Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, these letters also hint at her potential for deep despair.

This is a transcription of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath over the last 12 years of her life. It gives insight into her final years and the evolution of her last poems.

Combines science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce.

Decades before the Internet, ham radio provided instantaneous, global, person-to-person communication. Presenting the history of ham radio culture, this title shows how ham radio enthusiasts formed identity and community through their technical hobby, from the 1930s through the Cold War.

Derived from the Oxford Russian Dictionary , this edition offers vocabulary in each language, as well as appendices on grammar, writing letters, and information on life and culture in Russia.

Presenting a history of the English Civil War, this work talks about the people who fought in it, died in it, and in doing so changed the history of the world forever. It illustrates the critical contribution of this extraordinary period in English history to contemporary politics and society.

Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (SOA) is a US army centre that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. This title presents a comprehensive portrait of the School of the America.

Smil examines the pros and cons not only of fossil fuels but also of alternative fuels such as hydroenergy, biomass energy, wind power, and solar power. Finally, he considers the future, focusing on what really matters, what works, what is realistic, and which outcomes are most desirable.

The definitve and most comprehensive introduction to a leading anarchist thinker, Alexander Berkman.

The night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.

This is a memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more more juicy marketable blows. The author, music journalist Andrew Collins, delves back into his past - growing up in the 1970s - using the diary he kept from the age of five.

This 4th volume in the Norton History of Modern Europe series has been updated. It maintains the structural integrity of the series whilst supplementing the history of political and social elites with details of the experiences of commoners.

* The frank, shocking and inspiring autobiography of Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'the world's biggest band' (MOJO) * 'Book of the Year' N.M.E.