Guns, Sails & Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion 1400-1700

CARLO M. CIPOLLA

Minerva Press

Set in the Vietnam War. Kien is responsible for retrieving and burying the dead at the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The novel ranges back to his youth and the pains of adolescent love, and forward, to his attempts to come to terms with the savagery of the war.

The Sorrow of War

Bao Ninh, Palmos Frank (translation)

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Literature & Fiction

Chute, Carolyn

Contemporary

Balzac's Horse

Hofmann, Gert

The 1993 Booker Prizewinner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.

Conducting Effective Interviews

Doyle. Roddy

Genre Fiction

A Brownbird Singing

Ian Travers

Famous Discoveries and Their Discoverers

Science & Math

Unknown, Author

Technology

In this study of Austen's work and letters, the author aims to examine the novelist's observations of contemporary society. He analyses the Rice family letters to trace the history of her descendants and the similarities between them.

Relating to Jane: Studies on the life and novels of Jane Austen with a life of her niece Elizabeth Austen/Knight

Hammond, M. C.

A Pure Coincidence

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ruth Bebb

Mystery

Creswell and Its Mine

Barry Vardy

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