Humans have the ability to imitate & copy behaviours, or memes, from one another. This is an investigation of whether genes & memes can lead to discoveries about the nature of the inner self & whether the inner self is only an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication. ...

Unforgettably astounding & a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, & in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail & adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant & wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more. ...

Satan has come to New Orleans with an enticing proposition. Under the name Memnoch this lord of darkness takes Lestat on a tour through the boundaries of space & time, offering an alternative & personalised account of the Bible, exploring the events which shaped our world. ...

Jot down your very best ideas, thoughts & reminders in this beautiful memo cube In a handy cardboard case, you’ll be able to keep your notes neat & tidy so you never lose your reminders again. This memo cube is perfect for jotting down notes at work, school or home. Product Information: • Memo Cube • Design: Pastel Hearts • Cardboard case • 410 Sheets • 70gsm • Square paper sheets: 10cm x 10cm   ...

Keep up to date in 2014 with this great value 2014 calendar & wipe board with pen set. The convenient layout means you can ...

A family story, told with restraint & tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught & his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious & unconscious presences for the rest of his life. ...

Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism & enchantment, exploitation & degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous & decadent Kyoto of the 30s & on to postwar New York. ...

Books Young Adult Books Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12?  A brilliant exploration of identity & love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow. After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-&-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, & she apparently hates her mother.  She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more &, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it! But when a girl loses three-&-a-half years, she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 978152667603... ...

The Emperor Hadrian writes a valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry & music, & the philosophy that informed his powerful & far-flung rule. This work recreates the life & death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. ...

The loss opens an old wound some twenty years ago Emma's teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy is evoked. ...