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English Renaissance Drama

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Womack

£70.50 20 Aug 2008 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Blake

£14.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback Huntington Library Press,US

Based on a copy in the collection of the Huntington Library that shows how Blake used coloring style and pen and ink additions to make a unified book out of fifty-four individual engravings.Based on digital photography, this book also captures the designs and coloring closely. It explores the political and historical contexts of the poems.

Eastern Figures

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Orient and Empire in British Writing

By Douglas Kerr

£33.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Hong Kong University Press

Examines British writing about the East - centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific - in the colonial and postcolonial period. This book is suitable for those interested in the literary and cultural history of the empire and its aftermath.

The reach of the republic of letters : literary and learned societied in late medieval and early modern Europe, v.1-2

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£121.98 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre : from the word to the image

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Labedzka, Izabella.

£73.08 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions.

The author aims to show how Gao's theories of the theatre of anti-illusion, theatre of conscious convention, of the "poor theatre" and total theatre, of the neutral actor and the actor-jester-storyteller are derived from the Far Eastern tradition, and to what extent they have been inspired by 20th century Euro-American reformers of theatre such as Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor. Although Gao's plays and theatre form the major subject, this volume also pays ample attention to his painting and passion for music as sources of his dramaturgical strategies. AF Izabella Labedzka is Professor of Chinese Studies and Theatre Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

The great recreation : Ho Ching-ming (1483-1521) and his world

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bryant, Daniel, 1942-

£146.70 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

The poetry of the Ming dynasty has been relatively neglected in scholarship of the past century, and the 'Archaist' poets of the middle Ming especially so. This book attempts to redress this neglect by presenting by far the most detailed treatment available in any language of the life, milieu, and work of Ho Ching-ming (1483-1521). While Ho's participation in the Archaist circle of Li Meng-yang in his youth is confirmed, the later development of his ideas is shown to move toward a stance usually thought more representative of the following century. The book also argues that 'May Fourth' accounts of the pre-modern literary tradition are seriously flawed and require replacement.

Aristotle's Rhetoric in the East : the Syriac and Arabic translation and commentary tradition

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Vagelpohl, Uwe.

£81.32 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

The translation and reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric, is a prime example for the resulting transformation of antique learning in the Islamic world and beyond. On the basis of a close textural analysis of the Rhetoric, this study develops elements of a comparative "translation grammar" of Greek-Arabic translations. Contextualizing the analysis with an account of the textual history and the Syriac and Arabic philosophical tradition drawing on the Rhetoric, it throws new light on the inner workings of the "translation movement" and its impact on Islamic culture.

The serpent and the rose : the Immaculate Conception and Hispanic poetry in the late medieval period

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Twomey, Lesley K.

£70.88 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

The Serpent and the Rose examines the theological and liturgical context for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages, from primary sources in Iberian archives. Its main focus is a study of Marian poetry from Alfonso the Wise and Gonzalo de Berceo through to the poetry collections of the late fifteenth century, showing how poets took themes from the Bible and apocryphal literature, combining them to defend and praise Mary's conception without sin. Individual chapters assess how they depicted Mary's prefiguration in the Old Testament by the Woman who defeated the serpent, the young bride of the Song of Songs, or the semi-deity, Wisdom, as well as how they portrayed her as the mystic rose and as the new Eve.

Writing politics in imperial Rome

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£136.81 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

The Art of Romance

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Harlequin Mills and Boon Cover Designs

By Joanna Bowring, Margaret O'Brien

£14.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Prestel

Features a collection of two hundred Mills & Boon covers that offer a visual record of how our perceptions of romance, love and drama have evolved over the years. This work charts the changing themes of the novels and explores the reasons behind the popularity of the romance novel.

FRANAR : functional requirements for authority records

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£93.41 15 Aug 2008 Hardback K G Saur, GW/Walter de Gruyter

Bibliothekarisches Grundwissen

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gantert, Klaus.

£24.18 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Walter de Gruyter

Analytical concordance to the Garsana archives

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kleinerman, Alexandra.

