Smith Alexander: 196 books
Utili consigli per il buon investigatore
Un caso per Precious Ramotswe, la detective n° 1 del Botswana
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 12, 2012
«Il suo stile ha il pregio di essere chiaro, elegante e preciso. Le sue descrizioni trasportano il lettore nel bel mezzo del paesaggio del Botswana. Questa è arte che nasconde l’arte.» The Sunday Times«Mma Ramotswe: la Miss Marple africana.»The New York Times«La serie di Mma Ramotswe si è trasformata...
Scarpe azzurre e felicità
Un caso per Precious Ramotswe, la detective n° 1 del Botswana
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2013
«Il suo stile ha il pregio di essere chiaro, elegante e preciso. Le sue descrizioni trasportano il lettore nel bel mezzo del paesaggio del Botswana. Questa è arte che nasconde l’arte.» The Sunday Times«Mma Ramotswe: la Miss Marple africana.»The New York Times«La serie di Mma Ramotswe si è trasformata...
Il buon marito
Un caso per Precious Ramotswe, la detective n° 1 del Botswana
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2013
«Il suo stile ha il pregio di essere chiaro, elegante e preciso. Le sue descrizioni trasportano il lettore nel bel mezzo del paesaggio del Botswana. Questa è arte che nasconde l’arte.» The Sunday Times«Mma Ramotswe: la Miss Marple africana.»The New York Times«La serie di Mma Ramotswe si è trasformata...
Un miracolo nel Botswana
Un caso per Precious Ramotswe, la detective n° 1 del Botswana
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2013
«Il suo stile ha il pregio di essere chiaro, elegante e preciso. Le sue descrizioni trasportano il lettore nel bel mezzo del paesaggio del Botswana. Questa è arte che nasconde l’arte.» The Sunday Times«Mma Ramotswe: la Miss Marple africana.»The New York Times«La serie di Mma Ramotswe si è trasformata...
Amori perduti di gioventù
Un caso per Isabel Dalhousie, filosofa e investigatrice
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2017
«Alexander McCall Smith è una ventata di aria fresca nella detective story: supera le convenzioni, snobba i cliché e sovverte i pregiudizi.»The Sunday TelegraphLa routine quotidiana di Isabel Dalhousie, filosofa e direttrice della «Rivista di Etica Applicata», viene improvvisamente interrotta:...
by Alexander McCall Smith
Language: French
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Fraîchement diplômée de l’université, persuadée que, désormais, elle sait tout de la vie, la jeune Emma Woodhouse revient habiter dans la maison familiale, à la campagne. Riche et un peu snob, Emma s’entoure d’une cour d’amis qu’elle mène à la baguette. Elle organise des dîners,...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
Inspired creative writing
52 brilliant ideas from the master wordsmiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Inspired creative writing Alexander reveals some brilliant insights into making your writing more effective. Drawing on his years of experience as a writer, editor and publisher, Alexander shares insider tips on every aspect of writing, from overcoming writer's block, to creating characters so real...
by Alexander McCall Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2
**The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother. **
Back are all...
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
by Liz Barclay, Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Written by a team of business and fi nance experts, Starting & Running a Business All-In-One For Dummies is a complete guide to every aspect of setting up and growing a successful business. Featuring straight-talking advice on everything from business planning and marketing, managing staff and...
by Alexander McCall Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
An all-new, never-before-published original short novel by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, about a hapless American tourist’s larger-than-life comical trip to Ireland.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction
Cornelius...
by Alexander McCall Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 3
**The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother. **
This just...