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The Foreshadowing
Random House Children's Books 2007; US$ 6.50It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital... more...
The Book of Dead Days
Random House Children's Books 2007; US$ 7.99THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing... more...
The Dark Horse
Random House Children's Books 2007; US$ 5.99SIG IS A boy in a coastal tribe, the Storn, long ago in a Northern land. On the day of the wolf hunt, the life of the tribe changes forever, for Sig rescues a small girl, more like the wolves who shelter her than a human. Sig’s family adopts her and names her Mouse, and he becomes a loyal brother to this girl with mysterious powers and a secret past.... more...
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then... more...
Good People
Penguin Publishing Group 2008; US$ 7.99Good people - caught in a bad place ... When Tom and Anna Reed find $370,000 in their house one night it seems as if all their problems are solved. But what they can't quite wrap their minds around is that nothing in this life is free. Before the week is over they'll know exactly where that $370,000 came from-and come face to face with the brutal... more...
The Scientific Revolution
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.16This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy,... more...
Global Economy Contested
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 43.35Although much has been written on the topic of economic globalization, few volumes examine the social foundations of the global economy in a way that puts power and contestation at the forefront of the analysis. This book addresses this gap by emphasizing the contested social processes that underpin global production chains and financial structures.... more...
The Slave Ship
Penguin Publishing Group 2007; US$ 18.00“Masterly.”— Adam Hochschild , The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries,... more...
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2008; US$ 125.05Collaborative research in bioinformatics and systems biology is a key element of modern biology and health research. This book provides access to many of the methods, environments, results and resources involved. Over 350 web references are included. more...
War and Nationalism in South Asia
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.62This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and comparative and theoretical... more...