£96.15 15 Aug 2008 Hardback C D L Pr

Garry Trudeau : Doonesbury and the aesthetics of satire

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Soper, Kerry.

£27.47 15 Aug 2008 Hardback U Pr Mississippi

How a revolutionary cartoonist opened the funnies to political commentary and biting satire

Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lukin, Josh

£27.47 15 Aug 2008 Hardback U Pr Mississippi

An examination of fiction from repressed voices in a misunderstood decade

The people of Privilege Hill

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gardam, Jane.

£8.76 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Europa Editions, US/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

"[Jane] Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted."-"The New Yorker"

From the author of "Old Filth," a "New York Times" notable book of the year.

A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers-a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity, and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of stories, witty and wise, that includes the return of Sir Edward Feathers, "Old Filth" himself.

Structure, meaning and ritual in the narratives of the southern san

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hewitt, Roger L.

£21.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Witwatersrand Univ Pr, SA/Transaction Pubs

Eternal youth : Al and Al.

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Karen Allen

£12.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Found Art Creative Tech, UK/U of Chicago Pr

Al & Al's spectacular computer-generated videos radically re-appropriate contemporary pop culture through an inventive use of celebrity icons, live action performance and animation special effects. This book examines the work of one the exciting duos working in video art.

Michael Faraday's mental exercises : an artisan essay-circle in Regency London

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London

By Alice Jenkins

£45.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Liverpool U Pr, UK/U of Chicago Pr

In 1818 London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half the essay-circle met to read aloud and criticise one another's writings. The "Mental Exercises" they produced are a record of the life and social ideas of artisans in Regency London.

Dennis Cooper : writing at the edge

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Writing at the Edge

By Paul Hegarty, Danny Kennedy

£55.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Sussex Academic Pr, UK/ISBS

Dennis Cooper's writing has acquired a ferocious reputation for its bold experimentation, its transgressive content, and its emotional content, which is both Romantic and touching, whilst cold and hard-edged. This book delves into the worlds Cooper fabricates.

Russia, Freaks and Foreigners : three performance texts

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Three Performance Texts

By MacDonald, James.

£14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Intellect Ltd, UK/U of Chicago Pr

A collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. It critiques accepted notions of normality within authority, offering various models of difference - physical, cultural, and moral - and their stories of dislocation.

The Creole elite and the rise of Angolan proto-nationalism (1870-1920)

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Corrado, Jacopo.

£65.91 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Cambria Pr, US

Women's war drama in England in the seventeenth century

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Liddy, Brenda Josephine.

£64.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Cambria Pr, US

History and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By McKinney, Mark

£27.47 15 Aug 2008 Hardback U Pr Mississippi

Perspectives on French-Language comics and their lively inquiries

Milton : poet, pamphleteer, and patriot

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Beer, Anna R., 1964-

£19.20 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury, US/MPS (VA), US

Daphne : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Picardie, Justine.

£14.28 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury, US/MPS (VA), US

A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Maurier's fascination with the Bronts, "Daphne" is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession.

Minding the store : great writing about business, from Tolstoy to now

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Great Literature About Business

By Coles, Robert LaFarge, Albert

£14.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback New Press/W W Norton

Coles and LaFarge have gathered a generous and stimulating collection of classic literary reflections on the ethical and spiritual predicaments of the business world.

Mine all mine

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Davies, Adam.

£8.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA)

From the author of "The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon" comes this dazzling comic and romantic heist story.

First you fall : a Kevin Connor mystery

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Kevin Connor Mystery

By Sherman, Scott.

£8.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Alyson Pubns Inc/Perseus Distribution, US

When his friend's death is ruled a suicide, Kevin Connor-a hustler by trade, sleuth by default-sets out to prove a case of murder. It doesn't help matters that the victim's grown children, who disapproved of their father's gay lifestyle, are only concerned about their inheritance. But they are not Kevin's only problem. His high-strung mother has moved in with him-and she knows nothing about his questionable . . . job.

Scott Sherman has written for "Newsweek," "Genre," "Instinct," and "The Washington Blade," He is the host of the number-one rated "The Digital Photography Show" on The Podcast Network.

