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By: Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN: 9780141397900
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life.


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By: John Newman

ISBN: 9780140433746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th September 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. This autobiography traces his spiritual development since boyhood and his close involvement in the high church Tractarian Movement.


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By: Mollie Moran

ISBN: 9780718159993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When young Mollie became a 'skivvy' in a stately London townhouse aged just 14, she quickly learned that a large amount of elbow grease and a sense of humour would be tantamount to surviving there. Through Mollie's eyes we are offered a fascinating glimpse into London's invisible 'downstairs', a world that has long-since vanished.


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By: Claudia Roden

ISBN: 9780718145811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author returns to the countries of Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco in search of new and old recipes and to find out how cooking has evolved since she first introduced readers to these cuisines in the 1960s. In this book, she pays tribute to the different culinary histories and contemporary food of these countries.


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By: Roberto Calasso

ISBN: 9781846145070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Focuses the ancient texts known as the Vedas. This volume explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that define the Vedas.


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By: Hanna Jameson

ISBN: 9780241992630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hanna Jameson

ISBN: 9780241515075
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nazanine Hozar

ISBN: 9780241987667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Brabazon

ISBN: 9781405937023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nancy Carlson

ISBN: 9780140509458
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Top cat Arnie teases Philip because he is confined to a wheelchair. Yet when Arnie falls down the school steps and breaks a leg, twists a wrist, and sprains a tail, he begins to see life from a different perspective. With few books about mainstreaming available, this entertaining story should be welcome".--Booklist. Full color.


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By: Jules Verne

ISBN: 9780141035871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. He sets off with his valet Passepartout, and passes through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and racing against the clock.


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By: Michael Wooldridge

ISBN: 9780718188757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Susan Sontag

ISBN: 9780241954461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers.


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By: Roger McGough

ISBN: 9780241962275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book of poems that includes a series of haiku inspired by a London tube strike and a striking reworking of the author's famous 1960s poem 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death'.


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By: Sarashina

ISBN: 9780140442823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1983
UK Publication Date: 30th January 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A autobiography in which the anonymous writer intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and descriptions of the Japanese countryside. She illuminates her pilgrimages to temples and mystical dreams in exquisite prose, describing a journey that can be read as a metaphor for life itself.


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By: Mr Isaac Asimov

ISBN: 9780140172133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 27th May 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Newton and Einstein, he takes the most complex concepts and explains it in such a way that a first-time reader on the subject feels confident on his/her understanding.


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By: Deepa Paul

ISBN: 9780241698396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patrick McGrath

ISBN: 9780241973677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...


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By: Elizabeth David

ISBN: 9780718154752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Introduces a dreary post-war Britain to the sun-drenched culinary delights of the Mediterranean; to foods like olive oil and pasta, artichokes and fresh herbs - foods that have become the staples of our diets today. This title offers twelve chapters that guide the readers from tasty soups and starters, through to meat, fish and desserts.


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By: Danny MacAskill

ISBN: 9780241973264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Susan Sontag

ISBN: 9780141031682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and thinkers.


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By: Tom Holland

ISBN: 9780141987330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Cheshire

ISBN: 9781846149719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jennie Fields

ISBN: 9781405943703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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