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When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term "geoengineering," he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply skeptical. But he w...

Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say that they ar...

At a café table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting. Among the brightest and best of his grad...

Written by an international team of both medievalists and early modernists, essays in this volume consider the ways in which medieval culture made itself felt in the literature and culture of Renaissa...

Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. The 2007 edition of this Companion brings the story of the movement´s continuing...

The script for the film ´An Education´, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on...

The sequel to Kill Zone (2007) puts a target on former marine sniper Kyle Swanson’s back. Believed to be dead, Swanson takes on secret missions under the radar of the conventional alphabet agencies. A...

The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture. This new, completely revised and updated edition of Malcolm Bradbury´s examination of...

here really is... ...no clean way to say this, so here goes: for as long as I can remember I have always loved animals, sex and music, especially percussion. In fact, I have been told I jerk harder th...

The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Ada...

If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier. Travel fast enough and you could weigh as much as a jumbo jet, be flattened thinner than a CD without feeling a thing...

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. This is the total original text and was transcribed by the Englishman John Burton. It flows with the hint of that era somehow and Burton puts some jocular points in at th...

This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature, covering 1066-1547, for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors provide information on a vast range of literary t...

Tana Hoban changes the way we look at the world. After you read this book, you will find yourself seeing circles and squares everywhere. And they will surprise you -- because they will be where you ha...

Ce récit, frais et introspectif, se déroule dans une résidence de classe moyenne et dessine la trajectoire de deux voisins qui se croisent régulièrement dans lascenseur de limmeuble. Tandis que lun ne...

Homo ludens é a obra mais importante na filosofia da história em nosso século. Escritor de inteligência aguda e poderosa, ajudado por um dom de expressão e exposição que é muito raro, huizinga reúne e...

Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relatio...

A Trilogia ROCK STAR começou a ser escrita em 2009. O sucesso da autopublicação foi tão estrondoso que logo recebeu uma proposta para editar pela Simon & Schuster, um dos maiores grupos editoriais do ...

Aventureiros e estrelas com pouca roupa, treinadores de animais destemidos e "aberrações" surpreendentes: este olhar dos bastidores do circo americano reúne pôsteres e litografias originais , bem como...

Reunindo todos os grandes - de Air Jordan 1 a Air Presto - a Nike e Virgil Abloh reinventam a cultura do tênis com o projeto colaborativo The Ten e redesenham 10 ícones de tênis. Experimente a engenho...

Setembro de 2005: Catalunha se autodeclara nação. Não é só no campo político que as províncias catalãs se destacam ao reivindicar autonomia dentro da Espanha. Na arte, a Catalunha, considerada um cart...

Penguin Readers é uma série de leitura graduada para mercados de ensino de inglês (ELT), projetada para adolescentes e jovens adultos aprendendo inglês como língua estrangeira ou segunda língua.

Tantos foram os acontecimentos marcantes durante o ano de 2018 que resolvi expô-los neste livro, cujo título corresponde ao primeiro dos 44 ensaios comentados e enriquecidos por outros pensadores. Pa...

Na primeira parte do livro, vemos o Carnaval em diferentes partes do mundo. Na outra, as aventuras de Tiger num dia de Carnaval.

Pip doesn´t expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip´s narrow existence is blown ap...