This book presents captivating stories about Romania's past in the larger context of European and world history. Prof. Djuvara sets aside the academic tone to recount the story of Romanians, without taboos or prejudices.

Monograph on the economy of Romania - gives historical background up to 1944, covers economic development in the light of socialist ideology, economic policy, industrialization, the reorganisation and modernisation of agriculture, foreign ...

In this collection of twenty-odd short stories the situations vary - the reader is invited to consider Noah's Ark as it first takes the ground after the Flood, and to experience a brush with Jack the Ripper in foggy Victorian London.

Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science.

The fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written by Rilke in February 1922 in the solitude of the medieval tower of Muzot, in the Swill Valais.

A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture

First published in 1983, Murder in the Dark is Margaret Atwood's seventh work of fiction or her tenth book of poetry, depending on how you slice it.

In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns to the form that first landed him on the literary map. These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes.

Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities. The Hatred of Music is Quignard’s masterful exploration of the power of music and what history reveals about the dangers it poses.