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Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author or editor of twelve other books published by Cornell, including History in Transit and History and Memory after Auschwitz.

Professor McMoo, Pat and Bo, discover that Moo-Beard, the ter-moo-nator pirate is much more scary than Blackbeard and Bluebeard when the Time Shed lands in the Caribbean in 1718. 7th instalment in the crazy cow time-travelling series, with collectors' cards in every book. Ages: 7+

A first-hand account - written under a pseudonym - of working on the cutting edge of the global economy. This tale of corporate greed, in which Dover admits to colossal and decadent squanderings of money, explains how how all the warning signs were lost, leading to global carnage.

Originally trained at Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Alan Titchmarsh is the author of over 40 books about gardening, including How to be a Gardener Book 1: Back to Basics, the fastest-selling of all time in the genre, and the bestselling The Kitchen Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg. He writes for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, and is gardening correspondent for the Daily Express and Sunday Exp...

A new series of practical guides to help new and experienced gardeners make the most of their gardens, whatever they want to achieve. Titchmarsh has written numerous gardening books, with "How To Garden Books 1" and "2" selling nearly half a million copies.

The Chief Rabbis thesis on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy. A counterweight to his earlier book, The Dignity of Difference, Sacks makes the case for integrated diversity within a framework of shared political valu

This is more than straightforward misery. It shows us the difficulty faced by Muslim girls growing up in 1980s Britain, deals with the horror of arranged marriages and the fall out when it goes wrong, what it means to be alienated from those you love and details the trauma involved in being a prostitute who loathes what she does, whilst celebrating the freedom it brings

Expanded and updated edition of The Holford Low-GL Diet, with new info and testimonies from people who've experienced change as a result of the diet. Eating foods with low GL (glycemic load) can rebalance blood sugar, leading to weight loss and an improvement in health in general.

The story of a short life lived to the limit, this is an acclaimed biography of the Formula One champion. 'Donaldson, in his thoughtful and intimate work, has delved behind the headlines and superbly fleshed out the character behind the caricatures of James Hunt' "Daily Telegraph

Nick Heil has worked as a Senior Editor at Outside magazine, combining his skills as a journalist and his experience at snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking and climbing.

The second edition of this best selling Manual has been thoroughly revised and updated under the direction of the new editorial team of John Williams and Alison Moores. Topics covered include wound healing, decision-making in closure, axial pattern flaps and pedicled muscle flaps. In addition, the Manual features case studies and step-by-step operative techniques. Specially commissioned illustrations accompany the chapters.

Based on detailed case studies of major achievements in recent analytic philosophy, this book both provides a lucid survey of the work of major figures such as Quine, Kripke, Rawls, and Rorty and shows how their work offers a substantive body of philosophical knowledge that even non-philosophers cannot ignore.

Proverbs, cliches, and idioms are introduced in rhyme and illustrated as a young child's literal interpretation. Each expression includes information about its origin and original meaning"--Provided by publisher.

This book opens the door to the intriguing world of interplanetary flight. It provides a highly focused, insider’s view of current and recent interplanetary space exploration, describing all the different aspects of the many individual space-exploring machines that operate throughout our Solar System. The book: Illuminates the ‘science pipeline’, enabling readers to follow any specific interplanetary mission(s) and access the science datastr...

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General

At twenty-one, Jinny Brownlow's life is not going as well as she had hoped. She's working at a dead-end typing job at an engineering firm and has just been dumped by her fiancè for her own roommate. Outside of work her only hobby is her local theater group, but even there she's just a general helper and not credited with having any talent at all. Something needs to change in Jinny's life, and it may have to be Jinny herself."A bloody cultured ...

The world of Jeffery Renard Allen's stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility, the hurt, is all too human. The protagonists circle each other with steely determination: a grandson taunts his grandmother, determined to expose her secret past, for years,...

This book surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that portray exotic locales, exploring their persuasive and disturbing effects.

An illustrated biography of the dopamine molecule, with each chapter presenting a specific stage in the biochemical pathway for dopamine.

The Little Princess has been moved to a new castle, where there is lots more room! But she just wants to go home to the old castle. But is the old castle still the same, now that it has new owners? A wonderfully funny and reassuring book that will ring true with anyone who has ever moved house with a toddler.