Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

The bestselling author of "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" is back with a thrilling exploration of the meaning of time. Bringing together science, art and philosophy, Rovelli attempts to unravel the mystery of time, as well as inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time.

Tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had.

'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'.

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the roa...

A revealing exploration of the phenomenon of 'non-promotable work', the effect it has on women's careers, and a thoroughly researched strategy for how to fight back

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.

A complete introduction to the field of computational physics, with examples and exercises in the Python programming language. Computers play a central role in virtually every major physics discovery today, from astrophysics and particle physics to biophysics and condensed matter. This book explains the fundamentals of computational physics and describes in simple terms the techniques that every physicist should know, such as finite difference methods, numerical quadrature, and the fast Fouri...

In de jaren ’20 en ’30 van de vorige eeuw groeit Greet op in de kalmte van het Nederlandse platteland. Door een stommiteit wordt ze op haar 23e door de Duitsers opgepakt. In de bedomptheid van een onmenselijk volle wagon ontmoet ze Sarah, een Jodin. In Kamp Ravensbrück geeft hun vriendschap haar de kracht en het vertrouwen om de lange, koude dagen door te komen en alle doodsangsten te doorstaan.

Hannelore, Aufseherin in Kamp Ravensbrück, vervult haar taken met Duitse trots. Toch begint ...