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What Matters in Jane Austen?
What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other, and why? And which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short …
The Artful Dickens
'This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn’t go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson …
Dinosaur Hunters
Less than 200 years ago, nobody knew that dinosaurs had ever existed. Now, scientists who study fossils know about many kinds of dinosaurs and where they lived. The hunt is on for …
The Month of Our Lady: Under the Patronage of Our Lady of Victory
The Lives of the Poets
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, …
Loner: A Memoir of Vietnam
Loner is a personal memoir of one man's experience in South Vietnam and the aftermath of serious injury. Told with authentic detail, humor, and pathos, it is the story of an …
Beyond the Limits of the Law
McMullan attributes corporate crime to a process whereby the accumulation of capital takes precedence over human safety. He concludes that “the scope and seriousness of corporate …
Crimes, Laws and Communities
In this book, McMullan and his colleagues have provided much needed information and analysis on “unconventional” crimes by researching fire for profit, illegal fishing and business …
Missing on the Mountainside
The weather had been perfect, ski conditions ideal, and accommodations first-rate. Bill and Angie Phillips' week-long vacation at Colorado's Breckenridge Resort could not have gone …