“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the...

"Nightlight: A Parody" von The Harvard Lampoon ist eine humorvolle und satirische Nachahmung der populären "Twilight"-Serie von Stephenie Meyer. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die Highschool-Schülerin Belle Goose, die besessen davon ist,...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 5 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably...

"Clandestine" ist ein Kriminalroman von James Ellroy, der in den 1950er Jahren in Los Angeles spielt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um den jungen Polizisten Fred Underhill, der ehrgeizig und entschlossen ist, seinen Platz im LAPD zu sichern....

The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. One of The...

"The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus" von Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg ist eine tiefgründige Analyse des biblischen Buches Exodus. Zornberg, eine renommierte Bibelgelehrte, bietet in diesem Werk eine einzigartige Kombination...

From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this "darkly funny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) questions...

"The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man" von David W. Maurer, nicht Luc Sante, ist ein klassisches Werk aus dem Jahr 1940, das sich mit der Welt der Trickbetrüger und Hochstapler beschäftigt. Das Buch bietet einen detaillierten...

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Use of Pleasure Foucault...

In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago’s most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar...

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that...