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• The Art of Sound Reproduction
  Designed to make life a little easier by providing all the theoretical background necessary to understand sound reproduction, backed up with practical examples. Specialist terms - both musical and physical - are defined as they occur and plain English is used throughout. Analog and digital audio ar...
• The British Museum Book of Badges
  The British Museum houses a large but unsung collection of badges, the best of which are presented and explored in this stylish book which traces the evolution of the badge over the last 400 years within Britain, Europe and America. Throughout, the humble badge has been used as a tool to signify po...
• The Michelin Man
  Over 100 years old, Bibendum, the Michelin Man, has been the subject of thousands of advertising and automobilia items around the world, many with exceptional graphic designs. Concentrating on 1900 to the1950s, this book presents over 400 beautiful c...
• The Disney Treasures
  Selected from the vast archives of the Walt Disney Company, this historic collection includes handwritten letters and notes of Walt's, rare character sketches from the 1930's and 1940's, replicas of Disneyland's opening-day tickets, photos, movie theater programs, comic strips, greeting cards, comm...
• The Disney Keepsakes
  In The Disney Treasures, author Robert Tieman led readers on a tour through some of the highlights of Walt Disney's career and company, from his early sketches and biography to the beginnings of his last projects at Walt Disney World and the building of an international audience for Mickey and frie...
• The History of the World in Stamps
  Laurent Lemerle became a stamp collector after he discovered, in the attic of his family's home, an album that was put together by his father during World War II. Today, he owns over 10,000 stamps published during the 20th century that come from every country in the world. Stamps of the World inclu...
• The Art and Life of Weaver Hawkins
  Some of the most individual and symbolic paintings produced in Australia were those of Harold Frederick Weaver Hawkins (1893-1977). English-born, Hawkins arrived in Australia in 1935 with a background very different to that of his comtemporaries. And yet until his death in 1977 he remained a unique...
• The Judgement of Paris
  It is hard to believe it now, but in 1863, the French painter, Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the 'Salon' - that all-important public exhibition of Art held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his work...
• Theatre de la Mode
  Harnessing the romance of the world of fashion and high art, this fascinating story of a collection of miniature mannequins describes the birth of Theatre de la Mode, the Theater of Fashion. Full of stars such as Robert Ricci (Nina Ricci's son), filmmaker Jean Cocteau, and other members of the 1944...
• The Human Form in Mosaic
  The Human Form in Mosaic is an original and revelatory exploration in the hands of an accomplished artist and author, using the human form as a means to introduce the reader to the technique of mosaic-making. The author guides the reader through the step-by-step process of individually cutting and ...
• The Codex Borgia
  First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex -- priceless original is in Vatican Library -- thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. AD 1400. 76 large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs....
• The Best Defense
  Douglas J. Feith, the Bush Administration's most influential and controversial international policy strategist, offers an intimate, you-are-there chronicle of the planning of the War on Terror. A highly influential international policy analyst for mo...
• The Diana Chronicles
  Princess Diana stole the world's heart, but what was at the heart of her complex behaviour? Tina Brown penetrates Diana's world revealing Diana's tumultuous inner life as no one else has done before. She documents who was really to blame for Diana's untimely death. She reveals t...
• The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham
  The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business-like investor. Follow Graham and you will profit from folly rather than participate in it.-Warren E. Buffett. [Graham] is the genius who literally created the framework for investment analysis that leads to successful i...
• The Millionaire Real Estate Agent
• Taming the Lion
  In this fascinating book Richard Farleigh reveals the investing strategies that have taken him from a modest start in Australia to being one of Europe's most influential entrepreneurs and a resident of high-rolling Monaco. The knowledge and wisdom gained along the way ?from managing the Sydney trad...
• The Ethical Investor
  This ground-breaking book explains how you can put your money where your heart is and still make healthy profits. Investing ethically alows you to reap personal and financial rewards and help influence change as well. It covers all aspects of this complex topic....
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workbook
  In the years following the publication of Patrick Lencioni's best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, fans have been clamoring for more information on how to implement the ideas outlined in the book. In Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni offers more specific, practical guidanc...
