Author: Lynne Truss
A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. Not a primer but a 'zero tolerance' manual for direct action.
Author: Beng Huat Chua While the economic miracle of Singapore is widely known, the ideas that have underpinned it remain to be documented and critically examined. The single political party...
Author: Vaddey Ratner For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil...
Author: Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney "Humor and delightful irony abound in this lively first novel." -New York Times Book Review "An addictive, poignant read...enticing." -Los Angeles Times Every family has its...
Author: Michael Lewis The Big Shorttells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made...
Author: Joel Bakan As incisive as Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, as rigorous as Joseph E. Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, and as scathing as Michael Moore's Stupid White...
Author: Oscar Wilde Enthralled by a portrait of himself, young Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Thus he is able to...
Authors: Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams Explores the phenomenon of mass collaboration demonstrated by MySpace, Second Life, and the Human Genome Project, sharing success stories and describing how businesses can...
Author: Dennis Bakke Presents a theory of personnel management which contends that giving priority to employee satisfaction and autonomy over profits is the best way to business success, with real-life...
Authors: W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Kim and Mauborgne present a non-competitive approach for achieving high business growth through the development of uncontested market space with practically limitless potential.
Author: Chris Anderson Examines the rise of the niche in today's economy, thanks to a breakdown in the barrier between supply and demand and the increasing availability of everything to...
Author: David Baddiel The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer,...
Author: Paulo Coelho Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of...
Author: Saul Bellow Synopsis: To escape the European horror, Mr Sammler was obliged to crawl from his own grave, and to kill. He is assured by Dr Lal that a...
Author: Douglas Adams For Dirk Gently, private detective, a simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time traveller, and a devastating secret that threatens the...
Author: Henry James For himself, beyond doubt, the thing we were all so blank about was vividly there. It was something, I guessed, in the primal plan, something like a...
Author: Colin Thubron Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a...
Author: Jonathan Safran FoerTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the...
Author: Michael Booth Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese, their dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such...
Authors: Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam Write one poem a day for thirty days in the cruel month of April: that was the challenge we first gave the Internet in...
Author: Kyril Bonfiglioli All the Tea in China - a Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp 'One of the funniest writers ever'...
Author: Alyssa Sheinmel When Maisie is struck by lightning, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant, but how do you live your life when...
Martin Cruz Smith The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, "the master of...
Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton The many dramatic moments of Secretary Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State frame her thoughts about the recent history of US foreign policy and the...
Author: Gregory David Roberts'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily...
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the...
Author: Jane Bull This is a special Jubilee edition of this fun-filled baking book from bestselling activity expert Jane Bull. Join Jane Bull in the kitchen and get baking with...
Author: Travis Bradberry FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose -- increasing your EQ....
Authors: Jeffery Sng, Kishore Mahbubani The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations-especially Islam and...
Author: Alexandre Dumas D'Artagnan, arriving in Paris from Gascony with no horse and few worldly goods wishes to join the King's Guards. He finds himself in the company of three...
Author: Ivan Turgenev When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful...
Author: Persius The Satires of Horace (65 8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to...
Author: Comte De Lautreamont Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One...
Author: Hesiod Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's Theogoney (c. 725 BCE) is a powerful creation...
Author: Ludovico Ariosto One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy...
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry. It provides teachers, students, and the general reader with an affordable paperback of the...
Author: Porter With the publication of his best-selling books "Competitive Strategy (1980) and "Competitive Advantage (1985), Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School established himself as the world's leading...
Author: Joseph Frazier Wall If Alfred I. du Pont was born to "the purple and ermine" of an American industrial dynasty, his life was far from peaceful, pampered, indolent. Beginning...
Author: L. J. Davis A winner of the National Magazine Award presents an entertaining account of the wild, and wildly expensive, goose chase among the media's top executives for control...
Author: O. Casey Corr A portrait of visionary entrepreneur Craig McCaw discusses his seminal role in the development of the cellular communications industry and his latest work with Teledesic, a...
Author: Louis Henry Sullivan The famous American architect's fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the "father of the skyscraper." Far...
Author: Rajeshwari Ghose This illustrated book traces the spread of Buddhist art throughout Asia from India. It includes 14 essays discussing aspects of recent research in Buddhist art historical studies...
Author: The Secret WAG Money, cars, homes, holidays, parties and all the shoes you've ever dreamed of. The life of a footballer's wife or girlfriend must be as glamorous and...
Author: Sophie Kinsella No. 1 internationally bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns with her trademark blend of sparkling wit and playful romance in this page-turning story of a wedding to remember—and a...
Author: Veronica Roth What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelationlike a single choicechanged everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you...
Authors: Béatrice Tauzin, Anne-Lyse Dubois Ce cahier d'activites propose un entrainement diversifie, reprenant les bases de chaque point de langue etudie dans le livre, en les approfondissant grace a une...
Author: Sue Grafton It was like being in the presence of a snake, first hissing its presence and then coiled in readiness. I didn't dare turn my back or take...
Author: Patricia Cornwell Hornet's Nest is the first book in the Andy Brazil series, from bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, Hammer, but...
