We are a fat-obsessed society. Four out of every ten Americans are clinically overweight. Being fat, especially for American women, holds a special significance... Læs mere
The Guest from the Future is a selection of poetry by one of the Norton college department's most redoubtable editors, Professor Jon Stallworthy of Oxford University.
A rich treasury of writing by and about Ireland's women.
Rilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety.
"A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its origins in the plant's primitive design and careless management to the economic and political crisis the accident precipitated." -Clenn Garelik, New York Times Book Review
In Bartok Remembered, Malcolm Gillies has brought us closer to this man through a collection of memoirs written by those who knew him best. The volume contains nearly one hundred... Læs mere
An exuberant tour de force. -James Marcus, The Nation
Representing every phase of E. M. Forster's career as a writer, the fourteen stories in this book span six decades-from 1903 to 1957 or even later.