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THE WEEK-END BOOK: A SOCIABLE ANTHOLOGY

The perfect guide to summer week-ending, with new essays by Julian Fellowes (on being a good guest) and Rory Stewart (on the perfect weekend walk).

"Even city slickers will be able to fool their country cousins with a little help from The Week-End Book." - Independent

"Originally printed in June 1924, The Week-End Book became a runaway best seller, and a fixture in country houses across Britain. Overlook Press will reissue the book next month, and there's no reason why Americans should not get double pleasure from it." - The New York Times

"Brimming with tips and ideas for indoor and outdoor weekending, it's a charming, invaluable guide to weekend fun." - Evening Standard

Peter de Bolla

THE 4TH OF JULY

Celebrate Independence Day with an eye-opening look at both the myths and true history behind our national holiday.

"An elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America." -Financial Times

"British professor de Bolla looks at the origins of the American holiday, the development of the symbols surrounding it (e.g., Betsy Ross, the Liberty Bell, Uncle Sam), and how the holiday has evolved and been publicly celebrated over the years. The book shows that many of the legends of the Fourth do not hold up to inquiry. This short volume serves as "one-stop shopping" for the subject and will appeal to new history buffs and general readers." School Library Journal

M. Gigi Durham

THE LOLITA EFFECT

"In this intensely researched exploration of the media’s exploitation of girls, Durham exposes the links between destructive teenage self-images and the popular, highly sexed, and negative representations of girls in magazines, television programs, and movies. Durham’s provocative and erudite study of the demeaning way society views girls serves both to alarm and educate; consider it required reading for parents and their daughters."–Booklist

"The Lolita Effect does not advocate censorship, but Durham does want adults to more consciously monitor the sexualized products and images that mass media encourage children to consume. This will help prevent the Lolita effect from taking hold of girls, thus keeping Lolita the stuff of fiction, where she belongs." -Ms. Magazine

"In a well-written and well-researched book, author M.Gigi Durham exposes a troubling phenomenon and calls readers to action." -Publishers Weekly

David Crystal

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

"Linguist Crystal, whose learned disquisitions have sometimes bewildered readers, lightens up with an inviting text combining the best features of travel writing, memoir and scholarship. An informative, transformative trip into the mysterious, mutating, magical thicket of English."-Kirkus Reviews(starred)

"David Crystal (How Language Works) elucidates the "serendipitous nature of language study" as he meanders from Wales to San Francisco by way of England and Poland, taking every opportunity for linguistic exploration. A somewhat rambling travelogue is paired with Crystal's idiosyncratic thought processes, and the book is full of descriptive anecdotes culminating in linguistic intrigue." -Publishers Weekly

Nigel Lawson

AN APPEAL TO REASON

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"An Appeal to Reason is elegantly written, thorough, entertaining and, above all, convincing.” - Clive Crook, Financial Times

“Lawson’s insights are keen and refreshingly iconoclastic. The author’s contrarian synthesis of political thinking and economic analysis is notably well argued and well written-and sure to raise the hackles of those on the other side of the issue.” – Publishers Weekly

“This is a fascinating tome, the best exposition of the skeptical view on global warming that I have yet come across. It is comprehensive, packed with useful and clearly referenced facts and refreshingly free of the fanatical tone that plagues so many works on the subject." – Allister Heath, Literary Review

Gerald Seymour

THE WALKING DEAD

"Gerald Seymour, a genuine master of the modern thriller, brings together old-line British spies, a brilliant war-maimed American spook, a couple of classic crooks, a bankrupt professor, the literary ghost of a doomed idealist in the Spanish Civil War, a cell of disaffected young British Muslims, a brave but alienated copper and a half-English-half-Arab villain with a hatred for the West. Heroics, religion, sex, torture, doubt and ever-increasing tension in a cerebral blend. A thriller for all sides of today's war." - Kirkus Reviews

"British suspense master Seymour dazzles with commanding language and meticulous detail, fleshing out the lost-in-translation world of foreign nationals, expats, and intelligence agents." - Entertainment Weekly