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When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna´s "bride price" - the money that her future husband will pay for...

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said "No!" He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. A...

Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter´s life. There´s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes...

This is a 6 level series of readers for children learning English, bringing together a variety of enjoyable fiction and non-fiction titles. The series provides reinforcement of the basic structures an...

Andi e Bruce precisam de um lugar para esconder seu cachorro, Friday. Eles então descobrem um hotel abandonado e o transformam em um refúgio para cachorros de rua. Os animais se divertem muito no hote...

For fifty years after Dr Watson´s death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and ...

Police detective John Calvino is visiting the confines of a state hospital to interrogate Lucas, a mentally disturbed fourteen-year-old who´s just confessed to a horrific crime. The boy seems wiser th...

When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term "geoengineering," he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply skeptical. But he w...

Ce récit, frais et introspectif, se déroule dans une résidence de classe moyenne et dessine la trajectoire de deux voisins qui se croisent régulièrement dans lascenseur de limmeuble. Tandis que lun ne...

Homo ludens é a obra mais importante na filosofia da história em nosso século. Escritor de inteligência aguda e poderosa, ajudado por um dom de expressão e exposição que é muito raro, huizinga reúne e...

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. This is the total original text and was transcribed by the Englishman John Burton. It flows with the hint of that era somehow and Burton puts some jocular points in at th...

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature, covering 1066-1547, for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors provide information on a vast range of literary t...

Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relatio...

The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Ada...

If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier. Travel fast enough and you could weigh as much as a jumbo jet, be flattened thinner than a CD without feeling a thing...

Tana Hoban changes the way we look at the world. After you read this book, you will find yourself seeing circles and squares everywhere. And they will surprise you -- because they will be where you ha...

The script for the film ´An Education´, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on...

The sequel to Kill Zone (2007) puts a target on former marine sniper Kyle Swanson’s back. Believed to be dead, Swanson takes on secret missions under the radar of the conventional alphabet agencies. A...

The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture. This new, completely revised and updated edition of Malcolm Bradbury´s examination of...

For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents the f...

Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. The 2007 edition of this Companion brings the story of the movement´s continuing...

Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say that they ar...

At a café table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting. Among the brightest and best of his grad...

Written by an international team of both medievalists and early modernists, essays in this volume consider the ways in which medieval culture made itself felt in the literature and culture of Renaissa...

Master the key elements of electromechanical components Essential to the design, repair, or operation of your electromechanical devices, this quick-find reference provides illustrations, descriptions,...

here really is... ...no clean way to say this, so here goes: for as long as I can remember I have always loved animals, sex and music, especially percussion. In fact, I have been told I jerk harder th...

Edinburgh is a level 6 fact and fiction primary Reader, with back-of-book activities and Picture Dictionary.