Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he takes on the challenge of beating Know-all Nick in a sledge race, breaks a revolting world record, and changes the course of history during a battle re-enactment...

In questo volume del 1979, tradotto per la prima volta in Italia, i due autori elaborano l'impianto teorico di uno dei più fortunati concetti del campo degli studi sui mezzi di comunicazione, quello di media logic. Illustrano, con una prospettiva innovativa, i vari aspetti e processi dell'impatto dei media sulla vita sociale, specialmente sul modo in cui le persone vedono la realtà.

SNOW is the codename assigned to Arthur Owens, one of the most remarkable British spies of the Second World War. This typical Welsh underfed type became the first of the great double-cross agents who were to play a major part in Britain's victory over the Germans. When the stakes could not have been higher, MI5 sought to build a double-cross system based on the shifting loyalties of a duplicitous, philandering and vain anti-hero who was boastful and brave, reckless and calculating, ruthles...

**In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution.'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' – Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich**For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two narratives that underpin the troubled events of 1917. One puts the blame squarely on Tsar Nicholas ...

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the deli...

His bullet … His responsibilityCaught in crossfire between a bounty hunter and an outlaw, widowed mother Abby March, catches a bullet in the shoulder. The Christmas tree she and her son were cutting is forgotten as they fall under the care of a dangerous stranger. As she recovers, she finds that Ford Statler hides his softer side and has suffered the kind of loss she well understands. As Christmas, and their parting approach, she ...

Desperate to escape capture …This deception could cost her everything.Fleeing apprehension for a crime she didn’t commit, Eliza Flannery runs into the town sheriff who thinks she’s the housekeeper he’s expecting. Out of the frying pan and into the kitchen fires, Eliza is out of her element. As a lady’s companion, she has no experience tending a home. But she keeps silent because of her belief that her innocence will ma...

Within the walls of Truvy’s beauty shop are six women whose lives increasingly hinge on the existence of one another. Together, they absorb the passing seasons, just like the weathered wooden structure of the salon “home” that they share.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starringFrances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt,Amy Pietz, Brittany Snow, Jocelyn Towne. Additional voices by Josh Clark.Directed by Jessica Kubzansky and recorded before an aud...

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the deli...

A collection of previously unpublished short prose by one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century fiction.Little Snow Landscape opens in 1905 with an encomium to Robert Walser’s homeland and concludes in 1933 with a meditation on his childhood in Biel, the town of his birth, published in the last of his four years in the cantonal mental hospital in Waldau outside Bern. Between these two poles, the book maps Walser’s outer and inner wanderings ...

The book offers a study of a fascinating political personality, that of Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo (2012-2020). Abe's political career was boosted by his predecessor Koizumi Jun.ichiro and he seemed extremely promising at 51 when he rose to become the youngest Cabinet Secretariat chief, however once in power in 2007 he disappointed by resigning after only one year. Yet, he rose again in 2012 to become the longest-serving prime minister of Japan's history since the end of the Meiji ...

The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel to date.And this is how the world will end ...'The snow started falling on the sixth of September, soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths, or like static interference on your TV screen - whichever metaphor, nature or technology, you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere, all through the air, with that distinctive sense of hurrying th...