The Virginian
The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where ...
West of Owen Wister
Owen Wister is remembered today almost solely as the author of The Virginian, yet his short stories, dating from the turn of the century, gave us our first real knowledge of the West's "wide, wild farm and ranch community, spotted with remote...
Brain Imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging methods have taken a commanding position in brain studies because they allow scientists to follow brain activities in the living human. The ability to measure cerebral anatomy, neuronal firing and brain metabolism has ex...
Rethinking the Buddha
A cornerstone of Buddhist philosophy, the doctrine of the four noble truths maintains that life is replete with suffering, desire is the cause of suffering, nirvana is the end of suffering, and the way to nirvana is the eightfold noble path. Altho...
Teaching as Community Property
For almost two decades, acclaimed education scholar and current president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Lee S. Shulman has been bringing uncommon wit, passion, and vision to issues of teaching and learning in higher e...
Midcentury Memories. The Anonymous Project
Rewind back to the midcentury, before the age of Instagram and Snapchat, where people were using 35mm cameras loaded with color film to document both monumental and mundane moments in their lives. They took pictures of their loved ones, their vaca...
Undermining Science
This vitally important expose shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even d...
Freedom and Despair
Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests ...
Vozvraschenie gosudarstva. Rossija v nulevye 2000-2012
Kniga sozdana na osnove onlajn-kursa lektsij, prochitannogo v 2016 godu, i posvjaschena politicheskoj istorii Rossii s 2000 po 2012 gody. Tselju avtora bylo najti ravnovesie mezhdu istoriej gosudarstva i istoriej obschestva, prosledit izmenenie gosudarstvennykh institutov, transformatsiju grupp interesov i povedencheskikh praktik. Soderzhanie: Glava 1. Novye normy. Chto izuchaet politicheskaja istorija? Glava 2. Sroki i sozyvy. Gosudarstvo 2000-kh ... Glava 3. Izgotovlenie bolshinstva. Ljudi 2000-kh Glava 4. Vertikalnaja Rossija. Reformy i kontrreformy Glava 5. Tjani-tolkaj. Izbiratelnaja sistema i partii Glava 6. Ne zarekajsja. Sudy i tjurmy Glava 7. Tsitadel i ee strazha. Istorija silovikov Glava 8. Priruchenie SMI. Ot pljuralizma k propagande Glava 9. Skelet Leviafana. Zhile, urbanizatsija i ZHKKh Glava 10. 'Goroda budut konkurirovat za ljudej'. O privatizatsii zhilja, gorodskom razvitii i mestnom samoupravlenii (Nadezhda Kosareva) Glava 11. Zemlja i eda. Agrarnaja Rossija Glava
Clothes... and other things that matter
*** 'Warm, thought-provoking and honest.' - Victoria Hislop 'Clever, emotionally intelligent, revelling in style without making us yearn to shop.' - The Times 'Self-deprecating and stylish, this is sure to become a classic.' - Vanity Fair 'Thought...
Inside Vogue
The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary. 'One of the great social diaries of our time . . . should become a classic.' Sunday Times 'Eye-popping, brilliantly candi...
Mouse
Get all the facts about caring for your mouse in this book. You'll learn about the right housing for your mouse, how to feed your pet properly and how to keep it in the best of health. You'll also discover why your mouse behaves the way it does an...
Cry in the Dark
A time-slip ghost story based in the gritty reality of Victorian London. Ben breaks into the empty house next door and discovers a family of children suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. Ben has to befriend someone from the fa...
Jean Harlow: An Intimate Biography
Jean Harlow's stunning blonde looks and shockingly blatant sexuality made her Hollywood's first and most sensational sex goddess. In all the wild, free-wheeling history of Hollywood since her death in 1937, no star has made such an impression. Des...
From Hire to Liar
"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert, difficult tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward mobility to seek.... Most people with work experience have encountered at least some version of exaggerated resumes, exploitative bos...
More than Real
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defini...
The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life
The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life covers the popular¿theories of Erving Goffman, and shows¿modern applications of dramaturgical analysis in a wide range of social contexts. David Shulman's innovative new t...
Tamil
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman pres...
My Mum
I was starting a new school -- all Mum had to do was blend into the crowd and everything would be fine. But within seconds I found myself standing in the school hall wearing a lipstick kiss on each cheek, while the rest of the class gazed on, spee...
Second Summer of Love
'The definitive look at dance music and club culture - a must read' - Paul Oakenfold 'Brilliantly woven collection of aural histories ... a damn fine read' - DJ MAG In 1987, four friends from London, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway ...
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Virginian
The novel that created the icon of the lonely, chivalrous american cowboy, the virginian is owen wister's well-written western adventure tale of the quiet,tough virginian cowboy, his tenderfoot friend, his schoolmarm bride, and their lives in the already dying frontier. UK YES
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering mas...