The wanderer in nineteeth-century German literature : intellectual history and cultural criticism

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Intellectual History and Cultural Criticism

By Cusack, Andrew, 1969-

£40.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Camden House Inc/Boydell & Brewer Ltd, US

The wanderer is an indispensable part of the German cultural imaginary. The nineteenth-century prominence of the motif owes much to the self-conception of the intellectual pioneers of the day as wanderers. This work presents an examination of the prominent 19th century motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary.

Conversations with Anne : twenty-one interviews

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bogart, Anne.

£10.41 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Theatre Communications/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

"Conversations with Anne" documents the series of intimate interviews that theater director Bogart has conducted with major artists and cultural thinkers at her West Side studio, for the benefit of live audiences, over the past five years.

I is another : plays

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sloate, Daniel.

£9.89 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Guernica Edns, CN/Independent Pubs Grp

A fight in the doctor's office : a novella

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Holladay, Cary C., 1958-

£8.24 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Miami Univ Pr

In 1967, a young newlywed searches for the husband who abandoned her, ending up in a rural Virginia town where she falls in love with a disabled African American baby and grows obsessed with making him her own.

Exile--and Glory

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pournelle, Jerry, 1933-

£15.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Baen Book/Simon & Schuster

The last centurion

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ringo, John, 1963-

£16.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Baen Book/Simon & Schuster

In the second decade of the 21st century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. An American Army officer struggles to prevent the fall of his homeland--despite others' efforts to stop him.

White heat : the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wineapple, Brenda.

£15.36 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Knopf/Random House

Wineapple gives a radiant portrayal of one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters--between the elusive, original poet Emily Dickinson and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer.

Researcher's guide to Shakespeare on film, television, and radio

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£20.60 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Wallflower Pr, UK/Columbia Univ Pr

Moon lily : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lang, Susan.

£11.54 15 Aug 2008 Paperback U of Nevada Pr

Island of daemons : the Lough Derg pilgrimage and the poets Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, and Seamus Heaney

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dewsnap, Terence.

£28.85 15 Aug 2008 Hardback U of Delaware Pr/Associated Univ Presses

Reading Hemingway's "Men without Women"

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Glossary and Commentary

By Joseph M. Flora

£17.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Kent State University Press

Provides factual information and interpretive guidance on Hemingway, for a wide variety of readers. This book guides readers toward understanding how Hemingway tested old ideas of family, gender, race, ethnicity, and manhood. It invites scholars, teachers, students, and general readers to take a careful look into Hemingway's prose.

The yoga teacher

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gray, Alexandra.

£12.64 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Atlantic Monthly/Publishers Grp West

Translating Libya : the modern Libyan short story

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Modern Libyan Short Story

By Chorin, Ethan

£12.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Saqi Books/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

Part anthology and part travelogue, this title presents the country through the eyes of sixteen Libyan short story writers and one American diplomat. It also tells stories that trace the influence of the ancient Romans, the later Italian occupation and the influx of foreign workers from Africa and further afield.

Cultivating Madrid : public space and middle-class culture in the Spanish capital, 1833-1890

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Frost, Daniel.

£29.67 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Bucknell U Pr/Associated Univ Presses

Checkpoints

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Levy, Marilyn.

£9.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Jewish Publication Soc

Noa, a 17 year-old Israeli from a Jewish family forms a tentative friendship with Maha, a Palestinian Muslim from East Jerusalem. But, after a tragic incident changes Noa's family forever, Noa's beliefs about Palestinian and Israeli relations are challenged, and secrets are revealed that affect both of their lives, and test their relationship.

Rashi's daughter : secret scholar

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anton, Maggie.

£9.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Jewish Publication Soc

Joheved is the eldest daughter of Salomon ben Isaac, known as Rashi - one of the great medieval Jewish Bible commentators. At a time when women traditionally were barred from studying Jewish texts, Rashi secretly teaches first Joheved, then her sister Miriam.

Iris Murdoch and the art of imagining

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Altorf, Marije.

