From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all--the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful w[...]

"It has been a while since I have read a book as richly sown with beauty . . . A remarkable work, remarkable for the precision and vitality of its perceptions and for the successful intricacy of its prose." --James Wood, "The New Yorker" A visionary novel by "one of the most talented writers of his [...]

A revelatory look at how our environment unconsciously yet dramatically shapes the judgments and decisions we make every day
Most of us go through life believing that we are in control of the choices we make--that we think and behave almost independently from the world around us. But as "Drunk [...]

A riveting first-person account and history of rowers who have attempted to navigate across the Atlantic
More people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partner ate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters long b[...]

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of the author's two decades' reflection on the great Scottish Enlightenment. This book treats Adam Smith as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment with polymath interests. The book explores Smith's economics and ethics in[...]

Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a p[...]

This book is a supplement to the definitive and widely-acclaimed Flowers of the Himalaya (1984) by Oleg Polunin and Adam Stainton. It contains some 350 species not previously described in the parent volume. In addition, over 600 new colur plates depict species described but not illustrated (or illus[...]

While the works of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) have long been held in high esteem by international lawyers, this book addresses the broader, and neglected, theme of his contribution to the theoretical and practical aspects of international relations. It critically reappraises Grotius' thought, examini[...]

Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]