The " Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas & inspiration for members of book clubs & literature students at school, college & university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed & influential novels of recent years. ...

All four episodes from the BBC series that celebrates the veteran broadcaster's 50 years on television. Alan Whicker returns to some of the places he has visited & reported on during his years travelling the globe. Beginning in Venice, where he charts his career from soldier to Fleet Street journalist, his journey continues onto California, where he recalls the rise of the hippies, before moving onto Hollywood &, finally, Hong Kong. ...

News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, & what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. ...

Melanie Conway is a pale & lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her ...