• Tiger, Tiger
  A swashbuckling tale set in Ancient Rome. The setting of this novel is Ancient Rome, where Caeser is all-powerful, Christians are heretics who must die, and animals are mere playthings, to be baited, challenged and destroyed...Two tiger cubs are transported on a frightening voyage from their home t...
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a ...
• The Blue is for Nightmares Collection
  Laurie Faria Stolarz's widely-popular novels - Blue is for Nightmares, White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets and Red is for Remembrance - are now available in a boxed set! Stolarz's pitch-perfect dialogue and fast-paced storytelling have made these four suspense thrillers into huge hits for tee...
• The Book of the Flame
  I have never been more alert. And yet I've never felt less safe. L.A. is filled with new and old friends, but which ones can I trust? I only know for sure that I must go on without the one that I love. Friends and boyfriends will get me nowhere. I'll have to fight to find my way home. I am Samurai ...
• The Case of the Absent Author
  Dink writes to his favourite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink''s amazement, Wallace says he will come, but when th e big day arrives, Wallace is nowhere to be found. ' Also available as second-hand book from $9.00...
• The Coach
  The ultimate inside story about football. In 1977, writer John Powers was a fly on the wall at the North Melbourne Football Club when revered coach Ron Barassi was in control. The book that emerged from that season, 'The Coach', recorded the months of often brutal training leading up to t...
• The End
  In the 1960s, the fishing village of Montauk became the surfer's paradise of the United States' East Coast. Located as the tip of Long Island's South Fork, the easternmost point of the Hamptons, this paradise existed primarily for locals - not surfers who migrated to the beach for the summer, but t...
• The Encyclopedia of Immaturity
  How to never grow up, the complete guide. The Encyclopedia of Immaturity contains more than 300 entries: how to ride a unicycle; how to skip a stone; how to do a wheelie; how to make the world's best paper aeroplane; how to hang a spoon from your nose; how to levitate; how to sneak around; how to r...
• The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
  These well-known tales, including the adventures of Jason, Theseus and Odysseus and the stories of Icarus and King Midas, are retold for today's children by talented storyteller Geraldine McCaughrean with glorious illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark....
• The Philosophy Files
  Is there a God, should I eat meat, where does the universe come from, could I live for ever as a robot? These are the big questions readers will be wrestling with in this thoroughly enjoyable book. Dip into any chapter and you will find lively scenarios and dialogues to take you through philosophic...
• The Complete Book of Diabetic Cooking
  A complete guide to living with diabetes with advice on managing the condiiton, alleviating the symptoms, controlling your weight and reducing medication, with a fantastic collection of tempting but healthy recipes...
• The Adventurous Scrapbooker
  Life is filled with thrills--and sometimes a mass-produced, commercially available scrapbook just isn't exciting or unique enough for the events it's celebrating. What's a scrapbooker to do? Create something original! These 25 inventive projects offer expressive ways to preserve, showcase, and shar...
• The Art of the Book
  Illuminated manuscripts, comics, fine bindings, the classics of children's literature, artists' books and their working documents - these are just some of the remarkable items to be found in the National Art Library at the V&A. In a series of thematic chapters, the contributors draw on their wi...
• The Art of the Scrapbook
  This volume shows artisans and craftspeople how to create tasteful, elegant albums and portfolios that can be personalized to become family heirlooms that can be passed down through generations. Instructions in simple paper decorating, collage and bo...
• The Old Stone Rubbing Kit
  Gravestone, monument, and brass rubbing--the process of capturing relief impressions of lettering, carvings or designs from stone or brass plates--is an ancient and beautiful art with widespread contemporary appeal. Because it produces stunning images, as well as teaching us fascinating facts about...
• Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century
• The Art of Bookbinding
  Hobbyists can learn from a professional with this classic of the craft. The author, whose custom bookbinding has been renowned throughout Europe since the 1900s, offers expert, easy-to-follow advice on every stage, from folding the leaves and sewing them into signatures to gluing, gilding edges, co...
• The Penland Book of Handmade Books
  Every year Penland, the innovative school where crafters from around the world come to hone their skills, offers a master class in the art of bookmaking that's simply without equal. Now it's available to everyone, in a technical and inspirational guide that showcases 10 contemporary book artists wh...
