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| "Renegade : The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith" |
| "The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words'Ranting raging burningrelentlessly splenetic a long and sustained rant may also be the funniest music book ever written' - Observer'Unutterably funny a riot of aimings and blamings and score-settlings Smith manages to have a right laff and reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import' - Independent on SundayThe Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands ever their music - odd spare cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths The Happy Mondays Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand And Mark E Smith IS The Fall - 66 members came and went over the years yet he remained its charismatic leader until his death in 2018'If it's me and yer granny on bongos it's The Fall' - Mark E SmithMark was a professional outsider and all-round enemy of compromise a true enigma There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith but this is the first time he opened up in a full autobiography For the first time we hear his full candid take on the ups and downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; and on a life that endured prison in America drugs bankruptcy divorce and the often bleak results of a legendary thirst'Remarkable brilliant A provocative joy Smith's rant gushes like a furious fountain of razor-sharp invective over his childhood and the early days of The Fall relationships marriage the record industry musicians and his views on everything from football to mobile phones from drinking and drugs to driving from books to bankruptcy from Paul Morley to pubs Unbeatable' - Time Out 'Engrossing exhausting dense with fascinating detail As both memoir and cultural history Renegade is a remarkable achievement' - Daily Telegraph"
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| "The Darling Buds of May" |
| "Home looks nice Allus does though don't it? Perfick'And so the Larkins - Pop Ma Mariette Zinnia Petunia Primrose Victoria and Montgomery - return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cream one May evening There amid the rustic charms of home they discover a visitor one Cedric Charlton Her Majesty's inspector of taxesMr Charlton is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn't paid his tax - but nothing's that simple at the Larkins Mariette takes a shine to Charley' - as Pop calls him - and before long the family have introduced the uncomplaining inspector to the delights of country living the lusty scents of wild flowers the pleasures of a bottle of Dragon's Blood cold cream dribbled over a bowl of strawberries and hot hot summer nights In fact soon Charley can't see any reason to return to the office at all"
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| "Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers whores drunks bums and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief Lee Chong the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured &39;boys&39; call home Dora runs the Bear Flag Restaurant with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart and Doc secreted away in his home at Western Biological Laboratories is the fount of all wisdom Packed with invention and ramshackle joie de vivre Cannery Row is Steinbeck&39;s high-spirited tribute to his native California"
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| "Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A masterpiece of transgressive surrealist erotica George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland BarthesBataille's first novel published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch' is still his most notorious work In this explicit pornographic fantasy the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism torture orgies madness and defilement culminating in a final act of transgression Shocking and sacrilegious Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex violence and death Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth centuryThis edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art 'The Pornographic Imagination' as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'Georges Bataille (1897-1962) French essayist and novelist was born in Billom France He converted to Catholicism then later to Marxism and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929 and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon (1957) and My Mother (1966) and the essays Eroticism (1957) and Literature and Evil (1957)If you enjoyed Story of the Eye you might like Anais Nin's Delta of Venus also available in Penguin Modern Classics'His black masterpiece a brilliant exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitaion'New Statesman"
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| "The Complete Father Brown Stories" |
| "The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth collected in one brilliant volumeShabby and lumbering with a face like a Norfolk dumpling Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth But his innocence is the secret of his success refusing the scientific method of detection he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy interpreting each crime as a work of art and each criminal as a man no worse than himself This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories including two not previously available in Penguin 'The Donnington Affair' in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton) and 'The Mask of Midas' which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death It also includes an introduction and notes by Michael D HurleyGK Chesteron was born in 1874 He attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much(1922) The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938 Michael D Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day with an emphasis on poetry and poetics His book on G K Chesterton was published in 2011"
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| "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "A classic picture book by Eric Carle The Bad-Tempered LadybirdThe bad-tempered ladybird picks fights with every animal he meets but soon learns the importance of friends and turns into a far nicer happier bugThe beautifully illustrated pages of this entertaining book demonstrate the sizes of the different animals and the sun's path across the sky as time passesEric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children Eric lives in Massachusetts with his wife Barbara The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002Don't miss all the other Very Hungry Caterpillar and Eric Carle booksThe Very Hungry Caterpillar; Eric Carle's Very Special Baby Book; Polar Bear Polar Bear What do You Hear?; The Very busy Spider; The Very Quiet Cricket; The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse; 1 2 3 to the Zoo; Baby Bear Baby Bear What do you See?; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up Book; Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear?; The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Buggy