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By: Alessandro Manzoni
ISBN: 9780140442748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1984
UK Publication Date: 24th November 1983
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Renzo and Lucia fly from the villainous Don Rodrigo and are separated. Their flight takes them out of their peaceful village life into turbulent history; violent bread riots in Milan, the ravages of the 30 years war, famine, and finally the plague, with all its attendant horrors.
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By: Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9780141034645
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Can violence really have declined The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. In this title, the author shows violence within and between societies - both murder and warfare.
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By: Sharon Dr. Moalem
ISBN: 9780241396896
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Mariana Mazzucato
ISBN: 9781802060263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Bethany McLean
ISBN: 9780241647363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chester Himes
ISBN: 9780241692622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michael Lewis
ISBN: 9780141043531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, this title tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.
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By: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780241956281
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away.
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By: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780241970775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets.
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By: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780141182612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures.
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By: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780241654149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Albert Costa
ISBN: 9780141990385
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tim Schwab
ISBN: 9780241609484
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Eve Chase
ISBN: 9781405949699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tarjei Vesaas
ISBN: 9780241384879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780140433395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 27th May 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the author's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner. It outlines a distinction between two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime.
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By: Ali Soufan
ISBN: 9780141997131
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 9780241678503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rebecca Netley
ISBN: 9781405950268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: C. L. R. James
ISBN: 9780241562079
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Edogawa Rampo
ISBN: 9780241645826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro. No trick is too elaborate, no disguise too fantastic as the two perfectly matched antagonists take turns to outwit each other.
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By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780140448924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in the 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip negra.
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By: Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780241396865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tim Weaver
ISBN: 9781405943741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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