Alex: 4765 books

Can you ever relive the past? Can a woman go back in time and rekindle a passion that was once cruelly extinguished? Can a man, no matter how wealthy and powerful, recreate the world he knew when he was young? Miranda Ferri is the inheritor of a famous name in California’s Santa Margarita valley—but...

Published in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in Paris in January 2015, Alex Perry's latest book examines the the question of what it is that drives young people to reject the society in which they have lived and been educated, in the name of radical causes. Perry follows a...

“An utterly charming read” Sussex Born and Bred is a series of short stories in which both England’s history and her people are brought vividly to life by a man who has spent a lifetime observing both. As you travel the roads and lanes of Sussex with master craftsman and author...

We All Need to Eat, is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family and her sexuality. Set in different moments falling between Soma's childhood...

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Fighting Terror analyses the ethical dilemmas that confront everyone in the war on terror. Arguing that this is as much a war of ideas as it is a military struggle, Alex Bellamy argues that fighting morally is essential in distancing the terrorized from the terrorists. The book starts by setting out...

The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian...

***Please note that this ebook does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print book.*** The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book,...

Set in the County of West Lothian in Scotland, against the background of a 15th Century mansion called "Strathalmond", Book 1 [1430-1460]tells of the Ingrams who built it and the Douglases who almost caused its destruction. Book 2 [1912-1972] is about Strathalmond Oil Company in the town...

No one could deny that Sarah Ballenden was beautiful. Nor that she was elegant and charming. And as the wife of Chief Factor John Ballenden, she was at the very pinnacle of society in the Hudson's Bay Company. She was the chatelaine, the mistress of the officers' mess at Upper Fort Garry in Rupert's...

“These are not literary productions, these are yarns. Told in a conversational, buttonholing style, they tend to start with some outrageous hook: "During childhood, one of my best friends was a stone"; "A friend of mine dated Death"; "Met God's ex-wife once"; "The...

This is your wake-up call. Are you ready to remember? A necessary - and timely - tale of how amazingly powerful we humans truly are once we dare to remember our awesomeness. With down to earth-honesty, irony, wit and love, the author openly describes the journey of remembrance, self-exploration...

As a Cold War era military intelligence agent investigating a double homicide, and the disappearance of a nuclear weapon from a major Army munitions depot in Germany, Bruce Highland manages to lose the main suspect. Years later, the main suspect, and the weapon, resurfaces, leading up to an extortion...

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period maps the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political...