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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. 'Gabriel García Márquez once remarked that "every self-respecting writer should have an English biographer". He could have asked for none more accomplished than Gerald Martin' Financial Times Gabriel García Márquez, author of the modern classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, is one of the greatest and most popular writers of the late-twentieth century. As Gerald Martin tells the story of the author's fascinating rise to wealth and international fame, he reveals the tensions in García...
The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez
A concise, comprehensive and original introduction to the fiction and journalism of Gabriel García Márquez.
The President
The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
Field of Honour
A contemporary of Lorca and Buñuel in Spain’s Second Republic, Max Aub escaped into a life of exile after General Franco seized Barcelona. His masterpiece, acknowledged in Spain as one of the best accounts of the Spanish Civil War, is the five-novel cycle known as The Magic Labyrinth—never before translated into English. A playwright as well as a novelist, he brings the period alive through vibrant dialogue and a story that navigates the factional intrigues that eventually erupted onto the streets in violence. The protagonist of the first novel is Rafael López Serrador, whose coming of age in Barcelona introduces a cast from all walks of city life—Catalan nationalists, anarchists, Fa...
Cognitive Psychology
This fifth edition of the best-selling international cognitive psychology textbook has been substantially updated and restructured to reflect new developments in cognitive psychology, and made more student-friendly. Established approaches covered in depth include: Experimental cognitive psychology Cognitive science with its focus on modelling Cognitive neuropsychology with its focus on cognition following brain damage. Extensive new material in this edition includes: Cognitive neuroscience approaches such as brain scanning and imaging studies which illustrate the principles of brain function New material on consciousness. Throughout, the new material is fully integrated with more traditional...
Three One-Act Plays
WOMAN ALIVE (3m 3f) An updated edition of a favourite one-act farce. Roger Berry writes crime novels and his wife, Amanda, stages a mock murder as the basis for a plot for his next novel. Her well-intentioned efforts to be helpful go disastrously wrong and Roger finds himself arrested as a murderer. From then on things can only get worse — and more hilarious. THE KING OF ARGOS (7m 2f) Kronos, King of Argos in Ancient Greece, cannot decided which of his two quarrelsome sons should succeed him. He decides to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, only to receive the usual ambiguous advice. Meantime Helen, his daughter, has brought another protégé home to the palace, Marcos, a scruffy musi...
The South Side
This is a tale of two communities on Chicago's far South Side that collided almost by accident at a moment in America's history when race relations were starting to explode.
Eyewitness Testimony
By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ones changed in subtle ways.
