Mendel's Dwarf

Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But for Benedict the mission is particularly urgent and personal, for his is afflicted by achondroplasia. He is a dwarf. When a chance meeting leads him to the acceptance that he craves, he begins a journey towards correcting the injustice of his own capricious genes, with devastating consequences. As intelligent as it is entertaining, this witty novel is a gripping tale of scientific intrigue and moral uncertainty.

Mawer, Simon

Literature & Fiction

Abacus Software

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-06-07 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher:. Abacus America has a huge problem It faces four major challenges. on which its future depends. and it is failing to meet them In Whats Wrong with America. . Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization. the revolution in information technology. the nations chronic deficits. and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover Americas power and prowess They explain. how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how Americas history. when properly understood. provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values ??have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. Whats W...

That Used to Be Us: What Went Wrong with America - And How It Can Come Back. Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum

Politics & Social Sciences

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Social Sciences

Heat and Dust

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal.'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance . . . moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Literary

No one travels like Richard Grant and, really, no one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in the Sierra Madre, he now plunges with trademark recklessness into Africa, in an exhilarating and gripping descent through a previously unexplored river, the Malagarasi. Waylaid by thieves and whores, Grant travels by raft, dodging bullets and crocodiles, hacking through swamps and succumbing to fever, before finally emerging, bloodied but not broken at hes journey's end.

crazy river: a plunge into africa. richard grant

Travel

RICHARD GRANT

Travel Writing

The Cleverness of Ladies. by Alexander McCall Smith

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McCall-Smith, Alexander

Mystery

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica are to marry, and Domenica has ambitious

Bertie Plays the Blues. Alexander McCall Smith

SMITH, ALEXANDER MCCALL

Humor & Satire

Sixth Day (Spanish Edition)

primo-levi

Short Stories & Anthologies

[Read by Nick Sullivan]This account has been called - by Robert Stone, among others - the best book ever written about the sixties. Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom. But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called - by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others - the best book ever written about the sixties. In a new afterword, Booth explains why this book took fifteen years to write - an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters.

Rolling Stones (Spanish Edition)

Stanley Booth

Biographies & Memoirs

When Joseph Stalin married Nadya Alliluyeva in 1918, he already knew her parents well - they had been in the underground revolutionary movement together before the Bolshevik uprising. There was then very little to indicate the fate that the son-in-law would inflict on this idealistic family. Published to mark the 40th anniversary of Stalin's death, this is the story of four generations of Alliluyevs from 1860 to the present, mainly in their own words, and an exploration of how far "the sins of the fathers" reach down through the generations. The author's other books include "Swanbrooke Down", "Talking About Bereavement" and "Discovering Hedgerows".

Long Shadow Inside Stalins Family

Rosamond Richardson

When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination, and it was the figure of Lawrence, the miner's son who spent his life travelling, living by his pen, which made it seem possible to him to become a writer. The work is as much a travel book as a biography, as Geoff Dyer retraces Lawrence's journeys and, using Lawrence's own writings, life, and crucially, photographs as clues, learns much about matters close to his own heart as he does about Lawrence himself.

Out of Sheer Rage : In the Shadow of D.H.Lawrence

geoff-dyer

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