While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at Salomon Brothers he began his second career as a journalist and helped to record a real-life 'bonfire of the vanities'. Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery and deception behind some of the bigge[...]
This new biography of Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle. Contrary to the claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not child centred: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost 100,000 it[...]
Famed for his Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll produced comic verse, puzzles and much more, all of which are included in this complete illustrated collection.[...]
A stunning, strangely beautiful version of Alice, which inludes a mini 12-page guidebook to Wonderland attached inside the front coverYoung Alice dozes off by the riverbank on a lazy summer afternoon only to see a white rabbit with a pocket watch rushing down a rabbit hole. Enticed by this curious s[...]
These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience.
Includes "Alice in Wonderland, "The Hunting of the Snark, "Sylvie and Bruno, and "Through the Looking Glass[...]
Written at the height of his powers in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the vigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Sinclair Lewis in Main Street and Babbitt.
In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who find[...]
In 1905, a young sociologist named Lewis Hine Wickes decided to pursue photography as the medium with which to denounce injustice and poverty. Hine was one of the first photographers to document the wave of mass immigration from an impoverished Europe to an economically booming America, and his port[...]
Exlusivt C S Lewisbokstöd i begränsad upplaga (endast 100 ex). C S Lewis porträtt utstansat i svartlackerad stålplåt försedd medmjukla filttassar. Ca 15X15 cm. En prydnad för din bokhylla![...]
This book is about communicating for health and social change. With a clear focus on public health and health promotion practice, it provides a unique introduction to media and cultural studies perspectives on health communication. Health Communication explores the dynamic world of contemporary mass[...]
From Inner-City Nobody to Brilliant Neurosurgeon When Ben Carson was in school, his classmates called him the class dummy. Many-including Ben himself-doubted that he would ever amount to anything. But his mother never let him quit. She encouraged Ben to do better and reach higher for his dreams, and[...]
Bestselling Author Duo Delivers Heart-Stirring Drama
Jack Livingston has been raising his nine-year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident that took her parents' lives. While he travels for work, Natalie is lovingly cared for by Laura, an Amish nanny who loves her as her own.
Kelly M[...]
The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. The best known, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Bayn[...]
Enter C.S. Lewis's magical land of Narnia where enchanted creatures live and fierce battles are fought between good and evil. All seven titles in this universally loved classic series have been rejacketed with illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Each book stands alone as a work of genius, but toget[...]
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, written in 1949 by C. S. Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, an[...]
This work is a timeless classic on 'hell's latest novelties and heaven's unanswerable answer'. Screwtape is an experienced devil. His nephew Wormwood is just at the start of his demonic career, and has been assigned to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. In this humo[...]
"The Four Loves" summarizes four kinds of human love - affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. This book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. His reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love[...]
The paperback digest edition of "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" now has a movie tie-in cover, based on the new movie by Fox and Walden media, in theaters December 10, 2010.[...]