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(Hardback)
By: James Rebanks
ISBN: 9780241426937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780141049236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Collier
ISBN: 9780141042145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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How can we help poorer countries become richer without harming the planet Is there a way of reconciling prosperity with nature In this title, the author offers realistic answers to this dilemma.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780141027111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.
(Paperback)
By: Sophie Hannah
ISBN: 9780241962633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an anthology that is suitable for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Fremantle
ISBN: 9781405920070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Cara McGoogan
ISBN: 9780241998397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: R. D. Laing
ISBN: 9780140134865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1990
UK Publication Date: 26th April 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us leads to feelings of alienation and a waste of human potential. This title examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and 'us and them' thinking, and illustrates ideas with a case history of a ten-day psychosis.
(Paperback)
By: Guy Standing
ISBN: 9780241475928
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Updike
ISBN: 9780141188485
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blame Conner, the new prefect of the home. Together, they begin to revolt against the man.
(Paperback)
By: Anna Julia Cooper
ISBN: 9780143135067
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ann Charters
ISBN: 9780142437537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." This book collects the significant writings of the fellow members of the Beat Generation. In poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters.
(Paperback)
By: Hollis Robbins
ISBN: 9780143105992
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780141199122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Vicky Dondos
ISBN: 9780241464243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Lisa Currie
ISBN: 9780141984711
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Fareed Zakaria
ISBN: 9780241958759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya generates a fresh landscape. This book shows how the West must transform its global strategy, moving from a position of hegemony to one that recognizes this seismic power shift.
(Paperback)
By: Sarah Blake
ISBN: 9780141046617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners, the war is far from home.
(Paperback)
By: Prof. Dacher Keltner
ISBN: 9780718197636
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dinah Roe
ISBN: 9780141192406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art - art for art's sake.
(Hardback)
By: William Boyd
ISBN: 9780241761137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Dave Alred
ISBN: 9780241975084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780141189987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell.
(Paperback)
By: Alistair Horne
ISBN: 9780140170412
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th November 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. This book shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.
