Nairda he has filled another booklet with subjects to think about and some melancholic/funny stories as a kind of reader reward.

Nairda doesn’t want to be right, he merely wants to stimulate readers to talk and listen, to discuss and argue, and to agree and compromise on important subjects and problems. He thinks that this will contribute to a happy life in a happy society for all.

Nairda garners his controversial wisdom, hopes, and

stubbornness, to keep his faith in humanity.

Democracy processes must be kept in a state ...

THE NO.1 BESTSELLER'Gripping' Guardian'Powerful' The Times The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power but it is beginning to rot from within.

A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects.

Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party's aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he'll be interrogated, probably tortured and certainly executed. Darkness at Noon is as gripping as...

The International bestselling novel that is an unforgettable, sweeping tale of nineteenth-century China.

This novel is set in the Armenian mountains sometime in 1915-1960. An old man and a new born baby boy escape from the Hamidian massacres in Turkey in 1894 and hide themselves in the ruins of a demolished and abandoned village. The village soon becomes a shelter for many others, who flee from problems with the law, their families, or their past lives. The villagers survive in this secret shelter, cut off from the rest of the world, by selling or bartering their agricultural products in the vil...

Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions presents current literature detailing families' responses to varied transitions and stressful life events over the life span.

A darkly funny, gothic novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls at a New England university.

Leonardo’s Handwriting is a romantic morality tale, with an unconventional woman at its heart. Nature has given the heroine, Anna, the gift of clairvoyance, and it is this that determines her singular fate. The characteristic “left-handed mirror handwriting”, which in psychology came to be known as “Leonardo’s handwriting” (since that’s how the Renaissance genius wrote his notes), simply adds to the “weirdness” both of Anna’s personality and the twists and turns of the nov...

The third edition of Academic Writing for International Students of Business and Economics is written to help international students succeed in writing essays, reports and other papers for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect issues such as diversity and sustainability, this book is designed to let students and teachers easily find the help they need, both in the classroom and for self-study. The book is divided into five parts, comprising a total...