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By: Andrew Roberts
ISBN: 9780141032016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended.
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By: Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 9780141984612
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Scott Hershovitz
ISBN: 9780141993027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Boyd
ISBN: 9780241988879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9780140297966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A history of Russia's mighty culture. It covers the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people.
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By: Roger Eatwell
ISBN: 9780241312001
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Healey
ISBN: 9780140444131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1991
UK Publication Date: 29th August 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles.
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By: Ralph Emerson
ISBN: 9780141036823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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By: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9780141185491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. It chronicles Antoine's struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning.
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By: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9780141194844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live.
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By: Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 9780241986370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Susan Ogilvy
ISBN: 9780241481714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Keith Ferrazzi
ISBN: 9780241004951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features practical, proven principles such as: don't keep score (make sure other people get what they want, too); 'ping' constantly (reach out to your contacts all the time - not just when you need something); never eat alone ('invisibility' is a fate worse than failure); and become the 'king of content'.
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By: Lesley Pearse
ISBN: 9780141046037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime. She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York.
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By: Sharmadean Reid
ISBN: 9780241461754
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kathy Acker
ISBN: 9780241338896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Morris
ISBN: 9780140433302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th June 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise.
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By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780241968697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellin cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts.
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By: Robin Diangelo
ISBN: 9780141997421
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 9780140189896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps.
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By: Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 9780141038995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title presents an account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith.
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By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780140185683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1992
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham.
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241684771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Annie Crown
ISBN: 9781405968683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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