 |
| White Egret Hyaluronic Acid Intensive Hydrating Formula-8 oz Bottle |
| $21.59 (Retail $28.75) |
| From the Manufacturer:MoisturizeTightenFirmProtectIntensive Hydrating Formula. [Read More] |
 |
| "Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Roget's Thesaurus ranks as one of the greatest English language reference works used for generations by anyone looking for help in order to write a letter prepare a speech solve a crossword or write any manner of prose or poem Its sales now exceed 32 million copies This edition has been revised and updated to include all the latest buzzwords and phrases In addition this new edition of Roget contains useful panels of additional information that include such nuggets of information as signs of the zodiac and the origins of familiar quotations that have become an integral part of our everyday language"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Slinky Malinki by Lynley Dodd (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Slinky Malinki steals anything from a clothes peg to a slipper to a string of sausages to a clock! Our hero is a BAD cat! The story is told in wonderful rhyme and through pictures full of life and movement"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Slinky Malinki, Open the Door by Lynley Dodd (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "When Slinky Malinki and Stickybeak Sid are left in the house on their own they cause absolute mayhem by opening all the carefully shut doors in the house - and leave a trail of destruction from bathroom to bedroom to kitchen But then Slinky Malinki opens the final door and comes face to face with his old adversary - Hairy Maclary!"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Funnybones by Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The classic and beloved Funnybones by children&39;s book superstars Janet and Allan Ahlberg In the first ever Funnybones book we are introduced to the wonderful humour and fun of the much-loved series The Funnybones books are a must for children just starting to learn to read - these funny skeletons are definitely not the scary sort! Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children&39;s books and with his late wife Janet created many award-winning children&39;s picture books The Ahlbergs&39; books are nursery bookshelf standards and have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim and awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg Burglar Bill; Cops and Robbers; Each Peach Pear Plum; The One and Only Two Heads; Son of a Gun; The Little Worm Book; Two Wheels Two Heads; The Baby&39;s Catalogue; A Pair of Sinners; Happy Families; Peepo!; The Ha Ha Bonk Book; Help Your Child to Read; Ten in a Bed; Please mrs Butler; Daisy Chains; Yum Yum; Playmates; Foldaways; Woof; The Cinderella Show; The Jolly Postman; The Jolly Christmas Postman; The Jolly Pocket Postman; The Clothes Horse and Other Stories; The Mighty Slide; Starting School; Heard it in the Playground; The Bear Nobody Wanted; It was a Dark and Stormy Night; The Giant Baby; Baby Sleeps; Blue Buggy; Doll and Teddy; See the Rabbit; Please Mrs Butler; The Better Brown Stories; The Boyhood of Burglar Bill"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?Life after death is not as simple as it looks Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died Bold original and with a delightful eye for detail Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Roger Deakin's Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writingWildwood is about the element wood as it exists in nature in our souls in our culture and our livesFrom the walnut tree at his Suffolk home Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain across Europe to Central Asia and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with treesMeeting woodlanders of all kinds he lives in shacks and cabins travels in search of the wild apple groves of Kazakhstan goes coppicing in Suffolk swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc and hunts bush plums with Aboriginal women in the outbackPerfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Colin Tudge Roger Deakin's unmatched exploration of our relationship with trees is autobiography history traveller's tale and incisive work in natural history It will take you into the heart of the woods where we go 'to grow learn and change''Enthralling' Will Self New Statesman'Extraordinary some of the finest naturalist writing for many years' Independent'Masterful fascinating excellent' Guardian'An excellent read - lyrical and literate and full of social and historical insights of all kinds' Colin Tudge Financial Times'Enchanting very funny every page carries a fascinating nugget Should serve to make us appreciate more keenly all that we have here on earth one of the greatest of all nature writers' Craig Brown Mail on Sunday'Breathtaking vividly written reading Wildwood is an elegiac experience' Sunday TimesRoger Deakin who died in August 2006 shortly after completing the manuscript for Wildwood was a writer broadcaster and film-maker with a particular interest in nature and the environment He lived for many years in Suffolk where he swam regularly in his moat in the river Waveney and in the sea in between travelling widely through the landscapes he writes about in Wildwood He is the author of Waterlog Wildwood and Notes from Walnut Tree Farm"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story&39; The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust&39; Wall Street Journal&39; The first masterpiece in comic book history&39; The New Yorker The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman a Jewish survivor of Hitler&39;s Europe and his son a cartoonist coming to terms with his father&39;s story Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive Its form the cartoon (the Nazis are cats the Jews mice) shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in &39;drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust&39; (The New York Times)Maus is a haunting tale within a tale Vladek&39;s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author&39;s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits This astonishing retelling of our century&39;s grisliest news is a story of survival not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of usThis combined definitive edition includes Maus I A Survivor&39;s Tale and Maus IIArt Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus and a Guggenheim fellowship It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award His other books include Breakdowns From Maus to Now an Anthology of Strips; The Wild Party; Open Me I&39;m A Dog; Jack Cole and Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits; In the Shadow of No Towers; Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young &!; Be a Nose; Jack and the Box and MetaMaus He lives in New York"
