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By: Richard Nisbett

ISBN: 9780141976273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives to help us think effectively about our behaviour and the world around us. This book shows how to reframe common problems - whether professional, business, or personal - in such a way that these scientific and statistical concepts can be applied to them.


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By: Nicholas Epley

ISBN: 9780241952726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reveals our real sixth sense - our ability to understand our own minds and the minds of others Arguably our brain's greatest sense is the ability to understand the minds of others - our sixth sense. This book shows that this capacity for inferring what others are thinking and feeling is, however sophisticated, still prone to critical errors.


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By: Jools Oliver

ISBN: 9780141026510
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From trying to conceive and a first positive pregnancy test to a baby's first birthday, this title takes you through the worries, surprises, excitement, miracles and sheer bloody hard work that new mums - in their own different ways - have to cope with along the way.


(Paperback)

By: Voltaire

ISBN: 9780141023922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Trevor

ISBN: 9780241969335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss Gomez, on the run from her tragic childhood in Jamaica, now lives for her postal correspondence with the Church of the Brethren of the Way back on the island.


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By: Margaret Oliphant

ISBN: 9780140436303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1998
UK Publication Date: 29th October 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780141031811
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us. This title delves into the gap between who we are and who we are not, to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived life.


(Paperback)

By: Michael Hayman

ISBN: 9780241247068
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how business is changing people's lives through the power of purpose, culture and campaigning. This book uncovers the secrets of what it takes to succeed: how to discover and define your commercial purpose, hone it into a campaign and turn customers into advocates.


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By: M. A. Wardell

ISBN: 9781405979344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Martin Keown

ISBN: 9780241707821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Owen Hatherley

ISBN: 9780241701850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Professor R F Foster

ISBN: 9780140132502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1990
UK Publication Date: 29th March 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. This book supersedes all other accounts of modern Irish history".


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By: James McFarlane

ISBN: 9780140138320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
UK Publication Date: 30th May 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy


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By: Geoffrey Willans

ISBN: 9780141186009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features observations on life complemented by illustrations.


(Paperback)

By: Colin Butcher

ISBN: 9780241371770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Primo Levi

ISBN: 9780141186979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. This book features stories that are an elegy to those who stood out against the background of Auschwitz.


(Hardback)

By: Jackie Wullschlger

ISBN: 9780241188309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William D. Cohan

ISBN: 9780241954065
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and most businesses - want to emulate; the firm with the best talent, the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the 'Goldman way' This book is a story of clashing egos, backstabbing, sex scandals, private investigators, court cases and government cabals.


(Paperback)

By: Lisa Conway-Hughes

ISBN: 9780241379349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Wu Ch'eng-en

ISBN: 9780140441116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th March 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Wu Ch'eng-en wrote "Monkey" in the middle of the 16th century, adding to an ancient Chinese legend his own touches of delicacy and humour. The result is a jumble of the absurd and the profound, of religion and history, of anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry.


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By: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

ISBN: 9780140137002
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters.


(Paperback, 3rd edition)

By: Spike Milligan

ISBN: 9780241958117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An account of life as a gunner in World War Two that resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa.


(Paperback)

By: Penelope Lively

ISBN: 9780241973684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world... and in the process, my own'. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780140289701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a collection of author's critical essays and reflections. This title presents a discussion on contemporary art, issues and people.

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