Product Description: "Rodrigo de Souza Leão is an exceptional author and has had a major impact on contemporary Brazilian literature."—Paulo ScottAll Dogs are Blue is a scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio insane asylum. Its raw style and comic inventiveness signal a major voice in Brazilian literature...read more

Product Description: Is it really possible for credit card companies to predict a divorce long before the couple in question know the end is nigh? Absolutely. All the information the companies need is already at their fingertips. The days of marketing professionals relying on 'gut feeling' are long gone, and intelligently analysed data streams make forecasting customer behaviour straightforward...read more

Product Description: Antonio Moura's third collection has the clarity and urgency of a black and white woodcut. A playful collusion of experimental and traditional poetic styles, this collection has both a powerful mythic reach and a bizarre neo-Baroque flavour...read more

Morocco has been influenced by an incredible number of peoples. In this book, the author travels the breadth and depth of these social and geographical contrasts. He visits the settings of modern legends, as well as the two medieval centres, Fes and Meknes, and sees earthen Kasbahs Marrakech's bazaar.

Product Description: Only a few months after a 25-year-long war ended in Afghanistan, Roger Willemsen accompanied a friend on her journey home: from Kabul to Kunduz, through the legendary steppe to the river Oxus, the boundary to Tadzhikistan.