PDQ is the perfect course for the person who wishes to take the first steps towards speaking a new language or would like to learn all the language needed for travelling and holidays abroad. Contents, audio recordings and course book.[...]

Sadoc, a retired shipping clerk lying diseased and dying on the outreaches of the Roman Empire, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity.[...]

Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of characters, this title lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.[...]

Over 120 of the greatest chess games of all time, selected, analyzed, re-evaluated, and explained by a team of experts and illustrated with over 1,000 diagrams. Study the games to learn: how to attack; defense and counterattack; psychological warfare; how great players think; and much more.[...]

The author of Clockwork Orange makes a foray into literary biography, making Shakespeare contempory in his new, unique portrait of the Bard and his theatrical works, all set against the backdrop of Elizabethan England. Reprint.[...]

The Holy Spirit: Medieval Roman Catholic and Reformation Traditions (Sixth-Sixteenth Centuries) is the third in a series of three volumes devoted to the history of Christian pneumatology.In the first volume, The Holy Spirit: Ancient Christian Traditions (formerly titled The Spirit and the Church: An[...]

"Into That Silent Sea" tells the intimate stories of the men and women, American and Russian, who made the space race their own and gave the era its compelling character. These pages chronicle a varied and riveting parade of human stories, including a look at Yuri Gagarin's harrowing childhood in wa[...]

Seventeen stories deal with a middle-aged romance, a child's pain, a man living in the past, pilots during World War II, and an absent-minded old man[...]

Cyprinids rank as one of the most commercially important groups of freshwater fishes and are exploited for many purposes; as a human food source, especially in Europe and Asia; as sport fish; and as ornamental fish for ponds and aquaria. Certain species are also cultured as bait fish and several of [...]