“shaun whiteside”

"["Q"] is a historical novel of the grand and sweeping sort, one that aims to capture not a life or a moment, but an era of pivotal importance."-"-Washington Post Book World" "It is hard to do better than this vivid, terrifying portrait of a survivor of the Protestant Reformation . . . The character... More

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz, a name that has become synonymous with evil. Here the utopian twentieth-century dream of employing science and technology to improve and protect human life was inverted from the latter part of the 1930s through the end of the Second World War, ... More

Conveying the misery and horror of life in Berlin during the war, this is a powerful and moving memoir of the author's abandonment by her parents, and her childhood in Berlin from 1941-47. It is a story remarkably reminiscent of Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room. "From the Hardcover edition.Abandoned ... More

In this brilliant and surreal French thriller, a teacher commits suicide and a colleague takes over his class of strangely unsettling children. A novel that skates close to fantasy, it is also chillingly observant about our society and the children it produces.A vertiginous black comedy by one of Fr... More

Craving dolphin meatballs? Can't find a reliable restaurant for boiled parrot? Have a hankering for jellyfish omelettes, sows' wombs in brine, sheep's brain pate, or stuffed mice? Look no further than "Around the Roman Table," a unique hybrid cookbook and history lesson. A portrait of Roman society ... More

Magda Goebbels was arguably the most contradictory and intriguing of the women who lived alongside the top-ranking Nazis. Beautiful and intelligent, she went from being deeply in love with Zionist leader Victor Chaim Arlosoroff to marrying Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda. She turned... More

In the final volume of Rambaud's award-winning trilogy, we find the illustrious Napoleon as he is rarely seen--in exile, cut off, humiliated, and vividly human. By 1814 Bonaparte is reeling from the debacle of his Russian invasion: the Allies captured Paris, forced him to abdicate, and placed the la... More

"It is one of only a few studies to apply the results of surveys and interviews to form an analysis from a social perspective. It is also important because it reveals aspects of Bourdieu's theories at an early stage."--Choice"The significance of Bourdieu's work for American studies lies in his power... More