Book; Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?; The Bad-Tempered Ladbybird; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Little Learning Library; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Touch and Feel Playbook; My Very First Book of Words; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book and Toy; Little Cloud; Today is Monday; My Very First Book of Shapes; The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Sound Book; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; From Head to Toe; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Big Board Book; Draw Me a Star; Mister Seahorse; Do You want to be My Friend?; The Tiny Seed; The Mixed-up Chameleon; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book and CD; Baby Bear Baby Bear What do you See?; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book and Block Set; Rooster's Off to See the World; Count with the Very Hungry Caterpillar Sticker Book; My Very First Book of Colours; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Finger Puppet Book; My Own Very Busy Spider Colouring Book; Slowly Slowly Slowly Said the Sloth; The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Friends My Very First Annual"
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| "Hairy Maclary and Friends Little Library by Lynley Dodd (Board book, 2010)" |
| "Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy has lots of friends including Schnitzel von Krumm (with a very low tum!) cheeky and cheerful Slinky Malinki and adorable pittery-pattery Zachary Quack Now you can meet them too in this frolicking rollicking little library - a perfect introduction to the many adventures of Hairy Maclary and friends and just right for tiny fingers and little hands!"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Moomin and the Ocean's Song by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "It was a day that really ought to be filled with adventureMoomintroll and his friends have heard of the legend of the Ocean's Song - held inside a shell which only its finder can hear Snufkin takes them to the island of the Hattifatteners but the friends have to turn back to escape a thunderstorm! Will they find the Ocean's Song and get home in one piece?A brand new picture book adventure based on the beloved Moomin characters by Tove Jansson perfect for all Moomin fans young and old"
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| "Funnybones: The Black Cat" |
| "In a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house In this FUNNYBONES story the skeletons go sledging - WHEE! - and crashing - BANG!They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat until she slips into their dark dark cellar"
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| "William Morris ABC" |
| "With this beautifully illustrated board book learn your first words with William Morris and his lovely designs Starting with a for apple and ending with z for zebra this is the perfect introduction to first words for very young children"
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| "The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Kipling's best-loved work now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designThe story of Mowgli the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India is one of the greatest literary myths ever created As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo the graceful black panther Bagheera and Shere Khan the tiger with the blazing eyes Other animal stories in The Jungle Books range from the dramatic battle between good and evil in 'Rikki-tikki-tavi' to the macabre comedy 'The Undertakers' With The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling drew on ancient beast fables Buddhist philosophy and memories of his Anglo-Indian childhood to create a rich symbolic portrait of man and nature and an eternal classic of childhoodRudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in India and while there produced a body of work stories sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills(1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889 His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894) Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902) Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907 He died in 1936 Jan Montefiore has taught at the University of Kent since 1978 where she is now Professor of 20th Century English Literature She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and MindSelected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007) Kaori Nagai is a Research Associate at the University of Kent and author of Empire of Analogies (2006) She has also introduced Kobo Abe's Face of Another and Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills for Penguin"
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| "Paradise Lost by John Milton (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Milton's celebrated epic poem now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIn Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale conjuring up a vast awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time And yet in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of ChristianityJohn Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660) His great poems were published after this political defeat John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario"
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| "A Study in Scarlet" |
| "The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood Dr Watson is as baffled as the police but Holmes's brilliant analytical skills soon uncover a trail of murder revenge and lost love"
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| "Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) Hardcover" |
| "One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by &39;will&39; - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence This selection of his writings on religion ethics politics women suicide books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer&39;s last work Parerga and Paralipomena which he published in 1851 These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world in which art morality and self-awareness are our only salvation This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art directly affecting the work of Nietzsche Wittgenstein and Wagner among others Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788 where his family of Dutch origin owned a respected trading house Arthur was expected to inherit the business but hated the work and in 1807 after his father&39;s suicide and the sale of the business he enrolled in the grammar school at Gotha He went on to study medicine and science at Gottingen University and in 1810 began to study philosophy In 1811 he transferred to Berlin to write his doctoral thesis and began to write The World as Will and Idea a complete exploration of his philosophy which was finished in 1818 Although the book failed to sell his belief in his own views sustained him through twenty-five years of frustrated desire for fame During his middle life he travelled widely in Europe and in 1844 brought out a much expanded edition of his book which after his death became one of the most widely read of all philosophical works His fame was established in 1851 with the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena a collection of dialogues essays and aphorisms He died in 1860 RJ Hollingdale has translated works by among others Schopenhauer Goethe TA Hoffmann Lichtenburg and Theodor Fontane as well as eleven of Nietzsche&39;s books many for the Penguin Classics He has published two books on Nietzsche and was Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society until his death in 2003"