£65.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Continuum/Continuum Intl Publ Grp

Offers an appreciation of Iris Murdoch's philosophy, focusing the importance of images and the imagination for her thought. This book examines how literature and imagination enabled Murdoch to form a philosophical response to the decline of religion. It also reconsiders various contemporary assumptions about what philosophy is and does.

Gates of reconciliation : literature and the ethical imagination

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Literature and the Ethical Imagination

By Frank Stewart, Barry Lopez

£10.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback U of Hawaii Pr

An anthology of essays, fiction, and poetry set in South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, the United States, and elsewhere, which explores how individuals, communities, and nations can reconcile differences and grievances and forge a future with a renewed sense of dignity and mutual respect.

Joyce Studies Annual

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Philip T. Sicker, Moshe Gold

£40.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Fordham University Press

Includes historical, archival, and comparative approaches from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Black Frankenstein : the making of an American metaphor

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Making of an American Metaphor

By Young, Elizabeth.

£51.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback New York U Pr

For all the scholarship devoted to the novel "Frankenstein", there has been little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. This work identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears in nineteenth- and twentieth-century US culture.

Studies in Bibliography (v. 57)

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Vander Meulen, David

£47.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback University of Virginia Press

Presents a range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual criticism, and other aspects of the study of books. These essays extend chronologically from the identification of Middle English poetry in early prose documents to an analysis of revisions in a post-modern novel.

Zora Neale Hurston

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Collected Plays

By Hurston, Zora Neale

£17.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Rutgers University Press

Zora Neale Hurston is a major figure in African American literature. She was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. This book includes eleven of her dramatic writings.

Zora Neale Hurston

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Collected Plays

By Hurston, Zora Neale

£17.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Rutgers University Press

Zora Neale Hurston is a major figure in African American literature. She was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. This book includes eleven of her dramatic writings.

The white Mary : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Salak, Kira, 1971-

£13.74 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Henry Holt Co

A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption, in this sweeping debut novel.

Man in the dark

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Auster, Paul, 1947-

£12.64 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Henry Holt Co

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget.

The Latino threat : constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

By Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph)

£37.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Stanford U Pr

Investigates the media stories about and experiences of immigrants to show how prejudices and stereotypes have been used to malign an entire immigrant population - and to define what it means to be an American.

The Marcus Didius Falco Companion

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Characters, Plots, Places, Events and Historical Elements in the Novels by

By Michael R. Schuyler

£27.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback McFarland & Co Inc

Organizes and explains the intricate web of people, places, events, and titles that Lindsey Davis has created within the "Marcus Didius Falco" series.

Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Stewart

£51.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback McFarland & Co Inc

Provides information on 322 men and women who have made or are making significant contributions in the field of anthropology. This biographical dictionary is arranged alphabetically, and each entry is limited to 500 words and includes a short biography highlighting each person's professional and private background.

The Baseball Novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A History and Annotated Bibliography of Adult Fiction

By Noel Schraufnagel

£27.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback McFarland & Co Inc

An annotated bibliography that covers approximately 400 novels published between 1838 and 2007. It offers an introduction to the history and development of the genre, and provides chronologically arranged entries on hundreds of novels written for the adult and young adult reader.

Stirring the Pot

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Kitchen and Domesticity in the Fiction of Southern Women

By Laura Sloan Patterson

£27.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback McFarland & Co Inc

Looks at a wide variety of Southern domestic literature, focusing particularly on the role of the family kitchen as a driving force in the narratives of Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, and Toni Morrison.

The Fiction of George Gissing

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Critical Analysis

By Lewis D. Moore

£27.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback McFarland & Co Inc

Analyzing important themes in George Gissing's novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, especially through the critical works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, this book reveals how his novels present a lived feel of the world he knew firsthand.

People who walk in darkness

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kaminsky, Stuart M.

£13.16 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Forge/Tom Doherty Assocs/St Martin's

Inspector Rostnikov is an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union Russia. He travels to Siberia to investigate a murder at a diamond mine, where he discovers an old secret--and an even bigger problem, in this fast-paced novel from an Edgar Award-winning author.

