San Francisco: Perfect Strangers, 2019. Softcover. What is it like to work as a tour guide in Cairo? How do a cross-cultural couple navigate the ins and outs of marriage (and priesthood) in a remote town in southwestern Japan? What are some of the varied origins of urban flora in... More about Perfect Stranger (Issue Two
New York: New American Library, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. Signet Modern Classic CY98C. Translated by Ralph Parker. With an Introduction by Marvin L. Kalb. Foreword by Alexander Tvardovsky. More about One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
New York: Random House, 1988. Michael Berenstain (illustrations). Second Printing. Softcover. More about After the Dinosaur
Bartholomew House Ltd, 1971. Len Williams Associates (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The complete Old and New Testaments retold by the author in seventy-two 'story-sections'. More about The Story Bible
London: Victor Gollancz, 1959. 1st U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner’s grade at the American Night Preparatory School for..... More about The Return of Hyman Kaplan
London: Victor Gollancz, 1967. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. From Kirkus (March 1, 1967): Everybody's f*a*v*o*r*i*t*e dialectician here provides an espionage entertainment, ""a knot of silk and smoke."" The hero is Peter Galton, Princeton gentleman, bachelor--but not Bonded. Galton's bent on saving a damsel whom he left in Soviet distress..... More about A Most Private Intrigue
Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. More about Death in Venice, Tristan, Tonio Kroger
Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, 1972. Reissued Edition with Bibliography. Paperback. Translated by Kenneth Wellesley. More about The Histories
New York: New American Library, 1985. Edward Gorey (cover illustration). Second Edition. First Signet Classic Printing. Paperback. With an introduction by Frederick R. Karl. More about The Woman In White
New York: Hyperion, 2011. Marika van Adelsberg (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Hot flashes flashing you Awake at 3 a.m. Forgetting the names of your very own children Don’t worry—E, the author of Shmirshky, understands how you feel. Shmirshky is the first book of its kind—a guide..... More about Shmirshky: The Pursuit of Hormone Happiness
New York: MJF Books, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Raising Children Who Think for Themselves offers a new approach to parenting that has the power to reverse the trend of external direction in our children and help parents bring up empathetic, self-confident, moral, independent thinkers. Children who are externally directed make decisions... More about Raising Children Who Think for Themselves
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Richard L. Dana (jacket art). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published... More about The Law of Peoples: with "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"
Cambridge: The Belknapp Press, 1972. Second Printing. Paperback. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the... More about A Theory of Justice
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. Reprint. In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles... More about Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. Thomson Reuters (cover photo). Reprint. Paperback. Harvard Contemporary China Series 17. Observers have been predicting the demise of China’s political system since Mao Zedong’s death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to..... More about Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China
London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1991. Feliks Topolski (cover illustration from "Westminster Hall"). Second Edition. Softcover. Widely regarded as the leading work on this subject. Provides a lucid and wide -ranging account of the English Legal System covering the institutions, personnel and procedures, and the handling of case law and statutes... More about Smith & Bailey on The Modern English Legal System
London: Penguin Books, 2012. First Edition. Second Printing. Paperback with dust jacket. After the enormous success of The Sartorialist, street style photogrpaher Scott Schuman is back with a completely new collection of beautiful images of the men and women who have caught his attention. His much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, remains... More about The Sartorialist: Closer
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Andrzej Klimowski (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. Translated from the Czech with an introduction by Paul Wilson. Vaclav Havel is one of the most important European writers of our time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years of hard labour for... More about Letters to Olga
London: Flamingo, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one... More about If I Die in a Combat Zone
London: Penguin Group, 2011. Kristian Hammerstad (cover art). A Penguin Essentials Edition. Ninth Printing. Paperback. A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What we were... More about A Clockwork Orange
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. Steven Schroeder (cover art). Softcover. In Issue 47 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (May 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Loneliness in the City". What are some of the possible relationships between the individual and a city? What are cultural... More about Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 47 (May 2019
London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1962. John Heseltine (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Ian Stuart also known as Alistair MacLean. The Satan Bug tells the story of a super-virus developed by the British military that falls into the hands of some unscrupulous individuals who use it to... More about The Satan Bug
London: The Folio Society, 1997. Harry Brockway (wood engravings). Folio Society Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. With an introduction by Stephen Tumim. Based on the translation by David McDuff. More about Crime and Punishment
London: Barrie & Jenkins Limited, 1975. Michael Harvey (jacket design). Hardcover. A collection of stories featuring Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge -- and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on... More about The World of Ukridge
London: Heinemann, 1978. Ivor Claydon (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Investigative journalist and aviatrix Teddy, who narrates Gore Vidal’s metaphysical thriller, has moulded herself on flying ace Amelia Earhart. Although she’s aware that’s a bit anachronistic, it qualifies her to pilot Kalki, Vietnam vet and incarnate of Vishnu, round..... More about Kalki
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