This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Proofreading emerges here as far more than a mechanical check: it is a disciplined, exacting craft that protects the integrity of printing, publishing, and authorship. From the first galley proof to the final press proof, the book traces how copy is prepared, set in type, corrected, paged, illustrated, and approved, showing how even careful work can still carry errors. It follows the evolution of proofreadin...

When the woman from his dreams winds up in his bed…Mr. Malcolm Brown has no illusions about his place in the world. Illegitimate, surly, and rough-edged, he manages the thriving farm on his half-brother George’s Somerset estate and has neither the breeding nor temperament for polite society. He’s sworn to never marry or become a libertine like his father. Still, his nightly dreams torment him with the sensual pleasures he denies himself during the day....

They are both pretending to be someone else for the night…When Catherine Forster asks a handsome stranger to lead her out of the ballroom and into the Tremberley gardens, she hopes to glimpse its renowned Roman ruins…and maybe steal a kiss. But when she and her delectable escort are discovered in a scandalous embrace, Catherine is horrified to learn that she has been kissing John Breminster, heir to the man who ruined her family.Given that the Forsters are ...

From the long-tenured head Goldman Sachs - an institution legendary for its culture of success - comes a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence'Lloyd Blankfein is scary smart about people, markets, and life generally. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Lloyd acted decisively, and he tells the story of what happened with unique insights' WARREN BUFFETT'A sharp insider's guide to the er...

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick'A brilliantly clever tale about time travel gone wrong. Bold, convincing and beautifully told – I could not put this book down' – CLARE LESLIE HALL'So impressive. It made me see London in a completely new way and brought the Blitz to life. Incredibly clever – I loved it' – HARRIET TYCE'Ellery Lloyd is one of my favourite writers. Time to Burn is a riveting time traveler thriller...

This book argues that the key to understanding the philosophical connections between Plato and Proclus is found in Proclus' extant commentaries on the dialogues. Although none are complete, they comprise some 3000 pages of detailed exegesis and philosophical argument. Lloyd P. Gerson examines each of these commentaries and demonstrates how Proclus' constructive metaphysics is dedicated to filling in 'gaps' in Plato's own presentation of a philosophical system, gaps that Plato himself repea...

From the Eisner-nominated creators of instant bestsellers Allergic and Squished comes a charming and funny graphic novel about family, friendship, and self-discovery!Twelve-year-old Luna never wanted to move from California to Virginia, even if it is near historic Washington, DC, and no matter how excited her dad is to introduce her to the area where her late mother grew up. And she definitely doesn't want to live with a very formal grandmother sh...

*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave.Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? W...

The book is a painstakingly hand digitized copy of an original hand printed Journal that was kept in store bought plain journals so the readers of the handprinted Journal could stay alert to situations occurring in the Prime Booth.

The book is a painstakingly hand digitized copy of an original hand printed Journal that was kept in store bought plain journals so the readers of the handprinted Journal could stay alert to situations occurring in the Prime Booth.

When Elsinore Cosgrove escapes a ballroom in search of adventure, she has no idea it will lead to a hasty marriage. The youngest daughter of a duke, all she wants is to make her own choices. Now she's engaged to an infuriating, handsome Scottish baron who doesn't even know her name! Using all her feminine wiles, along with advice gleaned from a training guide for hunting hounds, Elsinore is determined to mold her baron into the husband she wants.Quin Graham is a man with many secre...

Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie and Downton Abbey in this beguiling new Regency set series, as drastic circumstances compel Lady Caroline Morton, the penniless daughter of a deceased earl, to join the “downstairs” working class as a lady’s companion… whose duties soon involve solving a murder!Following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or ho...