• Rok vydání 2020

The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in more than 100 years by two of its country's…

Examines the explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards…

In "The Politics of Experience" and the visionary "Bird of Paradise", R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity…

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• Rok vydání 2022

Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons,…

Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain…

Using case studies of patients the author had worked with, this title argues that psychosis is not a medical condition but…

We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have…

Offers teachings of Epicurus - about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and…

A moving spiritual masterpiece that shows the true meaning of divinity in a hostile world A young, shy, sickly priest is…

Simon Baron-Cohen's "The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain" is an unflinching look at the…

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of…

What really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between…

• Rok vydání 2013

Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of…

A collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle…

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• Rok vydání 2017

Coinciding with its 100th anniversary, Inside Vogue is the Editor-in-chief's record of her life at the magazine during its…

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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…

Revised and expanded edition of this classic bestseller. Kniha 9780140290066 Worldly Philosophers | Robert L Heilbroner…

Susan Sontags dritter Essay-Band umfasst ihre kritischen Schriften aus den Jahren 1972 bis 1980. In diesen provokativen und…

• Rok vydání 2018

If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to…

• Rok vydání 2015

Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston…

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Second edition featuringf a new chapter on }The Effect Of Technology{ on the English language. Kniha 9780141003962 English…

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• Rok vydání 2012

Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or…

• Rok vydání 2019

Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other -…

This collection brings together some of psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott's most important work contributing to our understanding…

• Rok vydání 2016

'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine WelshFrom Paul Mason, the…

• Rok vydání 2006

Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and…

Money, marriage, property and government are facts, yet they exist only because we believe they exist. The author reveals…

A collection of essays including On The Introduction of Narcissism, Remembering, Repeating and Working Through, Beyond the…

Jhumpa Lahiri\'s landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy\'s vibrant and…

In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these…

With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two…

Mostly written between 1070 and 1080, before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, the prayers and meditations of Anselm of…

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many…

• Rok vydání 2019

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our…

How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space…

At last, stupidity explained And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison…

• Rok vydání 2022

This is the book Trump fears most. - AxiosFrom the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J.…

For Plato the soul was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit.…

A key to modern studies of 18th century Western philosophy, the Treatise considers numerous classic philosophical issues,…

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and,…

Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most…

These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different…