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Is who we are really only skin deep? In this book, the author unravels race through the stories of those debased and…

Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans…

In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up…

'Superbly written and fearlessly imagined fiction' Sarah HallTen women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power…

This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an…

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into…

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has…

Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's…

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker…

But who are 'they'?HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship…

Discover Wollstonecraft's classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The…

\nAn incendiary examination of burnout in millennials - the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it…

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening…

In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film…

• Rok vydání 2022

With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband. Though Colette's…

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Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one…

His opponents - including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. Caroline…

Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie…

A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses,…

This book is written to satisfy the needs of the increasing numbers of cat lovers who are interested in alternative methods…

A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to the European arrival in 1492.Describes how the latest research of…

In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language…

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer…

New edition of a classic study, first published in 1932, with revised translation and new index.…

A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as…

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections…

While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics, Keegan reveals the…

Keenly intelligent and brilliantly rendered, "The Golden Mean "is a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing…

Kniha 9780679744757 Righteous Victims Benny Morris…

A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of…

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of…

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The future is no more, and eternity has begun.It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning…

Meditations for Mortals takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life – one that begins not with fantasies…

Written in alternating chapters, "W or the Memory of Childhood" tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story…

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Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWAnthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. Realising that his determined…

'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell BrandCOMEDY. From a complicated childhood in Essex to an…

Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony…

'Jane Austen meets Bridget Jones... Hilarious' GlamourMeet Butterfly - loveable socialite, avid party-goer, inspired shopper…

Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution,…

Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal…

In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of…

We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become complacent?…

Political rhetoric has become stale and the mistrust of politicians has made voters flock to populists who promise…

Kniha 9781911717690 Israel: What Went Wrong? Omer Bartov…

Pressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. The extraordinary…

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the…