Following on the runaway success of This is New York, Universe is thrilled to reissue two more titles from `s beloved children`s travel series: This is London and "This is Paris". Like This is New York and This is San...
Following the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek`s beloved and nostalgic children`s travel series. Like the other Sasek classics, This is...
Like the other Sasek classics, these are facsimile editions of his original books. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than forty years later and,...
Originally published in the 1960s, this title in Sasek`s beloved travel series for children is reproduced in this facsimile edition, which offers a colorful, spirited, and unique tour of Ireland via the deft...
Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than 40 years later. Facts have...
First published in 1961, This Is Venice presents indelible impressions of romantic, watery Venice, where under a brilliant blue sky Sasek the gondolier navigates the winding canals to visit such famous and glorious...
Following the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek`s beloved and nostalgic children`s travel series. Like the other Sasek classics, This is...
Through Language Glass: Why World Looks Different in Other Languages
Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? Does language reflect the...
First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing - in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the...
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn`t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of...
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn`t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of...
When Phillida Dylan delivers vegetables to one of her regular clients, she is horrified to discover that her ex-husband, Lucas, has become their chef. When she learns he is to become the latest celebrity chef and that...
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few...
Time of the Angels (Vintage classics)
Carel is rector of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth, and their West Indian servant, Patti. Here too are Eugene,...
Two men and a woman embark on a hunt that will tear their safe African safari apart in a deadly civil war. For Sean Courtney, guerilla fighter, it is a time to fight and find love. For Claudia Montero it is the...
Aundrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, where she teaches writing, Letterpress printing and fine edition book production. She shows her...
Times Arrow or Nature of Offence
Time`s Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his...