The view from Garden City : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Baugh, Carolyn.

£17.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Forge/Tom Doherty Assocs/St Martin's

A beautifully written, bittersweet journey into the complexities of life for six Egyptian women. Baugh magically peels away the layers of their complicated world as each crosses into forbidden territory.--Jean Sasson, author of "Princess."

Harmony

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bentley, C. F.

£13.71 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Daw Books/Penguin Group (USA)

The launch of a brand new series that blends the best elements of science fiction and fantasy.
The world of Harmony, along with its close-knit colony planets, long ago isolated itself from the rest of the universe. But in a universe where the human-based Confederate Star System fleet finds itself hard-pressed to stand against ever-increasing attacks by the alien Marillon Empire, the Harmonic Empire cannot be left alone. For if the CSS cannot win an alliance with Harmony, the Marils will surely find a way to invade the planet and seize control of the unique and invaluable metal, which only the Harmonites can produce.
Yet invasion is far from the only threat the people of Harmony face. The gulf between rich and poor, rulers and ruled continues to widen, threatening to destroy the very structure of their society-while the planet itself is becoming increasingly unstable.

Reading fictions, 1660-1740 : deception in English literary and political culture

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Deception in English Literary and Political Culture

By Loveman, Kate.

£50.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Ashgate Pub Co

Explores the ways in which reading habits, developed to deal with suspect political and religious texts, were applied to a range of genres, and, as authors responded to readers' critiques, shaped genres. This book investigates reading as a sociable activity.

De rerum natura = The nature of things : a poetic translation

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Poetic Translation

By Lucretius Carus, Titus.

£23.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Univ California Pr, US

Offers an account of a secular cosmos, arguing that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas.

House of daughters : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lynch, Sarah-Kate.

£7.69 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Plume Books/Penguin Group (USA)

Family rivalries, long-ago love affairs, and forgotten scandals blend in this sparkling novel set in the Champagne province of France.

Hell and earth : a novel of the Promethean Age

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel of the Promethean Age

By Bear, Elizabeth.

£14.00 15 Aug 2008 Paperback ROC/Penguin Group (USA)

From the atalenteda ("Entertainment Weekly") award-winning author of "Whiskey and Water" and "Blood and Iron,"
Kit Marley and William Shakespeare are playwrights in the service of Queen Elizabeth, employed by the Prometheus Club. Their words, infused with magic, empower Her Majestyas rule. But some of the Prometheans, comprised of Englandas most influential men and mages, conspire to usurp the Queen.
Able to walk in both worlds, Kit seeks allies to aid him in his mission to protect Elizabethaonly to encounter enemies, mortal and monster, who will stop at nothing to usher in a new age. But despite the might of his adversaries, Kit possesses more power than even he can possibly imagine.

Underground : a greywalker novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richardson, Kat.

£12.06 15 Aug 2008 Hardback ROC/Penguin Group (USA)

Harper Blaine was an average small-time P.I. until she died--for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of strange cases.

Off the menu

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Son, Christine.

£7.69 15 Aug 2008 Paperback New Am Lib/Penguin Group (USA)

An extraordinary debut about second-generation Asian-American women trying to live up to societyas high standards, as well as their own.
Even though itas been ten years since their Houston high school days, co-valedictorians and best friends Whitney Lee, Hercules Huang, and Audrey Henley still delight in their once-a-month get-togethers where they talk, laugh, and confide in each othera although not about everything. Because each young woman has a deep, dark secret they think they could never share. Not even with their best friends. Then, during a girlsa weekend getaway, these three friends wind up revealing their most intimate truthsaand realize that to get straight As in the real world, all you have to do is let go of the need to be perfecta]

Land of a hundred wonders

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kagen, Lesley.

£7.69 15 Aug 2008 Paperback New Am Lib/Penguin Group (USA)

From the national bestselling author of "Whistling in the Dark" comes another unforgettable story. Brain damaged after a tragic car accident that took both her parents, Gibby is now NQR (Not Quite Right), a real challenge for a fledgling newspaper reporter. Especially when she stumbles upon the dead body of the next governor of Kentucky, Buster Malloy.

