'A breathtakingly hilarious and absorbing portrait of one of the most brilliant, dotty, dippy delirious yet ultimately inspiring eccentrics in British history . . . A remarkable story of cultural life, friendship, obsession and passion' Stephen Fry**'**Brilliantly evocative, like listening to the gossip of ghosts' Bruce Robinson'The Bookseller of Hay is the very model of a biography which amazes, occasionally horrifies and ...

'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it gives of Philby's strange half-life in Beirut, where he was banished in 1956' GuardianLove & Deception is the extraordinary story of how Eleanor, an able, cultured American living in the espionage hot spot of 1950s Beirut, fell in love with the kindest of men. Unknown to her, that man, Kim Philby, was under suspicion b...

There is one mystery figure at the heart of 'Hackergate' -Glenn Mulcaire, the News of the World's top private investigator. The former AFC Wimbledon footballer has never spoken publicly or in court about his work investigating and backing up front-page news stories (such as the News of the World's award-winning David Beckham scoop). Mulcaire's arrest in 2006 for intercepting royal-household phone messages barely registered at the time. Yet his work has continued to generate headlines and e...

A fully updated edition of Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, the first major biography of David Cameron, and now covering his first years as Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government.David Cameron is the first Conservative Prime Minister in a generation, and also the first leader of a coalition government for eighty years. But what is the reality behind his brand of repackaged Conservatism? And who is Cameron the man?Here, for the first time, is an inde...

"Like Whitehead's The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole's When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris' The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land." – LOS ANGELES TIMES"An eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique." – KIESE LAYMONRecommended ...

Das Lebenswerk eines revolutionären Denkers, interdisziplinär betrachtetSeit der Industriellen Revolution vor 200 Jahren gelten Technik, Arbeit und Kapital als entscheidende Bestimmungsgrößen des ökonomischen und sozialen Fortschritts von Gesellschaften. Der Autodidakt Friedrich Engels setzte sich gemeinsam mit Karl Marx kritisch mit den Auswirkungen der Industrialisierung für die Arbeiterschaft auseinander. Dank seiner gewandten Feder und seiner Fremdsprachenkenntn...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) debütierte in der Kunstszene in einem entscheidenden Moment der Kunstgeschichte und wurde zu einer Pionierfigur. Während die Impressionisten den Inbegriff der Avantgarde verkörpern, erreichen Whistlers Gemälde ein Abstraktionsniveau, das vor ihm noch nie erreicht wurde. Seine Porträts aus dieser Zeit seines Lebens, insbesondere das seiner Mutter, zählen zu seinen bekanntesten. Stilistisch wurde Whistler von Gustave Courbet’s Realismus beeinflusst. ...

An autumn 2021 pick for New York Times * Observer * Esquire * O Quarterly * Chicago Tribune * Shondaland'[A] gripping piece of storytelling' GUARDIAN'Brilliantly conceived and unsettling' SUNDAY TIMES'Clever, insightful and unnerving' OBSERVERMost people didn't make it to Cell Six, he said. Most called out the safe wor...

"The Holy Land" follows William Taylor, a sincere Christian, and his family to travel to Jerusalem, Israel. Saladin is the current sultan of the Holy Land. He does not allow Christians to enter the Holy Land. Nevertheless, William and his family do not lose their faith. The Taylors believe that God will make the way for them."Walk by Faith" follows a modern-day woman named Dacia Bostrom who desires to share the Gospel of Christ in Japan. She faces financial difficulties while she i...

Christopher Nolan’s caped crusader trilogy—Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises—is considered by many to be one of the finest translations of comic book characters to the big screen. The second film in the series, The Dark Knight, was both a critical and commercial success, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker. The score—by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer and eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard—also received accolades, including...

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of government policies to address labor shortages associated with Japan's aging and declining population. What have these changes meant for Japan as a nation, as well as for foreign communities living in Japan? With contributions from a diverse group of thirteen scholars representing five academic discipl...

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle. Contribut...