Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition which includes the acclaimed essay Sea Burial.
Labelled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled," Jonathan Mooney was a short-bus rider - a term used for kids in special education. This book offers a record of his odyssey, where he met 13 people in 13 states who taught him that there's no such thing as normal - and that to live, people must find their own special ways of keeping on.
The # 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east
The first English translation of this central work of Estonian nonfiction, marking the profound importance in world history of this small nation and its people.