Death's half acre

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maron, Margaret.

£13.73 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Grand Central Publ, US

Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.

Marsbound

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Haldeman, Joe.

£15.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Ace Books/Penguin Group (USA)

Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars, in this novel from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of "The Accidental Time Machine" and "Old Twentieth."

Young people, new theatre : a practical guide to an intercultural process

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Greig, Noel.

£16.46 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Theatre studies : the basics

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Basics

By Leach, Robert, 1942-

£9.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Introduces you to various aspects of drama, theatre and performance. This title contains topics as dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentary; theories of performance; the history of the theatre in the West acting; and, directing and scenography the audience.

Theatre studies : the basics

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Basics

By Leach, Robert, 1942-

£55.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Introduces you to various aspects of drama, theater and performance. This book takes you through such topics as dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentary, theories of performance, the history of the theater in the West, and, acting, directing and scenography.

Book history through postcolonial eyes : rewriting the script

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Re-writing the Script

By Fraser, Robert, 1947-

£18.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Draws together the fields of postcolonial theory and book history. This book illustrates the author's combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa.

Book history through postcolonial eyes : rewriting the script

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Re-writing the Script

By Fraser, Robert, 1947-

£60.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

People of the whale : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hogan, Linda.

£14.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback W W Norton

From a writer with unparalleled gifts for truth and magic (Barbara Kingsolver) comes a powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community.

One more year : stories

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Krasikov, Sana, 1979-

£12.06 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Spiegel & Grau, US/Random House

Krasikov's debut collection features stories of people who hold out hope, despite the odds, that life will be kind to them. The characters look to love to repair their lives, and when love isn't really there, they attempt to make do with relationships that substitute for love.

Fade away

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Coben, Harlan.

£12.09 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Delacorte/Bantam Books

In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award-winner Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.

Babylon rolling

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Boyden, Amanda.

£13.16 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Pantheon/Random House

From the author of "Pretty Little Dirty" comes a gritty, unflinching story about the clash of race and culture in the intersecting lives of five families who call the same New Orleans street home.

Leather maiden

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lansdale, Joe R., 1951-

£15.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Knopf/Random House

Set in the vividly rendered, shadowy lowlands of eastern Texas, this masterly new thriller is from an Edgar Award-winning writer who has "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace" ("The New York Times Book Review").

The private lives of Pippa Lee

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Miller, Rebecca, 1962-

£12.64 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Farrar Straus Giroux

At 50, Pippa Lee seems just fine. But the truth is that the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of the wild side--until she found love and security in a family of her own. Now, it seems, that established world is in danger, too.

Closer still

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bannister, Jo.

£13.71 15 Aug 2008 Hardback St Martin's Minotaur/St Martin's

The Brodie Farrell mystery series will make you laugh, snort or blink back tears . . . [with] the most tormented continuing cast outside "The Sopranos" ("Kirkus Reviews").

Burial of the dead

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hogan, Michael, 1950-

£14.81 15 Aug 2008 Hardback A Thomas Dunne Book/St Martin's Minotaur/St Martin's

A powerful and thrilling literary mystery that plays out like a symphony of several movements
A wealthy woman is dead in Hartford, Connecticut, and the cause of death is anyone's guess. Was it suicide? Murder? Natural causes? The cause will determine the payout of her estate, and there are as many possibilities as there are suspects. Motives abound---greed, envy, anger, lust, pride---but who really had the means to pull it off? Could it have been the woman's estranged niece? Her driver? Or was it the young Matthew Wyman?
Equally devoted to a racing plot and stunning craft," Burial of the Dead "features the unfolding of the mind and world of the likable but troubled Matthew as he struggles for sanity and redemption in a world where falsehood and betrayal assault the innocence and curious workings of a challenged and gifted psyche.

Acheron

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-

£16.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback St Martin's

From the #1-bestselling author Kenyon comes the biggest publication event in Dark-Hunter history: the story of Acheron, the god of final fate and the leader of the Dark-Hunters.

Envy the night

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Koryta, Michael.

