Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

In this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight short chapters--each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent ...

Subject: This book is a collection of Don Watson's short works, and includes excerpts from larger works, speeches, journal articles, essays, prefaces, introductions to works, humor, autobiographical and travel writings, and other miscellaneous short pieces.

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems...

A new paperback edition based on Webster's New World College Dictionary, fifth edition, the official dictionary of the AP.

A Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew dictionary that features more than 50,000 entries, a pronunciation key, and more.

From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from 'I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter' to 'Excuse me... is this book edible?' This book includes top 'Weird Things' from bookshops...

Welcome to Story Club, where the tales are true, twisted and usually TMI. This bumper collection contains highlights from a decade of live storytelling from the Big Chair at the legendary show that's now a hit podcast. Edited by Club founders Zoe Norton Lodge and Ben Jenkins, the stories are by t...