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'A natural storyteller, David Meltzer gives us a vivid picture of both the colonizing bands of humans who moved into the Americas and the researchers who followed their footsteps from Alaska to Chile. This is an insider's account, told with a keen eye and sense of humor, as if Meltzer was there when discoveries were made and when disputes were aired - as, indeed, he often was.' -Ann Gibbons, author of The First Humans: the Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors.1.2kg before packing extra post may be required

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'As far as I'm concerned, Perelman is the supreme lunatic humorist in the language, British or American. He seems to know the vocabulary of every English writer from Macaulay to Woody Allen and uses the most unpredictable mixtures of them to produce mock-solemn commentaries on the absurdities of our time.' -The Good Book Guide

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Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producter, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leavers, promising her that she'll soon forget him. Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as a playwright, she is even more trapped by he overbearing mother. Then she meets someone - a handsome, comforting, funny man. He's perfect. His name is Michael...

This portrays Stephen's Dublin childhood and youth and, in do so, provides an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive in its style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero's quest to create hos own character, he own language, life, and art:'to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.'Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Seamus Deane.

The 'lady' in the title, Isabel Archer - a beautifulk, intelligent, and headstrong American newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherours journey to self-knowledge - is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers, and the scene painting - in England and Italy - provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional, free-thinking cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has not resilience and Jude is left in despair.

Contents: Introduction by Hortense Calisher, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, Notes, Commentary, Reading Group Guide. 232 pages.

Chilling tales from the master of the English Ghost story

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The older Cazalet cousines, now in their twenties, are trying to piece their lives together in the aftermath of the war whilst having to engage, painfully, with their parents as people for the very first time. Louise's father Edward is desperate for her to like his mistress and her mother is beside herself with pain at his betrayal. And Clary needs to understand exactly why her beloved father chose to stay in France long after it was safe for him to return home. Meanwhile the girls' own affairs are far from straightforward. Both Polly and Clary have fallen madly in love with much older men, both wildly unsuitable for different reasons. And Louise, struck in a loveless marriage, is candidly considering her own options, as well as tending to her own, very private grief.

This is the fifth and final volume in the Cazalet Chronicles. As a new generation of Cazalets descend on Home Place, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same again.

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'We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest - A week on the rolling deep? - George suggest the river - And with the cooperation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men [not forgetting the dog] set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hammpton Court Maze, Jerome K Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around - many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.

This is a privately printed, local history of Genesee, Idaho as seen through the eyes of a settling family, the Platts. Signed by the author, dated March 1, 1963

Market forces are sweeping up the Rapstone Valley and secret plans are being made to change it. Titmuss Regained is the story of what happens when these seismic movements shake the Secretary of State's , the Right Honorable Leslie Titmuss, back garden.