Daedalus

Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories -- each just six or fewer pages in length -- includes such popular tales as Kafka s "A Country Doctor," Poe s "The Cask of Amontillado," Chopin s "A...

Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000 From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons

Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions

Invisible

Invisible (Exp)

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster`s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University,...

John Deakin: Photographs

Ladies:Guide To Fashion Style

Landscape & the Zero Degree of Architectural

Lord of the Flies

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night...

Malone Dies

Man in the Dark

August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the...

Mistress of mistresses

Eddison

MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES was the first published novel in E.R. Eddison`s celebrated Zimiamvian trilogy. Like Tolkien`s Middle Earth, Zimiamvia is a world which mirrors our own but passions run stronger there, and life,...

Modern North:Architecture on the Frozen Edge

The geographic region around the North Pole is a raw and exotic area of untouched nature and inescapable beauty. Unique among the Earth`s ecosystems, it includes both a vast, ice-covered ocean and a treeless region of...

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave

New York Trilogy

The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its...

Nocturnes

In "Nocturnes", Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollvwood hotel, the characters we encounter range from...

Pale View of Hills

In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past,...

Picasso and the Spanish Tradition

Poem of My Cid (Poema de Mio Cid) - Dual-Language Book

The Poema de Mio Cid recounts the adventures of Rodrigo Diaz, an 11th-century hero of Islamic Spain. The Cid and his legendary exploits were already the subjects of ballads, songs, and children`s tales by the time of...

Prokofiev Sergei the Love for Three Oranges Vocal Score

One of the most delightful and witty Russian operas, The Love of Three Oranges was composed by Prokofiev in 1919 and first performed at the Chicago Opera House with Prokofiev conducting in 1921. This complete vocal...

QI Pocket Book of Animals

Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at...

QI: Book of General Ignorance - Noticeably Stouter Ed

Presents a compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. This title sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong.

QI: Book of the Dead

`"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It`s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless` - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people...

QI: Pocket Book of General Ignorance

Presented in handy pocket-size, this title catalogues the various misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in "common knowledge" that can make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school.

Razor Wrapped in Silk (St. Petersburg Mystery) ***

St Petersburg. 1870. A child factory worker is mysteriously abducted. A society beauty is sensationally murdered. Two very different crimes show up the deep fissures in Russian society of the late tsarist period. The...