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| "Liberty Bar : Inspector Maigret #17" |
| "A new translation of Georges Simenon's devastating novel set on the French Riviera book seventeen in the new Penguin Maigret seriesIt had a smell of holidays The previous evening in Cannes harbour with the setting sun had also had the smell of holidays especially the Ardena whose owner swaggered in front of two girls with gorgeous figuresDazzled at first by the glamour of sunny Antibes Maigret soon finds himself immersed in the less salubrious side of the Riviera as he retraces the final steps of a local eccentricPenguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret on the Riviera'Compelling remorseless brilliant' John Gray'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 'A supreme writer unforgettable vividness' Independent"
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| "The Truce : The Diary of Martin Santome" |
| "'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional but still I felt alive That pressure on my chest means being alive'Forty-nine with a kind face no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles) a good salary and three moody children widowed accountant Martin Santome is about to retire He assumes he'll take up gardening or the guitar or whatever retired people do What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda As they embark upon an affair happy and irresponsible Martin begins to feel the weight of his quiet existence lift - until out of nowhere their joy is cut short The intimate heartbreaking diary of an ordinary man who is reborn when he falls in love one final time this beloved Latin American novel has been translated into twenty languages and sold millions of copies worldwide and is now published in Penguin Classics for the first time"
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| "Caligula by Suetonius (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "&39;Because of his baldness and hairiness he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context&39; The biography of the brutal crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula who tried to appoint his own horse consul Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin&39;s 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c70-130 CE) Suetonius&39;s The Twelve Caesars is also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "' a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsJonathan Swift (1667-1745) Swift's works available in Penguin Classics are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal and Other Writings"
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| "Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure! by Giles Andreae (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Giles Andreae and Russell Ayto's super-fun Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Missing Treasure!When Flinn first met the Pirate Dinosaurs he thought that he had taught them a lesson But the real lesson is this - never trust a pirate but never ever trust a pirate dinosaur This time Flinn is hot on the trail of some stolen treasure and he knows exactly who's to blame With the help of his friends and Captain Gurgleguts fearless Flinn tracks the rotten crew to the Lost Island So far so good but Flinn and his pals hadn't reckoned on the dinosaur's secret weapon - the Giganotosaurus T-Rex's cousin and the biggest dino the world has ever known! Will our hero be able to sail out of trouble this time? And what about all that stolen treasure? Luckily every baddie has a weak spot and it's not long before the swashbuckling Flinn fights his way to victory!Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and best-selling picture books His picture book The Lion Who Wanted to Dance won The Federation of Children's Book Award in the best picture book category in 1998 However he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie Britain's favourite stickman Giles lives in Notting Hill with his wife and three young childrenRussell has illustrated books by prolific children's authors such as Ian Whybrow and Cressida Cowell The Witch's Children was shortlisted for the Greenaway last year and this year The Witch's Children and the Queen is on the Smarties shortlist Russell lives in Penzance CornwallDon't miss the other Captain Flinn picture books - they're all rip-roaring fun!Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Missing Treasure!; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Smugglers Bay!; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs The Magic CutlassAnd Giles Andreae's brilliant book with illustrator Korky Paul Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants"
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| "Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs - Smugglers Bay! by Giles Andreae (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Giles Andreae and Russell Ayto's super-fun Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Smugglers Bay!Captain Flinn is Puffin's favourite pirate He has swashbuckled his way through THREE pirate dinosaur adventures and lived to tell the tale But now he faces his toughest challenge yet Captain T Rex and his pirate crew are smuggling sausages out of a secret cove and their favourites are CHILDREN CHIPOLATAS - gulp! Watch out Captain Flinn!But this time the Captain T Rex has bitten off more than he can chew and wily Captain Flinn and his friends soon teach him a lesson he won't forgetGiles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and best-selling picture books His picture book The Lion Who Wanted to Dance won The Federation of Children's Book Award in the best picture book category in 1998 However he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie Britain's favourite stickman Giles lives in Notting Hill with his wife and three young childrenRussell has illustrated books by prolific children's authors such as Ian Whybrow and Cressida Cowell The Witch's Children was shortlisted for the Greenaway last year and this year The Witch's Children and the Queen is on the Smarties shortlist Russell lives in Penzance CornwallDon't miss the other Captain Flinn picture books - they're all rip-roaring fun!Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Missing Treasure!; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Smugglers Bay!; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs The Magic CutlassAnd Giles Andreae's brilliant book with illustrator Korky Paul Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants"
