Today far more sailors than ever before have reached a superior level of competitive ability, and the few individuals who remain at the head of the competitive classes year and after year must constantly improve their skills. This book...

In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a...

THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight...

The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant,...

This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the...

Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering...

John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi...

Kayla Williams is one of the 15 percent of the U.S. Army that is female, and she is a great storyteller. With a voice that is "funny, frank and full of gritty details" (New York Daily News), she tells of enlisting under Clinton; of...

"The Norton Anthology of English Literature" ist eine umfassende Sammlung von englischer Literatur, die von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart reicht. Das Buch enthält Werke von bedeutenden Autoren wie Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Bronte...

"Great Perhaps" von Joe Meno ist ein Roman, der eine komplexe Familiengeschichte erzählt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Familie Casper, bestehend aus den Eltern Jonathan und Madeline sowie ihren beiden Töchtern Amelia und Thisbe. Jonathan ist...

Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings often held for years and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element...

"The Death of Vishnu" von Manil Suri ist ein Roman, der sich um das Leben und Sterben von Vishnu dreht, einem Mann, der auf der Treppe eines Wohnhauses in Mumbai lebt. Als Vishnu im Sterben liegt, entfaltet sich die Geschichte der...