• The Seventy Great Battles of All Time
  Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BC to the present. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, the Tet Offensive....The latest book in the popular Seventies series assesses t...
• The Making of Strategy
  Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to strategists, and of great interest to studen...
• The Stilwell Papers
  His American men worshipped him. The Chinese armies he trained and led would have gone through hell for him. But the politicians, both in Chunk-King and Washington, hated his guts. And after two and a half years of bitter struggle in the China-Burma-India theater during the dog days of World War II...
• The Great Warbow
  Crucial to our understanding of archery through the ages was the discovery of the wreck of the Mary Rose. Built during Henry VIII's reign, she sank in 1545 and it was not until 1979 that a great discovery was made. On board were chests of bows, many in excellent condition, which challenged ideas of...
• The Link Between Health, Social Issues, and Secondary Education
  The Link between Health, Social Issues and Secondary Education is based on country studies in six Sub-Saharan African countries - Eritrea, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, and a literature review. It looks at the role of secondary education and training in promoting health, civics...
• Thriving as an RE Teacher
• Tom Thumb's Musical Maths
  Tom Thumb's musical maths - the book which put the fun into the numeracy hour - is relaunching with a fresh new cover. This wonderfully clever collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches numceracy skills in fun and memorable ways. Completely new is a whole set of content links with ...
• The Essential Research Guide to Doing Research
• The Schools Our Children Deserve
  In this lively, provocative and well-researched book (Theodore Sizer), AlTe Kohn builds a powerful argument against the back to basics philosophy of teaching and simplistic demands to raise the bar. Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and o...
• Teaching Primary Science Constructively
  Written for students in undergraduate primary teacher education courses and for practising primary teachers. It enables teachers to facilitate their students' understanding of how their world works from a scientific point of view....
• The Mighty Toddler
  Practical and essential, The Mighty Toddler includes key milestones for each age group a complete ABC of toddler behaviour and responses a guide to day-to-day toddler care explanations about toddler health, medical conditions and illnesses and Robin's down-to-earth advice on how to keep your life o...
• The No Cry Potty Training Solution
  From bestselling parenting author Elizabeth Pantley comes a potty-training plan that is foolproof and easy to implement. The No-Cry Potty Training Solution is a realistic, stress-free plan to help your child become independent in the bathroom. Pantley's potty training solutions are realistic, as th...
• The Secret of Happy Parents
  This essential guide for anyone looking for advice on how to deal with life as a couple or a family includes: How to grow commitment in small, safe steps. Love, Lust and Liking -- telling them apart and bringing them together. Diagnosing your 'couple style'. The 'make-or-break' crises that every ma...
• Tricky Kids
  What would it be like to have to parent Bart Simpson or Angelica Pickles? Every day, many parents and teachers struggle with challenging (and lovable) children who have willful personalities. These are often kids who are stubborn, defiant, determined, free-spirited or just plain difficult. Yet whil...
• The Book of Happy Endings
  Two childhood sweethearts meet again as adults, a young woman defies tradition, new love grows from the ruins of an earlier relationship, exiles find home in each other, love flourishes late in life, handwritten letters span the distance of oceans...We love to hear about love. In a world of bad new...
• The Not So Invisible Woman
  Middle-aged single mother and entertainment publicist Suzanne Portnoy leads a double life. Monday to Friday, she's a professional executive devoted to her two adolescent boys. But at weekends she spends her kid-free hours having sex, with a different man each time. Or multiple men. Picking up where...
• The Bourne Identity
  He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face strange things he says in his delirium, which could be code words. And a number on the film neg...
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  From the author of the phenomenal number one bestseller TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, comes this enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement ...
• The Gathering
  The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there t...
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish
  You're not idiot, of course. You can serve up a mean s'il vous plait in a French bistro, live la vida loca for a night of margaritas, and manage a sayonara! after sushi, sake, and karaoke. But when it comes to throwing around a little Yiddish, you feel like a total nebbish! Don't throw your hands i...