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| "The Nightingales are Drunk" |
| "'Drunk or sober king or soldier none will be excluded'Sensual profound delighted wise Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years One of the greatest figures of world literature he remains today the most popular poet in modern IranIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsRumi (1207-73) Rumi's Selected Poems is available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99 |
| "The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings tales of fantasy terror death revenge murder and mystery including The Pit and the Pendulum The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado and The Murders in the Rue Morgue the world's first detective story In addition this volume offers letters articles criticism visionary poetry and a selection of random opinions on fancy and the imagination music and poetry intuition and sundry other topics"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(Rough Cut Edition) (Puffin Chalk) Paperback" |
| "When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole she finds herself in an enchanted world filled with creatures like the Mad Hatter the disappearing Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts Alice quickly finds out that nothing is as it seems in the wild world of Wonderland"
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| "The Koran: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Cook (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century This Very Short Introduction explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in traditional Muslim culture Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the Koran as codex as scripture as liturgy and as the embodiment of truth and examines its means of formation and dissemination He also discusses issues of interpretation for certain key verses demonstrating that fecundity of the text for readers throughout the world ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable"
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| "What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems-knowledge of the world beyond our minds knowledge of other minds the mind-body problem free will the basis of morality right and wrong the nature of death the meaning of life and the meaning of words Although he states his own opinions clearly Nagel leaves these fundamental questions open allowing students to entertain other solutions and encouraging them to think for themselves"
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| "The Oxford History of Byzantium" |
| "The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century The authors - all working at the cutting edge of their particular fields - outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colourful culture In AD 324 the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous as his imperial residence He renamed the place 'Constaninopolis nova Roma' 'Constantinople the new Rome' and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language In the sixteenth century Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople the epithet 'Byzantine' Against a backdrop of stories of emperors intrigues battles and bishops this Oxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic social and demographic - that underlay the history of events The authors explore everyday life in cities and villages manufacture and trade machinery of government the church as an instrument of state minorities education literary activity beliefs and superstitions monasticism iconoclasm the rise of Islam and the fusion with Western or Latin culture Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy"
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| Waverley |
| "'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact' Edward Waverley a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6 the last civil war fought on British soil and the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy represented by Prince Charles Edward Waverley's love for the spirited Flora MacIvor and his romantic nature increasingly pull him towards the Jacobite cause and test his loyalty to the utmost With Waverley Scott invented the historical novel in its modern form and profoundly influenced the development of the European and American novel for a century at least Waverley asks the reader to consider how history is shaped who owns it and what it means to live in it - questions as vital at the beginning of the twenty-first century as the nineteenth ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Social : Why our brains are wired to connect" |
| "Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly hurt by bereavement? What are the evolutionary benefits of these traits? The young discipline of 'social cognitive neuroscience' has been exploring this fascinating interface between brain science and human behaviour since the late 1990s Now one of its founding pioneers Matthew D Lieberman presents the discoveries that he and fellow researchers have made Using fMRI scanning and a range of other techniques they have been able to see that the brain responds to social pain and pleasure the same way as physical pain and pleasure; and that unbeknown to ourselves we are constantly 'mindreading' other people so that we can fit in with them It is clear that our brains are designed respond to and be influenced by others For good evolutionary reasons he argues we are wired to be social The implications are numerous and profound Do we have to rethink what we understand by identity and free will? How can managers improve the way their teams relate and perform?Could we organize large social institutions in ways that would work far better? And could there be whole new methods of education?"
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| "Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback" |
| "Love it means too much to me far more than you can understand At its simplest Anna Karenina is a love story It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin and in the character of Levin closely based on Tolstoy himself the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance One of the greatest novels ever written Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin&39;s estate with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom the skating rink a race course a railway station It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying and deeply moving Rosamund Bartlett&39;s translation conveys Tolstoy&39;s precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy it is vivid nuanced and compelling"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Emperor's New Mind : Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics" |
| "For many decades the proponents of 'artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do In his bestselling work of popular science Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics cosmology mathematics and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas and shaped the way we think"
Price: 8.99 |
