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By: Simon Alexander Ong
ISBN: 9780241502754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Paul Kennedy
ISBN: 9780141036090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. This book reveals the role of the problem-solvers and middle-men who made it happen - like Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the D-Day beaches.
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By: James Rebanks
ISBN: 9780141982571
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9780141979090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kate Manne
ISBN: 9780141990743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Day
ISBN: 9781405910279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside - so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat. No one knows how much he risked for me.
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By: Enzo Ferrari Brock Yates
ISBN: 9780241977163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Shaffer
ISBN: 9780141188904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. This work uses an act of violence to explore faith and insanity.
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By: Georges Bataille
ISBN: 9780141195568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Linking the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, this title offers an array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as includes comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa.
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By: Michel Montaigne
ISBN: 9780140178975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1993
UK Publication Date: 25th March 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141183060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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These essays, reviews and articles describe the life and work of this writer.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
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By: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9780141395913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One of the philosophers of the nineteenth century, believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This title includes his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes.
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By: Arthur Schopenhauer
ISBN: 9780140442274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1977
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection of Schopenhauer's writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and other themes taken from his last work, "Parerga and Paralipomena". It depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which morality and self-awareness are our only salvation.
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By: Meredith McKinney
ISBN: 9780141192109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court.
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By: Benedict Spinoza
ISBN: 9780140435719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Provides a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. This book follows a logical format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding.
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By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241435090
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexander Pushkin
ISBN: 9780140448108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in 1820s Russia, this title follows the fates of three men and three women. It offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein.
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By: Klaus-Michael Bogdal
ISBN: 9780141997292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jean Baptiste Duroselle
ISBN: 9780241534083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jean Baptiste Duroselle
ISBN: 9781405950299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Simon Jenkins
ISBN: 9780241452639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780241951651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780141045559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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