About The Book A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Te…
About The Book No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard t…
Every year, millions of people visit the American Museum of Natural History to gaze at the amazing displays of dinosaur fossils. Aimed at children aged 5…
A renowned comic-book illustrator creates an ABC dream come true that's perfectly suited for the youngest reader or anyone in need of a superhero to save…
When Timothy D. Walker started teaching fifth graders at a Helsinki public school, he began a search for the secrets behind the successes of Finland's schools. Walker wrote about several of those discoveries, and his Atlantic articles on this subject …
About the Book : One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' Time Out Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University…
The Shahnama, an epic poem from the 10th century that chronicles Iran's mythical history before the founding of Islam, has been immortalized in numerous illustrated copies. . The illuminated pages of the 16th-century "Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, "known …
From the author of Globish, an acclaimed history of the English Language. The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of…
Madhyamaka, or "Middle Way," philosophy came to Tibet from India and became the basis of all of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetans, however, differentiated two streams of…
For the more than 2 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the intrusive thoughts and uncontrollable behaviors can take a harsh toll, as author Jared Douglas Kant…
Shakespeare's great tragicomic romance, "The Winter's Tale", includes the newly updated features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, dramatic criticism and a special Introduction by editor…