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By: Enzo Ferrari Brock Yates
ISBN: 9780241977163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Shaffer
ISBN: 9780141188904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. This work uses an act of violence to explore faith and insanity.
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By: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780141195568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa.
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By: Michel Montaigne
ISBN: 9780140178975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1993
UK Publication Date: 25th March 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
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By: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9780140442274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1977
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection of Schopenhauer's writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and other themes taken from his last work, "Parerga and Paralipomena". It depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which morality and self-awareness are our only salvation.
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By: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9780141395913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One of the philosophers of the nineteenth century, believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This title includes his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes.
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By: Meredith McKinney
ISBN: 9780141192109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court.
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By: Benedict Spinoza
ISBN: 9780140435719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Provides a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. This book follows a logical format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding.
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241435090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexander Pushkin
ISBN: 9780140448108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in 1820s Russia, this title follows the fates of three men and three women. It offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein.
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By: Klaus-Michael Bogdal
ISBN: 9780141997292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jean Baptiste Duroselle
ISBN: 9781405950299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jean Baptiste Duroselle
ISBN: 9780241534083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Simon Jenkins
ISBN: 9780241452639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780241951651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780141045559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Slavoj iek
ISBN: 9781846146268
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An Event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary life, a radical political rupture, a transformation of reality, a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or an intense experience such as falling in love. This book examines the new and highly-contested concept of Event.
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By: Dr Federica Amati
ISBN: 9780241663332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Julia Samuel
ISBN: 9780241480632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kathryn Faulke
ISBN: 9780241672488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dr Jackson Katz
ISBN: 9780241672662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jamie Oliver
ISBN: 9780718181239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Packed with vitamins and new recipes, this book is divided into breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, and every tasty meal is nutritionally balanced so that any combination over the day will bring you in under your recommended daily allowance of calories, allowing you to enjoy snacks and drinks on the side.
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By: Dolly Alderton
ISBN: 9780241982105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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