C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, "Beyond a Boundary" addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?'

Beyond a Boundary

Sports & Outdoors

James, C. L. R.

Other Team Sports

RANDOM HOUSE UK

From the evolution of Homo sapiens to the exploration of space, the vast landscape of human history appears in J.M. Roberts's History of the World . Deftly written and evocatively illustrated, this book offers an outstanding one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past.In a truly remarkable work of compression and synthesis, Roberts sweeps through thousands of years of history, weaving the stories of empires, arts, religion, economics, and science into his lucid narrative. Beginning with the early hominids, he swiftly and authoritatively brings the story up through the emergence of Mesopotamian civilizations and ancient Egypt. Here, too, is comprehensive coverage of the Indian and Chinese civilizations ("For two and a half thousand years," he points out, "there has been a Chinese nation using a Chinese language"), as well as developments in Africa and South America. Aided by photographs of key archaelogical finds (such as monumental Egyptian statues, Peruvian medallions, and Celtic jewelry), Roberts clearly explains the early arts, engineering, and religion. He also carefully ties in changing economics—such as trade routes and developments in agriculture and manufacturing—making clear their importance for the history of politics and changing societies. The story leaps ahead, through the Roman Empire, the explosive arrival of Islam, the rise and fall of samurai rule in Japan, the medieval kingdoms of sub-Saharan Africa, the Mongol conquests, and the early modern expansion of Europe across the globe. American independence, the French Revolution, the colonial empires, Japan's startling modernization, and the World Wars follow in turn, accompanied by discussions of scientific and technical breakthroughs.With informative maps, photographs, and reproductions of important artwork (some in full color), Roberts clearly explains the impact of the key individuals and the major influences on history the world over, down to the era of an integrated global economy and the fall of the U.S.S.R. Vividly written and beautifull illustrated, History of the World offers the finest, most readable one-volume survey available today.

History of the World 3rd Edition

History

Roberts, J. M.

World

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Handmaids Tale

Comics & Graphic Novels

Atwood, Margaret

Manga

When the novel "Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.

BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITE (A Chatto Twin)

Literature & Fiction

HUXLEY, ALDOUS

Literary

hardback with dustjacket, a neat clean copy

Djinn & Nightingales Eye

Byatt, A.S.

Contemporary

Physical description; 184 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. plans ; 23 cm. Notes; Bibliography : p. 175. Summary; This work tells the story of the largest masonry dome ever built, describing the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. Initially regarded as impossible to build, the construction of the dome, for the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, became the greatest architectural puzzle of the age, and, when finally completed in 1436, was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world. Also told is the story of the dome's architect, the brilliant and volatile Fillippo Brunelleschi. His ambition and ingenuity, personal rivalries and intrigues are set in the context of the plagues, wars and political feuds of Renaissance Florence. Subjects; Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446). - Cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore. Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446) - Criticism and interpretation Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy) - History. Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy). Cupola - History. Santa Maria del Fiore (Church : Florence, Italy) - History. Renaissance - Italy. Domes - Italy - Florence. Cathedrals - Italy - Florence. Architecture, Renaissance - Italy - Florence. Cathedrals - Italy - Florence - Design and construction - History. Domes - Italy - Florence - Design and construction - History. Domes and domed buildings - Italy. Florence - History - Renaissance. Florence - Art - Architecture. Religious buildings ; Renaissance art ; Biography &amp; autobiography: historical, political &amp; military ; European history: (c 500 to c 1500). Italy ; (c 1000 CE to c 1500). Architecture / History / General. Architecture, Renaissance ; Italy ; Florence ; Renaissance. Brunelleschi, Fillippo. Genre; Illustrated.

Brunelleschi's Dome, How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

King, Ross

Europe

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here.\nChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.\nBut it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results.\nLike science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

Lessons in chemistry

Garmus, Bonnie

A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie's four characters and unlikely friends - the boy, the horse, the fox and the mole - discover their touching story, and their most poignant and universal life lessons. 'The world needs Charlie’s work right now.' Miranda Hart The book will include new, previously unseen and Charlie's most loved illustrations. ‘My hope is that the book goes some way to helping people live more courageously, more honestly and with more love for themselves and others.’ Charlie Mackesy

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse /anglais

Mackesy, Charlie

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

This is not a romance, but it is about love\nTwo kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over.\nWhen the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars.\nThis is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.\nTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Zevin, Gabrielle

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021\n'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern' STYLIST 
'An amazing literary feat' CURTIS SITTENFELD 
'A masterpiece' NIGELLA LAWSON\nA soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the modern-day Hollywood actress who plays her on screen. For fans of TAYLOR JENKINS REID, WILLIAM BOYD and ANN PATCHETT 
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I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERER\nFrom the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger.\nIn 1950, she embarks on the great circle flight, circumnavigating the globe. It is Marian's life dream and her final journey, before she disappears without a trace.\nHalf a century later, Hadley Baxter, a scandal-ridden Hollywood actress whose own parents perished in a plane crash is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the true mystery behind the vanished pilot. 
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'Extraordinary' NEW YORK TIMES 
'Full of adventure, passion and tragedy' THE TIMES 
'Soars from the very first page' SUNDAY EXPRESS 
'Luminous, masterful. Glides seamlessly through 20th century history' TELEGRAPH 
'Breathtaking' OBSERVER

Great Circle

Shipstead, Maggie

Genre Fiction

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