Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garreta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and ex
Examine the work of five groundbreaking education theorists?John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky?in relation to early childhood. Theories of Childhood provides a b
"Miller is a name to watch."?The Independent"This is magical, lyrical, spellbinding writing."?GrantaAdamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she disco
A very special selection of impressive pieces by two hundred artists from forty-two countries. From those that look back to classic forms and materials to the most daring, experimental and surprising
"Caryl Churchill is a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing? a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the
In Going Steady Kael has deliberately kept her film reviews in chronological order so that the reader can follow ‘what was evolving in film during a crucial period of social and aesthetic change’ at t
A series of short, single-voice plays by writers based in the Northwest of England. These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conflicts, and joyus of different characters
Winner of the prestigious American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, Laura McKee’s Uttermost Paradise Place achieves a shimmering transparency and surreal potency. While many of the poems are
Winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.?Matthew Dickman’s all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior int
The winner of the Hudson Prize, this collection of stories, mainly set in the Southwest, digs deep into the lives of its characters. Daniel Chac￠n's writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque pl
A look at the lives of five young men, who, during the Vietnam era, start a commune in Australia-and a look at how young men often look to the wild to find themselves, and the consequences this somet
Chuks used to be a fixer, a go-between for foreign journalists and local groups. When militants attack a new oil pipeline, British journalists and international spin doctors rush to the scene. As more
From the moment he came into the world as the snow fell and the cold wind blew, Oscar's existence has been a stagger through an underworld peopled by loners and losers. He's aching to piece it togethe
"Like the hues in a stained glass window, [the illustrations] look brilliant...this well-designed book will please children in the primary grades."ALA BooklistThis series of how the creative
Cataclysm 1914 brings together a number of leftists scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories, and consequences of the First World War. The c
Debates at world Communism’s 1921 congress reveal Lenin’s International at a moment of crisis. A policy of confrontational initiatives by a resolute minority contends with the perspective of winning m
Turn the pages of these beautiful books and discover wonderful tales from the OneThousand and One Nights! Let yourself be carried away into a fascinating world ofdreams, suspense and magic!These ancie