Price: 12.99 |
| "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "An art expert instantly spots a fake A cop decides whether to shoot A psychologist accurately predicts a couple&39;s future in minutes This book is about those moments when we &39;know&39; something without knowing why It shows that honing your instincts could change the way you think about thinking forever &39;Trust my snap judgement buy this book you&39;ll be delighted&39; David Brooks The New York Times&39;Fiendishly clever&39; Evening Standard&39;Superb this wonderful book should be compulsory reading&39; New Statesman &39;Provocative fascinating radical&39; Fergal Byrne Financial Times"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
Price: 4.49 |
| "A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
Price: 4.49 |
| "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Paperback,..." |
| "Assume nothing question everything This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics Levitt and Dubner&39;s rule-breaking iconoclastic book about crack dealers cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone&39;s view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon &39;Prepare to be dazzled&39; Malcolm Gladwell &39;A sensation you&39;ll be stimulated provoked and entertained Of how many books can that be said?&39; Sunday Telegraph &39;Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next&39; Wall Street Journal &39;Dazzling a delight&39; Economist &39;Made me laugh out loud&39; Scotland on Sunday"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Catherine Bailey's Black Diamonds is an extraordinary tale of family feuds forbidden love civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynastyWentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain andbelonged to the Fitzwilliam family It is England's forgotten palace which belonged to Britain's richest aristocrats Black Diamonds tells the story of its demise family feuds forbidden love class war and a tragic and violent death played their part But coal one of the most emotive issues in twentieth century British politics lies at its heart This is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of English society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth century'Magnificent peels back the grand facade of Wentworth toreveal a family riven with fueds mental illness and forbidden love' Tatler'A compelling new history fascinating insights into the dynasty that once ruled this Yorkshire roost' Daily Mail'An aristocratic tale of epic proportions this gripping novel cleverly interweaves interviews letters and historical fact Fascinating' Easy LivingCatherine Bailey read history at Oxford University She is a successful award-winning television producer and director making a range of critically acclaimed documentary films inspired by her interest in twentieth century history She is the author of Black Diamonds and The Secret Rooms A True Gothic Mystery She lives in West London"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A History of Christianity : The First Three Thousand Years" |
| "Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic acclaimed history A History of Christianity The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe from ancient Palestine to contemporary China How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion with a third of humanity its followers? This book now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English describes not only the main facts ideas and personalities of Christian history its organization and spirituality but how it has changed politics sex and human society Taking in wars empires reformers apostles sects churches and crusaders Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how Christianity has brought humanity to the most terrible acts of cruelty - and inspired its most sublime accomplishments 'A stunning tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year 'A landmark in its field astonishing in its range compulsively readable full of insight It will have few if any rivals in the English language' Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury Guardian 'A prodigious thrilling masterclass of a history book' John Cornwell Financial Times 'Essential reading for those enthralled by Christianity and for those enraged by it' Melvyn Bragg Observer Books of the Year 'Magnificent a sumptuous portrait alive with detail and generous in judgement' Richard Holloway The Times Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University His Thomas Cranmer won the Whitbread Biography Prize the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize He is the author most recently of Reformation Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700 which won the Wolfson Prize for History and the British Academy Prize"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Things Fall Apart" |
| "Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clanBut he also has a fiery temper Determined not to be like his father he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan Okonowo takes violent action Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we areInspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" |
| "Around the world in Britain the United States Asia and the Middle East there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image They are the shock doctorsExposing these global profiteers Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved Raking in billions out of the tsunami plundering Russia exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed 'Packed with thinking dynamite a book to be read everywhere' John Berger 'If you only read one non-fiction book this year make it this one' Metro Books of the Year 'There are a few books that really help us understand the present The Shock Doctrine is one of those books' John Gray Guardian 'A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger channelled through hard fact She has indeed surpassed No Logo' Independent"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The Blind Watchmaker" |
| "30th Anniversary Edition Cover note Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph No two covers are exactly alikeAcclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious automatic blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all why do we exist?"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Corfu Trilogy" |
| "The trilogy that inspired ITV&39;s television series The Durrells Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals Birds Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children ten-year-old Gerald discovered his passion for animals toads and tortoises bats and butterflies scorpions and octopuses Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family Durrell&39;s memories of those enchanted days gave rise to these three classic tales loved by generations of adults and children alike which are now available in one volume for the first time &39;He has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentrics&39; Sunday Telegraph &39;A delightful book full of simple well-known things cicadas in the olive groves lamp fishing at night the complexities of fish and animals - but above all childhood moulded by these things&39; New York Times"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" |
| "Quiet by Susan Cain will change how you think about introverts foreverA Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerOur lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand It defines who our friends and lovers are which careers we choose and whether we blush when we're embarrassedThat fact is whether we're an introvert or an extrovertThe introvertextrovert divide is the most fundamental dimension of personality And at least a third of us are on the introverted side Some of the world's most talented people are introverts Without them we wouldn't have the Apple computer the theory of relativity and Van Gogh's sunflowersYet extroverts have taken over Shyness sensitivity and seriousness are often seen as being negative Introverts feel reproached for being the way they areIn Quiet Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs and how society misunderstands and undervalues introverts She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengthsPassionately argued superbly researched and filled with real stories Quiet will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself'I can't get Quiet out of my head It is an important book - so persuasive and timely and heartfelt it should inevitably effect change in schools and offices' Jon Ronson The Guardian 'Susan Cain's Quiet has sparked a quiet revolution In our booming culture hers is a still small voice that punches above its weight Perhaps rather than sitting back and asking people to speak up managers and company leaders might lean forward and listen' Megan Walsh The Times 'Quiet is a very timely book and Cain's central thesis is fresh and important Maybe the extrovert ideal is no longer as powerful as it was; perhaps it is time we all stopped to listen to the still small voice of calm' Daisy Goodwin The Sunday Times Susan Cain is the owner of The Negotiation Company a firm that trains people in negotiation and communication skills Her clients include Merrill Lynch Standard & Poor University of Chicago Business School and many of the US's most powerful law firms She previously practiced corporate law for seven years with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton She lives in New York with her husband and two sons wwwThePowerOfIntrovertscom"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2012THE SUNDAY TIMES 3 BESTSELLERThe genre-defining book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane travel Britain's ancient paths and discover the secrets of this beautiful underappreciated landscapeFollowing the tracks holloways drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind of pilgrimage and ritual of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations'Really do love it He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place elements and the passage of time wonderful' Antony Gormley'A marvellous marriage of scholarship imagination and evocation of place I always feel exhilarated after reading Macfarlane' Penelope Lively'Macfarlane immerses himself in regions we may have thought familiar resurrecting them newly potent and sometimes beautifully strange In a moving achievement he returns our heritage to us' Colin Thubron'Every Robert MacFarlane book offers beautiful writing bold journeys With its global reach and mysterious Sebaldian structure this is MacFarlane's most important book yet' David Rothenberg author of Survival of the Beautiful and Thousand Mile Song'Luminous possessing a seemingly paradoxical combination of the dream-like and the hyper-vigilant The Old Ways is as with all of Macfarlane's work a magnificent read Each sentence can carry astonishing discovery' Rick Bass US novelist and nature writer'The Old Ways confirms Robert Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday'Sublime writing sets the imagination tingling Macfarlane's way of writing is free exploratory rambling and haphazard but resourceful individual following his own whims and laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow' Sunday Times'Macfarlane relishes wild as well as old places He writes about both beautifully I love to read Macfarlane' John Sutherland Financial Times'Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again' Metro"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world Byzantium An audacious and resilient but now little known society it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism classical Greek learning with Roman power to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries held in check the armies of Islam Judith Herrin's concise and compelling book replaces the standard chronological approach of most histories of Byzantium Instead each short chapter is focused on a theme such as a building (the great church of Hagia Sophia) a clash over religion (iconoclasm) sex and power (the role of eunuchs) an outstanding Byzantine individual (the historian Anna Komnene) a symbol of civilization (the fork) a battle for territory (the crusades) In this way she makes accessible and understandable the grand sweeps of Byzantine history from the founding of its magnificent capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 330 to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein is an astonishing journey through the mind and secrets of how our memory really works Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys Then he learnt the art of memory training discovering the mnemonic ancient 'memory palace' technique first practiced by Simonides of Ceos over 2500 years ago And only year later Foer found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championships alongside 'mental athletes' who could memorise the precise order of ten shuffled decks of cards in under an hour From the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is from the ancient world to the cutting edge of neuroscience Joshua Foer discovers a truth we often forget that memory is the key to everything we are 'Passionate and deeply engrossing The more we challenge ourselves the greater our capacity It's a fact that every teacher parent and student would do well to learn The lesson is unforgettable' Washington Post 'Captivating Engaging Mr Foer writes in these pages with fresh enthusiasm His narrative is smart and funny' Michiko Kakutani New York Times 'Delightfulempathetic thought-provoking andmemorable' Elizabeth Pisani Prospect 'An endearingly geeky world witty and revelatory' Oliver Burkeman Guardian 'A charming book interwoven with informed exposition about the psychological science of memory' Professor Larry R Squire Nature'Great fun and hugely readable' Mark Turner Independent Joshua Foer studied evolutionary biology at Yale University and is now a freelance science journalist writing for National Geographic and The New York Times among others Researching an article on the US Memory Championships Foer became intrigued by the potential of his own memory After just one year of training he won the following year's Championship"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar he is swept into a passionate love affair But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything Unable to admit to the truth David pretends the liaison never happened – while Giovanni’s life descends into tragedy United by the theme of love the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities romantic love platonic love erotic love gay love virginal love adulterous love parental love filial love nostalgic love unrequited love illicit love not to mention lost love twisted and obsessional love…"
Price: 5.99 |
| "On Photography by Susan Sontag (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Susan Sontag&39;s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject Susan Sontag&39;s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form Photographs are everywhere and the &39;insatiability of the photographing eye&39; has profoundly altered our relationship with the world Photographs have the power to shock idealize or seduce they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us In these six incisive essays Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives &39;Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites&39;The Times&39;A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves&39;Washington Post&39;The most original and illuminating study of the subject&39;New YorkerOne of America&39;s best-known and most admired writers Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004 Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction among them Regarding the Pain of Others On Photography Illness as Metaphor At the Same Time Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn Early Diaries 1947-1963 all of which are published by Penguin A further eight books including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor are available from Penguin Modern Classics"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written Walter Benjamin&39;s groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this areThroughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
Price: 4.49 |
| "Swing Time: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Zadie Smith (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017'Smith's finest Extraordinary truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 Mumsnet Book of the Month for July 2017A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one Tracey has talent The other has ideas about rhythm and time black bodies and black music what it means to belong what it means to be free It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties never to be revisited but never quite forgotten eitherBursting with energy rhythm and movement Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet It is a story about music and identity race and class those who follow the dance and those who lead it"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "In The Righteous Mind psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationshipsWhy can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another viewpoint? Why do we come to blows over politics and religion?Jonathan Haidt reveals that we often find it hard to get along because our minds are hardwired to be moralistic judgemental and self-righteous He explores how morality evolved to enable us to form communities and how moral values are not just about justice and equality - for some people authority sanctity or loyalty matter more Morality binds and blinds but using his own research Haidt proves it is possible to liberate ourselves from the disputes that divide good people'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times'A truly seminal book' David Goodhart Prospect'A tour de force - brave brilliant and eloquent It will challenge the way you think about liberals and conservatives atheism and religion good and evil' Paul Bloom author of How Pleasure Works 'Compelling a fluid combination of erudition and entertainment' Ian Birrell Observer'Lucid and thought-provoking deserves to be widely read' Jenni Russell Sunday TimesJonathan Haidt is a social and cultural psychologist He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1995 and is currently a visiting professor of business ethics at New York University's Stern School of Business He is the co-editor of Flourishing Positive Psychology and the Life Well Lived and is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom"
Price: 8.54 |
| "A New Earth: Create a Better Life by Eckhart Tolle (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The 10th anniversary edition of the international bestseller and worldwide sensation featuring a brand new preface by the authorEckhart Tolle's A New Earth will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come leading readers to a new levels of consciousness and inner peace Taking off from the introspective work The Power of Now which is a number one bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better more spiritually evolved place to live Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement self and society Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow"
Price: 7.99 |
