Dear Reader is a moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another. For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kep...(展开全部)

Dear Reader is a moving, funny and joyous exploration of how books can change the course of your life, packed with recommendations from one reader to another. For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kep...(展开全部)

Quotes， poems， meditations and practical exercises for every day of a woman s year include thought-provoking， inspirational messages， money-saving suggestions， gardening and decorating ideas， and thoughts on personal fulfillment. 30，000 first printing.

Quotes， poems， meditations and practical exercises for every day of a woman s year include thought-provoking， inspirational messages， money-saving suggestions， gardening and decorating ideas， and thoughts on personal fulfillment. 30，000 first printing.

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time Maps an unbounded, extra-disciplinary space of enquiry into the history of reading, crossing literary studies, critical theory, media history, law, philosophy, and neuroscience, while engaging with an array of major...(展开全部)

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time Maps an unbounded, extra-disciplinary space of enquiry into the history of reading, crossing literary studies, critical theory, media history, law, philosophy, and neuroscience, while engaging with an array of major...(展开全部)

The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls ‘inner appropriation.’ It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called ‘ordinary reader’ who began life as a devotee of Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and t...(展开全部)

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not televis...(展开全部)