Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris 'In eighteenth-century...
Therese Desqueyroux
Francois Mauriac and Gerard Hopkins
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Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex...
Love in the Time of Cholera
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A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia...
Dear Reader
Paul Fournel, David Bellos and Jean Jullien
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Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing,...
Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges and Andrew Hurley
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The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and...
Chaos in Theater: Improvisation and Complexity - Translated by Anna Grazia Cafaro and Melina Masterson
Anna Grazia Cafaro and Melina Masterson
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Have you ever prepared a discourse by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives,...
Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan: The Place of Rice
Charlotte von Verschuer and Wendy Cobcroft
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The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public...
Safety Management: A Comprehensive Approach to Developing a Sustainable System
Chitram Lutchman, Rohanie Maharaj and Waddah Ghanem
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With annual cost in excess of $150 billion from workplace related illnesses and injuries, any...
Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf, Sandra M. Gilbert and Brenda Lyons
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Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's...
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
Winston S. Churchill, Paul E. Gottfried and James W. Muller
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Churchill Sizes Up the Giants of His Age, Offers Wisdom for Our Own Winston Churchill was awarded...