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Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling…

Portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and…

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One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled…

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Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of…

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This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets…

A year on, Emma remains haunted by the image of that empty cot, thousands of miles away, the chasm between her and the rest…

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like…

Explores why our fundamental rights and freedoms are indispensable. This book tells about the threats to our freedoms and…

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Matt Shore is a pilot down on his luck. Once he'd flown big jets and dropped supplies in war zones. Now he's ferrying…

Produkt Early Stories of Truman Capote - Capote, Truman zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a peeping Tom, a…

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'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The…

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"Jupiter's Travels" - Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world. It is the book that inspired Ewan…

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In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of…

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Irreverent and electrifying, when A.J. Ayer’s epoch-making work was published in 1936 it shook the foundations of British…

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Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today s leading sources of wisdom,…

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Completed in 1136, this classic chronicle traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming…

'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book Review…

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Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine…

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JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE THE GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS: THE…

In the 1970s the author travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. This title describes…

Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H…

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his…

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The Dead of Winter... Minneapolis, winter's first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers of packed snow hide a…

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When a brilliant battleship gun engineer commits suicide, his disbelieving family turn to legendary Van Dorn Detective…

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It's 1066 - Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of…

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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the…

Records the author's visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which…

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Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he…

In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film, Alex Danchev presents "100 Artists'…

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'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC's legendary…

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Penguin Classics relaunch A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing…

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''Beautifully clear explanations of famously "difficult" things ... It almost makes you think you could have been a Newton…

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''Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017'' Vogue ''Glorious'' Sunday Times''Laugh-out-loud funny''…

"Connectome", by Sebastian Seung is "One of the most eagerly awaited scientific books of the year ...intellectually…

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct…

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