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Here is an updated edition of Joan Nunn's detailed survey of costume in the Western world over the past eight centuries. She not only gives the reader a vivid visual impression of the clothes themselves, but also outlines the historical and social background and the changes in manufacturing techniques...

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World...

Ghost encounters are happening everyday to people everywhere, and the events prove that we are not alone. When people encounter what they perceive to be a ghost or spirit, their lives are forever changed. The ultimate question—Is there life after death?—has just been answered for them. Ghosts...

An instant backlist evergreen, this title is a great gift or a vehicle of self discovery for anyone with a Hungarian background, marrying into a Hungarian family, planning a trip to Hungary or just plain curious. This humorous, knowing volume has proven its sales appeal with 4,000+ copies sold...

There are nine breeds of dog that are native to Ireland: four terriers, three gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells the remarkable stories of each of the nine breeds, and reveals how they have become inextricably linked to the human beings with whom...

The relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds has been a long and tortuous one. Over the course of the centuries the balance of power has swung in pendulum fashion—at times the initiative seems to have lain with the Muslim community, with the Christian world simply being compelled to...

Kyra Carr is a wannabe actress who realizes she's never going to make it in Hollywood. At least not without a little reorganization which includes but is not limited to: blackmail entrapment and of course a little sleeping around. But it's not all work. Having sex with famous actresses and porn stars...

In her latest erotic novel Kim Corum takes on the subject of abandonment and the complexities of marriage. Bruce wakes one day to find his wife gone. All he has is her journals which reveal a secret life including information about her other lovers. Now She's Gone is an erotic novel about love betrayal and desire.

Husband Swap & Roughing It: Two Dirty Stories features two steamy erotic novels about frustrated wives who need some sex on the side. Women who crave other men so badly that they're willing to disrupt their comfortable lives just to realize their fantasies. The first story Husband Swap involves...

Romantic Hedonism: What happens when a woman meets the man of her dreams in London? She prays her husband doesn't find out.

As well as fulfilling a functional need, furniture has always been an index of status. From the throne of Tutankhamen or the bed of State of Louis XIV to the austere Shaker chest or the Charles Eames chair and later modern pieces from Europe, the Far East and the United States, the style of each piece...

In this entertaining and engaging book, based on the popular 'On This Day' segment from Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1, Myles Dungan delivers little-known episodes from the history of Ireland, and Irish people at home and abroad, bringing fresh perspectives on the lives of both the renowned and the notorious....

Dancing grannies, Polish milkmaids and the Bearded Lady. There’s no denying that the Eurovision Song Contest remains one of the most enduring phenomena of popular culture – and, perhaps, also one of the strangest. Ireland’s love affair with the Eurovision has now lasted over half a century....

The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any that Mansfield herself invented. Here, juxtaposed for the first time, are 300 letters exchanged between them during their extraordinary eleven-year relationship. The letters...