through this sensitive and beautifully characterised novel in which Alec Waugh has brilliantly conveyed the atmosphere of...... more

First published in 1926, this story explores love in these days, days past, and what is likely to co... more

In 1938 Harold E. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota at age 31, an office he resigned in 1943... more

caution. But as Alec Foege shows in The Tinkerers, reports of tinkering’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Through the...... more

Alec Waugh first saw the West Indies on a trip round the world in 1926 when his ship called in at Guadeloupe. Fifteen...... more

professional efficacy of Alec Waugh’s The Fatal Gift. His novel breathes the values and attitudes of the early decades of the 20th...... more

One of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating era between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as...... more

This book tells the story of the Balliol family as they exist through the suffrage movement and the ... more

Alec Waugh describes his novel as an erotic comedy. It is the story of a respectable Treasury official, Victor Trail...... more

Orleans. Upon often trivial acts depends matters of life and love and death, and as always Alec Waugh has distilled the drama...... more

"The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that’s coming to him!" This was Melanie’s view... more

This is not the only one of Alec Waugh’s novels in which he has described the agonies of a couple who are desperately...... more

To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and... more

First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development...... more

lands, Alec Waugh’s travel book tells of a journey half-way round the world. But in new or old places, the author’s sense of...... more

Based on the author’s own experience as an officer in the British Intelligence and packed with the m... more

The bright summer sun faded into the shimmering Mediterranean as the young American painter began wh... more

. From his confusion and isolation, through rebellious school escapades and relationships with fellow students, Alec Waugh...... more

Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has...... more

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan s gangsters comprise a crim... more

herself from her peers, but all that is about to change.Now retired, Alec Zandur has lived in Grant County, Indiana, for most...... more

First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with m... more

This book is a comprehensive portrait of a society in transition as Professor Alec Nove reflects on the changes taking...... more

The Soviet Economy is a well informed work which seeks to acquaint students with the structure and p... more

Political Economy and Soviet Socialism discusses the ideas of some of the leaders of the Russian rev... more

companion volume (Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, ed. Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie) bring together an...... more

Thirteen stories have been compiled as Alec Waugh looks back over his career as an author, and takes from his writing...... more

all things must move relentlessly...Alec Waugh again brings all his powers as a novelist to unravel a densely emotional...... more

A rich tale centred around the lives of Marjorie Fairfield, a beautiful and penniless young woman wh... more

An imaginary island on the Equator has suddenly achieved importance through the discovery of oil - w... more

Alec, trapped in a loveless marriage to cool, uninvolved Melanie, looking to his work as a doctor for fulfillment. Between...... more

Beyond the Light of the Moon is an experimental work of creative non-fiction, in which the author ex... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Proc... more

Alec Harkness is just some Middle Class White Guy trying to make sense of it all. For reasons involving a girl and an...... more

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known fo... more

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known fo... more

RDex is a runaway, but not your typical runaway. He s a young alien who has stolen a star ship in or... more

In ’Moving to Los Angeles: The ABC’s of Getting an Agent, ’ top Hollywood executive Alec Shankman writes an...... more

Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-d... more

The written report is central to the practice of psychiatry in legal settings. It is required of men... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Proc... more

These two short stories start with the Haldane Affair which is a rich tale of love and murder in the... more

. Drawing on previously unknown documents to reconstruct this extraordinary man’s career, Alec Ryrie takes us through the...... more

Alec Mutz s childhood came to an end in 1939, when Nazi soldiers marched into his hometown of Tarnobrzeg, Poland. His...... more

.  Author and composer Michael Alec Rose helps readers decode the signs composers give us in their music-sounds that invoke very...... more

Geriatric anesthesia is a rapidly evolving field which addresses the growing population of elderly w... more

extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look at Seeger s unique blend of independence and commitment...... more

This is the first synthetic narrative of the origins of the Scottish Reformation of 1560; the narrat... more