Semiology (Barthes Roland)(Paperback)

In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images,

Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback / softback)

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. But now her husband is dead. Finally Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a

The House of the Deaf Man (Kristfek Peter)(Paperback)

Alfonz TrnovskY, a general practitioner in the small town of Brezany, has spent his whole life pretending to be radiantly happy and contented, unburdened by history and all its abysses, twists, and turns, while the reality is quite different. He has refused to listen to his conscience as the 20th

In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete (Momigliano Nicoletta)(Paperback)

In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve

Bilingual Education in the 21s (Garca Ofelia)(Paperback)

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languagesand bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presentsprogram types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, andconcludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies andassessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal

London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets (Rule Fiona)(Paperback)

London's Labyrinth exposes the sinister side of the subterranean city in Victorian times: from the shocking bomb attacks on the Metropolitan and District Lines in 1883 to the sad tale of unrequited love at Charing Cross, where a young man shot the object of his affections before turning the gun on

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform

In the Labyrinth of Drakes - A Memoir by Lady Trent (Brennan Marie)(Paperback / softback)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buend a generations-from Jos Arcadio and rsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buend a (who commands

Pan's Labyrinth - The Labyrinth of the Faun (del Toro Guillermo)(Paperback / softback)

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition (Einstein Albert)(Pevná vazba)

After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was 'to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical

Living to Tell the Tale (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Keynes John Maynard)(Paperback)

In 1936 Keynes published the most provocative book written by any economist of his generation. Arguments about the book continued until his death in 1946 and still continue today. This new edition, published 70 years after the original, features a new introduction by Paul Krugman which discusses

Naples '44 - An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth (Lewis Norman)(Paperback / softback)

War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1600 (Garca Fitz Francisco)(Paperback)

War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending through to the sixteenth

The House of Bernarda Alba (Garca Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

Lorca's passionate all-women play, in a new version by Rona

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes John Maynard)(Paperback)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes is considered to be his magnum opus and is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics. The General Theory brought about a revolution, commonly referred to as the 'Keynesian