Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Sherrell Daniel)(Paperback)

The Comfort of People (Miller Daniel)(Paperback)

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted

Quiet at the End of the World (James Lauren)(Paperback / softback)

The End of the Wild (Helget Nicole)(Paperback)

This timely coming of age novel takes on the controversial issues of fracking and environmental protection. Stay away from my woods. Eleven-year-old Fern doesn't have the easiest life. Her stepfather is out of work, and she's responsible for putting dinner on the table--not to mention keeping her

A World on Edge - The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age (Schoenpflug Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

'Moving and inspired book ... An evocative and deeply affecting requiem for what might have been.' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin and Former PeopleA World on Edge reveals Europe in 1918, left in ruins by World War I. But with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible,

Young Emma (Davies William Henry)(Paperback)

At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication of his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, he set about looking for the right partner on the streets of

Coming Home to the Pleistocene (Shepard Paul)(Paperback)

The Pleistocene was the age of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Shepard sets out to show how much of what we call culture can be traced back through our evolution from that formative

Story of the Human Body - Evolution, Health and Disease (Lieberman Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies This ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary

The World Played Chess (Dugoni Robert)(Paperback)

'A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it.' --Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley.Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell.In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just

Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War (Allport Alan)(Paperback)

The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two. What happened when millions of British servicemen were 'demobbed'--demobilized--after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets, and fears

The Neverending Story (Ende Michael)(Paperback)

Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film! From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical

Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine (Barakat Ibtisam)(Paperback)

From award-winning Palestinian author Ibtisam Barakat comes a touching account of coming of age against a backdrop of political turmoil in the Middle East. Picking up where Ibtisam Barakat's first memoir, Tasting the Sky, left off, Balcony on the Moon follows her through her childhood and

Cabin at the End of the World (Tremblay Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Stoker Award-winning, taut and propulsive twist on home invasion horror, packed psychological suspense. Soon to be a major film, Knock At the Cabin, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire

The Ends of the World (Viveiros De Castro Eduardo)(Paperback)

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face

Agnes Grey (Bront Anne)(Paperback)

Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, a Victorian coming-of-age story. I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me. Agnes Grey is forced to become a

Finistere - Things to See and Do at the End of the World (Mewes Wendy)(Paperback / softback)

Her Again - Becoming Meryl Streep (Schulman Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school to her star-making roles in The Deer Hunter, Manhattan, and Kramer

Coming Soon: The Flood (Jagendorf Zvi)(Paperback)

Is Jerusalem the centre of the world or the place where it will end? For the people of this novel set around 1960 in the divided city, it is the end. There is no way out. In front of them lies the border and no man's land; behind lies a nondescript little town and the road they won't take away to

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Appadurai Arjun)(Paperback)

Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look

Calling (Frey James)(Paperback / softback)

THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING. PLAY NOW. OR WE ALL LOSE. | After centuries waiting in secret, twelve unbroken bloodlines, armed with hidden knowledge and lethal training, are called to take humanity’s fate into their hands… | The first book in a game-changing new series by bestselling author,

Novacene - The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Lovelock James)(Paperback / softback)

Oil (Hickson Ella)(Paperback)

The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones. Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling collision of empire, history and family. Ella Hickson's explosive play drills deep into the world's relationship with this finite

Blue - Book 1 (Glass Lisa)(Paperback / softback)

The perfect summer read: an irresistible coming-of-age story set against a world of sun, surf and glittering

The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present (Coupland Douglas)(Paperback)

A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the

The End of Jewish Modernity (Traverso Enzo)(Paperback)

Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and World War II--and in fact was a major driver of intellectual, scientific, social, literary, and artistic progress in that period. But the age of Jewish modernity is over. That's the argument that historian Enzo Traverso mounts in this