What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? At first glance, very little. But Roger Kneebone is the expert on experts, having spent a lifetime finding the connections. In Expert, he combines his own experiences as a doctor with insights from extraordinary people and cutting-edge research to map out

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city\'s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One

When one defines \"order\" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power

History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question \'What is history?\' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past? The perfect introduction to this thought-provoking area, Jenkins\' clear and concise prose guides readers through the

Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, in the author´s own words, ´intended as a defence and illustration of an unfashionable philosophy, humanism, and also as an exploration of what it is to be English´. It is the richly evoked

Hell is other people.\' This is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it\'s dark, and very foggy. Inside there\'s no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival - comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. In \'The Merchant and the Alchemist\'s Gate\', a portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past

Ultima settimana del novembre 1327. Il novizio Adso da Melk accompagna in un’abbazia dell’alta Italia frate Guglielmo da Baskerville, incaricato di una sottile e imprecisa missione diplomatica. Ex inquisitore, amico di Guglielmo di Occam e di Marsilio da Padova, frate Guglielmo si trova a dover dipanare una serie di misteriosi delitti (sette in sette giorni, perpetrati nel chiuso della cinta abbaziale)

In a frozen dystopia where inhabitants eat flesh to survive, can the destructive powers of fire bring salvation? In the not-too-distant past, the Ice Witch blankets the world in snow, starvation, and madness, leading the inhabitants to seek their salvation in fire. With that, an unusual destiny unfolds for two young orphans, Agni and Luna, blessed with the ability to regenerate. But will this ability

A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf - yet another nail in the planet\'s eco-coffin. Then someone calls out, pointing at something up in the sky overhead. The camera pans up and they look up to see a blazing symbol clear, burning high over the bleak, deserted terrain. Thus begins a series of strange events

When your whole life is a lie, can you trust anyone? Even yourself? ANNA has always been taught by her mother that cleanliness and purity are the path to God; that her heart\'s desire to visit Astroland, Florida\'s biggest theme park, is ungodly. But it\'s her eighteenth birthday, and Anna\'s feeling rebellious. But on arrival at Astroland, everything feels familiar. Almost like she\'s been there before...

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly

Over the course of the Edo period (1600-1868), an extraordinarily large quantity of paintings, prints and illustrated books with sexual and erotic themes was produced in Japan. As urban culture expanded rapidly during the seventeenth century, erotic material was a major genre of woodblock print production. These constitute some of the finest examples of art-printing in Japan, employing deluxe materials

\'I have a dream\', \'Government of the people, by the people, for the people\', \'This was their finest hour\', \'Tear down this wall\', \'Give me liberty, or give me death\', \'Free at last!\'. They are the great words of history, inspiring war and peace, outrage and justice, rebellion and freedom. Great Speeches in Minutes presents the key extracts of 200 of the orations that changed the world,

L.N.Tolstoj, shiroko izvestnyj kak avtor ocherkov o Sevastopole, bessmertnyh kavkazskih povestej, uchastvoval v Krymskoj vojne, byval i izuchal Kavkaz, Dagestan i pisal o nih bespristrastno. V knigu voshli povesti i rasskazy kak rannego perioda tvorchestv

\"Ausfallzeit\" erzählt die Geschichte einer Befreiung, aber nicht die einer Entfesselung oder Enthemmung. Sagen wir eher: Da gewinnt jemand den Mut zu einem eigenen Gesicht und dann dazu, einmal das Gesicht zu verlieren; Mut, mehr zu wollen, als angeboten wird, zu handeln, statt zu warten.

Depuis qu\'Annabelle, son ancienne amie, s\'est mariée, David Kelsey passe tous ses week-ends dans une maison qu\'il a louée sous un nom d\'emprunt et ou il s\'imagine, dans une sorte de reve, qu\'il la retrouve...Cela, jusqu\'au jour ou le mari d\'Annabelle...

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to investigate the suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams - a member of the family that has given the United States two Presidents. Quickly, the investigators deduce that there\'s more to Clover\'s death than meets the eye - with issues of national importance at stake. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus

SPIDER-GWEN, SPIDER-WOMAN and SILK come together for the Spider-Event of 2016! Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman, has decided to step-up her mentoring of the younger, less-experienced Gwen Stacy and Cindy Moon. But when the trio gets trapped in Gwen\'s Universe, at the hands of an alternate Cindy Moon and her sinister organization S.I.L.K., there\'s not time for any more practice. This action-packed story