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By: Noam Chomsky
ISBN: 9780241973523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. This book offers hope and a way forward for all those committed to the struggle to liberate Palestine.
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141035789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
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By: Michel De Montaigne
ISBN: 9780141043852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, and the importance of sleep.
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By: Plutarch
ISBN: 9780140449433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC.
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By: Emile Durkheim
ISBN: 9780140449679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work was the result of his research.
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By: Friedrich Schiller
ISBN: 9780141396965
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hendrik Groen
ISBN: 9781405930307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780141195377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features three essays that offer insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.
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By: Damien Hirst
ISBN: 9780140439120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Before the "Origin of Species", accepted thinking held that life was the static and perfect creation of God. By a single, systematic argument Darwin called this view into question. This edition includes brief biographies of some of the most important scientific thinkers leading up to and surrounding the "Origin of Species".
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780241977521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141182674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream.
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780241552643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780241951538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.
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By: Clare Hammond
ISBN: 9780241623893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Seneca
ISBN: 9780141018812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living and the importance of reason and morality and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.
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By: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9780241291771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780241996843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Marincola
ISBN: 9780141393575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This anthology of writings from the ancient world explores how history should be written and what responsibility the historian bears. It ranges from longer pieces, such as the complete essays 'On Thucydides' by Dionysus, 'On the Malice of Herodotus' by Plutarch and the witty 'How to Write History' by Lucian, to key shorter writings by Polybius, Cicero, Xenophon and Pliny the Younger.
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By: Emer McLysaght
ISBN: 9781405938242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arkady Strugatsky
ISBN: 9780241472477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nina Stibbe
ISBN: 9780241451175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Josie Silver
ISBN: 9780241982273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780141184746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. This work lets you participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life.
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By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780141045351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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