One extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforgettable story.Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boi...
You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife.In this funny and ...
The history of British Railways in the late 1950s/early 1960s is characterised by change; massive change, as its management attempted to meet statutory obligations against a background of social, e...
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his crea...
Photography and pop-culture buffs, get out your crayons and colored pencils! Martin Parr’s colorful and tongue-in-cheek photographs—his comedy of contemporary manners—have been tr...
Award-winning China Mieville's entry in the highly publicized DC Comics- The New 52, Dial H, is now collected in this deluxe edition!There exists dials in the world that hold unbelievable power - t...
Seria "Vera" została zekranizowana z Brendą Blethyn – dwukrotnie nominowaną do Oscara laureatką Złotego Globu i Złotej Palmy – jako serial telewizyjny bijący na świecie rekord...
It is 1889. Civil war is brewing in Mexico, and sixteen-year-old Teresita has just woken from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream.This passionate an...
Our world is an amazing place. It's full of rivers, mountains, animals, and too many other amazing places to count. But that's not all. There's also families, friends, music, technology, language, ...
Świętosław Orzelski herbu Dryja (1549–1598), potomek rodu szlacheckiego wywodzącego się z Borzejowic koło Żnina, starosta radziejowski, poseł sejmowy i historyk był autorem dzieła Acta interr...
The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends.In Leaders, retired four-star general S...
The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Cl...
A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary...
A sweeping, breathtakingly ambitious novel about power, wealth and truth, told by four unique, interlocking voices and set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York.The long-forg...
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth ...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream – and whether it’s possible to leave the past behind.
This compendium of amazing animals, plants, rocks and minerals, and microorganisms will wow children and many adults, too. With 100 remarkable items from the natural world, from orchids to opals an...
The troops returning home to Germany after the 1918 Armistice found their country riven by internal unrest, and its eastern borders threatened. Though reluctant to support the new Republic, the man...
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of 100 of literature's sexiest stories, chosen by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review.Strict mistresses, naughty m...
Roach - bookseller, loner and true crime obsessive - is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep.