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| "Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City" |
| "WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Beautifully written thought-provoking and unforgettable If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined you should read this book' Bill Gates Best Books of 2017Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years Doreen's home is so filthy her family call it 'the rat hole' Lamar a wheelchair-bound ex-soldier tries to work his way out of debt for his boys Scott a nurse turned addict lives in a gutted-out trailer This is their world And this is the twenty-first century where fewer and fewer people can afford a simple roof over their head'Essential A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights shelter' Owen Jones'If I could require the president to read one book it would be Evicted' Zadie Smith"
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| "Age of Anger : A History of the Present Paperback" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017&39;The kind of vision the world needs right nowPankaj Mishra shouldn&39;t stop thinking&39; Christopher de Bellaigue Financial Times&39;This is the most astonishing convincing and disturbing book I&39;ve read in years&39; Joe Sacco&39;Urgent profound and extraordinarily timely&39; John BanvilleHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American &39;shooters&39; and ISIS to Trump from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century before leading us to the present He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises - freedom stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues The many who came late to this new world or were left or pushed behind reacted in horrifyingly similar ways intense hatred of invented enemies attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age and self-empowerment through spectacular violence It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany messianic revolutionaries in Russia bellicose chauvinists in Italy and anarchist terrorists internationally Today just as then the wider embrace of mass politics technology and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible resultsMaking startling connections and comparisons Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other"
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| "Against the Double Blackmail : Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours" |
| "'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions argues Slavoj Zizek offer ideological blackmail and both are wrong He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its future 'Zizek identifies the refugee crisis as one of the major global challenges of our time he argues for a politics of solidarity' The Times Literary Supplement"
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| "The Day Before Happiness" |
| "'Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth like when someone shows off about knowing a celebrity and just uses their first name saying Marcello when they really mean Mastroianni 'A young orphan boy grows up in Naples playing football roaming the city's streets and hidden places The older boys call him 'monkey' because he can climb anywhere He is alone apart from Don Gaetano the apartment caretaker who feeds him teaches him to play scopa and tells him stories about women history and the dark secrets of Naples' past Then one day the boy sees a young girl standing at a window It is an encounter that will haunt his life for years and eventually shape his destiny Lyrical and exuberant told with the simplicity of a fairy tale and the intensity of a memory The Day Before Happiness is the story of friendship a city and what makes us who we are"
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| "Nothing but a Circus : Misadventures among the Powerful" |
| "'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weakness for power Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites drawing unforgettable sketches of some of the puppets who stand guard and the jugglers and conjurers employed within Most spectacular of all however are the astonishing contortions performed by those closest to the top in order to maintain the illusion of integrity decency and public service Based on the author's first-hand experiences of dealing with governments and political institutions around the world Nothing but a Circus offers a rare glimpse of the conversations that happen behind closed doors observing the appalling lengths that people go to in order to justify their unscrupulous choices from Dubai to Luanda Moscow to Beijing and at the heart of the UN and the US government"
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| "The Vikings" |
| "Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure For 300 years from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships and left traces that are still part of life today'Far from being just 'wild barbaric axe-wielding pirates' the Vikings created complex social institutions oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade travel and far-flung consolidation This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art burial customs class divisions jewellery kingship poetry and family life The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation"
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| "Trump and Me" |
| "'Hilariously scathing' ObserverNew Yorker reporter Mark Singer's blisteringly funny close-up profile of President-elect Donald Trump - mogul showman braggart unrestrained id and now leader of the free world - is the ultimate portrait of the man who has everything except an inner life'Gets under the skin of Trump An amusing but also terrifying portrayal of a narcissist with only a fleeting grasp of reality' The Times'One of the best pieces of writing about Trump a classic of the genre' Vice'Offers clearer insight than any of the detailed biographies written over the years very funny excellent at describing the disturbing strangeness of Trump's existence' Daily Telegraph"
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| Confabulations |
| "'Language is a body a living creature and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate' John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language In this new book he writes about language itself and how it relates to thought art song storytelling and political discourse today Also containing Berger's own drawings notes memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism Confabulations takes us to what is 'true essential and urgent'"
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| "A Gift of Love : Sermons from Strength to Love" |
| "'He inspired a generation He changed the course of history' Barack ObamaAs Martin Luther King Jr prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963 he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love a volume of his best-known lectures King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962 and A Gift of Love includes these classic sermons along with two new lectures Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the non-violent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi A Gift of Love illustrates King's vision of love and peaceful action as social and political forces for change"
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| "Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy" |
| "New York Times Bestseller'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari Guardian Books of the Year 'A manual for the 21st-century citizen accessible refreshingly critical relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco Financial Times A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm Increasingly the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school whether we get a loan how much we pay for insurance - are being made not by humans but by mathematical models In theory this should lead to greater fairness everyone is judged according to the same rules and bias is eliminated And yet as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book the opposite is true The models being used today are opaque unregulated and incontestable even when they're wrong Most troubling they reinforce discrimination Tracing the arc of a person's life O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future both as individuals and as a society These weapons of math destruction score teachers and students sort CVs grant or deny loans evaluate workers target voters and monitor our health O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use But in the end it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions uncover the truth and demand change"
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| "Basic Income : And How We Can Make It Happen" |
| "'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades and in this superb and thorough survey he explains how it works and why it has the potential to revitalise life and democracy in our societies This is an essential book' Brian EnoShouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth?Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all?What would this mean for our health wealth and happiness?Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state received by all individual citizens It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only by a few Political parties across the world are now adopting it as official policy and the idea generates headlines every day Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought about Basic Income for the past thirty years and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy poverty work and labour; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against Basic Income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world and illustrates exactly why a Basic Income has now become such an urgent necessity"
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| "Thank You for Being Late : An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations" |
| "THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it something big is going on Life is speeding up and it is dizzying Here Thomas L Friedman reveals the tectonic movements that are reshaping our world how to adapt to this new age and why sometimes we all need to be late'A master class As a guide for perplexed Westerners this book is very hard to beat an honest cohesive explanation for why the world is the way it is without miracle cures or scapegoats' John Micklethwait The New York Times Book Review'Wonderful admirably honest injects a badly needed dose of optimism into the modern debate' Gillian Tett Financial Times'His main piece of advice for individuals corporations and countries is clear Take a deep breath and adapt This world isn't going to wait for you' Fortune'A humane and empathetic book' David Henkin The Washington Post"
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| "Maigret's Doubts : Inspector Maigret #52" |
| "When a salesman from a Paris department store confides his secret fears to Maigret the Inspector soon becomes caught up in a treacherous feud between husband and wife that is not as clear cut as it seemsWhile at this time the previous day he had never heard of the Martons the train set specialist was beginning to haunt his thoughts and so was the elegant young woman who he admitted had boldly stood up to him when he had done everything he could to unsettle herPenguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret Has Scruples'A unique teller of tales' Observer'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian"
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| "Salafi-Jihadism : The History of an Idea" |
| "'A groundbreaking study a masterclass in how to do intellectual history and one that nobody with an interest in radical Islam should miss' Tom Holland New Statesman'Readers looking for a rigorous but lucid account of Islamic State's ideas will be well-served by Maher's book the first of its kind' Kyle W Orton Wall Street JournalNo topic has gripped the public imagination so dramatically as the spectre of global jihadism While much has been said about the way jihadists behave their ideology remains poorly understood Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgencies of the 1990s and the 911 wars His ground-breaking introduction to salafi-jihadism recalibrates our understanding of the ideas underpinning one of the most destructive political philosophies of our time'Magisterial Essential reading' Robin Yassin-Kassab The National'Shiraz Maher a leading authority on contemporary Islamic extremism traces the evolution of the key ideas behind one of the most significant religious and political movements of our time Comprehensive important and timely' Jason Burke author of Al-Qaeda 'A work of genuine interest and originality indispensable' David Patrikarakos Literary Review"
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| "Goodbye, Things : On Minimalist Living" |
| "'Meet the new king of decluttering' - The Times'Take your spring cleaning to the next level with Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki' - Parade'There's happiness in having less If you are anything like how I used to be - miserable constantly comparing yourself with others or just believing your life sucks - I think you should try saying goodbye to some of your things'Fumio Sasaki is a writer in his thirties who lives in a tiny studio in Tokyo with three shirts four pairs of trousers four pairs of socks and not much else A few years ago he realised that owning so much stuff was weighing him down - so he started to get rid of itIn this hit Japanese bestseller Sasaki explores the philosophy behind minimalism and offers a set of straightforward rules - discard it if you haven't used it in a year; be a borrower; find your uniform; keep photos of the things you love - that can help all of us lead simpler happier more fulfilled lives"
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| "Globalization and Its Discontents" |
| "Over 1 million copies sold worldwideMAJOR NEW EDITIONFrom Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our livesJoseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how globalization was hurting those it was meant to help Many of its predictions came true and it became a touchstone in the debate This major new edition looks afresh at the continuing mismanagement of globalization and how it has led to our current political and economic discontents Globalization can still be a force for good Stiglitz argues But the balance of power has to change Here he offers real tough solutions for the future 'A massively important political as well as economic document we should listen to him urgently' Will Hutton Guardian 'Stiglitz is a rare breed an heretical economist who has ruffled the self-satisfied global establishment that once fed him Globalization and its Discontents declares war on the entire Washington financial and economic establishment' Ian Fraser Sunday Herald 'Gripping this landmark book shows him to be a worthy successor to Keynes' Robin Blackburn Independent"
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| "Inglorious Empire : What the British Did to India" |
| "The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires laying bare the grim and high cost of the British Empire for its former subjects An essential read' Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's By 1947 after two centuries of British rule it had decreased six-fold The Empire blew rebels from cannon massacred unarmed protesters entrenched institutionalised racism and caused millions to die from starvationBritish imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation and the destruction of its textile industryIn this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy"
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| "What Is Populism?" |
| "'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan populists are on the rise across the globe But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are the people anyway and who can speak in their name? These questions have never been more pressingIn this provocative book Jan-Werner Muller argues that at populism's core is a rejection of pluralism Populists will always claim that they and they alone represent the people and their true interests Contrary to conventional wisdom populists can govern on the basis of their claim to exclusive moral representation of the people if populists have enough power they will end up creating an authoritarian state that excludes all those not considered part of the proper people Proposing a number of concrete strategies for how liberal democrats should best deal with populists Muller shows how to counter their claims to speak exclusively for the silent majorityUpdated with a new afterword"
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| "Hera Lindsay Bird" |
| "'Without doubt the most arresting and original new young poet on the page and in performance' - Carol Ann DuffyA Sunday Times Book of the Year and New Zealand's best-selling collection from the unstoppable force behind such poems as 'Monica' (the one from Friends) and 'Keats is Dead so Fk Me from Behind'this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girlwith many beneficial thoughts and feelingswith themes as varied as snow and tears the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she isjuxtaposing many classical and modern breezesBird turns her prescient eye on love and loss and what emerges is like a helicopter in fogor a bejewelled Christmas sleigh gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desertthis is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tendernessheart-breaking and charged with treeswithout once sacrificing the forestwhether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parents' sleepoutor pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pramthis is the book for youheroically and compulsively stupid whipping you once again into medieval sunlightPRAISE FOR HERA LINDSAY BIRD'I think there's a pretty strong case which suggests Hera Lindsay Bird is like the most exciting newish poet in NZ' - Steve Braunias'Hi dear we have to say how much we enjoyed if right word the Hate poem Really made us think loved the line about the ancient cannon' - Text message from Ashleigh Young's mum'The wickedest problem in Hera Lindsay Bird is not sex but taste' - John Newton"
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| "Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath That's great news for Theo who's struggling to hang onto her family's two-hundred-year-old townhouse and support her unstable mother on her grandfather's legacy of 463 There's just one problem Theo's grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and she worries the painting may be stolen With surprising twists heartwarming moments and historical facts Laura Marx Fitzgerald creates the perfect adventure in Under the Egg"
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| "Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The original 'Great American Novel' Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk'Call me Ishmael'So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil More than just a novel of adventure more than an paean to whaling lore and legend Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod from stern Quaker First Mate Starbuck to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg are a vision of the world in microcosm the pinnacle of Melville's lifelong meditation on America Written with wonderfully redemptive humour Moby-Dick is a profound poetic inquiry into character faith and the nature of perceptionBased on the Northwestern University Press edition this Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco as well as valuable explanatory notes maps illustrations and a glossary of nautical termsHerman Melville is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists Much of the material for his novels was drawn from his own experience as a seaman aboard whaling ships He wrote his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851 and died in 1891If you enjoyed Moby-Dick you may like Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote also available in Penguin Classics'After reading Moby-Dick you will have enhanced your sense of wonder you will have increased the size of your universe'E M Forster'One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world It moves awe in the soul'D H Lawrence"
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| "The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Beginning in the late 1940's American literature discovered a four-letter word and the word was beat Beat as in poverty and beatitude ecstasy and exile Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary SnyderThe Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation including Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Diane di Prima Bob Dylan Leroi Jones and Michael McClure In poetry fiction essays song lyrics letters and memoirs it captures the triumphant rudeness energy and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force"
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| "The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children and this Penguin Classics edition contains notes and an introduction by Gillian AveryMeek little Mole wilful Ratty Badger the perennial bachelor and petulant boastful Toad over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908 they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity folly and friendship And their misadventures - in gypsy caravans stolen sports cars and their beloved Wild Wood - continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderieThis Penguin Classics edition features an appendix of the letters in which Grahame first related the exploits of Toad and new introduction by children's literature historian Gillian AveryKenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was an English bank official writer author of The Wind in the Willows (1908) set in the idyllic English countryside The work established Grahame's international reputation as a writer of children's books and has deeply influenced fantasy literatureIf you enjoyed The Wind in the Willows you might enjoy JM Barrie's Peter Pan also available in Penguin Classics'A charming book'Terry Jones"
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| "The Guide: A Novel by R. K. Narayan (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man Gradually almost grudgingly he begins to play the part He succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's new holiness to the test"
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| "The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine it was first published in its entirety in 1863 The book was extremely popular during its day and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s"
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| "The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics With an introduction from ST Joshi editor of American Supernatural Tales The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction The title story The White People is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge From the first page Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down as his character Ambrose explains there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed' setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic"
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| "Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest chilling and brilliantly satiricalBased on the author's experiences on the Western Front Richard Aldington's first novel Death of a Hero finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics Our hero is George Winterbourne who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finishAbout the authorRichard Aldington (1892-1962) was known as a translator critic biographer and poet of distinction He joined the British Army in 1916 and was wounded in 1918"
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| "Tomorrow is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963 Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become In bold blunt prose one of the greatest First Ladies of American history traces her country's struggle to embrace democracy and presents her declaration against fear timidity complacency and national arrogance An open unrestrained look into her mind and heart as well as a clarion call to action Tomorrow Is Now is the work Eleanor Roosevelt willed herself to stay alive to finish writing For this edition former US President Bill Clinton contributes a new foreword and Roosevelt historian Allida Black provides an authoritative introduction focusing on Eleanor Roosevelt's diplomatic careerEleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was First Lady from 1933 to 1945 She was a significant advocate both for the New Deal and for civil rights and a strong supporter of the formation of the United Nations She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 to 1952 and chaired the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In the last decade of her life she was particularly active in promoting women's rights Tomorrow Is Now was published shortly after her death"
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| "The Turnip Princess : And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales" |
| "A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English With this volume the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet In the 1850s Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth traversed the forests lowlands and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm Most of Schoenwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago when thirty boxes of manu-scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive Now for the first time Schoenwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English Violent dark and full of action and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre 'Schoenwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault' -The New Yorker'Schoenwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German-speaking world in the nineteenth century' - Daniel Drascek University of RegensburgFranz Xanver von Schoenwerth (1810-1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in lawand the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folkloreMaria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of theFranz Xaver von Schoenwerth Society"
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| "The Centurions" |
| "When The Centurions was first published in 1960 readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed how to fight when the age of heroics is overAs relevant today as it was half a century agoThe Centurions is a gripping military adventure an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency Featuring a foreword by renowned military expert Robert D Kaplan this important wartime novel will again spark debate about controversial tactics in hot spots around the world"
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