Wailing ghost

These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classic China's greatest stories.

A modest proposal

Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland

Woman much missed

Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.

How to use your enemy

A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world

A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees

Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman's hair - a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life's fleeting joy.

On the beach at night alone

The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …

Days of love and rage

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781668062173

Collation

582 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

959 GOP d

Chernobyl, life and other disaster

Genya—the nickname of the book’s author and story’s protagonist, Yevgenia—knows from age five that she wants to be an artist. When she turns eleven, she’ll apply to the same prestigious art school that her mother attended. But making the cut won’t be easy, especially with the school’s open-secret rule that no more than 1% of the student body can be Jewish. The years before Geny…

The silk roads: the extraordinary history that created your world

Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the west with a remarkable voyage at its heart – the journey along the Silk Roads. From ancient world laws laid down by King Hammurabi and the…