'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment it is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.' Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily a[...]

Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter
Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper[...]

The magazine world's monthly arbiter of culture, personality and world affairs, "Vanity Fair" has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its re-launch twenty-five years ago. Now, for the first time ever, "Vanity Fair" presents a one-of-a-kind collection fea[...]

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring, intellectually demanding, and emotionally co[...]

Captain Teachum has a reputation as a wicked and terrible pirate. He has, so his readers are told, led a life of crime: capturing ships, making his enemies walk the plank, and burying stolen treasure all over the world. But then we discover some unexpected secrets about Captain Teachum's home life: [...]

The Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment brings together for the first time, leading clinical researchers to provide empirically based recommendations for assessment of social-emotional and behaviour problems and disorders in the earliest years. Each author presents s[...]

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory[...]

Global Marketing Management adopts a strategic management framework and provides an examination of key management decisions. The implications for developing and executing successful global marketing programmes are discussed, enabling students to understand the impact of decisions on marketing effort[...]

If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the frontline. These small places are the heart of the war.
Modeled on the classic Vietnam War book, War Comes to Long An, Malkasia[...]

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134057279. Updated, expanded, and more comprehensive than ever, this new Fifth Edition a classic family therapy resource, The Expande[...]