£17.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback A Thomas Dunne Book/St Martin's Minotaur/St Martin's

Three months before his high school graduation, Frank Temple III joins the rest of the world in learning of his father's covert career, one that culminated in suicide to avoid prosecution and prison. For the younger Temple, it triggered seven years of anonymous drifting, unable to believe the father he'd loved so dearly was entirely in the wrong.

Haa leelk'w has aani saaxi'u = Our grandparents' names on the land

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas Thornton

£15.99 15 Aug 2008 Paperback U of Washington Pr/Sealaska Heritage Fnd P

Presents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names. Documenting and analyzing more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida, and other Native names on the land, this work also highlights their descriptive force and cultural significance.

Burning books

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fishburn, Matthew, 1973-

£19.99 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Offers a history of book burning and its cultural significance, focusing on the notorious Nazi burnings while exploring the broader history of the destruction of books by fire. This book provides a synoptic survey spanning several different disciplines, including history, literature and cultural studies.

Coleridge's afterlives

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Vigus, James Wright, Jane

£41.21 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

In this volume, thirteen essays examine the full breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, imagination, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, and poetry. It offers new research to the scholar, maps complex territory, and spans traditional period barriers in literary studies.

Who the hell is Pansy O'Hara? : the fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved books

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bond, Jenny.

£7.14 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Group (USA)

A work sure to captivate lovers of language and literature, this volume reveals in short, pithy chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and fascinating details involving 50 of the best-loved books of the Western world.

Doveglion : collected poems

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Villa, Jose Garcia.

£9.34 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books, UK/Penguin Group (USA)

The centennial edition of major Filipino writer JosA(c) Garcia Villaas collected poetry
Known as the aPope of Greenwich Village, a JosA(c) Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, and a young Gore Vidal. But beyond his exotic ethnicity, Villa was a global poet who was admired for athe reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poemsa (Marianne Moore). "Doveglion" (Villaas pen nameafor dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villaas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.

Inside out girl : a novel

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cohen, Tish, 1963-

£7.66 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Harper Perennial, US/HarperCollins

Rachel Berman wants "everything" to be perfect. An overprotective single mother of two, she is acutely aware of the statistical dangers lurking around every corner--which makes her snap decision to aid a stranded motorist wholly uncharacteristic. Len Bean is stuck on the shoulder with Olivia, his relentlessly curious, learning disabled ten-year-old daughter. To the chagrin of Rachel's children, who are about to be linked to the most-mocked girl in school, Rachel and Len begin dating. And when Len receives terrible news, little Olivia needs a hero more than ever.

But the world refuses to be predictable. When personal crisis profoundly alters Rachel's relationship with a wild, very special little girl, this perfectionist mother finds herself drawn into a mystery from her past and toward a new appreciation for her own children's imperfect lives.

Good-bye & amen

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gutcheon, Beth Richardson.

£13.71 15 Aug 2008 Hardback William Morrow & Co

The eagerly anticipated follow-up that concludes the story begun in the critically acclaimed "Leeway Cottage, Good-Bye and Amen" is a rich narrative of several generations of a large family and the house that binds them together--and threatens to tear them apart.

Sarah Kane's "Blasted"

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Helen Iball

£45.00 14 Aug 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

"Blasted" has been labelled as one of the landmark plays of post-war British theatre. This guide provides a critical introduction to "Blasted", giving students an overview of the play's significance, a brief biography of Sarah Kane and a guide to socio-political background; and an analysis of the play's structure, style and characters.

Sarah Kane's "Blasted"

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Helen Iball

£9.99 14 Aug 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

"Blasted" has been labelled as one of the landmark plays of post-war British theatre. This guide provides a critical introduction to "Blasted", giving students an overview of the play's significance, a brief biography of Sarah Kane and a guide to socio-political background; and, an analysis of the play's structure, style and characters.

What Maisie Knew

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Henry James

£6.99 14 Aug 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. The novel traces the course of her education and ends with the death of her childhood. It is one of James's finest studies of lost innocence.

America First (Patriotic Readings)

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By L. Jasper McBrien

£34.99 12 Aug 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com