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By: Leszek Kolakowski
ISBN: 9780141035253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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There are questions that have intrigued the world's great thinkers over the ages. They are questions that can teach us about the way we live, relate to each other and see the world. This work explores the essence of these ideas, introducing figures from Socrates to Thomas Aquinas, and concentrates on one philosophical question from each of them.
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By: John Berger
ISBN: 9780141043975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle.
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By: Anil Ananthaswamy
ISBN: 9780241586488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ben Ansell
ISBN: 9780241517628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Martin Luther King
ISBN: 9780241345443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jean Rhys
ISBN: 9780141185422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her.
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By: Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 9780241974711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nancy's sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth, comedy and heart here too.
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By: Adam Lashinsky
ISBN: 9780241278482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Graham Nash
ISBN: 9780241968048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A rock memoir of the legendary Hollies front man and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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By: Jay Griffiths
ISBN: 9780141006444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discusses the author's journey, telling how he went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang his head off in their highlands; met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them; and, how he anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept, ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies.
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By: Roger Deakin
ISBN: 9780141010014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, the author embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees. He tells about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives.
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By: Will Self
ISBN: 9780141046402
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Marc Morris
ISBN: 9780141987460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Roger Knight
ISBN: 9780141989891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Niall MacMonagle
ISBN: 9780241966792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jancis Robinson
ISBN: 9781846144462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Where do wine grapes come from and how are they related to each other What is the historical background of each grape variety Where are they grown Using DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct synonyms, this book includes revelatory grape family trees, and a rich variety of illustrations.
By: Sherwood Anderson
ISBN: 9780140186550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1993
UK Publication Date: 10th December 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Collects stories that capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.
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By: Paul Beaver
ISBN: 9781405930338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pre-order the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot.
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By: Dambisa Moyo
ISBN: 9780241956175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Examines the misconceptions and noise surrounding resource scarcity with a penetrating analysis of what really is at stake. Tracing its breathtaking quest for resources - from Africa to Latin America, North America to Europe, the author examines the impact it is having on us all, and its profound implications for our future.
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By: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9780141031507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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DW Winnicott's books, including "The Piggle", "Home Is Where We Start From" and "The Child", "Family and the Outside World" are still read, valued and argued with years after his death. This title attempts to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work with children and mothers continues to be relevant and fascinating.
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By: Thomas Penn
ISBN: 9780141986609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Isak Dinesen
ISBN: 9780141185880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark.
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By: Ali Smith
ISBN: 9780241207024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chip Conley
ISBN: 9780241367711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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