Gefahr am Strand

Narratives of Singleness Fluid Female Identities in Postmodern Times

The author's interdisciplinary study combines feminist ideology and theory with narratology and a social-psychoanalytical perspective in order to achieve a refined analysis of the female

Eat, Pray, Love

'It's what I'm giving all my girl friends' Julia Roberts 'Every woman should read it' Elle Macpherson 'I adore it' Sophie Dahl 'I loved it

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built. Though little

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter about Almost Everything

The Freakonomics books have come to stand for something: challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emotion to answer questions and learning to unravel the

My Name is Red

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by

Revenge

A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits.

Locked On (Jack Ryan Book 14)

Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even

A Murder of Quality

Being the second novel by John le Carre starring George Smiley, it is a departure from the world of espionage to that of a very

Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or

El tunel

El amor ilimitado truncado por un engano convertira el corazon de un hombre en un pedazo de duro y frio hielo y colocara en sus

The Razing of Romania's Past

The programme, only halted by the regime's downfall at the end of 1989, has meant the almost complete destruction of at least 29 towns, with

Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality (Basic Art)

Les portfolios TASCHEN proposent des impressions de grande qualite qui ne demandent qu'a etre encadrees. Chaque portfolio contient 14 reproductions en grand format, chacune decrite

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness.

A Certain Justice

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her

Aventuras de Don Quijote de la Mancha. Versión infantil

Para ello, una vez seleccionados los capitulos mas emblematicos, pero manteniendo siempre su hilo conductor, el lenguaje, depurado de toda afectacion y dificultad semantica, facilita

Amuleto

La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga, un crimen atroz y lejano. Auxilio, uruguaya de mediana edad, se oculta en los lavabos de

El peregrino de Compostela

 En compania de su guia espiritual, el misterioso y enigmatico Petrus, Paulo se enfrenta a una serie de pruebas y ejercicios, conoce a figuras que

Robert Doisneau

Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's

A Taste for Death

One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up

In Praise of the Stepmother

In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence

El último cuaderno

Nos acerca al mundo de Kafka, o a la inevitable tristeza de Charlot, o nos describe la soberbia aventura de coronar la cima de la

Portugheza pentru incepatori cu CD audio

Asigurand exersarea lexicului util unei viitoare calatorii in capatul celalalt al Europei, in Portugalia, poate chiar in mai indepartata Brazilie, sau, in orice caz, in

Tierra de nadie

El presente puro, sin vestigios del pasado ni atisbos del futuro, y la accion, casi siempre nimia, caracterizan a estos personajes que circulan por esa

España en los diarios de mi vejez

Este es un libro que se lee con el deleite de quien sacia la sed. Un texto hecho de pinceladas de infancia, de lecturas, de

Esio Trot

Autori: Roald Dahl, QUENTIN BLAKE

Tiempo de un centenario

Escrita en la decada de 1970, Tiempo de uncentenario –que ha servido de inspiracion para una pelicula de Francis Ford Coppola– auna la ciencia-ficcion y

RO-KIT. Identitate romaneasca in 50 de componente

RO KIT are ca sursa de inspiratie un proiect similar, „idarg“, descoperit de Alexe Popescu la Buenos Aires, in anul 2009. Ambele incearca prin mijloace

Masters of Italian Art: Caravaggio

The volumes in this series provide unique portraits of European art history. Authoritative texts illuminate the decisive stages in the artists' lives and the development

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony

I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape, he said, or pass my hand over breast or back

The Noise of Time

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending.In 1936,

Sputnik, mi amor

El narrador, un joven profesor de primaria, esta enamorado de Sumire pero ella, quien se considera la ultima rebelde, tiene una unica obsesion: ser novelista.

Raphael

 This overview traces the life's work of this Renaissance master who achieved the height of greatness in only two decades of creation and whose influential

In a Glass Darkly

Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince'

Living in Greece

Go island hopping with the Stoelties and discover the best of Greece's hidden treats, such as the hilltop vacation house of Robert Browning, descendent of

Vermeer: The Complete Paintings

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreamsLittle is known of Vermeer's early life and training, though we can be certain that he never knew great success

See Inside London

Colourful scenes with flaps to reveal details of life in different universes

Man Ray

Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he

Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

New introduction by Penny Boumelha describes the novel's controversial publication, the figure of Tess,class, and nature, and the female body, in an original and compelling

North and South

North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman,

Illustrated Stories from Around the World

A collection of stories ideal for young readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution his Rights of Man

Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's

SimsalaGrimm - Hans im Glück

Auf ihrem fliegenden Marchenbuch landen Yoyo und Doc Croc direkt bei dem jungen Mullersburschen Hans. Der bekommt von seinem Meister fur seine Arbeit einen Klumpen

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Speculation remains rife as to its probably conclusion evidence suggests that, fascinated

SimsalaGrimm - Frau Holle

Das fliegende Marchenbuch bringt Yoyo und Doc Croc in die Marchenwelt von Simsala. Dort treffen sie die fleisige Anna. Als Anna in einen verzauberten Brunnen

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.

The man with three minds and other meaningful tales

The man with three minds and other meaningful tales. Romania tales retoldChildren and adults alike will discover the magical world of Romanian folk tales. They

Der Zauberer von Oz

Die kleine Dorothy wird im Traum von einem Wirbelsturm in das Land des Zauberers entfuhrt. Dank ihres Mutes, ihrer Tatkraft und Hilfsbereitschaft und mit Hilfe

SimsalaGrimm - Aladin und die Wunderlampe

Auf ihrem fliegenden Marchenbuch reisen Yoyo und Doc Croc in die geheimnisvolle Marchenwelt von Simsala, wo sie fantastische Abenteuer erleben. Diesmal helfen sie Aladin, den

Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum

The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry,

Animal Farm

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the

Caravaggio

Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and,

Case Study Houses

Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture American and international

Dali

Dali brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dali in full

de Lempicka

Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and

Chagall

Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning

Cezanne

In Paris, but above all in Provence, Cezanne quested tirelessly for a harmony parallel to Nature—discovering it in still lifes of apples, in bathers, or