The daughter of successful Hollywood agent and Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan recalls the glamour, wealth, and talent that marked the lives of members of her extraordinary family and reveals the events that ...

«Uno è un caso, due una fatalità, quattro fanno una maledizione.» Così il maresciallo Quirino Vergassola dice al suo amico Nemo Rossini, giornalista, di fronte all’ultimo cadavere affiorato dalle acque del Tevere.

In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.

In The Wisdom of Insecurity, Watts explains complex concepts in beautifully simple terms, making this the kind of book you can return to again and again for comfort and insight in challenging times. “Perhaps the foremost interpreter of ...

A landmark in educational theory, now reassessed by the author in a new introduction.

A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential.

A distillation of the author’s lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike.

On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty.

In this tender early novel, Naipaul renders the residents' lives (and the legends that arise around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.