• The Biggest Game in Town
  Since its first publication twenty years ago, The Biggest Game in Town has become a sought-after cult classic. Acclaimed writer and critic Al Alvarez delves into the murky and compelling world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where 'the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing'. Unco...
• The Daily Telegraph Big Book of Cryptic Crosswords: Bk.8
  Crosswords can be addictive - and in this new collection you can get more than your daily fix of clues. Containing 240 carefully constructed puzzles set in an easy-to-use larger format, this book provides the perfect portable entertainment, and an ideal way to keep the brain fully exercised. As alw...
• The GAMBIT Guide to the Modern Benoni
  This is the first thorough guide to the way the Modern Benoni is being handled at the start of the 21st century This objective guide to one of Black's most swashbuckling openings explains how, from the outset, Black creates extreme imbalance, setting...
• Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders
  Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular culture....
• The Age Crossword Dictionary
  The essential Australian reference for crossword fans. Do you know the name of Don Quixote's horse? What is another name for the first Sunday in Lent? Who won the Melbourne Cup in 1865? All the answers to even the trickiest of clues are here in The Age Crossword Dictionary. The extensive compilatio...
• The Concise Guide to Self-sufficiency
  Start living the 'Good Life'. Pick up this handy compact favourite from 'the grand master of self-sufficiency' (Kitchen Garden) and discover how to enjoy a sustainable lifestyle. Easy-to-follow, this guide not only tells you what to do, but shows you how to do it. Follow practical know-how: from cr...
• The Herbal Home Spa
  Recipes for creating personal care products. Includes herbal shampoos, dyes and conditioners, treatments for tired, irritated eyes, facial steams, scrubs and masks, massage oils and body wraps, and herbal hand treatments. Contains instructions for purchasing and storing natural ingredients and info...
• The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet
  Boost your health and vitality while losing weight How many diets have you tried that haven't worked for you? The Total Wellbeing Diet, developed by Australia's CSIRO, is not just another diet, it's a long-term healthy eating plan that can make you feel great. * Easy to use * ...
• The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Book 2
  Following on from the phenomenal success of The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, comes Book 2 of the diet. This companion volume provides everything you need to keep on track with your healthy new lifestyle: a summary of the essential principles of the diet; over 80 delicious new recipes, together with ...
• The Fastest Way to Get Pregnant Naturally
• The Irritable Bowel Syndrome Source Book
  The Irritable Bowel Syndrome Sourcebook is a guide to taking control of this debilitating condition - from creating a journal, to tracking IBS triggers (food, drink, and stress), to finding the right diet and exercise to counteract the condition. You will also learn how alternative therapies may be...
• The History of Sexuality: The use of Pleasure v. 2
  This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas...
• The Last Man Standing
  This biography is based on the wartime experiences of Herb Ashby, an Australian soldier who was the sole survivor of his company, after a key action during the Battle of El Alamein....
• The Last Mughal
  At 4 p.m. on a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, 'No vestige should remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rest...
• The Little Ice Age
  [The Little Ice Age] could do for the historical study of climate what Michel Foucault's classic Madness and Civilization did for the historical study of mental illness: make it a respectable subject for scholarly inquiry. -Scientific American.. The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, ...
• The Lost
  Tells the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. It transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold...
• The Mess they Made
  Argues that the Middle East is about to change fundamentally and everything is now up for grabs: regimes, ethinic pecking orders within states, even national borders themselves are liable to change without notice. Five years from now there could be an Islamic Republic of Arabia, an independent Kurd...
• The Price of Glory
  Verdun was the battle which lasted ten months the battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of 15 miles the battle whose aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death on the battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now the nearest thing to desert in Europe. This boo...
• The Sea Captain's Wife
  From five hundred family letters, award-winning historian Martha Hodes re-creates the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman - Eunice Connolly's family divided over the American Civil War and she later married across the colour line. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of A...
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
  The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almos...
• Treehouses and Playhouses You Can Build
  Treehouses & Playhouses You Can Build shows how average do-it-yourself families can easily and affordably bring to life a Hobbit's Treehouse, a Pirate's Playhouse, or a Crow's Nest in their own backyards! There are a lot of books out there filled with enchanting photos of elaborate treehouses a...
