Tim Coates' report on the management of public libraries in Great Britain attracted wide attention when it was first published in 2004 and has been used in many countries as a training manual and the focus for discussion

First published in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc has been called "the best book in the world" by no less than Miguel de Cervantes, author of the immortal Don Quixote de la Mancha. And in our own time, Mario Vargas Llosa has said the following: "Tirant lo Blanc is a novel that nourishes that all-encompassing yearning of the great novels of all times which, like the Quixote, War and Peace, La Comedie Humaine, Moby Dick, the saga of Faulkner, seem to want to emulate the Supreme Being in the creation of a world as diverse, complex and self-sufficient as the real world, of a fiction that competes with...