Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to c...

Twelfth Night, first performed around 1600, probably at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, is the tale of separated brother and sister twins Sebastian and Viola and their love entanglements. It also offers the rich comic colours of Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Twelfth Night is part of Naxos AudioBooks’ exciting new series of complete dramatisations of the works of Shakespeare, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. It uses the New Cambridge Shakespeare text, as ...

SHE WAS THE PERFECT WIFE—SO WHO KILLED HER?The widower says his wife was killed by gangs—but now he’s running for Mayor of New York City. Just to be sure (or else to portray himself as a properly mourning husband), he hires PIs Joey Mancuso and Father Dom to solve the murder. Only they can’t help noticing he’s pushing them to come to the gang conclusion as well. Hey, is something fishy here?Joey Mancuso, his priest half-brother—Father Dom—and their crack te...

A priest, an ex-cop, and three badass babes walk into a bar …Lucky for readers, that’s a great opportunity for the kind of rare mystery series with something for everyone—a tough guy, three awesome women, and a classic Golden Age gentleman-detective clergyman. The twist? The cop and the cleric are half-brothers who operate a PI firm out of their bar.Owen Parr pulls off a crowd-pleasing coup in the first entry in his Joey Mancuso/Father Dominic O’Brian series—a perfect blend...

The most up-to-date and gorgeous photographic collection of all 1,144 bird species in North America (including Hawaii!).A Great Blue Heron, a Wood Duck, a Baltimore Oriole, an Eastern Bluebird, or a Belted Kingfisher—which North American bird species is your favorite? In Birds of North America: A Photographic Atlas, Bruce M. Beehler provides the information and images you need to identify and enjoy each of the 1,144 amazing and diverse bird species recorde...

Too many leads, two few breaks, and only ten days to go in the trial of the year …Things are finally turning around at Captain O’Brian’s Pub and Cigar Bar, an oddball location for a PI office, but the kind of warm, buzzy scene every mystery reader loves. After first getting fired, then earning a glowing reputation in his first high-profile case as a PI, ex–NYPD Detective Joey Mancuso’s back on the crime scene with his half-brother and Brooklyn’s favorite man of the cloth, Father Do...

HE WAS JUST AN ORDINARY GUY— SO WHY WAS HE QUIETLY WHACKED?In his seventh hard boiled tale, New York-based private eye Joey Mancuso travels to the lush, verdant shores of Miami Beach. But this is no vacation—Joey’s wading knee deep into a gritty cesspool of corruption, using his street smarts and industry connections to investigate a vast financial conspiracy.A young hedge fund employee—a kid right out of college, green as can be—was killed by an anonymous sedan while on a ...

Begleiten Sie uns ins tropische Sansibar und erfahren Sie mehr über Geschichte und Kultur der ostafrikanischen Insel. Und: Bei einer klassischen Reise nach Großbritannien darf natürlich der Besuch in einem Pub nicht fehlen. Hier herrscht eine ganz eigene Sprache. Erfahren Sie typische Ausdrücke und Redewendungen - und setzen Sie diese mit unserem lustigen Quiz und interaktiven Dialog in die Praxis um. Prosit! Diesen Monat hören Sie Muttersprachler von den Vereinigten Staaten, Australien, N...