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The Genetic Basis of Plant Physiological Processes
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 224.99This text explains how the study of fundamental plant physiological processes is being advanced through the science of genetics. The author adopts a case study approach to illustrate how defined genetic materials in mutants and plant variants are being used to explore plant physiology. more...
The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s. more...
Nicholas Kaldor
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 125.00This book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings, and looks in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics. Offering a comprehensive intellectual portrait of Kaldor, this book explains this great economist's importance in his own time and in ours. more...
Reaching for the Sun
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 34.00A lively introduction to how plants function covering everything from energetics and development to their interaction with the environment. more...
White Trash
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34A classic tale of good against evil, John King's new novel pits nurse against consultant; a working-class woman against an upper-middle-class man. Ruby is a locally-born nurse, who enjoys life to the full, lives in the present and likes to find the best in everyone. For her, the hospital in which she works is society in microcosm: a chaotic, exciting... more...
Human Punk
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet - until he is beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union Canal with his best mate Smiles. Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is traveling... more...
The Football Factory
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00A raw, powerful first novel, The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political... more...
Headhunters
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory , John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league, the most that... more...
England Away
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00Having examined England's twin obsessions - violence and sex - in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and HEADHUNTERS, John King completes his trilogy with ENGLAND AWAY: sex and violence abroad, under the Union Jack. The novel works on three levels - past, present and future - as pensioner Bill Farrell remembers his war experiences in a London pub, Tommy Johnson... more...
Touchstones
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 15.99One of Latin America?s most garlanded novelists?and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature?Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa?s brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum... more...









