Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse & Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology philosophy & cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adornos posthumous magnum opus & the culmination of a lifetimes investigation. Analysing the sublime the ugly & the beautiful Adorno shows how such concepts frame & distil human experience & that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adornos formulation art is the sedimented history of human misery. Edited by Gretel Adorno & Rolf Tiedeman Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. ...

No other country & no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics & Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature & art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history. ...

In AD 453 Attila with a huge force composed of Huns allies & vassals drawn from his already-vast empire was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France) then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans he was only a few days march from extending his empire from the Eurasian steppe to the Atlantic. He was brought to battle on the Cataluanian Plain & defeated by a coalition hastily assembled & led by Aetius. Who was this man that saved Western Europe from the Hunnic yoke? While Attila is a household name his nemesis remains relatively obscure. Aetius is one of the major figures in the history of the Late Roman Empire & his actions helped maintain the integrity of the West in the declining years of the Empire. During the course of his life he was a hostage first with Alaric & the Goths & then with Rugila King of the Huns. His stay with these two peoples helped to give him an unparalleled insight into the minds & military techniques of these barbarians which he was to use in later years to halt the depredations of the Huns. That this saviour of Rome was himself half Scythian is indicative of the complexity of the late Roman world. Ian Hughes assesses his fascinating career & campaigns with the same accessible narrative & analysis he brought to bear on Belisarius & Stilicho. This is a long-overdue biography of a major yet neglected player in the Late Classical world. ...

Would you risk everything for love? Bestselling childrens book writer Angelica is amused & flattered at the attention of Jack the owner of a vineyard in South Africa whom she meets at a dinner party. With his easy charm & reputation as a ladies man Jack makes her feel good about herself
- surely it cant do any harm to indulge in a mild email flirtation? After all she wouldnt risk her stable marriage & the happiness of her children. But things dont stop there & when Angelica is sent to Cape Town for a book tour the affair begins in earnest. On their last day together Jack confesses that he has an incurable disease: being with Angelica has enabled him to forget his mortality. Shocked & heartbroken she returns to London determined to save her marriage & put to good use all the emotional lessons she learnt during their brief time together.
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Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise in his coolest sexiest punch-packing thriller yet March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy
- or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher still a major in the military police is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine
- & a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer? Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants will he be able to live with himself? & if he doesn't will the army be able to live with him?

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Indulgent & sensual outrageous & taboo but always highly erotic this new collection of Black Lace stories takes the illicit & daring rendezvous with a lover (or lovers) as its theme. Popular Black Lace authors like Portia Da Costa & Janine Ashbless contribute saucy tales as do a number of brand new passionate & edgy voices from the US. Packed with a broad & thrilling range of women's sexual fantasies. ...

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy
- or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher still a major in the military police is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine
- & a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesnt she really want to find the killer? The adrenaline-pumping high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor & it marks a turning point in Reachers career. If he does what the army wants will he be able to live with himself? & if he doesnt will the army be able to live with him? Is this his last case in uniform? Winner of CWA Best unabridged Crime Audiobook 2012.

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And then there were eight
- Understandably Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another house party at Alderley his beautiful
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Charles Henstock rector of Thrush Green has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He faces opposition from the fearsome Mrs Thurgood & her arty daughter Janet. Everyone in the district seems to be having their share of problems not least Albert Piggott who dreads the return of his wife Nelly. Meanwhile Kit Armitage returns to set elderly hearts fluttering. Could there be wedding bells in Thrush Green? ...

Set in & around the womens prison at Milbank in the 1870s AFFINITY is an eerie & utterly compelling ghost story a complex & intriguing literary mystery & a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some good work with the lady criminals of one of Londons most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners murderers & common thieves Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates
- the imprisoned spiritualist
- Selina Dawes. Sympathetic to the plight of this innocent-seeming girl Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance & perhaps friendship on her visits little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of seances shadows unruly spirits & unseemly passions.

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