• The Meaning of Liff
  In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these meanings....
• The Smelly Dog
  With his charming twinkly stare and his bouncing enthusiasm, Horace exudes lovability. Unfortunately that's not all he exudes. His breath is like napalm, his coat is matted with weeds from the goldfish pond, and -- ever since the ban on hunting -- Eau de Horace has carried subtle topnotes of fox po...
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  Chris is 15 and has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. The more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets...
• The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two
  From the creator of the popular A.Word.A.Day e-mail newsletter A collection of some of the most interesting stories and fascinating origins behind more than 300 words, names, and terms by the founder of WordSmith.org. Did you know: Thereas a word for the pleasant smell that accompanies the fi...
• Teach Yourself Brazilian Portuguese
  Teach Yourself Brazilian Portuguese is the course for anyone who wants to progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking and writing Brazilian Portuguese with confidence. Although aimed at those with no previous knowledge, it is equally suitable for anyone wishing to brush up existing ...
• The Giver
  Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Sta...
• The Personal Employment Contract
  This book is an analytical study of the current English law of traditional contracts of employment and of other personal employment contracts. Concentrating on the common law basis of individual employment law, it takes full account of relevant British and European Community legislation up to and i...
• The Supreme Court in Conference
  In public, Supreme Court Justices are not known for their candor while ruling upon a case. In private, however, a few days after hearing oral arguments, before deciding upon the case, the Justices openly discuss their views in what is known as the "Conference." Here, for the first time, are the tra...
• The Regulatory Craft
  The Regulatory Craft tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our timethe reform of regulatory and enforcement practice. Malcolm K. Sparrow shows how the vogue prescriptions for reform (centered on concepts of customer service and process improvement) fail to take account of the dis...
• The Family Law Handbook
  A practical guide for people involved in or contemplating separation or divorce. Written in plain English, it explains the workings of the Australian system of family law including the major changes implemented in 2006 and guides the reader through both the choices and the practical tasks facing a ...
• The Assassin's Cloak
  A remarkably wide-ranging anthology - laid out, day by day, like a diary - The Assassin's Cloak has been universally praised. With entries from Pepys, Boswell, Scott, Woolf and Adrian Mole Kenneth Williams, Brian Eno, Jean Cocteau, Evelyn Waugh and Alan Clark, there are 365 opportunities to combine...
• The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-up
  Susan Orlean's collection of profiles ranges from the well-known (Marky Mark) to the unknown (Colin Duffy, a typical American man, aged ten) to the formerly known (the cult sixties girl group the Shaggs). Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy,...
• The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
  A gorgeous one-volume gift edition containing the most important works of acclaimed writer C. S. Lewis. For the first time ever, the essential volumes by one of the most celebrated literary figures of our time are available in one deluxe gift edition...
• The Essential Spike Milligan
  A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history - as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. Milligan's themes ranged...
• The Legacy of Cain
  When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child?...
• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story of a romance, from its reckless, ecstatic...
• Tonio Kroger, Death in Venice and Other Writings
  Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. Death in Venice, later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on...
• The Trees of Hands: AND A Demon in My View
  Two Ruth Rendell mysteries in one volume The Trees of Hands, and Demon in my View....
• The Bicentennial Man
  This collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov's single finest robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories have the characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination....
• The Common Reader
  Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as Modern Fiction and The Modern Essay. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie Index....
• The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung. (Abridged Edition)
  'The substance of intellectual history at a turning point is in these letters. The impression is of two immensely ambitious, self-willed, often inspired men, who had set themselves apart as innovators, roped together in a long climb into a new world.' -The Observe...
• Truth and Beauty
  Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first work of non-fiction is a book about her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. It is remarkable for me to remember now that I thought it would be possible to walk away from her, that s...
• The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Books, Broadcasts and the War, 1931-1949 v. 2
  The letters found in Volume II reveal inside accounts of how The Screwtape Letters came to be written, the early meetings of the Inklings (with J.R.R. Tolkien giving readings about hobbits and Middle Earth), how C. S. Lewis became popular through BBC radio talks, but mostly how this quiet professor...