Written by a French-born and bred author, this book shows how to eat with balance and control. It combines memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense.

A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.

Revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that tautology and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence.

Offers an account for the changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. This book includes exercises and solutions for practice. It covers topics including: Perl variable types; Subroutines; File operations; Regular expressions; Text processing; Strings and sorting; Process management; and, Using third party modules.

In this fourth volume of the bestselling series - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe - Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition.

Presents a portrayal of Arthur from his birth to accession to the throne of Britain. This book tells the story of Merlin's guardianship of Arthur which leads Arthur to the sword that tests his claim to power and the crown.