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By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780141389400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
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By: J.L. Mackie
ISBN: 9780140135589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1990
UK Publication Date: 30th August 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
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By: Leonard Mlodinow
ISBN: 9780141009094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ever since Pythagoras hatched a 'little scheme' to invent a set of rules describing the entire universe, scientists and mathematicians have tried to seek order in the cosmos. In this title, the author takes us on a journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world around us.
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By: Honor de Balzac
ISBN: 9780140440508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1964
UK Publication Date: 2nd December 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them.
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By: William Chester Jordan
ISBN: 9780140166644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.
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By: David Thomson
ISBN: 9780140135619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1990
UK Publication Date: 29th November 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.
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By: Peter H. Wilson
ISBN: 9780141006147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. This title explains a compelling series of events.
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By: Brendan Simms
ISBN: 9780141037172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, and also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from 'semi-detached' elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and the United States.
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By: Eva Fraser
ISBN: 9781405933087
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tom Fletcher
ISBN: 9780718184124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Giovanna Fletcher
ISBN: 9780718184155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2026
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Frances Burney
ISBN: 9780141198866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Colliding with the manners and customs of a society she doesn't understand, she finds herself without hope that she should ever deserve the attention of the man she loves.
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By: Dr Federica Amati
ISBN: 9780241679616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Christoph Keller
ISBN: 9781802060997
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kathryn Faulke
ISBN: 9780241672495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Chris Mooney
ISBN: 9781405922456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ben Ratliff
ISBN: 9781846146862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Bob Chapman
ISBN: 9780241975411
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Tony O'Driscoll
ISBN: 9780241502785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kjell Askildsen
ISBN: 9780241508251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Rory Clements
ISBN: 9780241728185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Steve Jones
ISBN: 9780718186289
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ben Hinshaw
ISBN: 9780241524732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd March 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Richie Bostock
ISBN: 9780241404423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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