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Sidney Lanier (Edition1)

Anthony Berkeley

The Mystery at Lovers' Cave, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is…

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The Poisoned Chocolates Case

Anthony Berkeley

Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap…

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Murder in the Basement

Anthony Berkeley

A novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 ‘whowasdunin?’ mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author’s most inventive work.

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The Floating Admiral

The Detection Club,Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.

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Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox

Malcolm J. Turnbull

Elusion Aforethought provides significant new material on the work of crime and detection fiction writer Anthony Berkeley Cox, a popular and prolific English journalist, satirist, and novelist in the period…

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The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears

Anthony Berkeley

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t…

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Jumping Jenny

Anthony Berkeley

Tightly paced and cleverly defying the conventions of the classic detective story, this 1933 novel remains a milestone of the inverted mystery subgenre.

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Murder in the Basement

Anthony Berkeley

A novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 ‘whowasdunin?’ mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author’s most inventive work.

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The Wychford Poisoning Case

Anthony Berkeley

A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - perhaps the first ever psychological crime novel - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the…

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The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears

Anthony Berkeley

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t…

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The Silk Stocking Murders

Anthony Berkeley

A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - one of the first to feature a serial killer - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years…

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Jumping Jenny

Anthony Berkeley

Tightly paced and cleverly defying the conventions of the classic detective story, this 1933 novel remains a milestone of the inverted mystery subgenre.

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The Avenging Chance and Even More Stories

Anthony Berkeley, Arthur Robinson

In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971) founded London's Detection Club, whose members swore that their "detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which…

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Love Song of a Flower Child: A Story of Redemption in the Drop-Out Days; the Tune-In, Turn-On Times of Berkeley and Big Sur

Mary Stewart Anthony

This is a riveting story of redemption, and a journey to discover truth, love, and purpose. The author has graphically documented her need for healing from the effects of drugs…

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Love Song of a Flower Child: A Story of Redemption in the Drop-Out Days; the Tune-In, Turn-On Times of Berkeley and Big Sur

Mary Stewart Anthony

This is a riveting story of redemption, and a journey to discover truth, love, and purpose. The author has graphically documented her need for healing from the effects of drugs…

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Univer-cities: Strategic View Of The Future - From Berkeley And Cambridge To Singapore And Rising Asia - Volume Ii

This follows on from the very well-received Volume I UNIVER-CITIES: Strategic Implications for Asia - Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore edited by Anthony SC Teo and published in…

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Univer-cities: Strategic Implications For Asia - Readings From Cambridge And Berkeley To Singapore

Anthony Soon Chye Teo (S'pore Univ Of Social Sciences, S'pore)

Univer-cities: Strategic Implications for Asia aims to redefine the multi-faceted symbiotic relationship between universities and host cities. The four readings in this reader will invite readers to challenge the traditional…

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Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975: The Elusive Alliance

Pr. Anthony Adamthwaite (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 takes a fresh look at the international trajectories of Europe’s premier democracies. The side-lining of Britain and France in the Cold War era, argues Adamthwaite…

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Consequences of Enlightenment

Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi argues that postmodern culture does not reject Enlightenment beliefs and explores the…

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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)

This Introduction provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present. It covers a wide range of genres, historical periods, and…

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Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)

Examining the literature of the Golden Age as the point at which tensions between the old and the new converged, this text looks at how Spanish writers envisioned history and…

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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)

This Introduction provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present. It covers a wide range of genres, historical periods, and…

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Consequences of Enlightenment

Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)

A critic explores the link between politics, philosophy and aesthetics in a range of important thinkers.

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Bodies from the Library 3

Agatha Christie,Ngaio Marsh,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anthony Berkeley

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories…

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Ask a Policeman

The Detection Club,Agatha Christie,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anthony Berkeley,Gladys Mitchell

This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’…

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Ask a Policeman

The Detection Club,Agatha Christie,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anthony Berkeley,Gladys Mitchell

This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’…

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Grandeur And Misery: France’s Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940

Pr. Anthony Adamthwaite (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Recent studies have challenged the view of fundamental French weakness in 1940 and , for the first time, the revisionist approach is displayed in a single volume, both summarizing the…

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Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975: The Elusive Alliance

Pr. Anthony Adamthwaite (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 takes a fresh look at the international trajectories of Europe’s premier democracies. The side-lining of Britain and France in the Cold War era, argues Adamthwaite…

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Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures

Anthony A. Apodaca (Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA, U.S.A.),Larry Gritz (Exluna/Nvidia, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.)

Offers coverage of the standard while providing in-depth information on dozens of advanced topics. Both a reference and a tutorial, this book is useful for technical directors, graphics programmers, modelers…

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Female Fetishism

Lorraine Gamman,Anthony P. Griffin,Donald E. Lively,Robert C. Post,Professor Robert C Post, Dr (University of California, Berkeley)

The aura of passivity that has for centuries surrounded female sexuality in popular culture, psychology, and literature has, in recent years, dissipated. And yet fetishism, one of the most intriguing…

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