This is a coming-of-age novel, something that in other languages is expressed more pointedly as the novel of education.
"...A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today..."–Arab Book World
In this book, the central tenets of Islam are put forward by doctors, engineers, politicians, bankers, carpenters, and theologians.
The New Zealand-born writer Mansfield (1888-1923) and her husband, Murry, the English editor and literary critic, exchanged hundreds of passionate, probing letters during their tempestuous 11-year relationship. Their correspondence reveals Mansfield's fiercely independent spir...
Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times.
This practical guide, written in response to the many queries The British Library answers each year, gives a straightforward advice on creating the right storage conditions for books and documents.
There are vivid and memorable drinking scenes in all of Charles Dickens' works, and this book abounds in excerpts from the novels and in recipes for the drinks consumed in them.
The authors present the Italian language not as it is prescribed in grammars and dictionaries, but as it is actually written and spoken.
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. This book presents the story of a... Læs mere
" A well organised survey of a facinating subject." David Pearce, RIBA Journal