Aged just 17, the author walked on stage for the first time in a Glasgow comedy club and brought the house down. He only had…

Examines how viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu have almost wiped us out in the past - and may do so in the future.…

In this original and timely book, Bruno macaes argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian' and…

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Features personal and professional works of Machiavelli. This book strives to do away with many of the myths that have…

One of fifteen volumes in the Freud series, this title is part of a plan to generate a non-specialist Freud for a wide…

Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that…

Offers an opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light.…

Includes poems that represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing and are imbued with the symbols and metaphors that…

A collection of letters that forms a day-by-day account of the author's writing of "East of Eden". It features many subjects…

Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an…

Includes tales such as young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars…

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The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and violent husband,…

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and…

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A collection of eight short stories. It gives the reader an insight into the differences between the literary cultures.…

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This fascinating memoir charts Dame Stephanie's life from her time as a child in Germany and arrival in England as an…

Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates…

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How has the Party merged Marx, Mao and the market to create a global superpower? And what does this mean for the world? This…

Packed with facts and stories, this book helps you to learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf…

Produkt Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange - Anonymous zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books…

Drawing on countless interviews, letters and top secret memos, this book traces the evolution of the military occupation…

Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and…

Alice has everything. So why isn't she happy? After all, she has a handsome husband, a gorgeous home and membership of…

This is an edition of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf", offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.…

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A critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. It satirizes practices such as 'conspicuous consumption', a pattern of…

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'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with…

Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century. Throughout…

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John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. This edition of Milton's major…

A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of…

The "Canzoniere", a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe…

A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the…