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The Hare With Amber Eyes
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 13.34THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far... more...
Beethoven
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99?Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage?or should one say, duet?of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates.? ? Christopher Buckley, Forbes ?This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional?and inestimable?merit of being true.? ? Washington Post Book World Pulitzer Prize-winning... more...
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 15.99The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who ?burned like a comet? in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox. The renowned ceramicist... more...
The Faerie Queene, Complete in Five Volumes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008; US$ 48.00Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's "Letter to Raleigh" and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume. more...
TOASTER'S HANDBOOK - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations
Old LandMark Publishing 2005; US$ 7.50A collection of toasts for the professional and non-professional speaker. more...
The Politics of Resource Extraction
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines. more...
SO SPANK ME! Tales of Blistered Bottoms
Renaissance E Books 2003; US$ 4.99FIRST GREAT SPANKING BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY! Here's a book that invites you to dabble in the exquisitely hot and heavy pleasures of corporal punishment. Brought to you by bestselling erotic novelists Jay Lawrence and Edmund deBarquet, both real-life aficionados of the disciplinary arts, this collection of nine widely varying tales explores the... more...
A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 54.95First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 ? 1513. Beginning with the O?Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ?the Great Earl? of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the... more...
Who Needs Men?
Orion 2013; US$ 4.52IT WAS EXTERMINATION DAY - THE REMAINING MEN WERE TO BE HUNTED DOWN Rura Alexandra, Madam Exterminator, had recently graduated into a 25th century world where men had become biologically less important, where women could reproduce as they wished by cloning and parthenogenesis. Her task was simple - in theory, if not in practice: to wipe out the last... more...
International Law in a Multipolar World
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, international law has sought to configure itself as a universal system. Yet, despite the best efforts of international institutions, scholars and others to assert the universal application of international law, its relevance and applicability has been influenced, if not directed, by political power.Today,... more...









