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Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown in social order but rather was seen as a reasonable way to get things done;... more...
The Breach
Scribner 2001; US$ 17.99The journalist who co-wrote the original article breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal for the Washington Post reveals the complete story behind the headlines: a riveting, in-depth account of an event unique in American history -- the first impeachment of an elected president. "For all of the titillation about thongs and cigars, the story of the... more...
The Beowulf Reader
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 40.95Gathering some of the most important studies from the past 25 years of Beowulf scholarship, The Beowulf Reader offers essential insights both to scholars in the field and to readers coming to this Old English literary masterpiece for the first time. The carefully selected essays in this volume represent the various approaches that have dominated recent... more...
Days of Fire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 35.00From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House?a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush... more...
Alvin Plantinga
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 24.00Few thinkers have had as much impact on contemporary philosophy as has Alvin Plantinga. more...
Introduction to Old English
Wiley 2011; US$ 46.95Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3 rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other... more...
Kremlin Rising
Scribner 2005; US$ 27.50In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful... more...
Kremlin Rising
Scribner 2005; Not AvailableIn the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful... more...
Kremlin Rising
Scribner 2005; Not AvailableIn the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful... more...
Kremlin Rising
Potomac Books Inc. 2007; US$ 18.95An eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia more...









