From Rhonda Byrne, author of the global phenomenon The Secret and the New York Times Bestseller The Greatest Secret, comes Countdown to Riches — the book that can lead anyone to financial freedom.

Demonstrates that the search for oral origins in African literature is a quest for African authenticity. In a critique and revision of the conceptual category of orality as it has been understood and used by scholars, this title stresses the transformation of narrative genres as an index of sociopolitical relations and authorial vision.

"This is an extremely well written and carefully argued book that is quite persuasive. It should be essential reading for every scholar in African literature....

The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Third Edition, is more comprehensive and more varied in its selection than any other anthology. Forty-eight NEW selections—concentrated mostly on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—make the book not only the best overview of the history of theory, but also a remarkably up-to-date portrai...

From the award-winning author of The Dig and Cove, a collection of viscerally powerful short stories in which man is pitted against nature, against circumstance, and against himself.

A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award-winning Scottish writer, meditating on the conflict and union of their relationship through history and in the future

Michael Palin reist door de geschiedenis in de voetsporen van zijn verloren oom Harry

Op het moment dat Michael Palin hoort dat zijn opa een broer had die op tragische wijze om het leven was gekomen tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog, is hij vastbesloten om meer over zijn mysterieuze familielid te weten te komen. Palin doet grondig onderzoek naar alles wat er rondom zijn verloren oom Harry te vinden is, zoals zijn dagboek en brieven, maar ook de reizen die Harry heeft gemaakt, de familieroddels e...