Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.
In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the [...]
Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography, Yates himself serves as the fascin[...]
This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science perspective. It provides an up-to-date student oriented treatment of information retrieval including extensive coverage of new topics such as web retrieval, web crawling, open source search[...]
This major new textbook has been written by a team of highly experience senior examiners for A2 students to fully understand the content and requirements of the new specification, giving them the opportunity to develop essential skills for successful grades.[...]
The final book in "The Call of Duty" trilogy
A duty to the past...
After fifteen years in self-imposed exile, the haunted rebel prince Xander Drakos must walk back through the palace gates and assume the role he once abandoned.
Only one woman can restore his good name--the woman he left [...]
"La solucion era una noche inolvidable en la que ambos pudieran cumplir todos sus deseos..."
La primera vez que Maddy Forrester oyo la embriagadora voz de su jefe por telefono, dedujo que era un hombre formidable. Sin embargo, nada habria podido prepararla para el momento en el que se encontro c[...]
A onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates
Sadie Miller isn't expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. T[...]
There are lines best friends shouldn't cross, but in Copper Ridge, Oregon, the temptation might be too much...
If practice makes perfect, Connor Garrett should be world champion of being alone. Since losing his wife he's concentrated exclusively on his family's ranch. Until Felicity Foster needs[...]
Can the bad boy of Copper Ridge, Oregon, make good--and win the rodeo girl of his dreams?
Kate Garrett keeps life simple--working hard, riding her beloved horses, playing cards with her brothers. Lately, though, she feels a bit restless, especially when family friend Jack Monaghan is around. Sex[...]
With a new introduction by Richard Ford
"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William Styron
From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the o[...]
In a small Long Island town during the first months of World War II, Evan Shepard, a young machinist married for the second time, agrees to share a house with his wife's family and becomes torn by divided loyalties[...]
Another extraordinary neglected classic by the author of 'Revolutionary Road'.
Follows the adolescent adventures of William Grove, a boy with no father figure (his parents are divorced) who tries to make a man out of himself after he is shipped to a boarding school designed for children who don't fit in. This work presents a tale of adolescence, slightly reminiscent of "Catche[...]
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilizat[...]
A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the gen[...]
Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way f[...]
On publication in 2009 John Hattie's Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children's learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced the [...]
A study of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a large nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system. It explores the ISO's role as a facilitator of essential economic infrastructure and the implication of ISO techniques for a[...]
"Steamy....complete with secrets, anger, intrigue, and love."--Publisher's Weekly
In the latest Silver Creek romance from USA Today bestselling author Maisey Yates, former rodeo star Cade Mitchell may never ride again, but there are still a few things he can do--like care for the woman he loves.[...]