Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great
Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don`t matter: `you`re out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through`. Well, enough is...
Never before published in Kerouac`s lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama`s life and works. "Wake Up" recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha`s...
Contains: Ward No. 6, The Black Monk, The Grasshopper, The Two Volodyas, A Woman`s Kingdom, The Student, Three Years, Murder, Ariadna Chekhov believed that a writer should not provide solutions but should describe a...
Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East
The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid...
A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin`s "We" is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This...
From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, and a bonker lady, this is the story of a very unlikely friendship. Georgie...
In this brilliant and provocative book, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell shows how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary...
Remember the woman you used to be ... Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick. What`s more, she`s looking forward to the...
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School ***
Graduates of Harvard Business School run many of the world`s biggest and most influential banks, companies and countries. But what kind of person does it take to succeed at HBS? And what do they learn there? Philip...
